O Allah, Your door has always been open to those who ask, and Your bounty has always been freely bestowed upon those who come seeking it. Whoever You have accustomed to asking You alone asks no one besides You; whoever You have granted gifts from Your bounty turns to no one else and seeks refuge only in Your protection. You are the Mighty Lord, the Generous, the Most Generous. Your servants are forbidden to seek any door other than Yours. You are He besides whom there is no god, and none is worthy of worship but You. Whoever is under Your protection is secure; exalted is Your praise, holy are Your names, and great is Your bounty. There is no god besides You.

Your established way with Your creation has always been to test Your friends and those You love, as a grace and kindness from You towards them, so that they may remember You more in every circumstance and thank You for Your blessings through every change of fortune. Yet most people do not know.

“These are the parables We set forth for people, but none will understand them except those of knowledge.”

O Allah, You are the Knower who is not known, and You are the Generous One who is never miserly. You know, O Knower of what is hidden and what is manifest, that our hearts have always sincerely offered earnest supplication, and our tongues have voiced it in private and in public: that You answer us by granting this blessed and auspicious sultanic rule of al-Nāsir still greater eminence, dignity and strength; and that You fulfil our hopes for it by making the word of faith supreme, strengthening the foundations that uphold religion, and thwarting the schemes of the heretics. For this is a rule untainted by partiality and injustice, and free from the excesses of pen and sword.

And what lies within the hearts of Muslims and fills the innermost souls of believers is: