His Supplication for his Children

n to Theeand we leave his trickery and rise up among those preserved by Thee from sin! 9- O God, grant me my every request, accomplish for me my needs, withhold not from me Thy responsewhen Thou hast made Thyself accountable for it to me, 2veil not my supplication from Thyself, when Thou hast commanded me to make it, 3and be kind to me through everything that will set me right in this world and the next, in everything that I remember or forget, display or conceal, make public or keep secret! 10- In all of this, place me through my asking Thee among those who set things right, those who are answered favourably when they request from Theeand from whom is not withheldwhen they put their trust in Thee, 11- those accustomed to seek refuge in Thee, those who profit through commerce with Thee, those granted sanctuarythrough Thy might, those given lawful provision in plenty from Thy boundless bountythrough Thy munificence and generosity, those who reach exaltation after abasementthrough Thee, those granted sanctuary from wrongthrough Thy justice, those released from affliction through Thy mercy, those delivered from need after poverty through Thy riches, those preserved from sins, slips, and offensesthrough reverential fear toward Thee, those successful in goodness, right conduct, and propriety through obeying Thee, those walled off from sins through Thy power, the refrainers from every act of disobedience toward Thee, the dwellers in Thy neighbourhood! 12- O God, give me all of that through Thy bestowal of success and Thy mercy, grant us refuge from the chastisement of the burning, and give toall the Muslims, male and female, and all the faithful, male and female, the like of what I have asked for myself and my children, in the immediate of this worldand the deferred of the next! Verily Thou art the Near, the Responder, the All-hearing, the All-knowing, the Pardoner, the Forgiving, the Clement, the Merciful! 13- Andgive to us in this world good, and in the next world good, and protect us from the chastisement of the Fire! 4 Decked out fair to men is the love of passions - women, children, heaped-up heaps of gold and silver, horses of mark, cattle, and tillage. That is the enjoyment of the present life; but God - with Him is the fairest resort (3: 14). Arberry translates the term here as 'lusts', Pickthall as 'joys'.