His Supplication for the Coming of the Month of Ramadan

ith Theeor seek therein any object of desire but Thee! 8 O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, in it make us attend to the appointed moments of the five prayerswithin the bounds Thou hast set, the obligations Thou hast decreed, the duties Thou hast assigned, and the times Thou hast specified; 9- and in the prayers make us alight in the station ofthe keepers of their stations, the guardians of their pillars, their performers in their times, as Thy servant and Thy messenger set down in hisSunna(Thy blessings be upon him and his Household)in their bowings, their prostrations, and all theirexcellent acts, with the most complete and ample ritual purityand the most evident and intense humility! 10- Give us success in this month to tighten our bonds of kin with devotion and gifts, attend to our neighbours with bestowal and giving, rid our possessions from claims, purify them through paying the alms, go back to him who has gone far from us, treat justly him who has wronged us, make peace with him who shows enmity toward us(except him who is regarded as an enemy in Thee and for Thee, for he is the enemy whom we will not befriend, the party whom we will not hold dear), 11- and seek nearness to Thee through blameless workswhich will purify us from sinsand preserve us from renewing faults, so that none of Thy angels will bring for Theethe kinds of obedience and sorts of nearness-seeking unless they be less than what we bring! 312- O God, I ask Thee by the right of this monthand by the right of him who worships Thee within itfrom its beginning to the time of its passing, whether angel Thou hast brought nigh to Thee, prophet Thou hast sent, or righteous servant Thou hast singled out, that Thou bless Muhammad and his Household, make us worthy of the generosity Thou hast promised Thy friends, make incumbent for us what Thou hast made incumbentfor those who go to great lengths in obeying Thee, and place us in the ranks of those who deserve through Thy mercy the highest elevation! 13- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, turn us aside fromdeviation in professing Thy Unity, falling short in magnifying Thee, doubt in Thy religion, blindness toward Thy path, heedlessness of Thy inviolability, and being deceived by Thy enemy, the accursed Satan! 14- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, and when in every night of this month's nightsThou hast necks which Thy pardon will releaseand Thy forgiveness disregard, place our necks among those necksand p