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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
- "Ye and your fathers before you?
- "For they are enemies to me; not so the Lord and Cherisher of the Worlds;
- "Who created me and it is He Who guides me;
- "Who gives me food and drink
- "And when I am ill it is He Who cures me;
- "Who will cause me to die and then to live (again);
- "And Who I hope will forgive me my faults on the Day of Judgment...
- O my Lord! bestow wisdom on me and join me with the righteous;
- "Grant me honorable mention on the tongue of truth among the latest (generations);
- "Make me one of the inheritors of the Garden of Bliss;
- "Forgive my father for that he is among those astray;
- "And let me not be in disgrace on the Day when (men) will be raised up
- The Day whereon neither wealth nor sons will avail
- "But only he (will prosper) that brings to Allah a sound heart;
- "To the righteous the Garden will be brought near
- "And to those straying in Evil the Fire will be placed in full view;
- "And it shall be said to them: `Where are the (gods) ye worshipped
- " `Besides Allah? Can they help you or help themselves?'
- "Then they will be thrown headlong into the (Fire) they and those straying in Evil
- "And the whole hosts of Iblis together.
- "They will say there in their mutual bickerings:
- " `By Allah we were truly in an error manifest
- " `When we held you as equals with the Lord of the Worlds;
- " `And our seducers were only those who were steeped in guilt.
- " `Now then we have none to intercede (for us)
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