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hast taught me, how immeasurably greater must be the excellence of the |
station of the One Who hath known Thee, Who hath entered Thy Presence, and |
pursued steadfastly the path of Thy Cause! |
I have clearly perceived, and I am wholly persuaded, that Thou hast from |
everlasting been immeasurably exalted above the mention of all beings, and |
wilt continue unto everlasting to remain far above the conception of Thy |
creatures. None can befittingly praise Thee except Thine own Self and such |
as are like unto Thee. Thou hast, verily, been at all times, and wilt |
everlastingly continue to remain, immensely exalted beyond and above all |
comparison and likeness, above all imagination of parity or resemblance. |
Having, thus, recognized Thee as One Who is incomparable, and Whose nature |
none can possess, it becometh incontrovertibly evident that whosoever may |
praise Thee, his praise can befit only such as are of his own nature, and |
are subject to his own limitations, and it can in no wise adequately |
describe the sublimity of Thy sovereignty, nor scale the heights of Thy |
majesty and holiness. How sweet, therefore, is the praise Thou givest to |
Thine own Self, and the description Thou givest of Thine own Being! |
I testify, O my God, that Thou hast, from eternity, sent down upon Thy |
servants naught else except that which can cause them to soar up and be |
drawn near unto Thee, and to ascend into the heaven of Thy transcendent |
oneness. Thou hast established Thy bounds among them, and ordained them to |
stand among Thy creatures as evidences of Thy justice and as signs of Thy |
mercy, and to be the stronghold of Thy protection amongst Thy people, that |
no man may in Thy realm transgress against his neighbor. How great is the |
blessedness of him who, for love of Thy beauty and for the sake of Thy |
pleasure, hath curbed the desires of a corrupt inclination and observed |
the precepts laid down by Thy most exalted Pen! He, in truth, is to be |
numbered with them that have attained unto all good, and followed the way |
of guidance. |
I beseech Thee, O my Lord, by Thy Name through which Thou hast enabled Thy |
servants and Thy people to know Thee, through which Thou hast drawn the |
hearts of those who have recognized Thee towards the resplendent court of |
Thy oneness, and the souls of Thy favored ones unto the Day-Spring of Thy |
unity,--I beseech Thee to grant that I may be assisted to observe the fast |
wholly for Thy sake, O Thou Who art full of majesty and glory! Empower me, |
then, O my God, to be reckoned among them that have clung to Thy laws and |
precepts for the sake of Thee alone, their eyes fixed on Thy face. These, |
indeed, are they whose wine is all that hath proceeded out of the mouth of |
Thy primal will, whose pure beverage is Thine enthralling call, whose |
heavenly River is Thy love, whose Paradise is entrance into Thy presence |
and reunion with Thee. For Thou hast been their Beginning and their End, |
and their Highest Hope, and their Supreme Desire. Blinded be the eye that |
gazeth on whatsoever may displease Thee, and confounded be the soul that |
seeketh the things that are contrary to Thy will. |
Deign, O my God, I implore Thee, by Thy Self and by them, to accept, |
through Thy grace and Thy loving-kindness, the works we have performed, |
however much they fall short of the loftiness of Thy state and the |
sublimity of Thy station, O Thou Who art most dear to the hearts that long |
for Thee, and the Healer of the souls that have recognized Thee! Rain |
down, therefore, upon us from the heaven of Thy mercy and the clouds of |
Thy gracious providence that which will cleanse us from the faintest trace |
of evil and corrupt desires, and will draw us nearer unto Him Who is the |
Manifestation of Thy most exalted and all-glorious Self. Thou art, verily, |
the Lord of this world and of the next, and art powerful to do all things. |
Do Thou bless, O Lord my God, the Primal Point, through Whom the point of |
creation hath been made to revolve in both the visible and invisible |
worlds, Whom Thou hast designated as the One whereunto should return |
whatsoever must return unto Thee, and as the Revealer of whatsoever may be |
manifested by Thee. Do Thou also bless such of His Letters as have not |
turned away from Thee, who have been firmly established in Thy love, and |
clung steadfastly to Thy good-pleasure. Bless Thou, likewise, as long as |
Thine own Self endureth and Thine own Essence doth last, them that have |
suffered martyrdom in Thy path. Thou art, verily, the Ever-Forgiving, the |
Most Merciful. |
Moreover, I beseech Thee, O my God, by Him Whom Thou hast announced unto |
us in all Thy Tablets and Thy Books and Thy Scrolls and Thy Scriptures, |
through Whom the kingdom of names hath been convulsed, and all that lay |
hid in the breasts of them that have followed their evil and corrupt |
desires hath been revealed,--I beseech Thee to strengthen us in our love |
for Him, to make us steadfast in His Cause, to help us befriend His loved |
ones and challenge His enemies. Shield us, then, O my God, from the |
mischief wrought by them that have denied Thy presence, and turned away |
from Thy face, and resolved to put an end to the life of Him Who is the |
Manifestation of Thine own Self. |
O my God and my Master! Thou knowest how they have disgraced Thy Cause and |
dishonored Thee among Thy creatures, how they have joined Thine enemies, |
that they may undermine Thy Revelation and injure Thee. Lay hold on them |
with the power of Thy wrath and might, O my God, and expose their shameful |
acts and their wickedness, that whatever is hid in their breasts may be |
revealed unto the people that dwell within Thy land, O Thou Who art the |
Inflictor of trials, the Fashioner of nations, and the Bestower of favors! |
No God is there beside Thee, the All-Glorious, the Most Bountiful. |
Praised be Thou, O Lord my God! The tongues of all created things testify |
to Thy sovereignty and Thine omnipotence, and proclaim mine own poverty |
and my wretchedness when face to face with the revelations of Thy wealth. |
Look, then, O my God, upon this sinner whose gaze hath, at all times, been |
fixed upon the source of Thy forgiveness, and whose eyes have been bent |
upon the horizon of Thy grace and Thy gifts. |
Ever since the day Thou didst create me at Thy bidding, O my God, and |
didst arouse me through the gentle winds of Thy tender mercies, I have |
refused to turn to any one except Thee, and have, through the power of Thy |
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