[Machine] That is, ask Allah for me so he wrote back to him [saying] "Indeed, your book has come to me, asking me to pray to Allah for you, and it is the right of a servant who has committed a sin without excuse and fears a death that is inevitable for him to be concerned, and I will pray for you while I am not hopeful that it will be answered for me by the strength of my own actions or the innocence from sin."  

أنِ ادْعُ اللَّهَ لِي فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ بَكْرٌ «إِنَّهُ أَتَانِي كِتَابُكَ تَسْأَلُنِي أَنْ أَدْعُوَ اللَّهَ لَكَ وَحَقٌّ لِعَبْدٍ عَمِلَ ذَنْبًا لَا عُذْرَ لَهُ فِيهِ وَخَافَ مَوْتًا لَا بُدَّ لَهُ مِنْهُ أَنْ يَكُونَ مُشْفِقًا وَسَأَدْعُو لَكَ وَلَسْتُ [247] أَرْجُو أَنْ يُسْتَجَابَ لِي بِقُوَّةٍ فِي عَمَلِي وَلَا بَرَاءَةٍ مِنْ ذَنْبٍ»