Fa asʾaluka yā Allāhu yā Allāhu yā Allāhu, yā ḥayyu yā qayyūmu, ya dhal jalāli wal ikrāmi. Lā ilaha illā anta subḥānaka inni kuntu minaẓ ẓālimīn. Asʾaluka bimā ḥamala kursiyyuka min ʿaẓamatika, wa jalālika wa bahāʾika, wa qudratika wa sulṭānika, wa bi ḥaqqi asmāʾikal makhzūnatil maknūnatil muṭahharatillati lam yaṭṭaliʿ ʿalayhā aḥadun min khalqika, wa bi ḥaqqil ismilladhi waḍaʿtahu ʿalal layli fa aẓlama, wa ʿalan nahāri fastanāra, wa ʿalasamāwāti fastaqallat, wa ʿalal arḍi fastaqarrat, wa ʿalal biḥāri fanfajarat, wa ʿalal ʿuyūni fanabaʿat, wa alas saḥābi fa amṭarat, wa asʾaluka bil asmāʾil maktūbati fī jabhati sayyidinā Jibrīla ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾil maktūbati fī jabhati sayyidinā Isrāfīla ʿalayhis salāmu, wa ʿalā jamīʿil malāʾikati, wa asʾaluka bil asmāʾil maktūbati ḥawlal ʿarshi, wa bil asamāʾil maktūbati ḥawlal kursiyyi, wa asʾaluka bismikal ʿaẓīmil aʿẓamilladhi sammayta bihi nafsaka, wa asʾaluka biḥaqqi asmāʾika kullihā mā ʿalimtu minhā wa mālam aʿlam, wa asʾaluka bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā Ādamu ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā Nūḥun ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā Sāliḥun ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā Yūnusu ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā Mūsa ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿaka biha sayyidinā Hārūnu ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā Ibrāhīmu ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā Ismāʿīlu ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmaʾllati da ʿāka bihā sayyidinā Dāwūdu ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā Sulaymānu ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā Zakariyya ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā Yūshaʾu ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka biha sayyidinā Khaḍiru ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā Ilyāsu ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka biha sayyidinā Yasaʿu ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā Dhulkifl ʿalayhi salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā ʿỊsa ʿalayhis salāmu, wa bil asmāʾillatī daʿāka bihā sayyidinā Muhammadun ṣallAllahu ʿalayhi wa ṣallama nabiyyuka wa rasūluka wa ḥabībuka wa ṣafiyyuka yā man qāla wa qawlul ḥaqqu: wAllahu khalaqakum wa mā taʿmalūna, walā yaṣduru ʿan aḥadin min ʿabīdihi qawlun walā fīʿlun walā ḥarakatun walā sukūnun, illā wa qad sabaqa fī ʿilmihi wa qaḍāʾihi waqadrihi kayfa yakūnu, kamā alhamtani waqaḍayta li bijamʿi hādhal kitābi, wa yassarta ʿalayya fīhiṭ ṭarīqa walasbāba, wa nafayta ʿan qalbi fī hādhan nabiyyil karimish shakka wa irtiyāba, wa ghallabta ḥubbahu ʿindi ʿalā ḥubbi jamīʿil aqribaʾi wal aḥibbāʾi, asʾaluka yā Allahu, yā Allahu, yā Allahu, an tarzuqanī wa kulla man aḥabbahu wattabaʿahu shafāʿatahu wa murāfaqatahu yawmal ḥisābi, min ghayri munāqashatin walā ʿadhabin, wala tawbīhin walā ʿitābin, wa an taghfiralī dhunūbi wa tastura ʿuyūbī, yā wahhābu ya ghaffār, wa ʿan tunʿimanī binnaẓari ilā wajhikal karīmi fī jumlatil aḥbābi, yawmal mazīdi wath thawābi, wa ʿan tataqabbala minnī ʿamali, wa an taʿfuwa ʿammā aḥāṭa ʿilmuka bihi min khaṭīʾatī wa nisyānī wa zalalī, wa an tuballighanī min ziyārati qabrihi wa taslīmi ʿalayhi wa ʿalā ṣāḥibayhi ghayāta amali bimannika wa faḍlika wa jūdika wa karamika, yā raʿūfu yā raḥīmu ya waliyy, wa an tujāziyahu ʿanni wa ʿan kulli man āmana bihi wattabaʿahu, minal muslimīna wal muslimātil aḥyāʾi minhum wal amwāt,afḍala wa atamma wa aʿamma mājāzayta bihi aḥadan min khalqika, yā qawiyyu yā ʿazīzu yā ʿaliyy.
So I ask You, O Allah, O Allah, O Allah, O Ever-Living, O Absolutely Self-Sustaining, Lord of Majesty and Magnanimity. There is no God but You. Incomparably Perfect are You! I have been one of the wrongdoers. I ask You for the sake of that which shoulders Your Throne from Your Might, Your Majesty, Your Splendour, Your Omnipotence, and Your Sovereignty; by the right of Your guarded, hidden, and pure Names, which no created being can learn; and by the right of the Name which You laid upon the night so that darkness fell; and upon the daytime so that it became light; and upon the Heavens so that they were raised aloft; and upon the Earth so that it became fixed in place; and upon the seas so that they burst forth; and upon the springs so that they welled up; and upon the clouds so that they rained. And I ask You by the Names inscribed on the brow of our Master Jibrīl, peace be upon him; and I ask You by the Names inscribed on the brow of our Master Isrāfīl, peace be upon him, and on all the angels; and I ask You by the Names inscribed around the Throne, and by the Names inscribed around the Footstool. And I ask You by Your Supreme Name by which You have named Yourself, and by the right of all Your Names – those that I know and those that I know not; and I ask You by the Names by which our Master Adam, peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Noah (Nūḥ), peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Ṣāliḥ, peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Jonah (Yūnus), peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Moses (Mūsā), peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Aaron (Hārūn), peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Shu'ayb, peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Abraham (Ibrāhīm), peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Ishmael (Ismā'īl), peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master David (Dā'ūd), peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Solomon (Sulaymān), peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Zachariah (Zakariyyā), peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Name by which our Master Joshua (Yūsha'), peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master al-Khiḍr, peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Elias (Ilyās), peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Esau (al-Yasa'), peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Dhū al-Kifl, peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Jesus ('Īsā), peace be upon him, prayed to You; and by the Names by which our Master Muḥammad, may Allah exalt and preserve him, prayed to You – Your Prophet, Your Emissary, Your Beloved, and Your Dear Friend – O You Who have said – and Your Word is true – 'And Allah created you and what you do.' There is no action, word, movement, or stillness that originates from a single one of His slaves the nature of which has not already been preordained in His Knowledge, His Decree, and His Providence. As You have inspired me [the author] and destined for me that I compile this book, and You facilitated for me the method and means for doing so, and You negated in my heart all doubts and misgivings about this noble Prophet, and You caused the love for him within me to exceed my love for all relations and loved ones, I ask You, O Allah, O Allah, O Allah, to grant me, and all who are devoted to loving and following him, his intercession and his companionship on the Day of Account, without interrogation, punishment, rebuke, or reproach; to forgive me my sins and conceal my faults, O Much-Giving One, O Much-Forgiving One; to grant me the bliss of gazing at Your Noble Countenance among [Your] beloved ones on the Day of Increase and Reward; to accept from me my [good] deeds, and to pardon all the offences, obliviousness, and lapses of mine which Your knowledge encompasses; to enable me to visit his tomb and to greet him and his two Companions [Abū Bakr and 'Umar] – my greatest hope – by Your Favour, Your Grace, Your Largesse, and Your Generosity, O Kindly One, O Merciful, O Divine Patron; and to reward him on my behalf and on that of every Muslim man and woman, living or dead, who has believed in him and followed him, better, more perfectly, and more extensively than You have rewarded anyone from Your creation, O All-Powerful, O Mighty, O Sublime One.