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I render Thee thanks,
O Thou Who hast lighted Thy fire within my soul,
and
cast the beams of Thy light into my heart,
that Thou hast taught Thy
servants how to make mention of Thee,
and revealed unto them the ways
whereby they can supplicate Thee,
through Thy most holy and exalted
tongue,
and Thy most august and precious speech.
But for Thy leave,
who is
there that could venture to express Thy might and Thy grandeur;
and were
it not for Thine instruction,
who is the man that could discover the ways
of Thy pleasure in the kingdom of Thy creation?
I beseech Thee,
O God of bounty and King of all created things,
to guard
Thy servants from the imaginations which their hearts may devise.
Raise
them up,
then,
to such heights that their footsteps may slip not in the
face of the evidences of Thy handiwork,
which the manifold exigencies of
Thy wisdom have ordained,
and whose secrets Thou hast hid from the face of
Thy people and Thy creatures.
Withhold them not,
O my Lord,
from the ocean
of Thy knowledge,
neither do Thou deprive them of what Thou didst destine
for such of Thy chosen ones as have near access to Thee,
and those of Thy
trusted ones as are wholly devoted to Thy Self.
Supply them,
then,
from
Thy sea of certainty with what will calm the agitation of their hearts.
Turn,
O Lord my God,
the darkness of their fancies into the brightness of
certitude,
and cause them to arise,
and to walk steadfastly in Thy
straight Path,
that haply Thy Book may not hinder them from recognizing
Him Who is its Revealer,
and Thy names from acknowledging the One Who is
their Creator,
and their Provider,
and their Origin,
and their King,
and
their Begetter,
and their Destroyer,
and their Glorifier,
and their
Abaser,
and their Governor,
and the Sovereign Protector of their Bearers.
Thou art the One,
O my God and my Ruler,
Who hast sent down Thy Book that
Thou mayest manifest my Cause,
and glorify my Word.
Through it Thou didst
enter into a Covenant,
concerning me,
with all that hath been created in
Thy realm.
Thou seest,
O Beloved of the world,
how the rebellious among
Thy creatures have made of that Covenant a bulwark for themselves,
and
through it have withdrawn from Thy Beauty,
and repudiated Thy signs.
Thou art He,
O my God,
Who hath commanded them in Thy great Book,
and
said:
"Fear ye the Most Merciful,
O people of the Bayán,
and deny not Him
for Whom I have ordained the Bayán to be one of the leaves of His
Paradise.