2- O God...

2- O God, I have no endurance for effort, no patience in affliction, no strength to bear poverty. So forbid me not my provision and entrust me not to Thy creatures, but take care of my need alone and Thyself attend to sufficing me! 3- Look upon me and look after me in all my affairs, for if Thou entrustest me to myself, I will be incapable before myself and fail to undertake that in which my best interest lies.

If Thou entrustest me to Thy creatures, they will frown upon me, and if Thou makest me resort to my kinsfolk, they will refuse to give to me; if they give, they will give little and in bad temper, making me feel long obliged and blaming me much. 4- So through Thy bounty, O God, free me from need, through Thy mightiness, lift me up, through Thy boundless plenty, open my hand, and with that which is with Thee, suffice me!

5- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, rid me of envy, encircle me against sins, make me abstain from things unlawful, give me not the boldness of disobedient acts, assign me love for that which is with Thee and satisfaction with that which comes to me from Thee, bless me in that which Thou providest me, that which Thou conferrest upon me, and that through which Thou favourest me, and make me in all my states safeguarded, watched, covered, defended, given refuge, and granted sanctuary!

6- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household and let me accomplish everything which Thou hast enjoined upon me or made obligatory for me toward Thee, in one of the ways of Thy obedience, or toward one of Thy creatures, though my body be too frail for that, my strength too feeble, my power not able to reach it, and my possessions and what my hand owns not encompass it, and whether I have remembered it or forgotten it.

7- It, my Lord, is among that which Thou hast counted against me while I have been heedless of it in myself. Let me perform it through Thy plentiful giving and the abundance which is with Thee for Thou art Boundless, Generous – so that nothing of it may remain against me, lest Thou wouldst wish to settle accounts for it from my good deeds or to compound my evil deeds on the day I meet Thee, my Lord!

8- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household and provide me with desire to serve Thee for the sake of my state in the hereafter, such that I know the truthfulness of that [desire] in my heart, be dominated by renunciation while in this world, do good deeds with yearning, and remain secure from evil deeds in fright and fear!