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Exalted art Thou, O Lord my God! I am the one who hath forsaken his all |
and set his face towards the splendors of the glory of Thy countenance, |
who hath severed every tie and clung to the cord of Thy love and of Thy |
good-pleasure. I am he, O my God, who hath embraced Thy love and accepted |
all the adversities which the world can inflict, who hath offered up |
himself as a ransom for the sake of Thy loved ones, that they may ascend |
into the heavens of Thy knowledge and be drawn nearer unto Thee, and may |
soar in the atmosphere of Thy love and Thy good-pleasure. |
Ordain, O my God, for me and for them that which Thou didst decree for |
such of Thy chosen ones as are wholly devoted unto Thee. Cause them, then, |
to be numbered among those whose eyes Thou hast cleansed and kept from |
turning to any one save Thee, and whose eyes Thou hast protected from |
beholding any face except Thy face. |
Thou art, verily, the Almighty, the Most Exalted, the All-Glorious, the |
Supreme King, the Help in Peril, the All-Pardoner, the Ever-Forgiving. |
Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I implore Thee by the onrushing winds |
of Thy grace, and by them Who are the Day-Springs of Thy purpose and the |
Dawning-Places of Thine inspiration, to send down upon me and upon all |
that have sought Thy face that which beseemeth Thy generosity and |
bountiful grace, and is worthy of Thy bestowals and favors. Poor and |
desolate I am, O my Lord! Immerse me in the ocean of Thy wealth; athirst, |
suffer me to drink from the living waters of Thy loving-kindness. |
I beseech Thee, by Thine own Self and by Him Whom Thou hast appointed as |
the Manifestation of Thine own Being and Thy discriminating Word unto all |
that are in heaven and on earth, to gather together Thy servants beneath |
the shade of the Tree of Thy gracious providence. Help them, then, to |
partake of its fruits, to incline their ears to the rustling of its |
leaves, and to the sweetness of the voice of the Bird that chanteth upon |
its branches. Thou art, verily, the Help in Peril, the Inaccessible, the |
Almighty, the Most Bountiful. |
Praised be Thou, O Lord my God! I implore Thee by Them Who are the |
Tabernacles of Thy Divine holiness, Who are the Manifestations of Thy |
transcendent unity and the Day-Springs of Thine inspiration and |
revelation, to grant that Thy servants may not be kept back from this |
Divine Law which, at Thy will and according to Thy pleasure, hath branched |
out from Thy most great Ocean. Do Thou, then, ordain for them that which |
Thou didst ordain for Thy chosen ones and for the righteous among Thy |
creatures, whose constancy in Thy Cause the tempests of trials have failed |
to shake, and whom the tumults of tests have been powerless to hinder from |
magnifying Thy most exalted Word--the Word through Which the heavens of |
men's idle fancies and vain imaginations have been split asunder. Thou |
art, verily, the Almighty, the All-Glorious, the All-Knowing. |
Enable, then, Thy servants, O my God, to recognize the Day-Star that hath |
shone forth above the horizon of Thine irrevocable decree and purpose, and |
suffer them not to be deprived of the Paradise which Thou, by Thy name, |
the All-Glorious, hast called into being in the heavens of Thine exalted |
omnipotence. Cause them, moreover, O my God, to hearken to Thy most sweet |
voice, that they may all hasten to recognize Thy unity and acknowledge Thy |
oneness, O Thou Who art the Beloved of the hearts of all that yearn after |
Thee, and the Object of the adoration of such as have known Thee! |
I beseech Thee, by them that have cut down all the idols in this |
Revelation through which the Most Grievous Convulsion and the Great Terror |
have appeared, to assist, at all times, Thy servants with the signs of |
Thine almighty power and the evidences of Thy transcendent and |
all-compelling might. Grant, then, that their hearts may be made as strong |
as brass, that they may remain unmoved by the overpowering might of such |
as have transgressed against Him Who is the Manifestation of Thine Essence |
and the Day-Spring of Thine invisible Self, and that they may all arise to |
glorify and help Thee, so that through them the ensigns of Thy triumph may |
be lifted up in Thy realm, and the standards of Thy Cause may be unfurled |
throughout Thy dominions. Thou art He who from everlasting hath, through |
the potency of His will, been all-powerful, and will continue to remain |
the same for ever and ever. Thou art, verily, the All-Glorious, the Most |
High. No God is there but Thee, the Most Powerful, the Most Exalted, the |
Help in Peril, the Most Great, the One Being, the Incomparable, the |
All-Glorious, the Unrestrained. |
Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by Thy Chosen Ones, and |