O God, to You belongs praise
for the good health of my body
which lets me move about,
and to You belongs praise,
for the ailments
which You cause to arise in my flesh!
For I know not, my God,
which of the two states deserves more my thanking You
and which of the two times is more worthy for my praise of You:
the time of health,
within which You make me delight
in the agreeable things of Your provision,
through which You give me the joy to seek
the means to Your good pleasure and bounty,
and by which You strengthen me
for the acts of obedience
which You have given me success to accomplish;
or the time of illness
through which You put me to the test
and bestow upon me favors:
lightening of the offenses
that weigh down my back,
purification of the evil deeds
into which I have plunged,
incitement to reach
for repentance,
reminder of the erasure of misdeeds
through ancient favor;
and, through all that, what the two writers write for me:
blameless acts,
which no heart had thought,
no tongue had uttered,
and no limb had undertaken,
rather, as Your bestowal of bounty upon me
and the beneficence of Your benefaction toward me
O God,
bless Muhammad and his Household,
make me love
what You have approved for me,
make easy for me
what You have sent down upon me,
purify me of the defilement
of what I have sent ahead,
erase the evil
of what I have done beforehand,
let me find the sweetness
of well-being,
let me taste the coolness
of safety,
and appoint for me
a way out from my illness to Your pardon,
transformation of my infirmity into Your forbearance,
escape from my distress to Your refreshment,
and safety from this hardship in Your relief!
You are gratuitously bountiful in beneficence,
ever gracious in kindness,
the Generous, the Giver,
Possessor of majesty and munificence!