I have become hopeless and desperate;\nI have tried every route I knew; I turned to every person I knew, but none of\nthem could assist me. I have been left with a feeling of regret for referring\nto them, for more or less they are humans similar to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For sure you have experienced such\ninstances in your life. But truly who should we count on in our lives? From\nwhom should we seek assistance? Imam Sajjad (PBUH) provides us with some\nanswers in his prayer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cO God who grants\nwhenever a servant asks from Him, and fulfills wishes when one counts on Him,\nand whence His servant recourses to Him, He allows him to get close. When the\nservant openly disobeys Him, He covers over his sin and hides it. When the\nservant relies on Him, He satisfies him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My Lord, is there anyone who enters\nand asks to be Your guest but, whom You don\u2019t respond with hospitality? Is\nthere anyone who has dismounted at Your door, hopeful for forgiveness and\nbeneficence, but that You have deprived him? My Lord, is it good that I come\nback from Your door, turned away in disappointment, while I don\u2019t know any\nmaster famous for grace and kindness but You? How can I have hope in others\nwhile the key of all goodness is at Your hands? How should I have hope in other\nthan You, when all of creation and order of being is in Your hands?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Should I cease my hope in You, while\nYou have generously and benevolently granted me what I never asked for? Or that\nwould You make me needy and dependent upon someone similar to myself, while I\nhave held on to the thread of Your grace? O He through whose mercy the strivers\nreach felicity, and through whose vengeance the seekers of forgiveness are not\nmade wretched! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My God, how can I forget You, while\nYou have always remembered me? And how can I neglect You while You are always\nprotecting me? O Lord, I have held onto your grace, and in order to attain your\nblessings and forgiveness, I have expanded my dreams. Hence my Lord, make me a pure through the\npurest profession of Your Divineness, and make me one of Your special servants,\nO You, who every fugitive recourses to, and who when one wants something\nbecomes wishful to His presence; You are the best for putting hopes on and the\nmost benevolent to be asked from. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
O He who does not reject His asker; or\ndisappoint the expectant! O He whose door is open to the ones who call upon\nHim, and whose veil is lifted for those who hope in Him! I ask You by Your\ngenerosity to show kindness toward me through Your gifts, with that which will\ngladden my eye, through hope in You, with that which will give serenity to my\nsoul, and through certainty with that which will make easy for me the\nafflictions of this world; and lift from my insight the veils of blindness! By\nYour mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, how can we forget Him, when He\nalways keeps us in mind? How can we neglect His presence while He continuously\nsupports us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(The above is a\nselection taken from \u201cAn Analysis from the Life of Imam Sajjad (PBUH)\u201d by Hojatulislam\nBaqir Sharif Qurashi)(2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Roshd Website offers condolences\nto all Muslims, especially you dear friend, upon 25th of Muharram, the\nanniversary of the martyrdom of the exemplar of worshipping and the fourth\nImam, Imam Ali ibn Hussain (PBUH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Footnotes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1- This\nSupplication is also known as \u201cWhispered Prayer of the Hopefuls\u201d (Munajaat\nRaajin); it is one of the fifteen whispered prayers by Imam Sajjad (PBUH) which\nare among the most valuable collection of prayers from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2- The Farsi\ntranslation of the above reference is done by Mr. Mohammad Reza \u2018Atayee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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