I made my Hope a Stairway to Your Forgiveness!

Imaam Shafi’i (rahimahullaah) in his final stage of sickness

  

“When my heart was hardened,

and my courses constrained;

I made my hope a stairway,

to Your forgiveness.

My sin burdened me heavily,

but when I measured it by Your forgiveness,

Lord~

Your forgiveness was the greater.”