The Whispered Prayer of the Abstainers
In the Name of Allah, the All-merciful, the All-compassionate
My God, Thou hast settled us in an abode which has
dug for us pits of deception,
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
ruins its settlers,
it is stuffed with blights
loaded with calamities.
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!