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have encompassed them on
every side.
My tongue,
however,
is busied in extolling Thy chosen ones,
and my heart in remembering them that are dear to Thee and are wholly
subject to Thy will.
Look not on my state,
O my God,
nor my failure to serve Thee,
nay rather
regard the oceans of Thy mercy and favors,
and the things that beseem Thy
glory and Thy forgiveness and befit Thy loving-kindness and bounties.
Thou
art,
verily,
the Ever-Forgiving,
the Most Generous.
Praise be to Thee,
O Lord my God!
Thou beholdest what the tongue of no one
except Thee can utter,
and bearest witness unto things which no mouth can
recount.
The floods of afflictions are let loose,
and the winds of Thy
judgment have blown,
and from the clouds rain down the darts of tests,
and
the heavens of Thy decree pour forth the arrows of trial.
Thou seest,
O my Lord,
how Thy servants,
who have believed on Thee and
acknowledged Thy signs,
have fallen into the clutches of Thine enemies,
how the doors of ease and comfort have been shut against them,
how they
languish in the Fortress wherein neither pleasantness nor hope can be
found.
They have suffered in Thy path what no man before them hath
suffered.
To this bear witness they who abide around Thy throne,
and the
dwellers of the earth,
and the Concourse on high.
These,
O my God,
are Thy servants who,
for love of Thy beauty,
have
forsaken their homes,
and been so stirred up by the gentle winds of their
desire for Thee that they have sundered every tie in Thy path.
Such of Thy
servants as dwell in Thy land and have transgressed against Thee have
assailed them,
and banished them from Thy cities,
and made them captives,
and delivered them into the hands of workers of iniquity among Thy people
and the perverse amidst the wicked doers in Thy realm.
And finally,
they
were made to abide in this place with which no other place,
however
loathsome,
in all Thy dominion,
can compare.
They were seized with such
trials that the clouds weep over them and the thunder groaneth by reason
of the manifold tribulations that have afflicted them in their love for
Thee and for the sake of Thy pleasure.
Thou knowest full well,
O my God,
that there is no one on Thine earth who
can claim to be related to Thee except these,
some of whom have suffered
martyrdom for Thy sake,
while the rest have been permitted to survive.
Though for such as are like unto us,