O my Lord,
by Your grace,
be my strength
and illumine my sight
and what is in my heart
and be the purpose of
my life and my death.
Fill me with Your love
and grant me such love
that it is surpassed
by none after me.
O my Lord,
accept my prayers,
grant me my wishes,
cleanse me, protect me,
draw me close to Yourself;
guide me,
help me and enable me to do good,
purify me,
illumine my soul,
make me entirely Yours
and become entirely mine.
O my Lord,
come to me from every door,
deliver me from every veil,
make me drink deep from Your every beverage
and help me against
the rising passions of the self
and its enticements,
and protect me from the pitfalls of separation
and its manifold darkness;
leave me not to my self
even for the blink of an eye
and guard me against its evils;
make me ascend and rise towards You
and permeate Yourself into every particle of my being;
make me among those
who swim freely in Your seas,
and roam freely in the gardens of Your light
and who are pleased with the issuance of Your decrees;
and create distance between myself and all those
besides You.
O my Lord,
by Your grace
and by the light of Your countenance,
show me Your beauty
and make me drink Your pure water
and deliver me from every kind of veil and haze;
make me not among
those who revert to darkness and
obscurity
and who refrain from attaining
blessings, illumination, 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.
---By Al Imam Al Mahdi Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) of Qadian [1835-1908], A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, published in 1893.