O my God, bless him from whom derive the secrets and from whom gush forth the lights, and in whom rise up the realities, and into whom descended the sciences of Adam, so that he has made powerless all creatures, and so that understandings are diminished in his regard, and no one amongst us, neither predecessor nor successor, can grasp him.
The gardens of the spiritual world [malakût] are adorned with the flower of his beauty, and the pools of the world of omnipotence [al-jabarût] overflow with the outpouring of his lights. There exists nothing that is not linked to them, even as it was said: Were there no mediator, everything that depends on him would disappear! [Bless him, O my God,] by a blessing such as returns to him through You from You, according to his due.
O my God, he is Your integral secret, that demonstrates You, and Your supreme veil, raised up before You.
O my God, join me to his posterity and justify me by Your reckoning of him. Let me know him with a knowledge that saves me from the wells of ignorance and quenches my thirst at the wells of virtue.
Carry me on his way, surronded by Your aid, towards Your presence.
Strike through me at vanity, so that I may destroy it. Plunge me in the oceans of Oneness [al-ahadîyah], pull me back from the sloughs of tawhîd, and drown me in the pure source of the ocean of Unity [al-wahdah], so that I neither see nor hear nor am conscious nor feel except through it. And make of the Supreme Veil the life of my spirit, and of his spirit the secret of my reality, and of his reality all my worlds, by the realization of the First Truth.
O First, O Last, O Outward, O Inward, hear my petition, even as You heard the petition of Your Servant Zacharia; succour me through You unto You, support me through You unto You, unite me with You, and come in between me and other-than-You: Allâh, Allâh, Allâh! Verily He who has imposed on you the Qur'ân for a law, will bring you back to the promised end
[Qur'ân 28:85].
Our Lord, grant us mercy from Your presence, and shape for us right conduct in our plight [Qur'ân 18:10].
Verily God and His angels bless the Prophet; O you who believe, bless him and wish him peace
[Qur'ân 33:56].
May the graces [salawât] of God, His peace, His salutations, His mercy and His blessings [barakât] be on our Lord Muhammad, Your servant, Your prophet and Your messenger, the un-lettered prophet, and on his family and on his companions, [graces] as numerous as the even and the odd and as the perfect and blessed words of our Lord.
Glorified be your Lord, the Lord of Glory, beyond what they attribute unto Him, and peace be on the Messengers. Praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds
[Qur'ân 37:180-2].
Ibn Mashîsh
