“Allah, Allah, may our evenings be good; may good be unfolded to us; may evil be repelled from us; may our enemies and adversaries be subjugated; may the benevolent aid of the Twelve Imams be ever with us; may those among us who reach the goal be not severed from the train of the Twelve Imams; may they be shielded from slander; may our wishes be granted and our supplications accepted. This is the gulbang of Muhammad: the Light of the Prophet, the Nobility of ‘Alī; our Pīr Muhammad Bahā ad-Dīn Uvaysī, present and watchful, outward and inward; HU, HU!” [Risālat al-Tarīqat an-Naqshabandiya, f. 8a (margin)].