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Lauded be Thy name, O Lord my God! Thou seest me in this day shut up in my |
prison, and fallen into the hands of Thine adversaries, and beholdest my |
son (The Purest Branch) lying on the dust before Thy face. He is Thy |
servant, O my Lord, whom Thou hast caused to be related to Him Who is the |
Manifestation of Thyself and the Day-Spring of Thy Cause. |
At his birth he was afflicted through his separation from Thee, according |
to what had been ordained for him through Thine irrevocable decree. And |
when he had quaffed the cup of reunion with Thee, he was cast into prison |
for having believed in Thee and in Thy signs. He continued to serve Thy |
Beauty until he entered into this Most Great Prison. Thereupon I offered |
him up, O my God, as a sacrifice in Thy path. Thou well knowest what they |
who love Thee have endured through this trial that hath caused the |
kindreds of the earth to wail, and beyond them the Concourse on high to |
lament. |
I beseech Thee, O my Lord, by him and by his exile and his imprisonment, |
to send down upon such as loved him what will quiet their hearts and bless |
their works. Potent art Thou to do as Thou willest. No God is there but |
Thee, the Almighty, the Most Powerful. |
Praised be Thou, O my God! I beseech Thee by them who have circled round |
the throne of Thy will, and soared in the atmosphere of Thy good-pleasure, |
and turned with all their affections towards the Horizon of Thy Revelation |
and the Day-Spring of Thine inspiration, and the Dawning-Place of Thy |
names, to aid Thy servants to observe what Thou hast commanded them in Thy |
days--commandments through which the sacredness of Thy Cause will be |
demonstrated unto Thy servants and the affairs of Thy creatures and of Thy |
realm will be set aright. |
I testify, O my God, that this is the Day whereon Thy testimony hath been |
fulfilled, and Thy clear tokens have been manifested, and Thine utterances |
have been revealed, and Thy signs have been demonstrated, and the radiance |
of Thy countenance hath been diffused, and Thy proof hath been perfected, |
and Thine ascendancy hath been established, and Thy mercy hath overflowed, |
and the Day-Star of Thy grace hath shone forth with such brilliance that |
Thou didst manifest Him Who is the Revealer of Thyself and the Treasury of |
Thy wisdom and the Dawning-Place of Thy majesty and power. Thou didst |
establish His covenant with every one who hath been created in the |
kingdoms of earth and heaven and in the realms of revelation and of |
creation. Thou didst raise Him up to such heights that the wrongs |
inflicted by the oppressors have been powerless to deter Him from |
revealing Thy sovereignty, and the ascendancy of the wayward hath failed |
to prevent Him from demonstrating Thy power and from exalting Thy Cause. |
So highly didst Thou exalt Him that He openly delivered unto the kings Thy |
messages and commandments, and hath never for one moment sought His own |
protection, but striven to protect Thy servants from whatever might |
withhold them from approaching the kingdom of Thy nearness, and from |
setting their faces towards the horizon of Thy good-pleasure. |
Thou seest, O my God, how, notwithstanding the swords that are drawn |
against Him, He calleth the nations unto Thee, and though Himself a |
prisoner summoneth them to turn in the direction of Thy gifts and |
bounties. With every fresh tribulation He manifested a fuller measure of |
Thy Cause, and exalted more highly Thy word. |
I testify that through Him the Pen of the Most High was set in motion, and |
with His remembrance the Scriptures in the kingdom of names were |
embellished. Through Him Thy fragrances were wafted, and the sweet smell |
of Thy raiment was shed abroad amongst all the dwellers of the earth and |
the inmates of heaven. Thou seest and knowest full well, O my God, how He |
hath been made to dwell within the most desolate of cities, so that He may |
build up the hearts of Thy servants, and hath been willing to suffer the |
most grievous abasement, that Thy creatures may be exalted. |
I pray Thee, O Thou Who causest the dawn to appear, by Thy Name through |
Which Thou hast subjected the winds, and sent down Thy Tablets, that Thou |
wilt grant that we may draw near unto what Thou didst destine for us by |
Thy favor and bounty, and to be far removed from whatsoever may be |
repugnant unto Thee. Give us, then, to drink from the hands of Thy grace |
every day and every moment of our lives of the waters that are life |
indeed, O Thou Who art the Most Merciful! Make us, then, to be of them who |
helped Thee when fallen into the hands of those Thine enemies who are |
numbered with the rebellious among Thy creatures and the wicked amidst Thy |
people. Write down, then, for us the recompense ordained for him that hath |
attained Thy presence, and gazed on Thy beauty, and supply us with every |
good thing ordained in Thy Book for such of Thy creatures as enjoy near |
access to Thee. |
Brighten our hearts, O my Lord, with the splendor of Thy knowledge, and |
illumine our sight with the light of such eyes as are fixed upon the |
horizon of Thy grace and the Day-Spring of Thy glory. Preserve us, then, |
by Thy Most Great Name, Which Thou didst cause to overshadow such nations |
as lay claim to what Thou hast forbidden in Thy Book. This, verily, is |
what Thou didst announce unto us in Thy Scriptures and Thy Tablets. |
Cause us, then, to be so steadfast in our love towards Thee that we will |
turn to none except Thee, and will be reckoned amongst them that are |
brought nigh to Thee, and acknowledge Thee as One Who is exalted above |
every comparison and is holy beyond all likeness, and will lift up our |
voices amongst Thy servants and cry aloud that He is the one God, the |
Incomparable, the Ever-Abiding, the Most Powerful, the All-Glorious, the |
All-Wise. |
Strengthen Thou, O my Lord, the hearts of them that love Thee, that they |
may not be affrighted by the hosts of the infidels that are turned back |
from Thee, but may follow Thee in whatsoever hath been revealed by Thee. |
Aid them, moreover, to remember and to praise Thee, and to teach Thy Cause |
with eloquence and wisdom. Thou art He Who hath called Himself the Most |
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