O Allah, send rain! (Due to drought) the vegetation of our mountains has completely dried up, and dust is flying on the earth. Our cattle are thirsty and wander bewildered in their pens, and call out as weeping women wail for their children, and have become helpless from going around their pastures and advancing with great desire toward the pools. O Sustainer! Have mercy on the bleating goats and the camels that call in that desire-filled tone. O Allah! Have mercy on their distress on the roads and their cries and calls in the homes. O Allah, send rain! When the emaciated and exhausted camels of the drought year have turned toward us, and the apparently rain-bearing clouds have passed without raining, we have turned toward You. You are the refuge of those afflicted with pain and suffering, and You are the support of those who supplicate. When people have become helpless, and the rising of clouds has stopped, and livestock have become lifeless, we pray to You that You do not seize us because of our deeds, and do not hold us (in Your punishment) because of our sins. O Allah! Spread Your skirt of mercy over us from the clouds that bring smoky rains, and the downpours that pour water, and the clouds that settle in the eyes. Let them pour heavily and continuously in such a way that You revive the dead things with them and return the past springs. O Allah! Such satiation that is life-giving (to dead lands), saturating, and pure and blessed and pleasant and verdant, from which vegetation may flourish, branches may be laden, and leaves may be green and fresh, and from which You may support and raise Your helpless and prostrate servants, and give life to Your dead cities. O Allah! Such satiation that our hills may become covered with vegetation, and streams may flow, and the surroundings of this area may become green and verdant, and fruits may appear, and cattle may come to life, and distant lands may also become moist, and open fields may also get help from it. From Your spreading blessings and great bounties that are on Your destroyed creation and the animals that wander without a shepherd. Let there be such rain upon us that is saturating with water, and heavy and continuous. In such a way that rains collide with rains, and drops push drops with speed. (So that it becomes continuous) Its lightning should not be deceptive. And it should not be scattered pieces of white clouds, and it should not be just light drizzle with cool breezes and go away. (Let it rain such that) those afflicted by famine may become prosperous with its greenery, and those who bear the hardships of drought may come to life with its blessings, and You are the One Who sends rain after people have despaired, and spreads Your skirt of mercy. And You are the Possessor and Inheritor and (the One with) good attributes. The commentator says that the meaning of the Imam's saying 'insahat jibaluna' is that cracks have appeared in the mountains due to drought. 'Insah al-thawb' is said when cloth is torn, and 'insah al-nabt,' 'sah al-nabt,' and 'suh al-nabt' are said when vegetation dries up and completely withers. And the meaning of 'hamat du'bana' is that our cattle have become thirsty. 'Hayam' means thirst, and in 'hada abir al-sinin,' 'hada bir' is the plural of 'had bar,' which means that she-camel which journeys have made emaciated and exhausted. So the Imam compared the drought-stricken year to that she-camel afflicted by journeys. The Arab poet 'Dhu al-Rummah' said: These are emaciated and weak she-camels that either just bear every hardship and difficulty and remain sitting in their place, and when we take them on a journey to some waterless and grassless wilderness, they go there. And in 'qaza' raba bha,' 'qaza' means small scattered clouds, and in 'shafa n nahabha,' 'shafaf' means cool breezes and light drizzle. The meaning is drizzle with cool cool breezes. And the word 'dhat' whose meaning is 'Possessor' has been omitted here, because the listener can understand it himself.