His Supplication in the Morning and Evening |
| 1 |
Praise belongs to God,
who created night and day
through
His strength, |
| 2 |
set
them apart
through
His power, |
| 3 |
and
appointed for each
a
determined limit
and
a drawn-out period. |
| 4 |
He makes each of the two enter into its companion,
and
makes its companion enter into it,
as an ordainment from Him for
His servants
in
that through which He feeds them
and
with which He makes them grow. |
| 5 |
He created for them the night,
that they might rest in it68
from
tiring movements
and
wearisome exertions
and He made it a garment for
them
that
they might be clothed
in
its ease and its sleep,
that it might be for them
refreshment and strength,
that
they might reach therein pleasure and passion. |
| 6 |
He created for them the daytime, giving sight,
that they might seek within it
of His bounty,69
find the means to His
provision,
and roam freely in His earth,
searching
for that through which
to
attain the immediate in their life in this world
and
to achieve the deferred in their life to come. |
| 7 |
Through all of this He sets right their situation,
tries their records,70
and watches their state in
the
times for obeying Him,
the
waystations of His obligations,
and
the places of His ordinances,
that He may repay those who do
evil with what they have done
and
repay those who do good with goodness.71 |
| 8 |
O God,
to Thee belongs praise
for the sky Thou hast split
into dawn for us,72
giving
us to enjoy thereby the brightness of daytime,
showing
us sought-after nourishments,
and
protecting us from the striking of blights. |
| 9 |
In the morning we and all things, every one, rise
for Thee,
the heaven and the earth
and what Thou hast scattered
in each,
the
still and the moving,
the
resident and the journeying,
what
towers up in the air and what hides under the ground. |
| 10 |
We rise in the morning in Thy grasp:
Thy kingdom and authority
contain us
and
Thy will embraces us.
We move about by Thy command
and
turn this way and that through Thy governing. |
| 11 |
We
own nothing of the affair
except
what Thou hast decreed
and nothing of the good
except
what Thou hast given. |
| 12 |
This
is a fresh, new day,
over
us a ready witness.
If we do good,
it
will take leave from us with praise,
and if we do evil,
it
will part from us in blame. |
| 13 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
provide us with the day's good
companionship
and preserve us against
parting from it badly
by
doing a misdeed
or
committing a sin, whether small or great! |
| 14 |
Make
our good deeds within it plentiful
empty
us therein of evil deeds,
and
fill what lies between its two sides for us
with
praise and thanksgiving,
wages
and stores,
bounty
and beneficence! |
| 15 |
O God,
ease our burden on the Noble
Writers,73
fill our pages for us
with
our good deeds,
and degrade us not before them
with
our evil works! |
| 16 |
O God,
appoint for us in each of the
day's hours
a
share from Thy servants,
a
portion of giving thanks to Thee,
and
a truthful witness among Thy angels! |
| 17 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household
and safeguard us from before
us and behind us,
from
our right hands and our left hands
and
from all our directions,74
a safeguarding that will
preserve from disobeying Thee,
guide
to obeying Thee,
and
be employed for Thy love! |
| 18 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household
and give us success in this
day of ours,
this
night of ours,
and
in all our days,
to employ the good,
stay away from the evil,
give thanks for favours,
follow the Sunna's norms,
avoid innovations,
enjoin good behaviour,
forbid the disapproved,
defend Islam,
diminish falsehood and abase
it,
help the truth and exalt it,
guide the misguided,
assist the weak,
and reach out to the troubled! |
| 19 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household
and make this
the
most fortunate day we have known,
the
most excellent companion we have accompanied,
and
the best time in which we have lingered! |
| 20 |
Place
us among
the
most satisfied of all Thy creatures
whom
night and day have passed by,
the
most thankful of them
for
the favours Thou hast done,
the
firmest of them
in
the laws Thou hast set down in the Shari'a,
and
the most unyielding of them
toward
the prohibited acts
against
which Thou hast cautioned! |
| 21 |
O God,
I call Thee to witness
- and Thou art sufficient
witness -
and I call Thy heaven and Thy
earth to witness
and
Thy angels and Thy other creatures who inhabit them
in
this my day,
this
my hour,
this
my night,
and
this my resting place,
that I bear witness
that
Thou art God,
other
than whom there is no god,
Upholding
justice,
Equitable
in judgement,
Clement
to the servants,75
Master
of the kingdom,76
Compassionate
to the creatures, |
| 22 |
and
that Muhammad is Thy servant and Thy messenger,
Thy
chosen from among Thy creatures.
Thou
didst charge him with Thy message
and
he delivered it;
Thou
didst command him to counsel his community
and
he counselled it. |
| 23 |
O God,
so bless Muhammad and his
Household
more
than Thou hast blessed any of Thy creatures!
Give him for our sake the best
Thou hast given any of Thy servants,
and repay him on our behalf
better and more generously
than
Thou hast repaid any of Thy prophets
on
behalf of his community! |
| 24 |
Thou art All-kind with immensity,
the Forgiver of the great,
and Thou art more merciful
than
every possessor of mercy!
So bless Muhammad and his
Household,
the
good, the pure, the chosen, the most distinguished! |
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