Dedication [Dedication of the book, as-Sahifah as-Sajjadiyyah]

In His Most Exalted Name
"Humble Gift"
I am released from each of the two worlds by the countenance of `Ali
Through the jug of the Friend I am young by the hair of `Ali
I will traverse the terrestrial and celestial realms for the sake of the Friend
I will remember in the tavern the like of `Ali's eyebrow
As-Sahifah al-Kamilah as-Sajjadiyyah «2» is a perfect exemplar of ascending Qur'an and among the greatest mystical litanies at the private abode of mankind. Whose blessings our hands fall short of obtaining. It is a divine book, which springs from the fountain of the Light of Allah and teaches the way of wayfaring of the great Imams and religious successor to the companions of the divine private abode. It is a noble book whose style of expressing the divine knowledge of the companions of knowledge, like the Holy Qur'an in having no formality in utterances, takes the form of prayer and litanies for those who are thirsty of divine knowledge. Like the Holy Qur'an, this sacred book is a divine table-spread in which all kinds of favors exist, and everybody, commensurate to one's spiritual appetite, can make use of it. Like the most precise divine Qur'an, this book of knowledge of the unseen, which stems from the divine manifestations in the mundane, celestial, heavenly, and spiritual worlds and beyond, would not come to your and my minds, and the hands of the seekers of its truths fall short, in its own peculiar way; the drops of its boundless sea of mysticism let them taste, and then efface and annihilate them:
"to Him is our return."
Hence, O you writer who is deprived of all the knowledge and uninformed of the universe! Break the pen, close the Sahifah, and seek refuge in the everlasting grace of God-" Verily, He possesses vast mercy"- from your own bound of carnal desires which, like a cobweb, envelopes your whole existence and increases day and night.
And I offered as a gift this great book to my dear son in whose forehead I can see light and" light upon light", and that dear one who is a memento of Ahmad «3» from the pure progeny of the purified Imams (`a), and trained at the pure lap of his mother who is of the progeny of the purified Imams (`a) and Tabataba'is who have the honor of being the seeds of Hasanayn (Imams Hasan and Husayn). I hope he would become one of the outstanding `ulama', committed jurists [fuqaha] and mystic-strugglers in the way of Allah in both the outer and inner warfronts; meritoriously benefit from this sacred book; and pray for mercy and forgiveness for his old father, Khomeini, who has spent his life with carnal desire, sin and ungratefulness and now, with a black face and knapsack of sins without having hope- except through the mercy of the Most Merciful Lord- is passing from this abode and realm (world) to that abode and realm (hereafter).
O God! I entrust this family to Thee, and I pin my hope on nobody; through Your favors, place them under Your Own training.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini
Tuesday Night
22,1367 AHS
Jumadi al-OUla 1409 AH