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His Supplication When Sick
(Supplication - 15)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
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O God, to Thee belongs
praise
for the good health of my
body
which lets me move
about,
and
to Thee belongs
praise,
for the
ailments
which Thou causest to arise in my flesh!
For I know not, my
God,
which
of the two states deserves more my thanking
Thee
and
which of the two times is more worthy for my praise of Thee:
the time
of
health,
within which Thou makest me
delight
in the agreeable things of Thy
provision,
through which Thou givest me the joy to
seek
the means to Thy good pleasure and
bounty,
and by which Thou strengthenest
me
for the acts of
obedience
which Thou hast given me success to accomplish;
or the
time of
illness
through which Thou puttest me to the
test
and bestowest upon me favors:
lightening of the
offenses
that weigh down my
back,
purification of the evil
deeds
into which I have
plunged,
incitement to
reach
for
repentance,
reminder of the erasure of
misdeeds
through ancient favor;
and, through all that, what the two writers write for
me:
blameless
acts,
which no heart had
thought,
no tongue had
uttered,
and no limb had
undertaken,
rather, as Thy bestowal of bounty upon
me
and the beneficence of Thy benefaction toward me
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O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
make me
love
what Thou hast approved for
me,
make
easy for
me
what Thou hast sent down upon
me,
purify
me of the
defilement
of what I have sent
ahead,
erase the
evil
of what I have done
beforehand,
let me find the
sweetness
of
well-being,
let me taste the
coolness
of safety,
and appoint for
me
a way out from my illness to Thy
pardon,
transformation of my infirmity into Thy
forbearance,
escape from my distress to Thy
refreshment,
and safety from this hardship in Thy relief!
Thou art gratuitously bountiful in beneficence,
ever gracious in kindness,
the Generous, the Giver,
Possessor of majesty and munificence! |
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