Glory be unto Thee, O Lord of the world and Desire of the
nations, O Thou Who hast become manifest in the Greatest Name whereby the
pearls of wisdom and utterance have appeared from the shells of the great sea
of Thy knowledge, and the heavens of divine revelation have been adorned with
the light of the appearance of the Sun of Thy countenance.
I beg of Thee, by that Word through which Thy proof was
perfected among Thy creatures and Thy testimony was fulfilled among Thy
servants to strengthen Thy people in that whereby the face of the Cause will
radiate in Thy dominion, the standards of Thy power will be planted among Thy
servants, and the banners of Thy guidance will be raised throughout Thy
dominions.
O my Lord! Thou beholdest them clinging to the rope of Thy
grace and holding fast unto the hem of the mantle of Thy beneficence. Ordain
for them that which may draw them nearer unto Thee, and withhold them from all
else save Thee. I beg of Thee, O Thou King of existence and Protector of the
seen and the unseen, to make whosoever ariseth to serve Thy Cause as a sea
moving by Thy desire, as one ablaze with the fire of Thy Sacred Tree, shining
from the horizon of the heaven of Thy Will. Verily Thou art the mighty One Whom
neither the power of all the world nor the strength of nations can weaken.
There is no God but Thee, the One, the Incomparable, the Protector, the
Self-Subsistent.
- Bahá'u'lláh (Trázát [Ornaments]; ‘Tablets of Baha'u'llah
revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
