Monday, July 8, 2013

Sahifat as-Sajjadiyya - Supplication 44 (Prayer for Ramadan)

Praise belongs to God who guided us to His praise 
and placed us among the people of praise
that we might be among the thankful for His beneficence
and that He might recompense us for that
with the recompense of the good-doers!

And praise belongs to God who showed favor to us through His religion
singled us out for His creed
and directed us onto the roads of His beneficence
in order that through His kindness we might travel upon them
to his good pleasure
a praise which He will accept from us and through which He will be pleased with us!

And praise belongs to God who appointed among those roads His month
the month of Ramadan
the month of fasting
the month of submission
the month of purity
the month of putting to test
the month of standing in prayer
in which the Qur'an was sent down as a guidance to the people
and as clear signs of the Guidance and Separator!

He clarified its excellence over other months
by the many sacred things and well-known excellencies
which He placed therein
for he made unlawful in it what He declared lawful in others to magnify it
He prohibited foods and drinks in it to honor it
and he appointed for it a clear time which He (Majestic and Mighty is He)
allows not to be set forward
and accepts not to be placed behind

Then He made one of its nights surpass the nights of a thousand months
and named it the Night of Decree;
in it the angels and the Spirit descend
by leave of their Lord upon every command
a peace constant in blessings
until the rising of the dawn
upon whomsoever He will of His servants
according to the decision He has made firm

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household
inspire us with knowledge of its excellence
veneration of its inviolability
and caution against what Thou hast forbidden within it
and help us to fast in it
by our restraining our limbs
from acts of disobedience toward Thee
and our employing them in that which pleases Thee
so that we lend not our ears to idle talk 
and hurry not with our eyes to diversion
we stretch not our hands toward the forbidden
and stride not with our feet toward the prohibited
our bellies hold only what Thou hast made lawful
and our tongues speak only what Thou hast exemplified
we undertake nothing but what brings close to Thy reward
and pursue nothing but what protects from Thy punishment!
Then rid all of that from the false show of the false showers
and the fame-seeking of the fame-seekers
lest we associate therein anything with Thee
or seek therein any object of desire but Thee!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household
in it make us attend to the appointed moments of the five prayers within
the bounds Thou hast set, the obligations Thou hast decreed
the duties Thou hast assigned and the times Thou hast specified
and in the prayers make us alight in the station of the keepers of their stations
the guardians of their pillars, their performers in their times
as Thy servant and Thy Messenger set down in his sunnah 
(Thy blessings be upon him and his Household)
in their bowings, their prostrations, and all their excellent acts
with the most complete and ample ritual purity
and the most evident and intense humility!

Give us success in this month to tighten our bonds of kin with devotion and gifts
attend to our neighbors with bestowal and giving
rid our possessions from claims
purify them through paying the alms
go back to him who has gone far from us
treat justly him who has wronged us
make peace with him who shows enmity toward us
(except him who is regarded as an enemy in Thee and for Thee
for he is the enemy whom we will not befriend, the party whom we will not hold dear)
and seek nearness to Thee through blameless works which will purify us from sins
and preserve us from renewing faults
so that none of Thy angels will bring for Thee 
the kinds of obedience and sorts of nearness-seeking unless they be less than what we bring!

O God, I ask Thee by the right of this month
and by the right of him who worships Thee within it
from its beginning to the time of its passing
whether angel Thou hast brought nigh to Thee
prophet Thou has sent or righteous servant Thou hast singled out
that Thou bless Muhammad and his Household
make us worthy of the generosity Thou hast promised Thy friends
make incumbent for us what Thou hast made incumbent
for those who go to great lengths in obeying Thee
and place us in the ranks of those who deserve through Thy mercy the highest elevation!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,
turn us aside from deviation in professing Thy Unity,
falling short in magnifying Thee in Thy religion
blindness toward Thy path, heedlessness of Thy inviolability
and being deceived by Thy enemy, the accursed Satan!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household
and when in every night of this month's nights
Thou hast necks which Thy pardon will release
and Thy forgiveness, disregard
place our necks among those necks and place us among the best folk 
and companions of this our month!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household
efface our sins along with the effacing of its crescent moon
and make us pass forth from the ill effects of our acts
with the passing of its days until it leaves us behind
while within it Thou hast purified us of offenses and rid us of evil deeds!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household
and should we go off to one side in this month, set us aright;
should we swerve, point us straight; and should Thy enemy Satan enwrap us
rescue us from him!

O God, fill this month with our worship of Thee
adorn its times with our obedience toward Thee
help us during its daytime with its fast
and in its night with prayer and pleading toward Thee
humility toward Thee and lowliness before Thee
so that its daytime may not bear witness against our heedlessness
nor its night against our neglect!

O God, make us like this in the other months and days
as long as Thou givest us life and place us among Thy righteous servants
those who shall inherit Paradise, therein dwelling forever
those who give what they give while their hearts quake
that they are returning to their Lord
those who vie in good works, outracing to them!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household
in every time, in all moments, and in every state
to the number that Thou hast blessed whomsoever Thou hast blessed
and to multiples of all that, through multiples
which none can count but Thee!
Surely Thou art Accomplisher of what Thou desirest.
(ameen)



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