O Thou Provider! Thou hast breathed over the friends in the
West the sweet fragrance of the Holy Spirit, and with the
light of divine guidance Thou hast lit up the western sky. Thou hast made those
who were once remote to draw near unto Thyself; Thou hast turned strangers into
loving friends; Thou hast awakened those who slept; Thou hast made the heedless
mindful.
O Thou Provider! Assist Thou these noble friends to win Thy
good pleasure, and make them well-wishers of stranger and friend alike. Bring
them into the world that abideth forever; grant them a portion of heavenly
grace; cause them to be true Bahá’ís, sincerely of God; save them from outward
semblances, and establish them firmly in the truth. Make them signs and tokens
of the Kingdom, luminous stars above the horizons of this nether life. Make
them to be a comfort and a solace to humankind and servants to the peace of the
world. Exhilarate them with the wine of Thy counsel, and grant that all of them
may tread the path of Thy commandments.
O Thou Provider! The dearest wish of this servant of Thy
Threshold is to behold the friends of east and west in close embrace; to see
all the members of human society gathered with love in a single great
assemblage, even as individual drops of water collected in one mighty sea; to
behold them all as birds in one garden of roses, as pearls of one ocean, as
leaves of one tree, as rays of one sun.
Thou art the Mighty, the Powerful, and Thou art the God of
strength, the Omnipotent, the All-Seeing.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the
Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
