caused me to begin (to call). Thine
are the praise and the gratitude!
O He who overlooked my slip,
relieved my distress, heard my
prayer, covered my defects, forgave
my sins, caused me to reach my
desire, and helped me against my
enemy!
If I were to count Thy blessings,
favors and generous acts of
kindness I would not be able to
reckon them. O my Protector!
Thou art He who was gracious,
Thou art He who blessed, Thou art
He who worked good, Thou art He
who was kind, Thou art He who
was bounteous, Thou art He who
perfected, Thou art He who
provided, Thou art He who gave
success, Thou art He who
bestowed, Thou art He who
enriched, Thou art He who
contented, Thou art He who
sheltered, Thou art He who
sufficed, Thou art He who guided,
Thou art He who preserved (from
sin), Thou art He who covered (my
sins), Thou art He who forgave,
Thou art He who overlooked, Thou
art He who established (in the
earth), Thou art He who exalted,
Thou art He who aided, Thou art
He who supported, Thou art He
who confirmed, Thou art He who
helped, Thou art He who healed,
Thou art He who gave well-being,
Thou art He who honored - blessed
art Thou and high exalted! So
Thine is the praise everlastingly,
and Thine is gratitude enduringly
and forever! Then I, my God,
confess my sins, so forgive me for
them.
I am he who did evil, I am he who
made mistakes, I am he who
purposed (to sin), I am he who was
ignorant, I am he who was
heedless, I am he who was
negligent, I am he who relied (upon
other than Thee), I am he who
premeditated, I am he who
promised, I am he who went back
on his word, I am he who confessed
(my sins) and I am he who
acknowledged Thy blessings upon
me and with me and then returned
to my sins.
So forgive me for them, O He who
is not harmed by the sins of His
servants nor needs He their
obedience. He gives success
through His aid and His mercy to
whomsoever of them works
righteousness.
So praise belongs to Thee, My God
and My Lord! My God, Thou
commanded me and I disobeyed
and Thou forbade me and I
committed what Thou hadst
forbidden.
I became such that I neither
possessed any of guiltlessness that I
might ask forgiveness nor any
power that I might be helped.
Then by what means shall I turn
toward Thee, O my Protector!?
What, by my ears? Or my eyes? Or
my tongue? Or my hand? Or my
leg? Are not all of them Thy
blessings given to me?
And with all of them I disobey
Thee, O my Protector! Thine is the
argument and the means against
me. O He who veiled me (my sins)
from fathers and mothers lest they
drive me away, from relatives and
brothers lest they rebuke me, and
from kings lest they punish me! If
they had seen, O my Protector,
what Thou hast seen from me, they
would not have given me respite,
they would have abandoned me and
cut me off.
So here I am, O my God, before
Thee O Lord, humbled, abased,
constrained, despised, neither
possessing guiltlessness that I
might ask forgiveness nor
possessing power that I might be
helped. There is no argument with
which I might argue, nor can I say
I committed not (sins) and worked
not evil. And denial, were I to
deny-my Protector-could hardly
profit me. How could it ever do
that? For all of my members are
witness against me for what I have
done.
And I acted with certainty and
without any doubt that Thou wilt
ask me about great affairs, and that
Thou art the equitable Judge who
does no wrong.
Thy justice is deadly for me and I
flee from Thy every just act.
If thou chastisest me, O my God, it
is for my sins after Thy argument
against me; and if Thou pardonest
me, it is by Thy clemency,
generosity and kindness. "There is
no god but Thou, glory be to Thee l
Truly I am one of the wrongdoers" (XXI, 87). There is no god
but Thou, glory be to Thee! Truly I
am one of those who pray
forgiveness. There is no god but
Thou, glory be to Thee I Truly I am
one of those who profess Thy
Unity.
There is no god but Thou, glory be
to Thee! Truly I am one of the
fearful. There is no god but Thou,
glory be to Thee I Truly I am one
of those who are afraid. There is no
god but Thou, glory be to Thee!
Truly I am one of the hopeful.
There is no god but Thou, glory be
to Thee! Truly I am one of those
who yearn. There is no god but
Thou, glory be to Thee! Truly I am
one of those who say "There is no
god but Thou". There is no god but
Thou, glory be to Thee! Truly I am
one of the petitioners. There is no
god but Thou, glory be to Thee!
Truly I am one of the glorifiers.
There is no god but Thou, glory be
to Thee! Truly I am one of those
who magnify.
There is no god but Thou, glory be
to Thee, my Lord, and the Lord of
my fathers, the ancients! My God,
this is my praise of Thee exalting
Thy majesty, my sincerity in
remembering Thee by professing
Thy Unity, and my
acknowledgment of Thy bounties
by enumeration, even though I
acknowledge that I cannot reckon
them for their multitude, their
abundance, their manifestness and
their existence from ancient times
until a present in which Thou hast
never ceased to care for me
through them from when Thou
created me and brought me into
existence in the beginning of (my)
life, by enriching from poverty,
relieving affliction, bringing ease,
removing hardship, dispelling