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infidels in Thy land, and were hindered by them from having near access to |
Thee and from attaining the court of Thy glory. Others were able to |
approach Thee, but were kept back from beholding Thy face. Still others |
were permitted, in their eagerness to look upon Thee, to enter the |
precincts of Thy court, but they allowed the veils of the imaginations of |
Thy creatures and the wrongs inflicted by the oppressors among Thy people |
to come in between them and Thee. |
This is the hour, O my Lord, which Thou hast caused to excel every other |
hour, and hast related it to the choicest among Thy creatures. I beseech |
Thee, O my God, by Thy Self and by them, to ordain in the course of this |
year what shall exalt Thy loved ones. Do Thou, moreover, decree within |
this year what will enable the Day-Star of Thy power to shine brightly |
above the horizon of Thy glory, and to illuminate, by Thy sovereign might, |
the whole world. |
Render Thy Cause victorious, O my Lord, and abase Thou Thine enemies. |
Write down, then, for us the good of this life and of the life to come. |
Thou art the Truth, Who knoweth the secret things. No God is there but |
Thee, the Ever-Forgiving, the All-Bountiful. |
Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I yield Thee thanks for that Thou hast |
made me the target of divers tribulations and the mark of manifold trials, |
in order that Thy servants may be endued with new life and all Thy |
creatures may be quickened. |
I swear by Thy glory, O Thou the Best Beloved of the worlds and the Desire |
of all such as have recognized Thee! The one reason I wish to live is that |
I may reveal Thy Cause, and I seek the continuance of life only that I may |
be touched by adversity in Thy path. |
I implore Thee, O Thou by Whose summons the hearts of all them who were |
nigh unto Thee have soared into the atmosphere of Thy presence, to send |
down upon Thy loved ones what will enable them to dispense with all else |
except Thee. Endue them, then, with such constancy that they will arise to |
proclaim Thy Cause, and will call on Thy name, before all that are in Thy |
heaven and on Thy earth, in such wise that the Pharaonic cruelties |
inflicted by the oppressors among Thy servants will not succeed in keeping |
them back from Thee. |
Thou art, verily, the God of power, the God of glory, the God of strength |
and wisdom. |
Magnified be Thy name, O Lord my God! Behold Thou mine eye expectant to |
gaze on the wonders of Thy mercy, and mine ear longing to hearken unto Thy |
sweet melodies, and my heart yearning for the living waters of Thy |
knowledge. Thou seest Thy handmaiden, O my God, standing before the |
habitation of Thy mercy, and calling upon Thee by Thy name which Thou hast |
chosen above all other names and set up over all that are in heaven and on |
earth. Send down upon her the breaths of Thy mercy, that she may be |
carried away wholly from herself, and be drawn entirely towards the seat |
which, resplendent with the glory of Thy face, sheddeth afar the radiance |
of Thy sovereignty, and is established as Thy throne. Potent art Thou to |
do what Thou willest. No God is there beside Thee, the All-Glorious, the |
Most Bountiful. |
Cast not out, I entreat Thee, O my Lord, them that have sought Thee, and |
turn not away such as have directed their steps towards Thee, and deprive |
not of Thy grace all that love Thee. Thou art He, O my Lord, Who hath |
called Himself the God of Mercy, the Most Compassionate. Have mercy, then, |
upon Thy handmaiden who hath sought Thy shelter, and set her face towards |
Thee. |
Thou art, verily, the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful. |
Lauded be Thy name, O my God! I testify that no thought of Thee, howsoever |
wondrous, can ever ascend into the heaven of Thy knowledge, and no praise |
of Thee, no matter how transcendent, can soar up to the atmosphere of Thy |
wisdom. From eternity Thou hast been removed far above the reach and the |
ken of the comprehension of Thy servants, and immeasurably exalted above |
the strivings of Thy bondslaves to express Thy mystery. What power can the |
shadowy creature claim to possess when face to face with Him Who is the |
Uncreated? |
I bear witness that the highest thoughts of all such as adore Thy unity, |
and the profoundest contemplations of all them that have recognized Thee, |
are but the product of what hath been generated through the movement of |
the Pen of Thy behest, and hath been begotten by Thy will. I swear by Thy |
glory, O Thou Who art the Beloved of my soul and the Fountain of my life! |
I am persuaded of my powerlessness to describe and extol Thee in a manner |
that becometh the greatness of Thy glory and the excellence of Thy |
majesty. Aware as I am of this, I beseech Thee, by Thy mercy that hath |
surpassed all created things, and Thy grace that hath embraced the entire |
creation, to accept from Thy servants what they are capable of showing |
forth in Thy path. Aid them, then, by Thy strengthening grace, to exalt |
Thy word and to blazon Thy praise. |
Powerful art Thou to do what pleaseth Thee. Thou, truly, art the |
All-Glorious, the All-Wise. |
I know not, O my God, what the Fire is with which Thou didst light the |
Lamp of Thy Cause, or what the Glass wherewith Thou didst preserve it from |
Thine enemies. By Thy might! I marvel at the wonders of Thy Revelation, |
and at the tokens of Thy glory. I recognize, O Thou Who art my heart's |
Desire, that were fire to be touched by water it would instantly be |
extinguished, whereas the Fire which Thou didst kindle can never go out, |
though all the seas of the earth be poured upon it. Should water at any |
time touch it, the hands of Thy power would, as decreed in Thy Tablets, |
transmute that water into a fuel that would feed its flame. |
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