In His Name, the Exalted, the All-Highest, the Most Sublime!
Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! O Thou Who art my God, and my Master, and my
Lord, and my Support, and my Hope, and my Refuge, and my Light. I ask of Thee,
by Thine Hidden and Treasured Name, that none knoweth save Thine own Self, to
protect the bearer of this Tablet from every calamity and pestilence, and from
every wicked man and woman; from the evil of the evil-doers, and from the scheming
of the unbelievers. Preserve him, moreover, O my God, from every pain and
vexation, O Thou Who holdest in Thy hand the empire of all things. Thou,
truly, art powerful over all things. Thou doest as Thou willest, and ordainest
as Thou pleasest.
O Thou King of Kings! O Thou kind Lord! O Thou Source of
ancient bounty, of grace, of generosity and bestowal! O Thou Healer of
sicknesses! O Thou Sufficer of needs! O Thou Light of Light! O Thou Light above
all Lights! O Thou Revealer of every Manifestation! O Thou the Compassionate! O
Thou the Merciful! Do Thou have mercy upon the bearer of this Tablet, through
Thy most great mercy and Thine abundant grace, O Thou the Gracious, Thou the
Bounteous. Guard him, moreover, through Thy protection, from whatsoever his
heart and mind may find repugnant. Of those endued with power, Thou, verily,
art the most powerful.
The Glory of God rest upon thee, O thou rising sun! Do thou testify unto that
which God hath testified of His own Self, that there is none other God besides
Him, the Almighty, the Best-Beloved.
- Bahá'u'lláh (Included in a letter dated 12 August 1996
written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer)
[1] This prayer was translated into English from Arabic at the
Bahá'í World Centre during July-August 1996. See background
information contained in the 12 August 1996 letter from the House of Justice
