اللهم اكشف هذه الغمة عن هذه الأمة بظهوره إنهم يرونه بعيدا...

اللهم اكشف هذه الغمة عن هذه الأمة بظهوره إنهم يرونه بعيدا، ونراه قريبا، وصلى الله على محمد وآله In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

Extend greetings and peace to our master, the leader of the time when and wherever he is, from the east and the west of the Earth, in the plain land or on the mountains, from me, my parents, my descendants and my brothers, equivalent to the whole creation of Allah and the weight of Allah’s Throne and all what His Book has counted and that which His knowledge has encompassed.

O Allah, I am renewing this early morning and the remaining days of my life the covenant and the allegiance on my neck, that I will never go back on my word, O Allah, make me among his helpers that protect him, among those who comply with his commands and prohibitions in his days and among those that will be martyred before him.

O Allah, if death occurs between me and him, which You have made inevitable for Your servants, then take me out of my grave wearing my shroud, unsheathing my sword and pulling out my spear, answering the call of the caller from the city or from the village. O Allah, show me the rise of the rightly guided and the extoller, smear my eye with kohl to see him and hasten his relief and make his coming out easy.

O Allah, strengthen his supporters and empower his followers and prolong his life, You have said and Your statement is the fact. Corruption has appeared in the land and sea, for what men’s own hands have earned. O Allah, manifest Your legacy to us; the son of the daughter of Your Prophet, who was named after the name of Your Prophet, may Your blessings be upon him! Until he destroys everything wrong, Allah, will initiate right with His words and implement it.

O Allah, unveil this grief on the nation with his reappearance, they see it very far but we see it as close, O Allah, send Your blessings on Muhammad and on his holy family.

Makarimul Akhlaq has supported this idea with the help of the following tradition which says, “Whoever recites the following invocation after every obligatory prayer regularly, will live so long that he would be satisfied and he would get the honor of seeing Imam-e-Zamaana (aj).” The invocation is as follows:[^3] اللهم صل على محمد وآل محمد اللهم إن رسولك الصادق المصدق صلواتك عليه وآله قال: إنك قلت ما ترددت في شئ أنا فاعله كترددي في قبض روح عبدي المؤمن، يكره الموت وأنا أكره مساءته.