Last Letter to Barkat Ali

Text of a letter dictated by Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti (Murshid Samuel L. Lewis)
to Pir-o-Murshid Sufi Barkat Ali, Salarwala, Lyallapur District, West Pakistan

Jan. 2, 1971

Praise be to Allah!

This has been a glorious exit,

And one which will go down in history,

A sign of all the beauty, truth and goodness in the universe.

One has been truly saved from the jaws of death and adversity,

And may live on indefinitely as God wills.

It is the sign of all symbol and goodness,

And the establishment of God’s message in the Western world forever,

Praise be to Allah!

For I am the first one born in the West to have received

the Divine Message, and believe to have representatives

in all the purity and goodness of which Allah is capable

and which will now be presumed done forever.