الصحيفة السجادية - 15
Sahifa Sajjadiya 15: Supplication When Sick
29 verses Source: Sahifa al-Sajjadiya
This translation was machine-assisted and is awaiting scholarly review. The Arabic above is the authoritative text.
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أللَّهُمَّ لَكَ الْحَمْدُ عَلَى مَا لَمْ أَزَلْ أَتَصَرَّفُ فِيهِ مِنْ سَلاَمَةِ بَدَنِي،
1O God, to You belongs praise for the good health of my body which lets me move about,
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وَلَكَ الْحَمْدُ عَلَى مَا أَحْدَثْتَ بِيْ مِنْ عِلَّة فِي جَسَـدِي.
2and to You belongs praise, for the ailments which You causest to arise in my flesh!
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فَمَا أَدْرِي يَـا إلهِي، أَيُّ الْحَالَيْنِ أَحَقُّ بِالشُّكْرِ لَكَ،
3For I know not, my God, which of the two states deserves more my thanking You
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وَأَيُّ الْوَقْتَيْنِ أوْلَى بِالْحَمْدِ لَكَ،
4and which of the two times is more worthy for my praise of You:
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أَوَقْتُ الصِّحَةِ الَّتِي هَنَّـأْتَنِي فِيهَا طَيِّبَاتِ رِزْقِكَ،
5the time of health, within which You makest me delight in the agreeable things of Your provision,
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وَنَشَّطْتَنِي بِهَا لابْتِغاءِ مَرْضَاتِكَ وَفَضْلِكَ،
6through which You givest me the joy to seek the means to Your good pleasure and bounty,
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وَقَوَّيْتَنِي مَعَهَا عَلَى مَـا وَفَّقْتَنِي لَهُ مِنْ طَـاعَتِـكَ
7and by which You strengthenest me for the acts of obedience which You hast given me success to accomplish;
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أَمْ وَقْتُ الْعِلَّةِ الَّتِي مَحَّصْتَنِي بِهَا،
8or the time of illness through which You puttest me to the test
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وَالنِّعَمِ الَّتِي أَتْحَفْتَنِي بِهَا
9and bestowest upon me favours:
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تَخْفِيفاً لِمَا ثَقُلَ بِهِ عَلَى ظَهري مِنَ الْخَطِيئاتِ
10lightening of the offenses that weigh down my back,
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وَتَطْهيراً لِمَا انْغَمَسْتُ فيهِ مِنَ السَّيِّئاتِ ،
11purification of the evil deeds into which I have plunged,
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وَتَنْبِيهاً لِتَنَاوُلِ التَّوْبَةِ، وَتَذْكِيراً لِمَحْوِ الْحَوْبَةِ بِقَدِيمِ النِّعْمَةِ،
12incitement to reach for repentance, reminder of the erasure of misdeeds through ancient favour;
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وَفِي خِلاَلِ ذَلِكَ مَا كَتَبَ لِيَ الْكَاتِبَانِ
13and, through all that, what the two writers write for me:
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مِنْ زَكِيِّ الأعْمَالِ، مَا لا قَلْبٌ فَكَّرَ فِيهِ،
14blameless acts, which no heart had thought,
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وَلا لِسَانٌ نَطَقَ بِهِ وَلاَ جَارِحَةٌ تَكَلَّفَتْهُ بَلْ إفْضَالاً مِنْكَ عَلَيَّ،
15no tongue had uttered, and no limb had undertaken, rather, as Your bestowal of bounty upon me
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وَإحْسَاناً مِنْ صَنِيعِـكَ إلَيَّ.
16and the beneficence of Your benefaction toward me.
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أللَّهُمَّ فَصَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّـد وَآلِـهِ
17O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,
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وَحَبِّبْ إلَيّ مَـا رَضِيتَ لِي ،
18make me love what You hast approved for me,
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وَيَسِّرْ لِي مَا أَحْلَلْتَ بِيْ،
19make easy for me what You hast sent down upon me,
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وَطَهِّرْنِي مِنْ دَنَسِ مَا أَسْلَفْتُ ،
20purify me of the defilement of what I have sent ahead,
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وَامْحُ عَنِّي شَرَّ مَا قَـدَّمْتُ،
21erase the evil of what I have done beforehand,
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وَأَوْجِدْنِي حَلاَوَةَ الْعَافِيَةِ ، وَأَذِقْنِي بَرْدَ السَّلاَمَةِ
22let me find the sweetness of well-being, let me taste the coolness of safety,
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وَاجْعَلْ مَخْرَجِي عَنْ عِلَّتِي إلَى عَفْوِكَ،
23and appoint for me a way out from my illness to Your pardon,
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وَمُتَحَوَّلِي عَنْ صَرْعَتِي إلَى تَجَاوُزِكَ،
24transformation of my infirmity into Your forbearance,
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وَخَلاصِي مِنْ كَرْبِي إلَى رَوْحِكَ،
25escape from my distress to Your refreshment,
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وَسَلاَمَتِي مِنْ هَذِهِ الشِّدَّةِ إلَى فَرَجِكَ،
26and safety from this hardship in Your relief!
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إنَّكَ الْمُتَفَضِّلُ بِالإِحْسَانِ،
27You art gratuitously bountiful in beneficence,
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الْمُتَطَوِّلُ بِالامْتِنَانِ، الْوَهَّابُ الْكَرِيمُ،
28ever gracious in kindness, the Generous, the Giver,
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ذُو الْجَلاَلِ وَالإكْرَامِ
29Possessor of majesty and munificence!