The Alawite Book: His supplication for the return of the ...
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His supplication for the return of the one
who flees the battlefield
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Or like utter darkness in the stormy seas. There is wave upon wave,
above which is a Cloud, (layers of) utter darkness one above another;
when a man holds out his hand, he is unable to see it; and for
whomsoever Allah does not create light, he has no light.