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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Manifestations of the All-Merciful O Allāh, Fill Our Poverty With Your Needlessness أََللٌّهُمَّ سُدَّ فَقْرَنَا بِغِنَاكَ OAllāh, fill ( sudda ) our poverty ( faqranā ) with Your affluence ( bighināka ). This verse does not pertain to the need of the commonly needy individuals, but a need that is shared by every human being, or rather every contingent being[^1], which due to the nature of its essence, possesses nothing of its own.

The Holy Qur’ān alluding to this says:  يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَنْتُمْ الْفُقَرَاءُ إِلـى اللٌّهِ وَاللٌّهُ هُوَ الْغَنِيُّ الْحَمِيدُ  “O mankind!

You are the ones who stand in need of Allāh, and Allāh - He is the All-Sufficient, the All-Laudable.” [^2]  لَهُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الأَرْضِ وَإِنَّ اللٌّهَ لَهُوَ الْغَنِيُّ الْحَمِيدُ  “To Him only belongs what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; and indeed Allāh is the All-sufficient, the All-laudable.” [^3] And in his well-known supplication of ‘Arafah , Imām Husayn (as) humbly cries: إِلٌهِي: أَنَا الْفَقِيرُ فِي غِنَايَ، فَكَيْفَ لا أَكُونُ فَقِيراً فِي فَقْرِي؟‏ “O God, I am the poor in my self-sufficiency; therefore how can I not be needy in my state of need?” And Imām ‘Alī (as) in his famous whisperings ( munājāt ) cries: مَوْلايَ يَا مَوْلايَ: أَنْتَ الْغَنِيُّ وَأَنَا الْفَقِيرُ، وَهَلْ يَرْحَمُ الْفَقِيرَ إِلا الْغَنِيُ؟‏ “My Master, My Master, You are the All-Sufficient and I am the needy; and who other than the All-Sufficient can have mercy on the needy?” And in the recommended prayer after ‘Asr, we introduce ourselves as: …لا يَمْلِكُ لِنَفْسِهِ نَفْعاً وَلا ضَرّاً وَلا مَوْتاً وَلا حَيَاةً وَلا نُشُوراً… “…one who does not own any benefit, nor harm, nor death, nor life, nor resurrection…”[^4] Can we turn into the necessary being?