Praise belongs to Allah, 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 Allah, who showed favors to us
through His religion,
singled us out for His creed, and directed us onto the
roads of His Beneficence,
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 us!
And praise belongs to Allah who appointed among those
roads His month, the month of Ramazan,
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.”
(Surah Baqarah Ayah 285)
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 drinks in it to honor 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 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” (Surah Qadr Ayahs 4 and 5) 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 Allah Bless Muhammad and his household,
inspire us with knowledge of its excellence, adoration of
its sanctity,
and caution against what You have forbidden within it,
and help us to fast in it by our restraining our limbs
from acts of disobedience toward You
and our employing them in that which pleases You,
so that we lend not our ears to idle talk
and hurry not our with our eyes to diversion,
we stretch not our hands toward the forbidden
and stride (walk) not with our feet toward the
prohibited,
our bellies hold only what You have made lawful
and our tongues speak only what You have exemplified,
we undertake nothing but what brings close to Your reward
and pursue nothing but what protects from Your
Punishment!
Then rid all of that from false show of the false showers
and the fame seeking of the fame seekers,
lest we associate therein anything with You
or seek therein any object of desire but You!
O Allah, Bless Muhammad and his Household,
in it make us attend to the appointed moments
of the five prayers within the bounds You have set,
the obligations You have decreed, the duties You have
assigned,
and the time You have specified;
and in the prayers make us alight in the station of the
keepers of their stations,
the guardians of their pillars, their performers in their
times
as Your servant and Your Messenger set down in his Sunna
(Your Blessings be upon him and his Household)
in their bowings, in 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 gift
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