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mercy hath surpassed all created things,
and Thy loving-kindness embraced
the entire creation.
Look upon them,
I entreat Thee,
with the eyes of Thy
mercy.
Thou art the Ever-Forgiving,
the Most Compassionate.
Do with them
as beseemeth Thy glory,
and Thy majesty,
and Thy greatness,
and Thy
bounteousness and Thy grace.
Deal not with them according to the
limitations imposed upon them,
or the manifold vicissitudes of their
earthly life.
Thou knowest,
O my Lord,
that I am but one of Thy servants.
I have tasted
of the sweetness of Thy speech,
and acknowledged Thy unity and Thy
singleness,
and set my face towards the Source of Thy most excellent names
and the Day-Spring of Thy transcendent attributes,
and wished to be
enabled by Thee to immerse myself beneath the ocean of Thy oneness and to
be submerged by the mighty waters of Thy unity.
Assist me,
by Thy strengthening grace,
O my Lord,
to do what Thou didst
will,
and withhold not from me the things Thou dost possess.
So enravish
me with the wonders of Thine utterances that the noise and distraction of
this world may be powerless to deter me from turning unto Thee,
and may
fail to shake my constancy in Thy Cause,
or to distract my gaze from the
horizon of Thy grace.
Aid me,
then,
O my God,
to do what pleaseth Thee,
and to carry out Thy will.
Write down for me,
moreover,
the good of this
world and of the world which is to come,
and ordain for me a seat of truth
in Thy presence.
Potent art Thou to do what Thou willest,
and to rule as
Thou pleasest.
No God is there but Thee,
the Inaccessible,
the
All-Glorious,
the Most Great.
All-praise to Thee,
O Lord of the worlds and the Object of the adoration
of the entire creation!
Faded now is all that erstwhile flourished in the Paradise of Thy
transcendent oneness,
O my God!
Where are the rain-giving clouds of Thy
mercy?
Shorn are the branches of the Tree of Thy unity of the vesture of
Thy majesty and wisdom;
where is the spring-time of Thy gifts and
bounties?
Motionless lies the Ark of Thy Cause on the sea of Thy creation;
where are the winds of Thy grace and favors?
Encompassed on every side is
Thy Lamp by the tempests of discord blowing from every land;
where is the
globe of Thy graciousness and protection?
Thou seest,
O my God,