Supplication in Seeking Asylum with God
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!