The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 12
ADDRESS II to darkness and obscurity and who refrain from attaining blessings, illu- mination, and light; and who, due to their defective reason and perverse effort, return from the abode of bliss to the place of destruction; grant me sincere submission for the sake of Your countenance and everlasting prostration in Your presence; bestow upon me such a resolve on which descends Your kind glance and grant me such favour that You grant only to Your exclusively chosen ones, and send down upon me such mercy as You cause to descend only upon Your loved ones. O my Lord! Revive Islam through my strenuous efforts, my resolve, my prayers, and my words, and restore its beauty, splendour and depth through me, and destroy every headstrong opponent and his arrogance. O my Lord, show me how You give life to the dead. Show me such faces that manifest the beauty of the Faith, such souls that possess a blessed wisdom, such eyes that shed tears in fear of You, such hearts that tremble with Your remembrance, and that pure posterity who follow the truth and the right course, and who take refuge under the shade of those lost in God and His elect. Show me the ones who hasten towards repentance and who prepare for the final abode. O my Lord, disorder has appeared in land and sea, dwellings and deserts; I see Your servants in misery, Your gardens turned to deserts, Your religion in calamity and affliction; I find Islam like a needy per- son fallen into poverty after [previous] affluence or like a trembling old man far advanced from youth or like a traveller in a far-off land, or like a foreigner parted from friends, or like a free man trapped in slavery or like an orphan who was fallen from grace. Falsehood struts about in the cloak of arrogance while the truth is being struck by the hands of the malevolent. They strive hard like dev- ils to extinguish its light, but Allah is the Best Protector. Who else is there for us besides that Perfect Guide? Religion has suffered the great- est loss, and the measles of dissension and the leprosy of apostasy have broken out among the youth, they having renounced the prohibitions of the luminous Shariah. They threw themselves into the desert and