The Whispered Prayer of the Abstainers
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In the Name of God, the All-merciful,
the All-compassionate
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My God,
Thou hast settled us in an
abode
which
has dug for us pits of deception,
and
Thou hast fastened us by the hands of death
in
the snares of that abode's treachery!
In Thee we seek asylum
from
the tricks of its guile,
and
to Thee we hold fast, lest we be deluded
by
the glitter of its ornaments!
It destroys its pursuers
and
ruins its settlers,
it
is stuffed with blights
and
loaded with calamities. |
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My God,
induce us to renounce it
and keep us safe from it
by
Thy giving success and Thy preservation from sin.
Strip from us
the
robes of opposing Thee,
attend to our affairs
through
Thy good sufficiency,
amplify our increase
from
the boundless plenty of Thy mercy,
be liberal in our gifts
from
the overflow of Thy grants,
plant in our hearts
the
trees of Thy love,
complete for us
the
lights of Thy knowledge,
give us to taste
the
sweetness of Thy pardon
and
the pleasure of Thy forgiveness,
gladden our eyes
on
the day of meeting Thee
with
the vision of Thee,
dislodge the love of this
world
from
our spirits,
just
as Thou hast done for the righteous,
Thy
selected friends,
and
for the pious,
those
whom Thou hast singled out!
O Most Merciful of the
merciful,
O
Most Generous of the most generous! |
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