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