A prayer seeking the protection and mercy of God in light of the eventual destruction and renewal of the cosmos.  This is a Hermetic variant of the Islamic prayer of the Munajāt, or the Whispered Prayer, of Imām `Alı̄ ibn ‘Abī Ṭālib (as) in the Great Mosque of Kūfa, which is a supplication attributed to the first Shia imam invoked during the lunar month of Sha`bān.  This prayer uses the prophecy of the destruction and renewal of the world from sections 24 through 26 of the Hermetic text Asclepius, or the Perfect Sermon along with various Hermetic attributes and epithets for the divine, replacing the explicitly Islamic elements but keeping the same overall structure and theme from the Munajāt.  This prayer was first introduced in this June 2020 post.

In reciting this prayer, after every supplication, silently recite “Oh God, my God, be merciful, be gracious, be propitious to us all”.  In keeping with the Munajāt, it is preferable to recite this prayer in a low, hushed, or whispered voice.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all devotion will have been in vain.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all worship will have borne no fruit.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all the gods will have abandoned the Earth.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all the gods will have returned to Heaven.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all reverence will have fallen into neglect.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when the divine teachings will have been mocked as delusion and illusion.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all religion will have been outlawed.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when the reverent will have been executed for the crime of reverence.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all temples will have become tombs.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all the gods will have been replaced by corpses.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when people will have died deserted by divinity.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when the dead will have outnumbered the living.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when darkness and death will have been preferred to light and life.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when the cosmos will have ceased to be revered and honored.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all the sacred traditions will have been lost.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when the spiritualist will have been thought mad and the materialist wise.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when the lunatic will have been thought brave and the indecent decent.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when humanity will have been accompanied only by the powers of evil.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when the world will have been filled with barbarity.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all the people will have turned to cruelty against each other.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all the rivers will have filled and burst with blood.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all the lands will have crumbled under stress.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all the seas will have ceased to be navigable.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all the winds will have stalled lifelessly.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all earth will have become sterile, bearing only withered fruit.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all the heavens will have gone dark.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all the bodies of heaven will have ceased in their courses.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when all the voices of divinity will have gone silent.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when you will have ceased to be worshiped and glorified.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when you will dissolve all the world in flood, fire, and pestilence.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when you will restore the world to worthiness of reverence and wonder.

O God, I ask you for your protection,
on the day when you will return all that is good and sacred to the world.

O God, you are the Father and I am the child;
who else can be merciful to the child except the Father?

O God, you are the Creator and I am the one immersed in creation;
who else can be merciful to the created except the Creator?

O God, you are the Pure and I am the one immersed in defilement;
who else can be merciful to the defiled except the Pure?

O God, you are the Beautiful and I am the one immersed in crudity;
who else can be merciful to the crude except the Beautiful?

O God, you are the Pervasive and I am the one immersed in blindness;
who else can be merciful to the blind except the Pervasive?

O God, you are the Invisible and I am the one immersed in mistrust;
who else can be merciful to the mistrustful except the Invisible?

O God, you are the Ineffable and I am the one immersed in babble;
who else can be merciful to the babbler except the Ineffable?

O God, you are the Complete and I am the one immersed in deficiency;
who else can be merciful to the deficient except the Complete?

O God, you are the Perfect and I am the one immersed in excess;
who else can be merciful to the excessive except the Perfect?

O God, you are the Still and I am the one immersed in motion;
who else can be merciful to the moved except the Still?

O God, you are the Unchanging and I am the one immersed in change;
who else can be merciful to the changed except the Unchanging?

O God, you are the Unbegotten and I am the one immersed in begetting;
who else can be merciful to the begotten except the Unbegotten?

O God, you are the Imperishable and I am the one immersed in decay;
who else can be merciful to the decaying except the Imperishable?

O God, you are the Immortal and I am the one immersed in mortality;
who else can be merciful to the mortal except the Immortal?

O God, you are the Cause of Mind and I am the one immersed in mindlessness;
who else can be merciful to the mindless except the Cause of Mind?

O God, you are the Cause of Liberation and I am the one immersed in torment;
who else can be merciful to the tormented except the Cause of Liberation?

O God, you are the Cause of Virtue and I am the one immersed in vice;
who else can be merciful to the vicious except the Cause of Virtue?

O God, you are the Cause of Knowledge and I am the one immersed in ignorance;
who else can be merciful to the ignorant except the Cause of Knowledge?

O God, you are the Cause of Joy and I am the one immersed in sorrow;
who else can be merciful to the sorrowful except the Cause of Joy?

O God, you are the Cause of Temperance and I am the one immersed in intemperance;
who else can be merciful to the intemperate except the Cause of Temperance?

O God, you are the Cause of Steadfastness and I am the one immersed in lust;
who else can be merciful to the lustful except the Cause of Steadfastness?

O God, you are the Cause of Justice and I am the one immersed in injustice;
who else can be merciful to the unjust except the Cause of Justice?

O God, you are the Cause of Generosity and I am the one immersed in greed;
who else can be merciful to the greedy except the Cause of Generosity?

O God, you are the Cause of Truth and I am the one immersed in deceit;
who else can be merciful to the deceitful except the Cause of Truth?

O God, you are the Cause of Light and I am the one immersed in darkness;
who else can be merciful to the darkened except the Cause of Light?

O God, you are the Cause of Life and I am the one immersed in death;
who else can be merciful to the dying except the Cause of Life?

O God, you are the Good and I am the one the one immersed in evil;
who else can be merciful to the evil except the Good?

O God, you are the Favorable and I am the one given favor;
who else can be merciful to the one given favor except the Favorable?

O God, you are the Gracious and I am the one given grace;
who else can be merciful to the one given grace except the Gracious?

O God, you are the Merciful and I am the one given mercy;
who else can be merciful to the one given mercy except the Merciful?

O God, you are the Glory of the All and I am the one who is in the All;
only you can be merciful to all in the All, for you are the Glory of the All!

O God, be merciful, be gracious, be favorable to me,
and be pleased with me by your mercy, your grace, and your favor,
you who are the source of all mercy, all grace, and all favor!
O God, be merciful, be gracious, be favorable to me and to us all!