And well-being means that Allah keeps you safe from every affliction, whether in religion or in worldly life. Its opposite is punishment, and punishment only occurs because of sin. Thus, when you seek refuge in Allah’s granting of well-being from His punishment, you are seeking refuge from your sins, so that Allah may pardon you—either purely by His grace or by guiding you to the means of repentance.

Seeking refuge in His pleasure from His wrath, and in His granting of well-being from His punishment, is seeking refuge from something through its opposite—just as illnesses are treated with medicines that counteract them.

“And in You from You …”

His statement, “and in You from You”: You cannot seek refuge from Allah except in Allah, for none can grant you refuge from Allah except Allah. He is the One who grants me refuge from the harm He may have decreed for me. It is known that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, may will harm for you; but when you seek refuge in Him from Him, He grants you refuge. This represents the utmost turning to Allah in refuge, and the servant acknowledges with his heart and tongue that he has no refuge except his Lord, Mighty and Majestic.

“We cannot enumerate Your praise; You are as You have praised Yourself …”

His statement, “We cannot enumerate Your praise,” means: we cannot comprehend it, attain it, or reach its full extent.

Praise is the repeated attribution of perfection. The evidence for this is His saying, Exalted is He, in the sacred hadith: “When the servant says, ‘All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds,’ Allah, Exalted is He, says, ‘My servant has praised Me.’ And when he says, ‘The Most Merciful, the Especially Merciful,’ Allah, Exalted is He, says, ‘My servant has extolled Me.’” (1) Thus, you can never enumerate Allah’s praise, even if you were to remain forever and ever, because Allah’s actions are without limit, and every one of His actions is perfection; His words are without limit, and every one of His words is perfection,