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Nothing whatsoever can withhold me from
remembering Thee,
though all the tribulations of the earth were to assault
me from every direction.
All the limbs and members of my body proclaim
their readiness to be torn asunder in Thy path and for the sake of Thy
pleasure,
and they yearn to be scattered in the dust before Thee.
O would
that they who serve Thee could taste what I have tasted of the sweetness
of Thy love!
I implore Thee to supply whosoever hath sought Thee with the living waters
of Thy bounty,
that they may rid him of all attachment to any one but
Thee.
Thou art,
verily,
the Omniscient,
the All-Glorious,
the Almighty.
Lauded be Thy name,
O Lord my God!
How great is Thy might and Thy
sovereignty;
how vast Thy strength and Thy dominion!
Thou hast called into
being Him Who speaketh in Thy name before all who are in Thy heaven and on
Thy earth,
and hast bidden Him cry out amongst Thy creatures.
No sooner had a word gone forth from His lips,
however,
than the divines
among Thy people turned back from Him,
and the learned among Thy servants
caviled at His signs.
Thereby the fire of oppression was kindled in Thy
land,
until the kings themselves rose up to put out Thy light,
O Thou Who
art the King of kings!
Hostility waxed so intense that my kindred and my loved ones were made
captives in Thy land,
and they that are dear to Thee were hindered from
gazing on Thy beauty and from turning in the direction of Thy mercy.
This
hostility failed to cause the fire that burned within them to subside.
The
enemy finally carried away as captive Him Who is the Manifestation of Thy
beauty and the Revealer of Thy signs,
and confined Him in the
fortress-town of Akká,
and sought to hinder Him from remembering Thee and
from magnifying Thy name.
Thy servant,
however,
could not be restrained
from carrying out what Thou hadst bidden Him fulfill.
Above the horizon of
tribulation He hath lifted up His voice and He crieth out,
summoning all
the inmates of heaven and all the inhabitants of the earth to the
immensity of Thy mercy and the court of Thy grace.
Day and night He
sendeth down the signs of Thine omnipotent power and revealeth the clear
tokens of Thy majesty,
so that the souls of Thy creatures may be drawn
towards Thee,
that they may forsake themselves and turn unto Thee,
and may
flee from their misery and seek the tabernacle of Thy riches,
and may
haste away from their wretchedness into the court of Thy majesty and
glory.
This is the Lamp which the light of Thine own Essence hath lit,
and whose
radiance the winds of discord can never extinguish.
This is the Ocean that
moveth by the power of Thy sovereign might,
and whose waves the influence
of the infidels that have disbelieved in the Judgment Day can never still.
This is the Sun that shineth in the heaven of Thy will and the splendor of
which the veils of the workers of iniquity and the doubts of the evil
doers can never cloud.