and request of him whom they approve to perform the Ziyarah among them, while they say 'Amen' to his supplication.

As for the first Ziyarah in the first third of the night, it is to recite whichever Ziyarah one chooses. They prostrate at the end of the Ziyarah and say in the end of their prostration that which was narrated to me by Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Qadi al-Qati’i—may Allah be pleased with him—from his chain of narrators, raised (marfu') to our Master al-Sadiq—may His Might be glorified—that he would say in his prostration: 'My perishable and decaying face has prostrated to Your Everlasting and Eternal Countenance, O Ali, O Kabir (the Great),' [repeated] three times. He then rubs his face and places his right cheek on the ground and says: 'To You is the Might, O Ali,' (three times). He then places his left cheek on the ground and says: 'To You is the Oneness, O Ali,' (three times). He then lifts his head and supplicates for himself and his brethren for whatever he wishes.

If he desires [to perform] the Ziyarah [in this manner], it is better and greater in reward. He does likewise in the three Ziyarat, mentioning and reciting in them different Ziyarat. I shall now mention for you the explanation of the esoteric Ziyarat."

which must be used for the Ziyarah, so that the visitor is not ignorant of the Ziyarat with which he performs his pilgrimage, and may thus preserve them from this book.