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In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

O God! Thou art the Worshipped One, the Possessor of all good and bounty. Thou art the Lord to Whom all repair, the Finder of all that exists and exists not. Thou art the All-Knowing, from Whose knowledge nothing is hidden, whether concealed or manifest.

I beseech Thee by the Tree of Divine Purpose, and the Sign of the Worshipped One, and the reality of bowing and prostration, and the Witness and the Witnessed, and the Absolute Intercessor on the Promised Day, and by the Imams who guide aright, who call unto God from the beginning of the worlds of existence to the ultimate degrees of witness, that Thou shouldst shower benedictions upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad—benedictions that would fill with their light all regions of existence—and that Thou shouldst grant unto their followers a perfect, complete and blessed peace that would lead those who hold fast unto it to the reality of the Divine Purpose, and that Thou shouldst grant those who take refuge in Thy hidden mystery and Thy manifest remembrance that which they ask of Thee, of virtuous offspring and noble fortune, by the right of Thy Sacred House, the qiblih of those who bow down and prostrate, and by the Sacred City, the Praised Master, the best of fathers and the noblest of those born.

O Self-Subsisting! O Loving! O Worshipped One! O Object of Prostration! Answer the prayer of the bearer through Thy mystery that exists in the unseen of all that exists and exists not. O One! O Single! O Shelter! O Support! O Say: He is God, the One! I beseech Thee by the father and that which he begot, that Thou shouldst bestow upon this bearer a child.

O Muhammad! O Ali! Ye two are the interceding benefactors. Sufficient unto us is God! Most excellent is He in Whom we trust, most excellent is the Lord, and most excellent is the Helper.