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“O Revealer of the Verses and the Criterion, Between You and I is the sanctity of the Qur’an Qur’a n With it open up my heart to acknowledge the guidance, And with it protect my heart from the Devil *** ***
With it ease my affairs and settle my needs And with it save my body from the Fire With it lighten my load and purify purif y my intention And with it increase my strength and rectify my state *** ***
With it remove my harm and confirm my repentance And with it make me profit from my pledge without any loss With it cleanse my heart and purify my character, And with it beautify my reputation and raise my rank *** ***
With it cut of my greed, and honour my ambitions And with it increase my piety and give life to my heart With it pass my night and make thirsty my limbs, And soak my eyelashes with the abundance of tears *** ***
Mix it with my flesh O my Lord along with my blood, And with it wash my heart from f rom malice You are the One who fashioned me and created me And guided me to the fountains of Iman
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You are the One who taught me and had mercy on me And made my heart heedful to the Qur’an Qur’a n You are the One who fed me and made me to drink Without my earning it by hand or via trade *** ***
And You restored me, covered me and aided me And enveloped me in Grace and Goodness You are the One who gave me refuge and awarded me And guided me from the confusion of disappointment and loss *** ***
And You have planted love for me between hearts, And the inclination from You is by way of mercy and affection And You have spread goodness out for me amongst the people And You have hid my sin from their eyes *** ***
And You have made my reputation amongst the people widespread Until You made them all my brothers By Allah, had they known the ugliness of my inner self, Whoever met me would have refused to greet me *** ***
And they would have shunned me and be disgusted with my friendship And I would have drawn on myself disgrace after honour But You covered my faults and defects, And You bore my sin and my tyranny
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So all Praise is to You, and all commendations With my thoughts, my limbs and my tongue ***
“O Lord, You have indeed bestowed upon me blessings The smallest of which I cannot fully give thanks for ***
It is truly by Your Wisdom that You have given me such Until You strengthened my faith by its light ***
If, from Your Pleasure, I were to be selected by Your Aid Such that its authority strengthened my faith ***
Then surely, I will praise You day and night And in the darkness, my limbs will be at Your service ***
I will indeed remember You whether I’m standing or sitting And the rest of the time, I will be thanking You ***
I shall hide my dire needs from the people And I shall complain only to You of my troubled times ***
I shall seek You in all of my needs Without seeking the aid of anyone in specific ***
And I will surely sever my hopes in mortals With a decisive dismemberment not seen before ***
I will make Your Pleasure to be my greatest concern And I will indeed cast the devil out from my desires
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I will surely clothe the defects of my soul with the garments of piety And I will indeed seize my stubbornness in committing evil ***
And I will prevent my soul from its desires And I will make asceticism to be my supporter ***
I shall indeed recite the letters of Your Revelation in the depths of the dark And I will burn the devil with its manifest light ***
O my Lord, it is You Who has uttered its letters And You have expressed therein much admonition and clarity ***
You have constructed it with eternal eloquence The manner of which cannot be understood by the mind ***
And You have written its letters in the Preserved Tablet Before the creation of all things aforetime ***
Allah, my Lord, has not ceased to speak The truth if He Wills; Owner of Great Generosity ***
He called out in His Voice when He called His slave Musa; and so He caused him to hear without any obscurity ***
And likewise our Lord shall call on the Day of Resurrection In an audible voice, and every Man and Jinn shall hear Him: ***
That ‘O my slaves, pay attention to Me and listen To the Word of God, the King and Judge!’
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This is the narration of our Prophet from His Lord In truth, without any lie or falsehood ***
We do not liken His voice to our speech For its exact description is not known ***
Minds can never encompass the extent of His Being And place can never contain Him ***
He is the One Whose knowledge encompasses all things Without heedlessness or any forgetfulness ***
And who can attempt to describe or shape Him and His Attributes When He is the All-Present, Creator of all existence? ***
Glory be to Him, a King Who rose over His Throne And Who has gathered all the Dominion and Authority ***
His Speech is the Qur’an whose verses He has revealed A revelation to the sent one from ‘Adnan (the Arabs) ***
May God’s best blessings be upon him So long as the sun and the moon shimmer in their orbits ***
He came with the Qur’an from the One Who Cannot be stopped by the misfortunes of time ***
It is the Revelation of the Lord of the Worlds Witnessed by the scholars and the righteous ones
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And none can bring the like of the Speech of my Lord Even if Man and Jinn were to come together to achieve that ***
And it is protected from every single falsehood And it is protected from any excess or deficiency ***
Whoever claims that its construction is useless And sees it to be like poetry or senseless chatter ***
Then let him bring a single chapter or verse from it! And if he sees the two texts to be just like each other, ***
Then let him single himself out for worship and let him become The Lord of people, and let him say: ‘Glory to me!’ ***
But if his text is contradictive, then let him wear The garments of failure, belittled be littled by humiliation ***
Otherwise, let him admit that it is a Divine Revelation From the One Who named it Oft-repeated in His Book ***
There is no doubt that it is His True Revelation And the start of this Revelation began in Ramadan ***
Allah explained it in detail and clarified its verses And recited it as a Revelation without any mistakes ***
It is His Saying, it is His Speech, it is His Dialogue With absolute articulacy, eloquence, and clarity
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It is His Judgement, it is His Knowledge, it is His Light And it is His Path which guides to ultimate Pleasure ***
In it He gathered all Sciences; the subtle and the great And hence the righteous scholar delves into them ***
Within it are stories unfolded to the best of creation (the Prophet) My Lord narrated them and in perfection did He do so! ***
And He made clear its halal and haram And forbade in it all sin and disobedience…”
