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Nineteen: His Supplication in Asking for Water during a Drought

Asking for Water during a Drought

 

Nineteen: His Supplication in Asking for Water during a Drought 

اللّهُمّ اسْقِنَا الْغَيْثَ، وَ انْشُرْ عَلَيْنَا رَحْمَتَكَ بِغَيْثِكَ الْمُغْدِقِ مِنَ السّحَابِ الْمُنْسَاقِ لِنَبَاتِ أَرْضِكَ الْمُونِقِ فِي جَمِيعِ الْ‏آفَاقِ. وَ امْنُنْ عَلَى عِبَادِكَ بِإِينَاعِ الثّمَرَةِ، وَ أَحْيِ بِلَادَكَ بِبُلُوغِ الزّهَرَةِ، وَ أَشْهِدْ مَلَائِكَتَكَ الْكِرَامَ السّفَرَةَ بِسَقْيٍ مِنْكَ نَافِعٍ، دَائِمٍ غُزْرُهُ، وَاسِعٍ دِرَرُهُ، وَابِلٍ سَرِيعٍ عَاجِلٍ. تُحْيِي بِهِ مَا قَدْ مَاتَ، وَ تَرُدّ بِهِ مَا قَدْ فَاتَ وَ تُخْرِجُ بِهِ مَا هُوَ آتٍ، وَ تُوَسّعُ بِهِ فِي الْأَقْوَاتِ، سَحَاباً مُتَرَاكِماً هَنِيئاً مَرِيئاً طَبَقاً مُجَلْجَلًا، غَيْرَ مُلِثّ‏ٍ وَدْقُهُ، وَ لَا خُلّبٍ بَرْقُهُ. اللّهُمّ اسْقِنَا غَيْثاً مُغِيثاً مَرِيعاً مُمْرِعاً عَرِيضاً وَاسِعاً غَزِيراً، تَرُدّ بِهِ النّهِيضَ، وَ تَجْبُرُ بِهِ الْمَهِيضَ‏ اللّهُمّ اسْقِنَا سَقْياً تُسِيلُ مِنْهُ الظّرَابَ، وَ تَمْلَأُ مِنْهُ الْجِبَابَ، وَ تُفَجّرُ بِهِ الْأَنْهَارَ، وَ تُنْبِتُ بِهِ الْأَشْجَارَ، وَ تُرْخِصُ بِهِ الْأَسْعَارَ فِي جَمِيعِ الْأَمْصَارِ، وَ تَنْعَشُ بِهِ الْبَهَائِمَ وَ الْخَلْقَ، وَ تُكْمِلُ لَنَا بِهِ طَيّبَاتِ الرّزْقِ، و تُنْبِتُ لَنَا بِهِ الزّرْعَ وَ تُدِرّ بِهِ الضّرْعَ وَ تَزِيدُنَا بِهِ قُوّةً إِلَى قُوّتِنَا. اللّهُمّ لَا تَجْعَلْ ظِلّهُ عَلَيْنَا سَمُوماً، وَ لَا تَجْعَلْ بَرْدَهُ عَلَيْنَا حُسُوماً، وَ لَا تَجْعَلْ صَوْبَهُ عَلَيْنَا رُجُوماً، وَ لَا تَجْعَلْ مَاءَهُ عَلَيْنَا أُجَاجاً. اللّهُمّ صَلّ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمّدٍ، وَ ارْزُقْنَا مِنْ بَرَكَاتِ السّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ، إِنّكَ عَلَى كُلّ شَي‏ءٍ قَدِيرٌ.

O God,
water us with rain, unfold upon us Thy mercy through Thy copious rain from the driven clouds, so that Thy goodly earth may grow on all horizons! Show kindness to Thy servants through the ripening of the fruit, revive Thy land through the blossoming of the flowers,
and let Thy angels - the noble scribes - be witness to a beneficial watering from Thee, lasting in its abundance, plenty in its flow, heavy, quick, soon, through which Thou revivest what has vanished, bringest forth what is coming, and providest plentiful foods, through heaped up, wholesome, productive clouds, in reverberating layers, the rain's downpour not without cease, the lightning's flashes not without fruit!

O God,
give us water through rain, helping, productive, fertilizing, widespread, plentiful, abundant, bringing back the risen, restoring the broken!

O God,
give us water with a watering through which Thou wilt make the stone hills pour, fill the cisterns, flood the rivers, make the trees grow, bring down prices in all the lands, invigorate the beasts and the creatures, perfect for us the agreeable things of provision, make grow for us the fields, let flow for us the teats, and add for us strength to our strength!

O God,
make not the cloud's shadow over us a burning wind, allow not its coldness to be cutting, let not its pouring down upon us be a stoning, and make not its waters for us bitter!

O God,
bless Muhammad and his Household and provide us with the blessings of the heavens and the earth! Thou art powerful over everything

 Al-Sahifa Al-Sajjadiyyah, p. 90

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