Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 2.1

2.1

In the Name of the Most Bountiful, Most Forgiving God. Thanks without measure, and praises founded on eternity, ought to be sprinkled over the magnificent and exalted Court of the Just One without equal, since the multifarious system of worlds, with a tongue both ideal and audible, warbles melodiously a confession of his unity in endless duration and from primeval origin; and the many-coloured variety of ages, in all the vicissitudes of places and limits, and the interchange of night and day, indicates and pronounces on the broad diploma of his greatness, the stupendous diversity of events and revolutions. Salutations also from eternal time without beginning to eternal time without end, are justly due to that splendid present from heaven, viz., the Chief of Prophets, and to the family and companions of that noble being, the final cause of existence, and the means of connecting the sustenance in this world, and a provision for the other: To him and to them be grace and peace to the day of judgment and consternation!