All praise is due to Allah, fully content with the decree of Allah.
I have witnessed that Allah divides the livelihoods of Allah’s servants with full justice, and given blessings to all of the creation.
Dearest Allah, bless Muhammad and his family!
And do not test me with what You have granted to them, nor test them through what You have denied me, such that I would envy Your creatures and hate Your decision.
Dearest Allah, bless Muhammad and his family!
Bring me joy through Your determinations, and open my heart by the manifestations of Your decision.
Please grant me the trust to affirm in those moments that Your determinations are nothing but the best.
Make my gratitude to You for what You have diverted away from me more abundant than my gratitude, that is only for You, for what You have conferred upon me.
Guard me from thinking that someone who has nothing is worthy of contempt, or that someone who has everything is blessed, for the truly noble person is the one made noble by obeying You, and the truly powerful is the one made powerful by worshipping You.
So bless Muhammad and his family!
Give us everything we want in eternity, support us through a powerfulness that will never be lost, and let us roam in the everlasting kingdom.
For surely You are The One, The Unique, The Everlasting Refuge, Who begets not nor is begotten, for there is nothing comparable to You!
[Translation by me. Translation by Dr. Chittick and original Arabic here.]
A Mercy Case 