A POLICEMAN’S PRAYER

 

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

 

Teach me that sixty minutes make an hour,
sixteen ounces a pound, and one hundred cents a dollar.
Help me so to live that I can lie down at night with a clear conscience,
without a gun under my pillow,
and unhaunted by the faces of those to whom I have brought pain.

Grant that I may earn my deal ticket on the square,

and in earning it I may do unto others as I would have others do unto me.
deafen me to the jingle of tainted money and to the rustle to unholy skirts.

Blind me to the faults of the other fellow, but reveal to me my own.
Guide me so that each night when I look across the dinner table at my soul mate,
who has been a blessing to me, I shall have nothing to conceal.

Keep me young enough to laugh with little children,
and sympathetic enough to be considerate of old age.
And when comes the day of darkening shades and the smell of the flowers,
the tread of soft footsteps and crunching wheels in the yard.
Make the ceremony short and epitaph simple --- “ Here lies man”

 امين