O God,
if Thou willest,
Thou wilt pardon us through Thy
bounty
and
if Thou willest,
Thou wilt chastise us through Thy justice.
So make our ways smooth to Thy
pardon
through Thy
kindness
and grant us sanctuary from Thy
chastisement
through Thy
forbearance,
for none of us has the endurance for Thy
justice and none of us can reach deliverance without Thy pardon!
O Richest of the
rich!
Here
we are, Thy servants, before
Thee.
I am
the neediest of the needy toward
Thee,
so redress our
neediness
through Thy
plenty
and cut us not off from our
hopes
through Thy
withholding,
lest Thou makest wretched him who seeks felicity through
Thee
and deprivest him who seeks help from Thy bounty!
Then to whom would we return after
Thee?
Where would we go from Thy
gate?
Glory be to
Thee!
We
are the
distressed,
the response to
whom
Thou hast made
incumbent, the people from
whom
Thou hast promised to remove the evil
That thing most resembling Thy
will
and that affair most worthy for Thee in Thy
mightiness
is showing mercy to him who asks Thee for
mercy
and helping him who seeks help from
Thee.
So show mercy upon our pleading with
Thee
and free us from need when we throw ourselves before Thee!
O God,
Satan will gloat over us if we follow
him
in disobeying
Thee, so
bless Muhammad and his
Household
and let him not gloat over
us
after we have renounced him for
Thee
and beseeched Thee against him!
