text
stringlengths 0
76
|
---|
be beautified with its rivers, that Thou wilt aid all them that are dear |
to Thee with both Thy visible and invisible hosts. Render them, moreover, |
victorious over all those who have so rebelled in Thy land, and dishonored |
Thy name, and disbelieved in Thy signs, and broken Thy Covenant, and cast |
behind their backs Thy laws, and have to such an extent risen up against |
Thee, that they carried into captivity Thy kindred, and flung the |
Manifestation of Thy Self into prison, and immured Him Who is the |
Day-Spring of Thine Essence in the most desolate of cities. |
Thou, O my Lord, art He whose strength is immense, Whose decree is |
terrible. Lay hold on Thine adversaries by the power of Thy sovereignty, |
and assemble Thy loved ones beneath the shadow of the tree of Thy oneness, |
that they may stand before Thy throne, and catch the accents of Thy voice, |
and gaze on Thy beauty, and discover the power of Thy might. |
Thou art, verily, the All-Powerful, the Almighty. |
Lauded be Thy name, O my God! I am so carried away by the breezes blowing |
from Thy presence that I have forgotten my self and all that I possess. |
This is but a sign of the wonders of Thy grace and bountiful favors |
vouchsafed unto me. I give praise to Thee, O my God, that Thou hast chosen |
me out of all Thy creatures, and made me to be the Day-Spring of Thy |
strength and the Manifestation of Thy might, and empowered me to reveal |
such of Thy signs and such tokens of Thy majesty and power as none, |
whether in Thy heaven or on Thy earth, can produce. |
I beseech Thee, O my Lord, by Thy most effulgent Name, to acquaint my |
people with the things Thou didst destine for them. Do Thou, then, |
preserve them within the stronghold of Thy guardianship and the tabernacle |
of Thine unerring protection, lest through them may appear what will |
divide Thy servants. Assemble them, O my Lord, on the shores of this |
Ocean, every drop of which proclaimeth Thee to be God, besides Whom there |
is none other God, the All-Glorious, the All-Wise. |
Uncover before them, O my Lord, the majesty of Thy Cause, lest they be led |
to doubt Thy sovereignty and the power of Thy might. I swear by Thy glory, |
O Thou Who art the Beloved of the worlds! Had they been aware of Thy power |
they would of a certainty have refused to utter what Thou didst not ordain |
for them in the heaven of Thy will. |
Inspire them, O my Lord, with a sense of their own powerlessness before |
Him Who is the Manifestation of Thy Self, and teach them to recognize the |
poverty of their own nature in the face of the manifold tokens of Thy |
self-sufficiency and riches, that they may gather together round Thy |
Cause, and cling to the hem of Thy mercy, and cleave to the cord of the |
good-pleasure of Thy will. |
Thou art the Lord of the worlds, and of all those who show mercy, art the |
Most Merciful. |
Glory be to Thee, O King of eternity, and the Maker of nations, and the |
Fashioner of every moldering bone! I pray Thee, by Thy Name through which |
Thou didst call all mankind unto the horizon of Thy majesty and glory, and |
didst guide Thy servants to the court of Thy grace and favors, to number |
me with such as have rid themselves from everything except Thyself, and |
have set themselves towards Thee, and have not been kept back by such |
misfortunes as were decreed by Thee, from turning in the direction of Thy |
gifts. |
I have laid hold, O my Lord, on the handle of Thy bounty, and clung |
steadfastly to the hem of the robe of Thy favor. Send down, then, upon me, |
out of the clouds of Thy generosity, what will purge out from me the |
remembrance of any one except Thee, and make me able to turn unto Him Who |
is the Object of the adoration of all mankind, against Whom have been |
arrayed the stirrers of sedition, who have broken Thy covenant, and |
disbelieved in Thee and in Thy signs. |
Deny me not, O my Lord, the fragrances of Thy raiment in Thy days, and |
deprive me not of the breathings of Thy Revelation at the appearance of |
the splendors of the light of Thy face. Powerful art Thou to do what |
pleaseth Thee. Naught can resist Thy will, nor frustrate what Thou hast |
purposed by Thy power. |
No God is there but Thee, the Almighty, the All-Wise. |
Lauded be Thy name, O Lord my God! I testify that Thou wast a hidden |
Treasure wrapped within Thine immemorial Being and an impenetrable Mystery |
enshrined in Thine own Essence. Wishing to reveal Thyself, Thou didst call |
into being the Greater and the Lesser Worlds, and didst choose Man above |
all Thy creatures, and didst make Him a sign of both of these worlds, O |
Thou Who art our Lord, the Most Compassionate! |
Thou didst raise Him up to occupy Thy throne before all the people of Thy |
creation. Thou didst enable Him to unravel Thy mysteries, and to shine |
with the lights of Thine inspiration and Thy Revelation, and to manifest |