I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.

Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.

Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.

O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.

All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.