اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ ...

5- O He along with whom nothing is needed and without whom nothing can be done! 6- O He toward whom desire is ever directed and never turned away! 7- O He whose treasuries cannot be exhausted by demands! 8- O He whose wisdom cannot be altered by any means! 9- O He from whom the needs of the needy are never cut off! 10- O He who is not distressed by the supplications of the supplicators!

11- Thou hast lauded Thyself for having no need for Thy creatures, and it suits Thee to have no need for them, 12- and Thou hast attributed to them poverty, and it suits them to be poor toward Thee.[^1] 13- So he who strives to remedy his lack through what is with Thee and wishes to turn poverty away from himself through Thee has sought his need in the most likely place and come to his request from the right quarter.

14- But he who turns in his need toward one of Thy creatures or assigns the cause of its being granted to other than Thee, has exposed himself to deprivation and deserves to miss Thy beneficence. 15- O God, I have a need of Thee: My exertion has fallen short of it and my stratagems have been cut back before reaching it.

My soul induced me to present it to him who presents his needs to Thee and can do nothing without Thee in his requests, but this is one of the slips of the offenders, one of the stumbles of the sinners!