The Reality of Khilafah — Page 3
1 بِسۡم ِ الل ِّٰ الرَّحۡمٰن ِ الرَّحِیۡمِ O Bestower of faith, reason, and intellect! We present ourselves before Your Throne full of the highest praise and deepest gratitude. We approach Your presence with glorification, sanctification, and remembrance. We seek Your countenance, as this is our utmost desire. In happiness and in distress, we seek You alone. We hasten towards You with no complaint of fatigue. We believe in You with- out questioning how and why. We come before You having cut all ties asunder, burdened by sorrow for those who chase after mirages and are unaware of the clear fountain of Truth and the ways of right- eousness, and the arrogant ones who treat the truthful as enemies and would rather swallow saliva than partake from the Divine cup. They discard facts for fictions. Their conjectures are akin to a camel they thought was pregnant while she was not, or like a cloud that bears no rain. They do not approach people of knowledge except slothfully, and do not examine the truth but mockingly. Their illu- sions attack them like a sudden calamity descending in the dark 1. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. [Publisher] The Reality of Khil a fah