8. I BESEECH YOU BY THE GRACE YOU HAVE BESTOWED UPON ME
I was told that a person approached a noble man and said to him, ‘I am the one whom you were benevolent to on such and such day.’ The noble man replied, ‘I welcome he who asks me through reminding me of my deeds.’ Then he fulfilled his need.
I saw morality’ in such a story; so I followed it in my invocations and I said, ‘O Lord, you guided me since childhood and preserved me from misguidance, protected me from many sins and inspired me into seeking knowledge. Not because of the virtue of my understanding for I am less than that. You granted me an understanding with which I understood this knowledge and authored about it. You facilitated for me the reasons to encompass such knowledge, and sustained me without me spending any effort or enduring humiliation of asking others, and protected me against my enemies thus no tyrant ever targeted me. You blessed me with types of knowledge that many of your creation did not have. Added to all that having my heart attached to knowing You and loving You. You graced me with uttering the gentle words that lead to You. You made the hearts of people incline towards me to the extent that people rush to me and accept what I say without questioning any of what I say. They even long to hear my words without being bored. You preserved me with secluding me from those whose company is unsuitable. You blessed him with the company of knowledge and your invocation during my privacy. If I ever wanted to count your blessings upon me I would never be able to,
“And if you try to count the blessings of Allah, you shall never be able to count them.” [Ibrahim (14): 34]
Hence, (4 you who is benevolent to me even before I ask! Do not let me down while I am now asking for. I beseech you through the blessings you have bestowed upon me.’
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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