{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sal/sal025.htm","path":"isl/sal/sal025.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/sal/sal025.htm","text":"(24)\nAn elegy (Munajat)\nIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful\nO the possessor of munificence You give\nwhatever You wish and hold back whatever You\nwish\nMy Lord! My Creator! My Refuge in difficulties\nor ease. I seek only from You.\nMy Lord! If my sins are great and numerous,\nYou are Greater and Your forgiveness is more\ngreat and familiar.\nMy Lord! Even if You fulfill the desires of my\nheart I would still be shameful in the garden of\ndesires.\nMy Lord You are witnessing my indigence and\npoverty and You are listening to my whispering\nelegy.\nMy Lord do not decline my hopes and do not\nrender my heart useless because Your\ngenerosity is my only hope.\nMy Lord! If I am unsuccessful or driven out, then\nfrom whom can I hope and to whom can I plead?\nMy Lord! Save me from Your wrath, as I am\nprisoner (of my sins). Helpless, fearful and I\nhave bowed down before You.\nMy Lord! Show Your proofs and sympathise\nwith me, in my grave when I am in a terrible\nstate.\nMy Lord! Even if You punish me for a thousand\nyears my hopes from You would remain intact.\nMy Lord! Bestow on me the taste of forgiveness\non that day, when neither children nor wealth\nwill be beneficial.\nMy Lord! If You desert me I will be rendered\nuseless and if You considered me then I will not\nlose anything.\nMy Lord! You don't oblige anyone except with\ngoodness. Then who will be the hope of those\nwretched people who live on this hope?\nMy Lord! If I have been careless in acquiring\npiety\nI am still in pursuit of seeking forgiveness and\nrepentance.\nMy Lord! If I have sinned and that was\nignorance, I have still pinned so many hopes on\nYou that people have concluded that I do not\nfear You.\nMy Lord! My sins are like mountains, hard and\ngreat, but Your forgiveness is greater.\nMy Lord! Remembrance of Your favours\nextinguishes the fi re of my hear t, and\nremembrance of my sins make me cry.\nMy Lord! Forgive my laziness and erase my sins\nbecause I confess, I fear and I express my\ninability.\nMy Lord! Grant me peace and tranquility, as\nexcept for Your favours I have not knocked\nanybody's door.\nMy Lord! If You disgrace me who will be my\nhope and what shall I do?\nMy Lord! The love-stricken are awake at night,\nthey whisper and supplicate whereas the\nnegligent are asleep.\nMy Lord! From the inhabitants of this world\nsome are asleep, some are awake and complain\nand all are seeking Your favours, expecting\nYour great mercy and desiring Your Heaven.\nMy Lord! My hopes are making me hopeless.\nMy Lord! If You forgive me then Your\nforgiveness will take me to salvation, as I have\nalready committed sins which can destroy me.\nMy Lord! For the sake of Muhammad the\nHashimite (peace be upon him and his progeny)\nand by the names of the doers of good who\nplead in Your presence.\nMy Lord! For the sake of Mustafa (s.a.w.a.) and\nthe son of his uncle and by their pure progeny,\nwho has lowered his neck in Your presence.\nMy Lord! Make me die on Your religion; I am a\nsuppliant, fearful, worshipper and an obedient\none in Your court.\nMy Lord and my Master! Do not make me\nunsuccessful from the great intercession of\nMuhammad (s.a.w.a.) because he will be the\nonly intercessor who can intercede till the time a\ncaller calls You. Bless Muhammad (s.a.w.a.)\nand his progeny till the time the worshipper\nsupplicates in Your presence.","title":"The Alawite Book: An elegy (Munajat)","type":"page"}