Sunrise or Waking Prayer
Includes:
- Invocation
- Saum
- Dhikr of "May the Message of God reach far and wide". Recited eleven times.
- Pir
- Prayer for the Universel
The prayer is written by Hazrat Inayat Khan and read by Universal Sufis as a prayer for the building of a universal centre of worship - the "Universel," which would have a function similar to the Bahá'í House of Worship.
- Prayer for Peace
Read more about this topic: Universal Sufi Prayers
Famous quotes containing the words sunrise, waking and/or prayer:
“The season developed and matured. Another year’s installment of flowers, leaves, nightingales, thrushes, finches, and such ephemeral creatures, took up their positions where only a year ago others had stood in their place when these were nothing more than germs and inorganic particles. Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“By this he knew she wept with waking eyes:”
—George Meredith (1828–1909)
“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms 90:10.
The Book of Common Prayer (1662)