| 1 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
break my passion for every
unlawful thing,
take away my craving for any
sin,
and bar me from harming any
believer, male or female,
and
any Muslim, male or female! |
| 2 |
O God,
if any of Thy servants should
harm me in what Thou hast forbidden
or
violate me in what Thou hast interdicted,
and if he should pass into
death with my complaint
or
I come to have a complaint against him while he is alive,
forgive him what he did to me
and
pardon him that through which he turned his back on me!
Inquire not from him about
what he committed toward me
and
expose him not through what he earned by me!
Make my open-handedness in
pardoning such servants
and
my contribution in charity toward them
the purest charity of the
charitable
and
the highest gift of those seeking nearness to Thee! |
| 3 |
Recompense
me for my pardoning them with Thy pardon
and
for my supplicating for them with Thy mercy
so that each one of us may
gain felicity through Thy bounty
and
each may attain deliverance through Thy kindness! |
| 4 |
O God,
if there is a servant from
among Thy servants whom
an ill visits on my account,
a harm touches from my direction,
or a wrong overtakes through me or because of me,
and should I fail to take care
of his right
or go before him [in death] with his complaint,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
satisfy him toward me through Thy wealth,
and give him his full right from Thyself! |
| 5 |
Then protect me from what Thy decision mandates
and save me from what Thy justice decides,
for my strength cannot bear
Thy vengeance
and my obedience cannot stand up to Thy displeasure!
If Thou recompensest me with
the right,
Thou wilt destroy me,
and if Thou dost not shield
me in Thy mercy,
Thou wilt lay me waste. |
| 6 |
O God,
I ask Thee to grant, my God,
that whose giving will not decrease Thee,
and I ask Thee to carry
that whose carrying will not weigh Thee down: |
| 7 |
My God, I ask Thee to give my soul,
which Thou didst not create
to keep Thyself from evil
nor to find the way to profit.
No, Thou brought it forth
to demonstrate Thy power over its like
and to provide an argument against its similar. |
| 8 |
I ask Thee to carry those of my sins
whose carrying weighs me down
and I seek help from Thee in
that
whose heaviness oppresses me. |
| 9 |
So bless Muhammad and his Household,
give to me my soul in spite of
its wrongdoing,151
and
appoint Thy mercy to carry my burden!
How many evildoers Thy mercy
has overtaken!
How
many wrongdoers Thy pardon has embraced! |
| 10 |
So bless Muhammad and his Household
and make me the model of him
whom Thou hast
aroused
through Thy forbearance
from
the deadly infirmities of the Senders
and
saved through Thy giving success
from
the tangled plights of the sinners,
so that I may rise up
freed
by Thy pardon from the bonds of Thy displeasure
and
released by Thy benefaction from the ties of Thy justice! |
| 11 |
Surely if Thou dost that, my God,
Thou wilt do it to one who
does not
deny
deserving Thy punishment
or
acquit himself from merit for Thy vengeance. |
| 12 |
Do
that, my God, for one
whose fear of Thee is greater
than
his craving from Thee,
whose
hopelessness of deliverance
is
firmer than his hope for salvation!
Not that his hopelessness is despair,
nor that his expectation is deluded.
No, rather his good deeds are few
among his evil deeds
and his arguments are frail
in face of everything due from his acts. |
| 13 |
But
Thou, my God, art worthy that
the
righteous not be deluded concerning Thee
and the sinners not lose hope in Thee,
for Thou art the All-mighty Lord who
holds back His bounty from none
and takes His full right from no one. |
| 14 |
High exalted is Thy mention
above
those mentioned!
Holy are Thy names
beyond
those described!
Spread is Thy favour
among
all creatures!
Thine is the praise for that,
O
Lord of the worlds! |