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the more loudly didst Thou call upon Him.
And every time the veils of the
perverse came in between Thee and Thy servants,
Thou didst shed the
splendors of the light of Thy countenance out of the heaven of Thy grace.
Thou art,
in very truth,
the Self-Subsisting as testified by the tongue of
God,
the All-Glorious,
the one alone Beloved;
and Thou art the Desire of
the world as attested by what hath flowed down from the Pen of Him Who
hath announced unto Thy servants Thy hidden Name,
and adorned the entire
creation with the ornament of Thy love,
the Most Precious,
the Most
Exalted.
"The eyes of the world were gladdened at the sight of Thy luminous
countenance,
and yet the peoples have united to put out Thy light,
O Thou
in Whose hands are the reins of the worlds!
All the atoms of the earth
have celebrated Thy praise,
and all created things have been set ablaze
with the drops sprinkled by the ocean of Thy love,
and yet the people
still seek to quench Thy fire.
Nay--and to this Thine own Self beareth me
witness--they are all weakness,
and Thou,
verily,
art the All-Powerful;
and
they are but paupers and Thou,
in truth,
art the All-Possessing;
and they
are impotent and Thou art,
truly,
the Almighty.
Naught can ever frustrate
Thy purpose,
neither can the dissensions of the world harm Thee.
Through
the breaths of Thine utterance the heaven of understanding hath been
adorned,
and by the effusions of Thy pen every moldering bone hath been
quickened.
Grieve not at what hath befallen Thee,
neither do Thou lay hold
on them for the things they have committed in Thy days.
Do Thou be
forbearing toward them.
Thou art the Ever-Forgiving,
the Most
Compassionate.
"
Praise be unto Thee,
O my God!
Thou art He Who by a word of His mouth hath
revolutionized the entire creation,
and by a stroke of His pen hath
divided Thy servants one from another.
I bear witness,
O my God,
that
through a word spoken by Thee in this Revelation all created things were
made to expire,
and through yet another word all such as Thou didst wish
were,
by Thy grace and bounty,
endued with new life.
I render Thee thanks,
therefore,
and extol Thee,
in the name of all them
that are dear to Thee,
for that Thou hast caused them to be born again,
by
reason of the living waters which have flowed down out of the mouth of Thy
will.
Since Thou didst quicken them by Thy bounteousness,
O my God,
make
them steadfastly inclined,
through Thy graciousness,
towards Thy will;