O Allah...

O Allah, send blessings on Muhammad and on his “Ahlul Bayt” (the people of the House), the Leader- guides, the true scholars, the virtuous God-fearing, the mainstay Your religion depends upon, the essential foundation on which Your Oneness rests, the interpreters of Your revealed words, Your conclusive arguments over the mankind, Your representatives on the earth whom You selected in preference over all Your servants, recognized and authorized them to serve Your religion, specifically chose them to have knowledge about You, made them bright, all important, great and glorious through Your generosity, covered them from all sides with Your love and mercy, made available for them Your bounties, well-versed and well-grounded they are in Your wisdom, wrapped them up in Your Light, they occupy the highest place and rank in Your Kingdom, protected them from every side Your Angels, distinguished them with Your Prophet, Your blessings be on him and on his children.

O Allah! Bless Muhammad and them, (with) blessings, pure, rich, ever- growing, a great many, for ever and ever, the best, cannot be surveyed except by You, cannot be fully defined except by Your wisdom, cannot be recounted by any one other than You. O Allah!

And send blessings on Your kept alive delegated authority, guardian of the “way of Life” ordained by You, who claims authority under Your command, the straight path leading to You, the decisive proof from You over the mankind, Your representative on the earth, Your evidence made visible to Your servants. O Allah! Go all out to make available “defense in depth” for him, prolong his stay here, by continuing his…