44- His Supplication for the Coming of the Month of Ramadan
الحمد لله الذي هدانا لحمده ، و جعلنا من اهله لنكون لاحسانه من الشاكرين ، و ليجزينا علي ذلك جزاء المحسنين .و الحمد لله الذي حبانا بدينه واختصنا بملته ، و سبلنا في سبل احسانه لنسلكها بمنه الي رضوانه ، حمدا يتقبله منا ، و يرضي به عنا .و الحمد لله الذي جعل من تلك السبل شهره شهر رمضان ، شهر الصيام ، و شهر الاسلام ، و شهر الطهور ، و شهر التمحيص ، و شهر القيام الذي انزل فيه القرآن ، هدي للناس ، و بينات من الهدي و الفرقان .فابان فضيلته علي سائر الشهور بما جعل له من الحرمات الموفورة ، و الفضائل المشهورة ، فحرم فيه ما احل في غيره اعظاما ، و حجر فيه المطاعم و المشارب اكراما ، و جعل له وقتا بينا لا يجيز - جل و عز - أن يقدم قبله ، و لا يقبل أن يؤخر عنه .ثم فضل ليلة واحدة من لياليه علي ليالي الف شهر ، و سماها ليلة القدر ، تنزل الملئكة و الروح فيها باذن ربهم من كل امر سلام ، دائم البركة الي طلوع الفجر علي من يشاء من عباده بما احكم من قضائه .اللهم صل علي محمد و آله ، و الهمنا معرفة فضله و اجلال حرمتة ، و التحفظ مما حظرت فيه ، و أعنا علي صيامه بكف الجوارح عن معاصيك ، و استعمالها فيه بما يرضيك حتي لا نصغي باسماعنا الي لغو ، و لا نسرع بابصارنا الي لهو .و حتي لا نبسط ايدينا الي محظور ، و لا نخطو باقدامنا الي محجور ، و حتي لا تعي بطوننا إلا ما احللت ، و لا تنطق السنتنا إلا بما مثلت ، و لا نتكلف إلا ما يدني من ثوابك ، و لا نتعاطي إلا الذي يقي من عقابك ، ثم خلص ذلك كله من رئاء المرائين ، و سمعة المسمعين ، لا نشرك فيه احدا دونك ، و لا نبتغي فيه مرادا سواك .اللهم صل علي محمد و آله ، وقفنا فيه علي مواقيت الصلوات الخمس بحدودها التي حددت ، و فروضها التي فرضت ، و وظائفها التي وظفت ، و أوقاتها التي وقت .و انزلنا فيها منزلة المصيبين لمنازلها ، الحافظين لاركانها ، المؤدين لها في اوقاتها علي ما سنه عبدك و رسولك - صلواتك عليه و آله - في ركوعها و سجودها و جميع فواضلها علي اتم الطهور و اسبغه ، و أبين الخشوع و ابلغه .و وفقنا فيه لان نصل ارحامنا بالبر و الصلة ، و أن نتعاهد جيراننا بالافضال و العطية ، و أن نخلص اموالنا من التبعات ، و أن نطهرها باخراج الزكوات ، و أن نراجع من هاجرنا ، وأن ننصف من ظلمنا ، و أن نسالم من عادانا حاشي من عودي فيك و لك ، فإنه العدو الذي لا نواليه ، و الحزب الذي لا نصافيه .و أن نتقرب اليك فيه من الاعمال الزاكية بما تطهرنا به من الذنوب ، و تعصمنا فيه مما نستأنف من العيوب ، حتي لا يورد عليك احد من ملائكتك إلا دون ما نورد من ابواب الطاعة لك ، و انواع القربة اليك .اللهم إني سالك بحق هذا الشهر ، و بحق من تعبد لك فيه من ابتدائه الي وقت فنائه : من ملك قربته ، أو نبي ارسلته ، أو عبد صالح اختصصته ، أن تصلي علي محمد و آله ، و اهلنا فيه لما وعدت اولياءك من كرامتك ، و اوجب لنا فيه ما أوجبت لاهل المبالغة في طاعتك ، و اجعلنا في نظم من استحق الرفيع الاعلي برحمتك .اللهم صل علي محمد و آله ، و جنبنا الالحاد في توحيدك ، و التقصير في تمجيدك ، و الشك في دينك ، و العمي عن سبيلك ، و الاغفال لحرمتك ، و الانخداع لعدوك الشيطان الرجيم .اللهم صل علي محمد و آله ، و إذا كان لك في كل ليلة من ليالي شهرنا هذا رقاب يعتقها عفوك ، أو يهبها صفحك فاجعل رقابنا من تلك الرقاب ، و اجعلنا لشهرنا من خير اهل و اصحاب .اللهم صل علي محمد و آله ، و امحق ذنوبنا مع امحاق هلاله ، و اسلخ عنا تبعاتنا مع انسلاخ ايامه حتي ينقضي عنا و قد صفيتنا فيه من الخطيئات ، و اخلصتنا فيه من السيئات .اللهم صل علي محمد و آله ، و إن ملنا فيه فعدلنا ، و إن زغنا فيه فقومنا ، و إن اشتمل علينا عدوك الشيطان فاستنقذنا منه .اللهم اشحنه بعبادتنا إياك ، و زين اوقاته بطاعتنا لك ، و اعنا في نهاره علي صيامه ، و في ليله علي الصلوة و التضرع اليك ، و الخشوع لك ، و الذلة بين يديك حتي لا يشهد نهاره علينا بغفلة ، و لا ليله بتفريط .اللهم و اجعلنا في سائر الشهور و الايام كذلك ما عمرتنا ، و اجعلنا من عبادك الصالحين الذين يرثون الفردوس هم فيها خالدون ، و الذين يؤتون ما اتوا و قلوبهم و جلة ، أنهم الي ربهم راجعون ، و من الذين يسارعون في الخيرات و هم لها سابقون .اللهم صل علي محمد و آله ، في كل وقت و كل اوان و علي كل حال عدد ما صليت علي من صليت عليه ، و اضعاف ذلك كله بالاضعاف التي لا يحصيها غيرك ، إنك فعال لما تريد .


44 - His Supplication for the Coming of the Month of 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 favour to us through His religion , singled us out for His creed , and directed us onto the roads of His beneficense , 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 guidance to the people , and as clear signs of the Guidance and the 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 drink in it to honour 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 the 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 pursure 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 gardians of their pillars , their performers in their times , as Thy servant and Thy messenger set down in his 'Sunna' ( 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 neighbours 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 hast 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 agianst 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 .