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He was, |
at no time, |
in His love for Thy beauty, |
hindered from |
shedding the fragrance of His light. |
As the transgressions committed |
against Thee waxed greater and greater, |
my eagerness to reveal Thy Cause |
correspondingly increased, |
and as the tribulations deepened--and to this |
Thy glory beareth me witness--a fuller measure of Thy sovereignty and of |
Thy power was vouchsafed by me unto Thy creatures. |
And finally, |
I was cast by the transgressors into the prison-city of Akká, |
and my kindred were made captives in Ba_gh_dád. |
The power of Thy might |
beareth me witness, |
O my God! |
Every trouble that hath touched me in Thy |
path hath added to my joy and increased my gladness. |
I swear by Thee, |
O |
Thou Who art the King of Kings! |
None of the kings of the earth hath power |
to hinder me from remembering Thee or from extolling Thy virtues. |
Were |
they to be leagued--as they have been leagued--against me, |
and to brandish |
their sharpest swords and most afflictive spears against me, |
I would not |
hesitate to magnify Thy name before all them that are in Thy heaven and on |
Thy earth. |
Nay rather, |
I would cry out and say: |
"This, |
O my Beloved, |
is my |
face which I have offered up for Thy face, |
and this is my spirit which I |
have sacrificed for Thy spirit, |
and this is my blood that seetheth in my |
veins, |
in its longing to be shed for love of Thee and in Thy path. |
" |
Though--as Thou beholdest me, |
O my God--I be dwelling in a place within |
whose walls no voice can be heard except the sound of the echo, |
though all |
the gates of ease and comfort be shut against us, |
and thick darkness |
appear to have compassed us on every side, |
yet my soul hath been so |
inflamed by its love for Thee, |
that nothing whatsoever can either quench |
the fire of its love or abate the consuming flame of its desire. |
Lifting |
up its voice, |
it crieth aloud amidst Thy servants, |
and calleth them, |
at |
all times and under all conditions, |
unto Thee. |
I beseech Thee, |
by Thy Most Great Name, |
to open the eyes of Thy servants, |
that they may behold Thee shining above the horizon of Thy majesty and |
glory, |
and that they may not be hindered by the croaking of the raven from |
hearkening to the voice of the Dove of Thy sublime oneness, |
nor be |
prevented by the corrupt waters from partaking of the pure wine of Thy |
bounty and the everlasting streams of Thy gifts. |
Gather them, |
then, |
together around this Divine Law, |
the covenant of which |
Thou hast established with all Thy Prophets and Thy Messengers, |
and Whose |
ordinances Thou hast written down in Thy Tablets and Thy Scriptures. |
Raise |
them up, |
moreover, |
to such heights as will enable them to perceive Thy |
Call. |
Potent art Thou to do what pleaseth Thee. |
Thou art, |
verily, |
the |
Inaccessible, |
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