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the Lode-star of all such as yearn after Thee,
and my Joy and the Joy of
all them that love Thee,
and my Light and the Light of all such as have
erred and asked to be forgiven by Thee,
and my Exultation and the
Exultation of all them that remember Thee,
and my Stronghold and the
Stronghold of all such as have fled to Thee,
and my Sanctuary and the
Sanctuary of all that dread Thee,
and my Lord and the Lord of all such as
dwell in the heavens and on the earth!
Unto Thee be praise for that Thou hast enraptured me by the sweetness of
Thine utterances,
and set me towards the horizon above which the splendors
of the Day-Star of Thy face have shone,
and caused me to turn unto Thee at
a time when most of Thy creatures had broken off from Thee.
Thou art He,
O my God,
Who hath unlocked the gate of heaven with the key
of Thy Name,
the Ever-Blessed,
the All-Powerful,
the All-Glorious,
the
Most Great,
and hast summoned all mankind to the ocean of Thy presence.
No
sooner had Thy most sweet voice been raised,
than all the inmates of the
Kingdom of Names and the Concourse on high were stirred up.
By Thy call
the fragrance of the raiment of Thy Revelation was wafted over such of Thy
creatures as have loved Thee,
and such of Thy people as have yearned
towards Thee.
They rose up and rushed forth to attain the Ocean of Thy
meeting,
and the Horizon of Thy beauty,
and the Tabernacle of Thy
Revelation and Thy majesty,
and the Sanctuary of Thy Presence and Thy
glory.
They were so inebriated with the wine of their reunion with Thee,
that they rid themselves of all attachment to whatever they themselves and
others possessed.
These are Thy servants whom the ascendancy of the oppressor hath failed to
deter from fixing their eyes on the Tabernacle of Thy majesty,
and whom
the hosts of tyranny have been powerless to affright and divert their gaze
from the Day-Spring of Thy signs and the Dawning-Place of Thy testimonies.
I swear by Thy glory,
O Thou the Lord of all being and the Enlightener of
all things visible and invisible!
Whoso hath quaffed from the hands of Thy
bounteousness the living waters of Thy love will never allow the things
pertaining to Thy creatures to keep him back from Thee,
neither will he be
dismayed at the refusal of all the dwellers of Thy realm to acknowledge
Thee.
Before all who are in heaven and on earth such a man will cry aloud,
and announce unto the people the tumult of the Ocean of Thy bounty and the
splendors of the Luminaries of the heaven of Thy bestowals.
Happy indeed is the man that hath turned towards the sanctuary of Thy
presence,
and rid himself of all attachment to any one except Thyself.
He
is truly exalted who hath confessed Thy glory,
and fixed his eyes upon the
Day-Star of Thy loving-kindness.
He is endued with understanding who is
aware of Thy Revelation and hath acknowledged Thy manifold tokens,
Thy
signs,
and Thy testimonies.
He is a man of insight whose eyes have been
illumined with the brightness of Thy face,
and who,
as soon as Thy call
was raised,
hath recognized Thee.
He is a man of hearing who hath been led
to hearken unto Thy speech,
and to draw nigh unto the billowing ocean of
Thine utterances.