Salat al-Mashishiyya

Composed by Shaykh Abd al-Salam Ibn Mashish

O Allah shower Your blessings upon him from whom

burst open the secrets, from whom stream forth the

lights, and in whom rise up the realities, and upon whom

descended the sciences of Adam, by which all creatures are

made powerless, and blessings upon him before whom all

understanding is diminished.

None of us totally comprehend him, whether in the

past or the future. The gardens of the spiritual kingdom

blossom ornately with the resplendence of his beauty, and

the reservoirs of the World of Dominion overflow with

the outpouring of his light. There is nothing that is not

connected to him, because if there were no intercessor,

everything to be interceded for would vanish, as it is said.

So bless him with a prayer that is worthy of You, from

You, as befits his stature. O Allah indeed he is Your all-

encompassing secret that leads through You to You and he is

Your Supreme Veil raised before You, between Your Hands.

O Allah include me among his descendants and confirm

me through his account and let me know him with a deep

knowledge that keeps me safe from the wells of ignorance,

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so that I might drink to fullness from the wells of excellence.

Carry me on his path to Your Presence encompassed

by Your Victory, and strike through me at the false so that I

may destroy it. Plunge me into the seas of Oneness, pull me

out of the morass of metaphorical Unity, and drown me in

the Essence of the Ocean of Unicity until I neither see, nor

hear, nor find, nor sense, except through It.

O Allah make the Supreme Veil the life of my spirit and

his soul the secret of my reality and his reality the conflux of

my worlds through the realization of the First Truth.

O First! O Last! O Manifest! O Most Hidden!

Hear my call as You heard the call of your servant

Zakarīyā and grant me victory through You for You and

support me through You for You and join me to You and

come between myself and anything other than You!

ALLAH ALLAH ALLAH

He who has commited the Koran to your keeping

will surely bring you home again (28:85). ‘Lord, have

mercy on us and guide us through our ordeal’ (18:10).

The Prophet is blessed by God and His angels. Bless him,

then, you that are true believers, and greet him with a

worthy salutation (33:56).

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The Latifiyya
Composed by Shaykh Ahmad al-Alawi

O Lord, by Your kindness, O my Hope!

Be kind to us and grant us deliverance.

We ask you, O Lord, by the Qur’an

and what is in it and by the Seven Oft-Recited,

And by him ‫ ﷺ‬who brought it and who shared it,

and exalted its verses and its love,

And led us to our love of the Qur’an,

and made it sweeter to us than all else.

You revealed it and ordered its compilation,

So preserve it, O Master, as you have said.

They are trying to rend it from our hands,

Will you, O Lord, allow their evil deeds?

We will never surrender the Qur’an,

for it is our Religion and Faith.

For its worth for us is incomparable

to all of creation and all that that contains.

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For the Qur’an is the essence of Reality,

the Sacred Law, and the firmest rope.

You know our love for the Qur’an

and how it dwells in our hearts and on our tongues.

It is intermingled with our blood and our flesh,

and our veins and bones and all that is in us.

O Lord, by its right, do not afflict us,

do not put us to the test in our Religion.

O Lord, we beg you to bring relief to your Religion,

for he stands now before Your gate, full of hope.

Or, like the stranger, return him again to his family,

because the pain of separation tears at his loved ones.

Save him, O Lord, before he perishes from the earth,

and give us strength, O Lord, through his very life.

And make our homes a safe abode

and protect us from every deception and adversity.

And fortify us O Master by your spirit

and allow us, O our Lord, to fulfill your command.

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And have mercy on us, our elders and little ones,

and give us safety, for you see their faces are full of fear.

And set our world right again through the Religion,

and relieve the distress of the afflicted and needy.

And forgive O Lord those who supplicate with these prayers,

and be for us and for all our close friend.

Raise us to the witnessing of beauty,

and from it to the secrets of perfection.

And bless, O Lord, with a blessing worthy

of the Chosen One ‫ ﷺ‬and upon his family,

And his companions, and helpers and those who followed.

For all praise is to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.