اَللّـهُمَّ إني أسألك فيهِ ما يُرْضيكَ،

O Allah, on this day, I ask You for what pleases You,

وأعوذ بِكَ مِمّا يُؤْذيكَ،

and I seek refuge in You from what displeases You,

وأسألك التَّوْفيقَ فيهِ لاِنْ أطيعك وَلا أعصيك،

I ask You to grant me the opportunity to obey You and not disobey You,

يا جَوادَ السّائِلينَ.

O One who is generous with those who ask.

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Earning Allah’s good Pleasure, the Greatest Pleasure in the World

There is nothing more pleasurable to man than knowing that their beloved One is pleased with them. Such a feeling would make one experience such intense pleasure which is incomparable to any other sense of satisfaction in the world.

The feeling that one’s beloved one is pleased with them is one of the greatest kinds of spiritual pleasure which is accompanied by a sense of nobility and honor. This is because one knows that if one had not been valuable enough for one’s beloved, nothing done by them would have been important enough to please Him. It is due to this same reason that the holy Quran states the following with regard to the rewards that the righteous receive in the Hereafter:

وَ رِضْوانٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ اكْبَرُ

“… and Allah’s pleasure is greater [than all the other rewards]”