Whereby you testify that there is no god but Allah...

Whereby you testify that there is no god but Allah, He alone, for whom there is no partner; that Muḥammad – may Allah bless him and his progeny – is His servant and His messenger and the foremost of all the Prophets and the seal of all the Messengers; that ʿAlī is the Commander of the Faithful and the master of all the successors and an Imam whose obedience Allah has made obligatory for the worlds; that al-Ḥasan, and al-Ḥusayn, and ʿAlī son of al-Ḥusayn, and Muḥammad son of ʿAlī, and Jaʿfar son of Muḥammad, and Mūsā son of Jaʿfar, and ʿAlī son of Mūsā, and Muḥammad son of ʿAlī, and ʿAlī son of Muḥammad, and al-Ḥasan son of ʿAlī, and the Upriser, the Proof, al-Mahdī – may Allah’s blessings be upon them all – are Imams of the faithful and Allah’s proofs over the whole of creation, and your Imams are Imams of guidance for you and are pious, O ___.

In the blank space, he should say the name of the deceased person and the name of his father.