His Supplication for the Coming of the Month of Ramadan

1- Praise belongs to God who guided us to His praiseand placed us among the people of praise, that we might be among the thankful for His beneficenceand that He might recompense us for thatwith the recompense of the good-doers! 2- And praise belongs to God who showed favour to us through His religion, singled us out for His creed, and directed us onto the roads of His beneficence, in order that through His kindness we might travel upon them to His good pleasure, a praise which He will accept from usand through which He will be pleased with us! 3 And praise belongs to God who appointed among those roads His month, the month of Ramadan, the month of fasting, the month of submission, the month of purity, the month of putting to test, the month of standing in prayer, in which the Qur'an was sent down as guidance to the people, and as clear signs of the Guidance and the Separator! 14- He clarified its excellence over other monthsby the many sacred things and well-known excellencies which He placed therein, for He made unlawful in it what He declared lawful in othersto magnify it, He prohibited foods and drinks in it to honour it, and He appointed for it a clear time which He(majestic and mighty is He)allows not to be set forward and accepts not to be placed behind. 5- Then He made one of its nights surpassthe nights of a thousand monthsand named it the Night of Decree; in it the angels and the Spirit descendby the leave of their Lord upon every command, a peace2 constant in blessings until the rising of the dawnupon whomsoever He will of His servantsaccording to the decision He has made firm. 6- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, inspire us with knowledge of its excellence, veneration of its inviolability, and caution against what Thou hast forbidden within it, and help us to fast in it by our restraining our limbs from acts of disobedience toward Theeand our employing them in that which pleases Thee, so that we lend not our ears to idle talkand hurry not with our eyes to diversion, 7- we stretch not our hands toward the forbiddenand stride not with our feet toward the prohibited, our bellies hold only what Thou hast made lawfuland our tongues speak only what Thou hast exemplified, we undertake nothing but what brings close toThy rewardand pursue nothing but what protects from Thy punishment! Then rid all of that from the false show of the false showers and the fame seeking of the fame seekers, lest we associate therein anything w