All praise is due to Allah Who created day and night by His Might...

All praise is due to Allah Who created day and night by His Might, and made them different from one another by His Power, confined them both to specific limits, each following on the heels of the other, so that people might obtain their sustenance and might grow; He created night for them so that they might relax from the stress of life, and from excessive fatigue, and made it a garment of comfort and rest for people so that it might be for them a gathering of new strength, and an enjoyment of leisure and sensual delights.

He continues mentioning the wisdom of the days and the nights, and how it is a duty for man to be thankful and grateful to Allah for them. In the seventhdu'a' the fact that everything is in the hand of Allah is described in the following way: O Allah! through Whose Will the knots of problems are unravelled. O Allah! with Whom we take refuge in times of hardship. O Allah! to Whom we look for relief in times of misfortune.

It is Thy Might before which even the most brazen are humiliated, and it is through Thy Grace that the ways to make better our situation are provided. Destiny is determined by Thy Power, and things follow the dictates of Thy Will. That which Thou dost order hastens to the bidding of Thy Will without waiting for Thy Command, and according to Thy Wish is withheld without Your Forbidding.

b) The second recurring theme of as-Sahifat as-Sajjadiyyah concerns the Bounties and Grace of Allah towards man, and the inability of man to pay back what is due through worship and obedience to his Lord, and through sole reliance on Him. Thus we read in the thirty-eighthdu'a': O Allah!

No-one is able to complete his thanksgiving to Thee without new bounties being bestowed upon him which require further gratitude; and no-one reaches the level of complete obedience, try he ever so hard, without being short by that which Thy Grace bestows on him; thus Thy most thankful servant offers his thanks to Thee, but not as he ought to, and Thy most devoted servant obeys Thee, but always short of perfect obedience.

Due to the magnitude and multitude of the bounties of Allah, which never stop, even for one moment, it is impossible for man to thank Allah as he should (even if he is grateful and obedient to Him), so how could one who has committed one act of ingratitude make up for it, even if he were to do all that was in his power to make amends. This is what is suggested in the following quotation from the sixteenthdu'a': O Allah!