Sol 5.6

  1. O You who grasp all things with a grasp of power,

    whose power takes away and ordains within every atom;

  2. O You who hold creation in its appointed place,

    ordered according to its wise purposes;

  3. O mighty Grasper of the worlds, which, in praise of Him,

    glorify within His grasp with the praise of their innate nature;

  4. O You who draw the minds of those brought near to Him

    away from ranging among all that is other and from subservience;

  5. O You who hold all secrets, through His knowledge

    of what the development of humankind requires;

  6. O You who withhold provisions as an act of wise governance

    and as a benefit from Him to an impoverished soul;

  7. O You who withdraw blessings in abhorrence and retribution

    from those who meet those blessings with wanton ingratitude;

  8. O You who take lives when they reach their appointed bounds,

    while reserving boundlessness and eternity for Yourself alone;

  9. O You who take spirits from the vessels where they were lodged

    to the unseen repositories of the intermediate realm;

  10. with Your all-encompassing grasp, seize my obstinate foe,

    detested and wretched, amid disgrace and curse;

  11. and tighten Your constriction upon him in every breadth of power

    that has made him soar in tyranny above the people of the earth.

Sol 5.6