Sultan Murat I’s prayer he recited a few minutes before his death:

“For the beauty of Mohammed’s face, for the bloodshed of Kerbela, for weeping eye in the descending night, for the misery of the one in love, for entreaties affecting the sad hearts and the spirits! Give us your mercy and always protect us, my God!

God! Be gracious for the Muslim community; keep out the enemy’s hand from us! Do not count our sins but see our sorrow coming from the heart. Save your followers from the enemy’s arrows. Save our body from graves, protect Islam from the dangers. Help us in our holy wars and accept our prayers. Do not ruin my name with your wroth and save my honour in front of my people. Do not allow the enemy to step in the Islam lands and do not make it as a place in which people living in shame.

God! I know your favour the believers, show these favours in this war. Let me die for my religion that I could reach a beautiful place in the other side.

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