Praise belongs to God who guided us to His praise,
And placed us among the people of praise,
That we might be among the thankful for His beneficence
And that He might recompense us for that with the recompense of the good-doers!
And praise belongs to God who showed favour to us through His religion,
Singled us out for His creed and directed us onto the roads of His beneficence,
In order that through His kindness we might travel upon them to His good pleasure,
A praise which He will accept from us and through whch He will be pleased with us!
And praise belongs to God who appointed among those roads His month,
The month of Ramadhan, the month of fasting,
The month of submission, the month of purity,
The month of putting to test, the month of standing in prayer,
In which the Qur'an was sent down as guidance to the people,
And as clear signs of the Guidance and the Separator!
He clarified its excellence over other months,
For He made unlawful in it what He declared lawful in others to magnify it,
And He prohibited foods and drinks in it to honour it.........
Then He made one of its nights surpass the nights of a thousands months,
And named it the Night of Decree;
In it the angels and the Spirit descend by the leave of their Lord upon every command,
a peace constant in blessings until the rising of the dawn.......
O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, inspire us with knowledge of its excellence,
Veneration of its inviolability, and caution against what you have forbidden within it,
And help us fast in it by our restraining our limbs from acts of disobedience towards you
And our using them in that which pleases you, so that we lend not our ears to idle talk,
And hurry not with our eyes to diversion
O God, give us success in this month to tighten our bonds of kin with devotion and gifts,
Attend to our neighbours with bestowal and giving,
Rid our possessions from claims,
Purify them through paying the alms,
Go back to him, who had gone far from us
Treat justly he who has wronged us,
Make peace with him who shows enmity towards us except he who is regarded as an
Enemy of yours for he is the enemy who will not befriend.........
The K.S.I Muslim Community Of London