O God my God! Thou hearest the sighing of Him Who is Thy
Light (Bahá), hearkenest unto His lamentations in the daytime and in the night
season and knowest that He desireth naught for Himself but rather seeketh to
sanctify the souls of Thy servants and to deliver them from the fire with which
they are beset at all times. O Lord! The hands of Thy well-favoured servants
are raised towards the heaven of Thy bounty and those of Thy sincere lovers are
lifted up to the sublime heights of Thy generosity. Disappoint them not, I
entreat Thee, in that which they seek from the ocean of Thy favour and from the
heaven of Thy grace and the day-star of Thy bounty. Aid them, O Lord, to
acquire such virtues as will exalt their stations among the peoples of the
world. Verily Thou art the Powerful, the Mighty, the Most Generous.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
