مناجاة الخائفين

In Communion of the Frightened

Arabic by way of http://www.shiaweb.org/doaa/al-sajadia

Translation by way of Duas.org

Edited and categorized by Dr. Hashim

إلهِي أَتَراكَ بَعْدَ الإِيْمانِ بِكَ تُعَذِّبُنِي،
أَمْ بَعْدَ حُبِّي إيَّاكَ تُبَعِّدُنِي،
أَمْ مَعَ رَجآئِي برحمَتِكَ وَصَفْحِكَ تَحْرِمُنِي،
أَمْ مَعَ اسْتِجارَتِي بِعَفْوِكَ تُسْلِمُنِي؟
حاشا لِوَجْهِكَ الْكَرِيمِ أَنْ تُخَيِّبَنِي،
لَيْتَ شِعْرِي، أَلِلشَّقآءِ وَلَدَتْنِي أُمِّي، أَمْ لِلْعَنآءِ رَبَّتْنِي؟
فَلَيْتَهَا لَمْ تَلِدْنِي وَلَمْ تُرَبِّنِي،
وَلَيْتَنِي عَلِمْتُ أَمِنْ أَهْلِ السَّعادَةِ جَعَلْتَنِي؟
وَبِقُرْبِكَ وَجَوارِكَ خَصَصْتَنِي؟
فَتَقَرَّ بِذلِكَ عَيْنِي، وَتَطْمَئِنَّ لَهُ نَفْسِي.

إلهِي هَلْ تُسَوِّدُ وُجُوهً خَرَّتْ ساجِدَةً لِعَظَمَتِكَ؟
أَوْ تُخْرِسُ أَلْسِنَةً نَطَقَتْ بِالثَّنآءِ عَلَى مَجْدِكَ وَجَلالَتِكَ؟
أَوْ تَطْبَعُ عَلَى قُلُوب انْطَوَتْ عَلى مَحَبَّتِكَ؟
أَوْ تُصِمُّ أَسْماعَاً تَلَذَّذَتْ بِسَماعِ ذِكْرِكَ فِي إرادَتِكَ؟
أَوْ تَغُلُّ أَكُفَّاً رَفَعَتْهَا الآمالُ إلَيْكَ رَجآءَ رَأْفَتِكَ؟
أَوْ تُعاقِبُ أَبْداناً عَمِلَتْ بِطاعَتِكَ حَتَّى نَحِلَتْ فِي مُجاهَدَتِكَ،
أَوْ تُعَذِّبُ أَرْجُلاً سَعَتْ فِي عِبادَتِكَ.

إلهِي لا تُغْلِقْ عَلى مُوَحِّدِيكَ أَبْوابَ رَحْمَتِكَ،
وَلا تَحْجُبْ مُشْتاقِيكَ عَنِ النَّظَرِ إلَى جَمِيلِ رُؤْيَتِكَ.

إلهِي نَفْسٌ أَعْزَزْتَها بِتَوْحِيدِكَ، كَيْفَ تُذِلُّها بِمَهانَةِ هِجْرانِكَ؟
وَضَمِيرٌ انْعَقَدَ عَلى مَوَدَّتِكَ كَيْفَ تُحْرِقُهُ بِحَرَارَةِ نِيرانِكَ؟

إلهِي أَجِرْنِي مِنْ أَلِيمِ غَضَبِكَ وَعَظِيمِ سَخَطِكَ،
يا حَنَّانُ يا مَنَّانُ،
يا رَحِيمُ يا رَحْمنُ،
يا جَبَّارُ يا قَهَّارُ،
يا غَفَّارُ يا سَتَّارُ،

نَجِّنِي بِرَحْمَتِكَ مِنْ عَذابِ النَّارِ، وَفَضِيحَةِ الْعارِ،
إذَا امْتازَ الأَخْيارُ مِنَ الأَشْرارِ،
وَحالَتِ الأَحْوالُ،
وَهالَتِ الأَهْوالُ
وَقَرُبَ الْمُحْسِنُونَ،
وَبَعُدَ الْمُسِيؤُنَ،

وَوُفِّيَتْ كُلُّ نَفْس ما كَسَبَتْ وَهُمْ لا يُظْلَمُونَ.

My Lord! How possible that You chastise me after my faith in Thee:

	or keep me distant, despite my love for Thee,
	or deprive me, while I hope for Thy mercy and forgiveness,
	or forsake me, while I seek sanctuary in Thy pardon?

Nay! How could that Thy generous countenance let me down?! Nay!

Would that I knew ─Did my mother bear me for wretchedness? Or did she nurture me for suffering?

Would then that she borne me not, nor nurtured me!

Or Would that I had knowledge ─Have You appointed me as one of felicity?

and have You singled me out for Thy nearness and proximity?

Then would my eyes be gladdened, and in that my soul reach serenity.

My Lord! Would You disgrace faces which fall prostrating before Thy mightiness?

	Or would You silence tongues which speak in praise of Thy glory and grandeur?
	Or would You deprive hearts which insist on loving Thee?
	Or would You deafen ears which take pleasure in hearing Thy remembrance in Thy will?
	Or would You disable hands which expectations have raised to Thee in hope of Thy clemency?
	Or would You punish bodies which worked to obey Thee until they grew thin in struggling for Thee?
	Or would You chastise legs which ran to worship Thee?

Of course not, of course not.

	My Lord! Lock not toward those who profess Thy Unity the doors of Thy Mercy,
	and Veil not those who yearn for Thee, from seeing the Vision of Thy Beauty!

	My Lord! a soul which You have enhanced by its professing Thy Oneness ─how would You degrade it by shunning it?
	And a conscience devoted on loving Thee, how would You burn it in the heat of Thy fires?

My Lord! Give me sanctuary from Thy painful wrath and Thy mighty displeasure!

	O All-loving, O All-kind!
	O Compassionate, O Merciful!
	O Compeller, O Subduer!
	O All-forgiver, O All-Concealer!

Deliver me, through Thy mercy, from the inferno of the Fire and the disgrace of shame

	when the good are set apart from the evil,
	and forms are transformed,
	and events terrify,
	the good-doers are advanced to You nearby,
	and the mischief-doers are taken away, very far,

and every soul is paid in full what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged.