His Supplication in Seeking Needs from God

1- O God, O ultimate object of needs! 2- O He through whom requests are attained! 3- O He whose favours are not boughtby prices! 4- O He who does not muddy His giftsby the imposition of obligations! 5- O He along with whom nothing is neededand without whom nothing can be done! 6- O He toward whom desire is ever directedand never turned away! 7- O He whose treasuries cannot be exhaustedby demands! 8- O He whose wisdom cannot be alteredby any means! 9- O He from whom the needs of the needyare never cut off! 10- O He who is not distressedby the supplications of the supplicators! 11- Thou hast lauded Thyself for having no need for Thy creatures, and it suits Thee to have no need for them, 12- and Thou hast attributed to them poverty, and it suits them to be poor toward Thee. 1 13- So he who strives to remedy his lack through what is with Theeand wishes to turn poverty away from himself through Theehas sought his need in the most likely placeand come to his request from the right quarter. 14- But he who turns in his need toward one of Thy creaturesor assigns the cause of its being granted to other than Thee, has exposed himself to deprivationand deserves to miss Thy beneficence. 15- O God, I have a need of Thee: My exertion has fallen short of itand my stratagems have been cut back before reaching it. My soul induced me to present it to him who presents his needs to Theeand can do nothing without Thee in his requests, but this is one of the slips of the offenders, one of the stumbles of the sinners! 16- Then through Thy reminding me, I was aroused from my heedlessness, through Thy giving success, I stood up from my slip, and through Thy pointing the way, I returned and withdrew from my stumble. 17- I said: Glory to my Lord! How can the needy ask from the needy? How can the destitute