{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sal/sal090.htm","path":"isl/sal/sal090.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/sal/sal090.htm","text":"(89)\nHis supplication for rains known as\n'Istiskaa'\nIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful\nPraise is for Allah Who has completed the bounties, dispelled the\nsorrow, given life to the living things. Who for His great throne has made\nsky as a pillar and for His creatures earth as a carpet and mountains as\ntent-pegs, the angels who rotate the earth and those who hold the skies\nare on their mounts, and the pillars of the earth are withheld by His\nHonour. Illuminated the universe by the Sun, and by its rays dispelled\nthe dark nights, and made the water flow on the earth, gifted the moon\nwith light and the stars with sparkle, then He rose and manifested His\nPower and Created the earth. Then the strong and the arrogant one\nwas broken and was seeking the needs of the indigent people. O Allah!\nFor the sake of Your Honoured position and High Status and the safe\nstandard bless Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and His progeny as they have\nmanifested Your obedience and invited people towards You, have\nfulfilled Your covenant, have implied Your laws, have treaded the path of\nYour signs. He is Your creature, the trustworthy of Your covenant, the\ncaller towards Your laws, a witness of the caller towards Your\nobedience and the invalidator of the excuses of the disobedient. O Allah!\nBestow bounty on Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) in such a measure that\nYou have reserved for anyone singly, and have illuminated their faces\nby Your light, make their faces more illuminated and give him a position\nmore nearer than all other prophets, grant him the greatest share of\nYour Pleasure and arrange his nation in the maximum rows because\nthey have never bowed before the idols, never prayed before trees,\nneither drank wine nor blood. O Allah! We have left from Your presence\nwhen darkness of distress had spread all over and the signs of poverty\nmade people helpless and we were made to subdue because of the\nhumiliation of relatives. And the group who lied were united against us\nand famine had struck turning everyone as lean and slender who stood\nagainst us, the clouds also cut our hopes for rains and we are thirsty for\nthe rains from water filled clouds and You are aware of all the troubles\nand a hope for all requests our faith in You cries to You when people\nhave lost hopes, and clouds have dispersed and the lives are destroyed.\nO the living and self-existing, trees, stars, rows after rows of angels, and\nthe stationed group of clouds questions You, do not return us\nunsuccessful, do not account for our deeds, do not punish us for our\nsins, and spread the clouds by Your mercy which are full of water and\nare clearly seen, and oblige the creatures by growing various fruits and\nflowers and after blooming of flowers buds make the civilization alive,\nand call to witness Your Honoured angels, the rains should be such that\nit is beneficial, create greenery, bring pleasure, and bringing life, and\nprosperity with abundance forever, with big drops, which gives birth to\npure farms with extended stem, fresh and green, with branches spread\ngiving a good atmosphere with a vast illumination which is not without\nthe rains nor there remains any white piece without rains, nor any drop\nwhich passes by it light and cold and is not beneficial for man. Your light\ndrops intoxicate, Your dead civilization comes to life, the scattered\nsustenance gathers at one place, Your treasures of bounties are\nmanifested so that it reaches to all of Your creation who are perfect. So\nmuch so that it reaches the famine covered area and those dead by the\ncircumstances comes back to life and the lakes and dams overflow, and\nthe peak of hills turn green and the green plants slant growing\nabundantly, our farms turn green and fresh stream flows from dry areas,\nour near and far areas turn green, our fruits grow heavy, our cattle\nenliven and those settled away are satiated and our villagers become\nstrong and best obligation of all the obligation and the greatest bounties\namong all on those creatures upon whom dust pours and from the fear\nof those animals who roam freely to those animals who are useful. O\nAllah! Send such rains that the earth becomes wet and continues to\npour and make us contented with those clouds which bring forth heavy\nrains which is helpful, grants greenery and freshness its big drops,\nbenefits, faster, smoky, dark and heavy rains, that the dry things are\nsatiated and wasted things becomes useful once again, and those to be\nborn are ready. O Allah! Fill us with Your bounties, and favour us with\nthe blessings of the beneficial clouds which brings water in darkness\nand gloom which put cover upon cover and shine upon shine\ncontinuously and clouds spread over and do not make the swords of\nchillness and its lightening and its water, mud and stones. O Allah! Save\nus from polytheism and its wrath, oppression and its destruction, poverty\nand its consequences. O the one to make goodness reach its\ndestination, and the one to send grace to the treasurers one of the\nbeneficial bounty is rains. You are the listener of the complaints, we are\nsinners and You are the one from whom repentance is sought and You\nforgive, We seek pardon from You. O the Merciful of all the mercifuls.\nWe ask You to forgive us for the sins due to ignorance and seek Your\npardon for our mistakes. O Allah! Our mountains have dried and our\nearth has become dust and the animals have turned mad and are\nstanding in their stables and are crying so loudly as if a mother cries on\nthe death of her teenager son, they are tired of roaming in the barren\npasture ground and seeing the dry water wells because they have not\nreceived a drop of rain. Now their bones have rotten. The fats in their\nbodies have melted and the milk has also dried. O Allah! Have mercy on\nthe one who is moaning and the restless because our hopes are on\nYou, and we have to return to You, therefore do not discontinue the\nrains on us, as You are aware of our secrets, and do not call to us for\naccounting those deeds, which has been done by our fools. \"Because\nYou bring down the rains even when people have lost hope completely\nand You spread Your mercy and You are the guardian and worth the\npraise.","title":"The Alawite Book: His supplication for rains known as 'Is...","type":"page"}