'O Allah, this is a figure who fled from You, opposed Your command, denied Your Essence, took gods beside You whom he worshipped other than You, and denied what Your Messengers brought and Your Books clarified, after You had given him excuses, warned him, bestowed upon him, and blessed him when You called him by Your Essence and manifested to him by Your Power until You established Your proof against him. I have drawn near to You with him as You commanded, and I have presented him so that he may be for me, with You, when I slaughter him, spill his blood, eat his flesh, and break his bone, making him taste by that Your punishment through my hand and Your exemplary punishment through my possession of him; for You gave me possession of his bondage and prohibited me from freeing him. I do this seeking Your pleasure and an increase in Your giving. So accept this from Your servant and Your Walis, and complete upon him what You have enabled him of Your Gnosis, the acknowledgement of You, and the steadfastness upon Your path which Your Messenger acknowledged, saying: {This is my way; I invite to Allah with insight, I and those who follow me.} I am among those who followed, obeyed, heard the call, and answered. O Allah, O my Master, protect me from doubts, make me a slaughterer and do not make me slaughtered; make me an eater and do not make me eaten. Grant me the coolness of Your Paradise, which is Your Gnosis, and do not make me taste the heat of Your Fire, which is Your Musukhiyya (metamorphosis) in which You lead those who deny You. Gather for me and my believing brothers what You have promised, and bring near to them what You mentioned regarding the unveiling of Your cover and the lifting of Your veils and curtains through the generosity of the reality of Your Essence, to which You connected the people of Your elite and Your chosen ones. Until You obligated upon them the obedience You obligated upon Your slaves, established them with You in the brilliance of Your Light, and commanded them by Your Power until they manifested by Your command what You wanted to bring into being, and what You manifested to them of its decree submitted to them. I ask You to join me and my believing brothers with them, to place us with them in the station where You have placed them by Your Power, and to complete for us this Day, which is Yours and is You. None knows it except him upon whom You have bestowed Your Gnosis and the knowledge of Your command, whom You were pleased with for Your knowledge. [Fulfill] what we have hoped for from that which You are the Master of and have conferred upon us: the clarity of Your Light, the manifestation of Your domination,




