Procrastination May 30, 2008
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For all inaction there are equal and opposite justifications.
Hold Fast May 17, 2008
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Oh Doctor, my Doctor!
You wisely prescribed
For your ailing patients
Medicine true and tried
Dispensed by your Beloved
The one who lived and died
For you and none beside
Oh Doctor, my Doctor!
I need your Remedy
Forgive me my sins by
Your generosity
I prayed not as I ought
Gave too little charity
But now for you I fast
To taste my reality
To realize I need you
To save and protect me
From my depravity
Help me fast
To hold fast
And to Fast
Jili, Juvenilia, 1428.
The Prayer of Fatima May 2, 2008
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It has reached us that Anas ibn Mālik, may God be pleased with him, reported that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, advised his beloved daughter Fatima, may God be pleased with her, to pray thus:
يا حيّ يا قيّوم، برحمتك أستغيث، و من عذابك أستجير، أصلح لي شأني كله و لاتكلني الى نفسي و لا الى أحد من خلقك طرفة عين
Yā Hayyu yā Qayyūm! Bi-rahmatika astaghīthu wa min `adhābika astajīr. Aslih lī sha’nī kullahu wa lā takilnī ilā nafsī wa lā ilā ahadin min khalqika tarfata `ayn.
O Living! O Sustainer! I call upon Your mercy for succour, and from Your chastisement I seek refuge! Make good all my affairs and do not entrust me to myself or any of Your creation for the blink of an eye.
Ghazali, Ihyā’ `ulūm al-dīn, Kitāb al-adhkār wa’l-da`awāt. Reported in Nasā’ī, `Amal al-yawm wa’l-layla, 575. Translated by Kojiro Nakamura as Invocations and Supplications, edited by T. J. Winter, revised edition of Book IX of Ghazali’s Revival, Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1990, p. 60.
