I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the starvation that stalks after it.

All praise be to thee, o my god! Thou beholdest my helplessness and poverty, and bearest witness Unto my woes and trials. How long wilt thou abandon me among thy servants? Suffer me to ascend into thy presence. The power of thy might beareth me witness! Such arc the tribulations with which i am encompassed that i am powerless to recount them before thy face. Thou, alone, verily, hast through thy knowledge reckoned them. I beseech thee, o thou who art my companion in my lowliness, to rain down upon thy loved ones from the clouds of thy mercy that which will cause them to be satisfied with thy pleasure, and will enable them to turn unto thee and to be detached from ail else except thee. Ordain, then, for them every good conceived by thee and predestined in thy book. Thou art, verily, the all-powerful, he whom nothing whatsoever can frustrate. From everlasting thou hast been clothed with transcendent greatness and power, with unspeakable majesty and glory. There is no god beside thee, the almighty, the all glorious, the ever-forgiving. Glorified be thy name, thou in whose hand arc the kingdoms of earth and heaven.