His Supplication for the People of the Frontiers

with help, teach him right conduct and the norms of the Sunna, point him straight in judgement, remove from him hypocrisy, purify him from seeking fame, and make his thinking and remembrance, his departing and his staying, be in Thee and for Thee! 15- When he stands in ranks before Thy enemy and his enemy, make them few in his eye, diminish their importance in his heart, give him a turn to prevail over them, not them a turn to prevail over him! But if Thou sealest him with felicityand decreest for him martyrdom, then let it be afterhe has exterminated Thy enemies by slaying, captivity has afflicted them, the borders of the Muslims are secure, and Thy enemy has turned his back in flight! 16- O God, and if a Muslim shouldtake the place of a warrior or a soldier in his home, or attend to those left behind in his absence, or help him with a portion of his property, assist him with equipment, hone him for the struggle, send along with him a supplication for his purpose, or guard his honour in his absence, reward him with the like of his rewardmeasure for measure, like for like, and recompense him for his act with an immediate compensationthrough which he will hasten tothe profit of what he has sent forthand the joy of what he has given, till the present moment takes him tothe bounty Thou hast granted to himand the generosity Thou hast prepared for him! 17- O God, and if the affair of Islam should worry a Muslimand the alliance of the idolaters' against Islamshould grieve him, so that he has the intention to go to warand is about to enter the struggle, but frailty keeps him seated, neediness keeps him waiting, a mishap delays him, or an obstruction prevents him from his wish, write his name among the worshipers, make incumbent for him the reward of the strugglers, and place him among the ranksof the martyrs and the righteous! 18- O God, bless Muhammad, Thy slave and Thy messenger, and the Household of Muhammad, with a blessing high above all other blessings, towering beyond all other salutations, a blessing whose end is never reachedand whose number is never cut off, like the most perfect of Thy blessings that has passedto any one of Thy friends! Thou art All-kind, Praiseworthy, the Originator who takes back again, Accomplisher of what Thou desirest. When thy Lord was revealing to the angels: 'I am with you, so strengthen the faithful. I shall cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers' (8: 12).