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Dua Arafah

I discovered a very profound supplication by Imam Hussain ibn Ali, the beloved grandson of the Holy Prophet on the Day of Arafat. This excerpt had me awed beyond description: And I bear witness, O my God, with my true belief, and the fortitude of the determinations of my conviction  and the purity of my open belief in Your Oneness  and the essence of the secret of my conscience,  and the ties of the canals of the light of my sight,  and the lines of my forehead   and the hallows of the courses of my breath, and the (nasal) cavities of my nose,  and the courses of the meatus of my hearing, and whatever my two lips hide and cover up, and the motions of the vocalization of my tongue, and the socket of the palate of my mouth and jaw,  and the matrices of my dents,  and the tasting of my food and my drink,  and the carrier of my skull,  and the tube of the tissues of my neck  and what is included by the cloak of my chest,  and the carriers of the cord of my aorta,  and