His Supplication in Bidding Farewell to the Month of Ramadan

r a hundred grains; so God multiplies unto whom He wills. 4Thou hast said, Who is he that will lend to God a good loan, and He will multiply it for him manifold? 5And Thou hast sent down in the Qur'ansimilar verses on the multiplying of good deeds. 14- It is Thou who hast pointed themthrough Thy speech from Thy Unseenand Thy encouragement in which lies their good fortune toward that which- hadst Thou covered it from them -their eyes would not have perceived, their ears would not have heard, and their imaginations would not have grasped, for Thou hast said, Remember Meand I will remember yoube thankful to Me, and be you not thankless towards Me! 6Thou hast said, If you are thankful, surely I will increase you, but if you are thankless, My chastisement is surely terrible; 7 15- And Thou hast said, Supplicate Me and I will respond to you, surely those who wax too proud to worship Meshall enter Gehenna utterly abject. 8Hence Thou hast named supplicating Thee 'worship'and refraining from it 'waxing proud', and Thou hast threatened that the refraining from itwould yield entrance into Gehenna in utter abjection. 17- Were any creature himself to direct another creatureto the like of that to which Thou Thyself hast directed Thy servants, he would be described by beneficence, qualified by kindness, and praised by every tongue. So to Thee belongs praiseas long as there is found a way to praise Theeand as long as there remains for praisingwords by which Thou may be praisedand meanings which may be spent in praise! 18- O He who shows Himself praiseworthy to His servants through beneficence and bounty, flooding them with kindness and graciousness! How much Thy favour has been spread about among us, Thy kindness lavished upon us, and Thy goodness singled out for us! 19- Thou hast guided us toThy religion which Thou hast chosen, Thy creed with which Thou art pleased, and Thy path which Thou hast made smooth, and Thou hast shown us proximity to Theeand arrival at Thy generosity! 20- O God, among the choicest of those dutiesand the most special of those obligationsThou hast appointed the month of Ramadan, which Thou hast singled out from other months, chosen from among all periods and eras, and preferred over all times of the yearthrough the Qur'an and the Light which Thou sent down within it, the faith which Thou multiplied by means of it, the fasting which Thou obligated therein, the standing in prayer which Thou encouraged at its time, and the Night of Decree which Thou magnified therein, the night which isbetter than a thousand months. 9 21- Through it Thou hast preferred us over the other communitiesand through its excellence Thou hast chosen usto the exclusion of the people of the creeds. We fasted by