A Prayer for Palestine
O Allah! You Who are the One Alone and the All-Living,
You Who are the All-Merciful and the Mercy-Giving,
You Who are the All-Forgiving and the Mercy-Giving,
You Who are the All-Relenting and the Mercy-Giving,
You Who has reserved the seat of truth for the God-fearing,
There, in the Gardens of Paradise, near Yourself, an Invincible King!
You Alone are the Overpowering One, the All-Wise,
and You are all-powerful over all things.
We pray to You Alone, O Allah, for our beloved ones.
The elders and the children,
the men and the women,
and the fearless young
— male and female —
whom in Your Wisdom, You specially selected and placed
to be ever at the ready
near your Holy House, Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa,
and in all the blessed lands of Palestine and beyond what surrounds it.
You Alone, our Lord, we entreat on their behalf and for them,
even as Your Beloved of all creation, Muhammad,
all blessings and peace be upon him,
himself, beseeched You after his violent rejection,
his persecution,
his repelling,
his stoning
by the ungodly, the ungrateful, the merciless, the mocking of Ṭâif:
To You, Our Lord, Alone
Do we lament our feeble powerlessness and theirs;
the poverty of our help to them
and the paucity of support they have from Muslims;
and our humiliation and theirs before all people.
O Most Merciful of the merciful!
You are the Lord of the oppressed,
And You are our Lord.
To Whom will You leave Your people of Palestine and Islam?
To the alien and distant who assail them?
Or to an enemy whom You have vested with worldly power over their lives and liberties?
Even so, if You have not become angry with them,
Your people of the blessed land have shown —
whatever the hardship they may face for You in Your decree —
they will not mind.
Yet as to Your happiness — the bestowal of this upon them
is far greater to them than all else.
We but seek refuge in the Light of Your Face,
by which all darkness is illuminated,
and by which all the affairs of this world and the Hereafter
are set aright —
against Your wrath descending upon Your people of the blessed lands and upon us,
or that Your divine displeasure become rightful upon them and us.
It is Yours to reprove your people
until You are well-pleased.
And there is no capacity,
and there is no power,
but in You.
Pour Your peace and blessings upon our master prophet Muhammad,
and upon his family,
his Companions,
his wives,
his descendants,
and all who follow him until the Day of Judgment.
And the last of our prayers is
All praise is for Allah, Lord of the Worlds.