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Thy glory beareth me witness,
O my Beloved!
My pen is powerless to
describe what their hands have wrought against Him Who is the
Manifestation of Thy Cause,
and the Day-Spring of Thy Revelation,
and the
Dawning-Place of Thine inspiration.
For all this I give praise to Thee.
I
swear by Thy glory,
O my God!
My heart yearneth after the things ordained
by Thee in the heaven of Thy decree and the kingdom of Thine appointment.
For whatsoever befalleth me in Thy path is the beloved of my soul and the
goal of my desire.
This,
verily,
is to be ascribed to naught except Thy
power and Thy might.
I am the one,
O my God,
who,
through the love I bear to Thee,
hath been
able to dispense with all who are in heaven and on earth.
Armed with this
love,
I am afraid of no one,
though all the peoples of the world unite to
hurt me.
Oh,
that my blood could,
this very moment,
be shed on the face of
the earth before Thee,
and Thou wouldst behold me in the condition in
which Thou didst behold such of Thy servants as have drawn nigh unto Thee,
and those of Thy righteous creatures as have been chosen by Thee!
I give Thee thanks,
O my God,
that Thou hast decided through the power of
Thy decree,
and wilt continue to decide through Thine irrevocable
appointment and purpose.
I entreat Thee,
O my Beloved,
by Thy Name through
which Thou didst lift up the ensigns of Thy Cause,
and shed the splendors
of the light of Thy countenance,
to send down upon me and upon such of Thy
servants as are wholly devoted to Thee all the good Thou hast ordained in
Thy Tablets.
Establish us,
then,
upon the seats of truth in Thy presence,
O Thou in Whose hands is the kingdom of all things!
Thou art,
verily,
the Almighty,
the All-Glorious,
the Most Merciful.
The praise which hath dawned from Thy most august Self,
and the glory
which hath shone forth from Thy most effulgent Beauty,
rest upon Thee,
O
Thou Who art the Manifestation of Grandeur,
and the King of Eternity,
and
the Lord of all who are in heaven and on earth!
I testify that through
Thee the sovereignty of God and His dominion,
and the majesty of God and
His grandeur,
were revealed,
and the Day-Stars of ancient splendor have
shed their radiance in the heaven of Thine irrevocable decree,
and the
Beauty of the Unseen hath shone forth above the horizon of creation.
I
testify,
moreover,
that with but a movement of Thy Pen Thine injunction