Conclusion

O friend, whose mind is alert and heart, attentive! If you have understood this Twenty-Second Word from the beginning up to here, take the twelve Flashes together in your hand, and finding a lamp of truth as powerful as a thousand electric lamps, adhere to the below-mentioned verses of the Qur'an. Mount the steed of Divine assistance, ascend to the heavens of truth, rise to the Throne of Divine knowledge. Declare:

I testify that there is no god but You, You are One, You have no partner!³⁷

And, saying,

I testify that there is no god but God, He is One, He has no partner; His is the dominion and His is the praise; He gives life and gives death, and He is ever-living and dies not; in His hand is all good, and He is powerful over all things,³⁸

proclaim His unity over the heads of all the beings in the universe in this mighty mosque of the world.

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37. Bukhârî, i, 214; Ibn Hibbân, Sahïh, i, 272; iii, 136, 227, 229.
38. Baghawï, Sharh al-Sunna, v, 53, 75, 132; Ibn Hajar, Majma al-Zawaid, iv, 86-115: x, 85, 114.

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