{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sal/sal130.htm","path":"isl/sal/sal130.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/sal/sal130.htm","text":"(129)\nHis supplication for the sixth of the month\nIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful\nO God! Praise be to You in a manner that might bring me closer to Your\npleasure and enable me to offer thanks to You thereby making myself\nmore deserving of Your bounties. Praise be to You for You grant mercy\ndespite having knowledge of our sins and praise be to You for Your\npardon despite having power to punish. O Allah! Praise be to You as\nYou have bestowed on us Your bounties after bounties. Praise be to\nYou for selecting Islam as religion for us and praise be to You for\nbestowing the Holy Quran. Praise be to You for favouring us with wealth\nand offspring as well as granting us pardon. Praise be to You in times of\nhardship and those of comfort, during affluence as well stringency and\nunder all conditions. O Allah! Praise be to You as You deserve; in the\nmanner that is befitting Your glorious Countenance. O my Lord! Praise\nbe to You as numerous as are the numbers of hair, of leaves and trees,\nof pebbles and bricks, of the particles of the desert sand, of the days of\nthis world, of Hereafter and the stars of the Heaven. O my Allah! We\nthank You for what You have done for us. Praise be to You for every\ncommand You issue when You intend anything and say, to it \"Be\", it\ntakes shape. Praise be to Allah Who forgets him not who remembers\nHim. Praise be to Allah for He disappoints him not who invokes Him.\nPraise be to Allah Who suffices him, who relies on Him. Praise be to\nAllah that who entrusts Him is not entrusted to anyone beside Him for\nsupport. Praise be to Allah Who grants goodness in return of goodness\nand deliverance in return of patience. Praise be to Allah Who wards off\nhardships and losses from us. Praise be to Allah Who is our ultimate and\ntrusted hope after we exhaust all efforts for the fulfillment of our desires.\nPraise be to Allah Who is our hope even after we spoil our thoughts by\nevil deeds and becomes despondent. Praise be to Allah Who saves\nwhen I seek his protection although I may be advancing towards things\nthat are harmful to me. Praise be to Allah Who succours me when I seek\nHis help. O Allah! Praise be to Allah that when I call Him, He responds;\nand when I seek His aid, He helps me. Praise be to Allah that when I ask\nhim, He bestows His favours despite my miserliness at His call for loan.\nPraise be to Allah Whom I call whenever I wish for the fulfillment of my\nneeds. Praise be to Allah Who shows absolute mercy towards me as if I\nhave no sinful deeds. Praise be to Allah Who shows love towards me.\nPraise be to Allah Who has not entrusted me to ordinary people\notherwise they would have put me to disgrace. Praise be to Allah Who\nhas favoured us by sending His Messenger, Muhammad (s.a.w.a.). All\npraise be to Allah Who carried us in the land and on the sea and\nprovided us with sustenance of good things and exalted us by several\ndegrees over most of those whom He has created by degree of\nexaltation. Praise be to Allah Who dispelled our fears. Praise be to Allah\nWho concealed our defects. Praise be to Allah Who gave us to eat to\nsatiation in hunger. All praise be to Allah Who overlooked our faults.\nPraise be to Allah Who provided us with sustenance. Praise be to Allah\nWho secured us against fear. Praise be to Allah Who disgraced our\nenemies. Praise be to Allah Who caused affection between our hearts.\nAll praise be to Allah Who is the Master of the Realm and Guardian of\nthe ship. Praise be to Allah Who disperses the winds and cleaves the\ndawn and Who is the most High and Overwhelming. All praise be to\nAllah Who being hidden is All-knowing. Praise be to Allah Who is\nencompassing everything through His Knowledge and takes account of\neverything. Praise to be to Allah Whose powerful insight pervades\nthrough everything. Praise be to Allah Whose knowledge embraces\neverything and for Whom is meant all dignified praise and exalted\nbeautiful names. All praise be to Allah from Whose command there is no\nescape. Praise be to Allah from Whom there is no place of refuge; rather\nto Him is the return and reward. Praise be to Allah Who never becomes\nunmindful of anything, nothing engages Him. Glory be to Allah from\nWhom neither fortresses can protect nor the walls can hide nor the\noceans can carry afar from them and everything will have to return to\nHim. All praise be to Allah Whose promise is firm. Whose devotee is\nhelped and He alone defeats the armies. Praise be to Allah Who gives\nlife to the dead and puts to death those alive and Who is Powerful over\neverything. Praise be to Allah for His plentiful bestowal. Whose\ndecisions are final and Whose boons are outstripping. Praise be to\nAllah, the Lord of the Earth and the Heavens, Who is deserving the\npraise most amongst all those that are Praiseworthy and deserving the\nhonour most amidst all honourable. Praise be to Allah Whose Might\nwanes not. O my Lord! All praise be to You in the Night when it spreads.\nAll praise be to You in the day when the sun shines. Praise be to You in\nthis world and in the Hereafter. Praise be to You high up in the\nHeavens, in the Earths below and in the lowest of the low below the\nEarth. O Allah! Praise be to You in an ever increasing and endless\nmanner that never diminishes. Praise be to You such that always\nmounts and never exhausts, that should always stay and never end, that\nshould be permanent and everlasting. It is You Who are praised and for\nYou is the sovereignty over the earth and its populace, O the Generous\none!","title":"The Alawite Book: His supplication for the sixth of the month","type":"page"}