YAA ILAAHI!' I begin this new day with Your name, for Yours is the Beginning as well as the Culmination. I acknowledge that You are the Creator of the Universe; You are the embodiment of Mercy; You are the ultimate in Compassion; You are the pinnacle of Munificence. By Your leave does the sun rise, bringing light into darkness, separating the glare of day from the veil of night, giving sweetness to fruit and fragrance to flowers, providing the hungry with nourishment! By Your leave do the seasons change; the rains soak the parched soil; seeds sprout and yield vegetation; the breeze wanders around breathing life into the lifeless; the migrant birds find new abodes; trees spread their hefty branches to support tiny nests; earthlings mate and multiply; the cycle of life goes on revolving for ever and for ever! By Your leave do the volcanoes mitigate their lava, the mountains control their avalanches, clouds moderate their storms, oceans restrain their tides, rivers remain within their frontiers, - so that the life You bestowed upon earth is not cast against the wrath of hostile elements and destroyed by them. Forgive me my failings and my shortcomings, free my mind of impious thoughts, cleanse my heart of unbecoming desires, keep my hands from evil deeds, lead me on to the path of righteousness, - the path of those who tread upon it and found everlasting repose in Your love, and not of those who strayed away from You into troubled horizons and forfeited Your Grace, because in Your worship alone is my earthly affluence; in Your Will my destination and in Your Kingdom my Paradise! Aameen!

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