Enduring Eternal One, he says: “All glory to My Mighty Sustainer!” and glorifies his Sublime Sustainer. And prostrating before the undying beauty of His Essence, His unchanging sacred attributes, His constant everlasting perfection, and abandoning all things other than Him, man proclaims his love and worship in wonder and self-abasement. He finds an All-Compassionate Eternal One. And saying, “All glory to my Exalted Sustainer!” he declares his Most High Sustainer to be free of decline and exalted above any fault.

Then, he testifies to God’s unity and the prophethood of Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace). He sits, and on his own account offers as a gift to the Undying All-Beauteous One, the Enduring All-Glorious One, the blessed salutations and benedictions of all creatures. And greeting God’s Most Noble Messenger (UWBP), he renews his allegiance to him and proclaims his obedience to his commands. In order to renew and illuminate his belief, he observes the wise order in this palace of the universe and testifies to the unity of the All-Glorious Maker. And he testifies to the messengership of Muhammad the Arabian (Upon whom be blessings and peace), who is the herald of the sovereignty of God’s dominicality, the proclaimer of those things pleasing to Him, and the interpreter of the signs and verses of the book of the universe. To perform the Maghrib prayer is this. So how can a person be considered a human being if he does not understand what a fine and pure duty is the prayer at sunset, what an exalted and pleasurable act of service, what an agreeable and pleasing act of worship, what a serious matter, and what an unending conversation and permanent happiness it is in this transient guesthouse?

At the time of ‘Isha at nightfall, the last traces of the day remaining on the horizon disappear and the world of night enfolds the universe. As the All-Powerful and Glorious One, “The Changer of Night and Day”(See, 24:44), turns the white page of day into the black page of night through the mighty disposals of His dominicality, it recalls the divine activities of that All-Wise One of Perfection, “The Subduer of the Sun and the Moon”(See, 13:2), turning the green-adorned page of summer into the frigid white page of winter. And with the remaining works of the departed being erased from this world with the passing of time, it recalls the divine acts of “The Creator and Life and Death”(See, 67:2) in their passage to another, quite different world. It is a time that calls to mind the disposals of “The Creator of the Heavens and the Earth’s” awesomeness and the manifestations of His beauty in the utter destruction of this narrow, fleeting, and lowly world, the terrible death-agonies of its decease, and in the unfolding of the broad, eternal, and majestic world of the hereafter. And the universe’s Owner, its