Fortress of the Muslim
Hisn al-Muslim 169
Arabic hadith text
اللّهُمَّ اسْقِـنا غَيْـثاً مُغيـثاً مَريئاً مُريـعاً، نافِعـاً غَيْـرَ ضار، عاجِـلاً غَـيْرَ آجِل
Translation
O Allah, send us rain that brings relief, wholesome and abundant, beneficial and not harmful, promptly and not belatedly.
Translation notes
غَيْـثاً مُغيـثاً مَريئاً مُريـعاً
The Arabic uses a string of related adjectives whose shades include relief, wholesome quality, and abundance; the witness compresses them to ‘abundant rain’.
Which concise English equivalents best preserve the individual qualities in the Arabic wording?