{"id":21689,"date":"2019-01-27T09:36:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T06:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roshd.com\/?p=21689"},"modified":"2025-08-16T15:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:37:19","slug":"the-hope-of-the-hopeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roshd.com\/en\/the-hope-of-the-hopeless\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hope of the Desperate"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"21689\" class=\"elementor elementor-21689 elementor-1916\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5cc5c7e3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5cc5c7e3\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-66b1c1d4\" data-id=\"66b1c1d4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2deaf4a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2deaf4a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I have become hopeless and desperate; I have tried every route I knew; I turned to every person I knew, but none of them could assist me. I have been left with a feeling of regret for referring to them, for more or less they are humans similar to me.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>For sure you have experienced such instances in your life. But truly who should we count on in our lives? From whom should we seek assistance? Imam Sajjad (PBUH) provides us with some answers in his prayer:<\/p><p>\u00a0\u201cO God who grants whenever a servant asks from Him, and fulfills wishes when one counts on Him, and whence His servant recourses to Him, He allows him to get close. When the servant openly disobeys Him, He covers over his sin and hides it. When the servant relies on Him, He satisfies him.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>My Lord, is there anyone who enters and asks to be Your guest but, whom You don\u2019t respond with hospitality? Is there anyone who has dismounted at Your door, hopeful for forgiveness and beneficence, but that You have deprived him? My Lord, is it good that I come back from Your door, turned away in\u00a0<strong>disappointment<\/strong>, while I don\u2019t know any master famous for grace and kindness but You? How can I have hope in others while\u00a0<strong>the key of all goodness<\/strong>\u00a0is at Your hands? How should I have hope in other than You, when all of creation and order of being is in Your hands?<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Should I cease my hope in You, while You have generously and benevolently\u00a0<strong>granted<\/strong>\u00a0me what I never asked for? Or that would You make me needy and dependent upon someone similar to myself, while I have held on to the thread of Your grace? O He through whose mercy the strivers reach felicity, and through whose vengeance the seekers of forgiveness are not made wretched! \u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>My God, how can I forget You, while You have always remembered me? And how can I neglect You while You are always protecting me? O Lord, I have held onto your grace, and in order to attain your blessings and forgiveness, I have expanded my dreams.\u00a0 \u00a0Hence my Lord, make me a pure through the purest profession of Your Divineness, and make me one of Your special servants, O You, who every fugitive recourses to, and who when one wants something becomes wishful to His presence; You are the best for putting\u00a0<strong>hopes<\/strong>\u00a0on and the most\u00a0<strong>benevolent<\/strong>\u00a0to be asked from.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>O He who does not reject His asker; or\u00a0<strong>disappoint<\/strong>\u00a0the expectant! O He whose door is open to the ones who call upon Him, and whose veil is lifted for those who hope in Him! I ask You by Your generosity to show kindness toward me through Your gifts, with that which will gladden my eye, through hope in You, with that which will give\u00a0<strong>serenity<\/strong>\u00a0to my soul, and through\u00a0<strong>certainty<\/strong>\u00a0with that which will make easy for me the afflictions of this world; and lift from my insight the veils of blindness! By Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful!<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Yes, how can we forget Him, when He always keeps us in mind? How can we neglect His presence while He continuously supports us?<\/p><p><strong>(The above is a selection taken from \u201c<em>An Analysis from the Life of Imam Sajjad (PBUH)<\/em>\u201d by Hojatulislam Baqir Sharif\u00a0Qurashi)<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/strong><\/p><hr \/><p><strong><u>Footnotes:<\/u><\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> The Farsi translation of the above reference is done by Mr. Mohammad Reza \u2018Atayee.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imam Sajjad (PBUH) teaches that true hope and help lie in God alone. Human aid is limited, but God responds to those who seek Him, protects the hopeful, and fulfills their needs. 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