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Glorified art Thou, O my Lord! Thou beholdest my tribulations and all that
hath befallen me at the hands of such of Thy servants as keep company with
me, who have disbelieved in Thy most resplendent signs, and turned back
from Thy most effulgent Beauty. I swear by Thy glory! Such are the
troubles that vex me, that no pen in the entire creation can either reckon
or describe them.
I implore Thee, O Thou Who art the King of names and the Creator of earth
and heaven, so to assist me by Thy strengthening grace that nothing
whatsoever will have the power to hinder me from remembering Thee, or
celebrating Thy praise, or to keep me back from observing what Thou hast
prescribed unto me in Thy Tablets, that I may so arise to serve Thee that
with bared head I will hasten forth from my habitation, cry out in Thy
name amidst Thy creatures, and proclaim Thy virtues among Thy servants.
Having accomplished what Thou hadst decreed, and delivered the thing Thou
hadst written down, the wicked doers among Thy people would, then, compass
me about and would do with me in Thy path as would please them.
In the love I bear to Thee, O my Lord, my heart longeth for Thee with a
longing such as no heart hath known. Here am I with my body between Thy
hands, and my spirit before Thy face. Do with them as it may please Thee,
for the exaltation of Thy word, and the revelation of what hath been
enshrined within the treasuries of Thy knowledge.
Potent art Thou to do what Thou willest, and able to ordain what Thou
pleasest.
Lauded be Thy name, O my God! I can discover no one in Thy realm who can
befittingly turn unto Thee, or is able to adequately hearken unto what
hath gone out of the mouth of Thy will. I beseech Thee, therefore, O Thou
Who art the Possessor of the entire creation and the King of the realm of
Thine invention, graciously to aid Thy creatures to accomplish that which
is pleasing and acceptable unto Thee, that they may arise to serve Thy
Cause amidst Thy creatures, and to speak forth Thy praise before all who
are in heaven and on earth.
Thou art He, O my Lord, Whose bounty hath surpassed all things, and Whose
power hath transcended all things, and Whose mercy hath encompassed all
things. Look, then, upon Thy people with the eyes of Thy tender mercies,
and leave them not to themselves and to their corrupt desires in Thy days.
How farsoever they may have strayed from Thee, and however grievously they
have turned back from Thy face, yet Thou, in Thine essence, art the
All-Bountiful, and, in Thine inmost spirit, art the Most Merciful. Deal
with them according to the unrevealed tokens of Thy bounty and Thy gifts.
Thou art, verily, the One to the power of Whose might all things have
testified, and to Whose majesty and omnipotence the whole creation hath
borne witness.
No God is there but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
My God, Thou Whom I adore and worship, Who art Most Powerful! I testify
that no description by any created thing can ever reveal Thee, and no
praise which any being is able to utter can express Thee. Neither the
comprehension of any one in the whole world, nor the intelligence of any
of its peoples, can, as it befitteth Thee, gain admittance into the court
of Thy holiness, or unravel Thy mystery. What sin hath kept the inmates of
the city of Thy names so far from Thine all-glorious Horizon, and deprived
them of access to Thy most great Ocean? One single letter of Thy Book is
the mother of all utterances, and a word therefrom the begetter of all
creation. What ingratitude have Thy servants shown forth that Thou hast
withheld them, one and all, from recognizing Thee? A drop out of the ocean
of Thy mercy sufficeth to quench the flames of hell, and a spark of the
fire of Thy love is enough to set ablaze a whole world.
O Thou Who art the All-Knowing! Wayward though we be, we still cling to
Thy bounty; and though ignorant, we still set our faces toward the ocean
of Thy wisdom. Thou art that All-Bountiful Who art not deterred by a
multitude of sins from vouchsafing Thy bounty, and the flow of Whose gifts
is not arrested by the withdrawal of the peoples of the world. From
eternity the door of Thy grace hath remained wide open. A dewdrop out of
the ocean of Thy mercy is able to adorn all things with the ornament of
sanctity, and a sprinkling of the waters of Thy bounty can cause the
entire creation to attain unto true wealth.
Lift not the veil, O Thou Who art the Concealer! From eternity the tokens
of Thy bounty have encompassed the universe, and the splendors of Thy Most
Great Name have been shed over all created things. Deny not Thy servants
the wonders of Thy grace. Cause them to be made aware of Thee, that they
may bear witness to Thy unity, and enable them to recognize Thee, that
they may hasten towards Thee. Thy mercy hath embraced the whole creation,
and Thy grace hath pervaded all things. From the billows of the ocean of
Thy generosity the seas of eagerness and enthusiasm were revealed. Thou
art what Thou art. Aught except Thee is unworthy of any mention unless it
entereth beneath Thy shadow, and gaineth admittance into Thy court.