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Thy path, how could Thy true lovers be recognized; and were it not for the |
trials which are borne for love of Thee, how could the station of such as |
yearn for Thee be revealed? Thy might beareth me witness! The companions |
of all who adore Thee are the tears they shed, and the comforters of such |
as seek Thee are the groans they utter, and the food of them who haste to |
meet Thee is the fragments of their broken hearts. |
How sweet to my taste is the bitterness of death suffered in Thy path, and |
how precious in my estimation are the shafts of Thine enemies when |
encountered for the sake of the exaltation of Thy word! Let me quaff in |
Thy Cause, O my God, whatsoever Thou didst desire, and send down upon me |
in Thy love all Thou didst ordain. By Thy glory! I wish only what Thou |
wishest, and cherish what Thou cherishest. In Thee have I, at all times, |
placed my whole trust and confidence. |
Raise up, I implore Thee, O my God, as helpers to this Revelation such as |
shall be counted worthy of Thy name and of Thy sovereignty, that they may |
remember me among Thy creatures, and hoist the ensigns of Thy victory in |
Thy land. |
Potent art Thou to do what pleaseth Thee. No God is there but Thee, the |
Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. |
Glory to Thee, O my God! One of Thy handmaidens, who hath believed in Thee |
and in Thy signs, hath entered beneath the shadow of the tree of Thy |
oneness. Give her to quaff, O my God, by Thy Name, the Manifest and the |
Hidden, of Thy choice sealed Wine that it may take her away from her own |
self, and make her to be entirely devoted to Thy remembrance, and wholly |
detached from any one beside Thee. |
Now that Thou hast revealed unto her the knowledge of Thee, O my Lord, |
deny her not, by Thy bounty, Thy grace; and now that Thou hast called her |
unto Thyself, drive her not away from Thee, through Thy favor. Supply her, |
then, with that which excelleth all that can be found on Thine earth. Thou |
art, verily, the Most Bountiful, Whose grace is immense. |
Wert Thou to bestow on one of Thy creatures what would equal the kingdoms |
of earth and heaven, it would still not diminish by even as much as an |
atom the immensity of Thy dominion. Far greater art Thou than the Great |
One men are wont to call Thee, for such a title is but one of Thy names |
all of which were created by a mere indication of Thy will. |
There is no God but Thee, the God of power, the God of glory, the God of |
knowledge and wisdom. |
The hearts that yearn after Thee, O my God, are burnt up with the fire of |
their longing for Thee, and the eyes of them that love Thee weep sore by |
reason of their crushing separation from Thy court, and the voice of the |
lamentation of such as have set their hopes on Thee hath gone forth |
throughout Thy dominions. |
Thou hast Thyself, O my God, protected them, by Thy sovereign might, from |
both extremities. But for the burning of their souls and the sighing of |
their hearts, they would be drowned in the midst of their tears, and but |
for the flood of their tears they would be burnt up by the fire of their |
hearts and the heat of their souls. Methinks, they are like the angels |
which Thou hast created of snow and of fire. Wilt Thou, despite such |
vehement longing, O my God, debar them from Thy presence, or drive them |
away, notwithstanding such fervor, from the door of Thy mercy? All hope is |
ready to be extinguished in the hearts of Thy chosen ones, O my God! Where |
are the breezes of Thy grace? They are hemmed in on all sides by their |
enemies; where are the ensigns of Thy triumph which Thou didst promise in |
Thy Tablets? |
Thy glory is my witness! At each daybreak they who love Thee wake to find |
the cup of woe set before their faces, because they have believed in Thee |
and acknowledged Thy signs. Though I firmly believe that Thou hast a |
greater compassion on them than they have on their own selves, though I |
recognize that Thou hast afflicted them for no other purpose except to |
proclaim Thy Cause, and to enable them to ascend into the heaven of Thine |
eternity and the precincts of Thy court, yet Thou knowest full well the |
frailty of some of them, and art aware of their impatience in their |
sufferings. |
Help them through Thy strengthening grace, I beseech Thee, O my God, to |
suffer patiently in their love for Thee, and unveil to their eyes what |
Thou hast decreed for them behind the Tabernacle of Thine unfailing |
protection, so that they may rush forward to meet what is preordained for |
them in Thy path, and may vie in hasting after tribulation in their love |
towards Thee. And if not, do Thou, then, reveal the standards of Thine |
ascendancy, and make them to be victorious over Thine adversaries, that |
Thy sovereignty may be manifested unto all the dwellers of Thy realm, and |
the power of Thy might demonstrated amidst Thy creatures. Powerful art |
Thou to do what Thou willest. No God is there but Thee, the Omniscient, |
the All-Wise. |
Make steadfast Thou, O my God, Thy servant who hath believed in Thee to |
help Thy Cause, and keep him safe from all dangers in the stronghold of |
Thy care and Thy protection, both in this life and in the life which is to |
come. Thou, verily, rulest as Thou pleasest. No God is there save Thee, |
the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Generous. |
Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! Rain down, I beseech Thee, from the |
clouds of Thine overflowing grace, that which shall cleanse the hearts of |
Thy servants from whatever may prevent their beholding Thy face, or may |
prevent them from turning unto Thee, that they may all recognize Him Who |
is their Fashioner and Creator. Help them, then, O God, to reach forth, |
through the power of Thy sovereign might, towards such a station that they |
can readily distinguish every foul smell from the fragrance of the raiment |
of Him Who is the Bearer of Thy most lofty and exalted name, that they may |
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