بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
إِلَهِي أَذْهَلَنِي عَنْ إِقَامَةِ شُكْرِكَ تَتَابُعُ طَوْلِكَ، وَ أَعْجَزَنِي عَنْ إِحْصَاءِ ثَنَائِكَ فَيْضُ فَضْلِكَ، وَ شَغَلَنِي عَنْ ذِكْرِ مَحَامِدِكَ تَرَادُفُ عَوٰآئِدِكَ، وَ أَعْيَانِي عَنْ نَشْرِ عَوَارِفِكَ تَوَاليٖٓ أَيَادِيكَ
My Beloved! Your endless blessings have distracted me from thanking You, and the flood of Your grace has left me unable to count Your praises. Your ceaseless blessings have kept me from properly remembering to praise You as You deserve, and Your continuous gifts have exhausted my capacity to proclaim Your kindnesses.
وَ هَذَا مَقَامُ مَنِ اعْتَرَفَ بِسُبُوغِ النَّعْمٰآءِ وَ قَابَلَهَا بِالتَّقْصِيرِ، وَ شَهِدَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ بِالْإِهْمَالِ وَ التَّضْيِيعِ، وَ أَنْتَ الرَّءؤُوفُ الرَّحِيمُ الْبَرُّ الْكَرِيمُ الَّذِي لَا يُخَيِّبُ قَاصِدِيهِ، وَ لَا يَطْرُدُ عَنْ فِنَائِهِ آمِلِيه
This [weakness] is the station of one who confesses Your abundant favors yet responds with shortcomings, and witnesses to his own negligence and waste [of Your blessings]. While You are the Kindest, Most Merciful, Most Beneficent, Most Generous, who never disappoints those who aim for You nor drives away those who hope in You.
بِسَاحَتِكَ تَحُطُّ رِحَالُ الرَّاجِينَ وَ بِعَرْصَتِكَ تَقِفُ آمَالُ الْمُسْتَرْفِدِينَ، فَلَا تُقَابِلْ آمَالَنَا بِالتَّخْيِيبِ وَ الْإِيَاسِ وَ لَا تُلْبِسْنَا سِرْبَالَ الْقُنُوطِ وَ الْإِبْلَاسِ
At Your doorstep, the hopeful dismount their burdens, and at Your courtyard, the aspirations of supplicants halt. Do not meet our hopes with denial and despair, nor clothe us in the garb of hopelessness and desolation!
إِلَهِي تَصَاغَرَ عِنْدَ تَعَاظُمِ آلٰآئِكَ شُكْرِي، وَ تَضٰآءَلَ فِي جَنْبِ إِكْرَامِكَ إِيَّايَ ثَنٰآئِي وَ نَشْرِي، جَلَّلَتْنِي نِعَمُكَ مِنْ أَنْوَارِ الْإِيمَانِ حُلَلًا، وَ ضَرَبَتْ عَلَيَّ لَطٰآئِفُ بِرِّكَ مِنَ الْعِزِّ كِلَلًا، وَ قَلَّدَتْنِي مِنَنُكَ قَلٰآئِدَ لَا تُحَلُّ، وَ طَوَّقَتْنيٖٓ أَطْوَاقاً لَا تُفَلُّ
My Beloved! My gratitude is small before Your immense blessings, and my praise is inadequate compared to the honor You have shown me. You have draped me in robes of faith’s light, crowned me with Your gentle favors of honor, adorned me with necklaces of Your gifts that cannot be loosened, and encircled me with bonds of Your grace that cannot be broken.
فَآلآؤُكَ جَمَّةٌ ضَعُفَ لِسَانِي عَنْ إِحْصٰآئِهَا، وَ نَعْمٰآؤُكَ كَثِيرَةٌ قَصُرَ فَهْمِي عَنْ إِدْرَاكِهَا، فَضْلًا عَنِ اسْتِقْصٰآئِهَا، فَكَيْفَ لِي بِتَحْصِيلِ الشُّكْرِ وَ شُكْرِي إِيَّاكَ يَفْتَقِرُ إِلَى شُكْرٍ، فَكُلَّمَا قُلْتُ لَكَ الْحَمْدُ وَجَبَ عَلَيَّ لِذَلِكَ أَنْ أَقُولَ لَكَ الْحَمْدُ
Your blessings are so abundant that my tongue falters in counting them; Your favors so numerous that my understanding falls short of grasping them, let alone fully describing them! How can I achieve true thankfulness when my very thanks to You demands further thanks? Each time I say Alhamdulillah, I owe You another Alhamdulillah for enabling me to say it!
إِلَهِي فَكَمَا غَذَّيْتَنَا بِلُطْفِكَ وَ رَبَّيْتَنَا بِصُنْعِكَ، فَتَمِّمْ عَلَيْنَا سَوَابِغَ النِّعَمِ، وَ ادْفَعْ عَنَّا مَكَارِهَ النِّقَمِ، وَ آتِنَا مِنْ حُظُوظِ الدَّارَيْنِ أَرْفَعَهَا وَ أَجَلَّهَا عَاجِلًا وَ آجِلًا
My Beloved! As You have nourished us with Your kindness and nurtured us with Your care, complete for us the fullness of Your blessings, ward off from us the bitterness of calamities, and grant us the highest and most exalted shares in both worlds, now and forever.
وَ لَكَ الْحَمْدُ عَلَى حُسْنِ بَلَائِكَ وَ سُبُوغِ نَعْمٰآئِكَ، حَمْداً يُوَافِقُ رِضَاكَ وَ يَمْتَرِي الْعَظِيمَ مِنْ بِرِّكَ وَ نَدَاكَ، يَا عَظِيمُ يَا كَرِيمُ بِرَحْمَتِكَ یٰآ أَرْحَمَ الرَّاحِمِينَ
Yours is all praise for Your good trials and the abundance of Your gifts, praise that meets Your pleasure and draws forth the greatest of Your generosity and bounty. O All-Great, O All-Generous By Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful!