His Supplication for his Children |
| 1 |
O God,
be kind to me through
the survival of my children,
setting them right for me,
and
allowing me to enjoy them! |
| 2 |
My God,
make long their lives for me,
increase their terms,
bring up the smallest for me,
strengthen the weakest for me,
rectify for me
their
bodies,
their
religious dedication,
and
their moral traits,
make them well in
their souls,
their
limbs,
and everything that concerns me of their affair,
and pour out for me and upon
my hand
their provisions! |
| 3 |
Make
them
pious, fearing, insightful, hearing, and obedient
toward
Thee,
loving
and well-disposed
toward
Thy friends,
and
stubbornly resistant and full of hate
toward
all Thy enemies!
Amen! |
| 4 |
O God,
through them
strengthen
my arm,
straighten
my burdened back,
multiply my number,
adorn
my presence,
keep
alive my mention,
suffice me when I am away,
help
me in my needs,
and
make them
loving
toward me,
affectionate,
approaching,
upright,
obedient,
never
disobedient, disrespectful,
opposed,
or offenders! |
| 5 |
Help me in their upbringing,
their
education,
and
my devotion toward them,
give me among them from
Thyself male children,
make that a good for me,
and make them a help for me
in
that which I ask from Thee! |
| 6 |
Give
me and my progeny refuge from the accursed Satan,
for
Thou hast created us, commanded us, and prohibited us,
and
made us
desire
the reward of what Thou hast commanded,
and
fear its punishment!
Thou
assigned to us an enemy
who
schemes against us,
gave
him an authority over us
in
a way that Thou didst not give us authority over him,
allowed
him to dwell in our breasts
and let him run in our blood vessels;
he
is not heedless,
though
we be heedless,
he
does not forget,
though we forget;
he
makes us feel secure from Thy punishment
and fills us with fear toward other than Thee. |
| 7 |
If we are about to commit an indecency,
he gives us courage to do so,
and if we are about to perform a righteous work,
he holds us back from it.
He opposes us through passions,117
and sets up for us doubts.
If he promises us, he lies,
and if he raises our hopes, he fails to fulfil them.
If Thou dost not turn his trickery away from us,
he will misguide us,
and if Thou dost not protect us from his corruption,
he will cause us to slip. |
| 8 |
O God,
so defeat his authority over us through Thy authority,
such
that Thou holdest him back from us
through
the frequency of our supplication to Thee
and we leave his trickery
and rise up among those preserved by Thee from sin! |
| 9 |
O God,
grant me my every request,
accomplish for me my needs,
withhold not from me Thy
response
when Thou hast made Thyself accountable for it to me,118
veil not my supplication from
Thyself,
when Thou hast commanded me to make it,119
and be kind to me through
everything that will set me right
in
this world and the next,
in
everything that I remember or forget,
display
or conceal,
make public or keep secret! |
| 10 |
In all of this, place me through my asking Thee among
those who set things right,
those who are answered favourably
when
they request from Thee
and from whom is not withheld
when they put their trust in Thee, |
| 11 |
those accustomed to seek refuge in Thee,
those
who profit through commerce with Thee,
those
granted sanctuary
through
Thy might,
those given lawful provision in plenty from Thy boundless bounty
through Thy munificence and generosity,
those
who reach exaltation after abasement
through Thee,
those
granted sanctuary from wrong
through
Thy justice,
those released from affliction
through
Thy mercy,
those
delivered from need after poverty
through Thy riches,
those
preserved from sins, slips, and offenses
through
reverential fear toward Thee,
those
successful in goodness, right conduct, and propriety
through obeying Thee,
those walled off from sins
through Thy power,
the refrainers from every act of disobedience toward Thee,
the dwellers in Thy neighbourhood! |
| 12 |
O God,
give me all of that through
Thy bestowal of success and Thy mercy,
grant us refuge from the
chastisement of the burning,
and give to
all
the Muslims, male and female,
and
all the faithful, male and female,
the
like of what I have asked for myself and my children,
in
the immediate of this world
and
the deferred of the next!
Verily Thou art the Near, the
Responder,
the
All-hearing, the All-knowing,
the
Pardoner, the Forgiving,
the
Clement, the Merciful! |
| 13 |
And give to us in this world good,
and
in the next world good,
and protect us from the chastisement of the Fire!120
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