The Whispered Prayer of the Thankful

	Bismillah Hir Rahman Nir Raheem 1  My God,           the uninterrupted flow of Thy graciousness              hast distracted me from thanking Thee!              The flood of Thy bounty has rendered me incapable              of counting Thy praises!              The succession of Thy kind acts has diverted me             from mentioning Thee in laudation!            The continuous rush of Thy benefits has thwarted me           from spreading the news of Thy gentle favours!           This is the station of him who            confesses to the lavishness of favours,            meets them with shortcomings,           and witnesses to his own disregard and negligence.           Thou art the Clement, the Compassionate,            the Good, the Generous,            who does not disappoint those who aim for Him,            nor cast out from His courtyard those who expect from Him!           In Thy yard are put down the saddlebags of the hopeful           and in Thy plain stand the hopes of the help-seekers!           So meet not our hopes by disappointing and disheartening            and clothe us not in the shirt of despair and despondency!
2	My God,           my thanksgiving is small            before Thy great boons,            and my praise and news-spreading shrink            beside Thy generosity toward me!           Thy favours have wrapped me            in the robes of the lights of faith,            and the gentlenesses of Thy goodness have let down over me           delicate curtains of might!           Thy kindnesses           have collared me with collars not to be moved           and adorned me with neck-rings not to be broken!           Thy boons are abundant -           my tongue is too weak to count them!           Thy favours are many -           my understanding falls short of grasping them,           not to speak of exhausting them!           So how can I achieve thanksgiving?           For my thanking Thee requires thanksgiving.           Whenever I say, 'To Thee belongs praise!',           it becomes thereby incumbent upon me to say,           'To Thee belongs praise'!
3	My God,           as Thou hast fed us through Thy gentleness           and nurtured us through Thy benefaction,           so also complete for us lavish favours,           repel from us detested acts of vengeance,           and of the shares of the two abodes,           give us their most elevated and their greatest,           both the immediate and the deferred!           To Thee belongs praise           for Thy good trial and the lavishness of Thy favours,           a praise           conforming to Thy good pleasure           and attracting Thy great goodness and magnanimity.           O All-mighty,           O All-generous!           By Thy mercy,          O Most Merciful of the merciful! Psalms of Islam (Al-Sahifah Al-Sajjadiyyah Al-Kamilah) by Imam Al-I Ibnul-Husayn Zaynul-AA'Bideen As-Sajjad