Do Thou ordain for me, O Lord, every good thing Thou hast
created or wilt create, and shield me from whatever evil Thou abhorrest from
among the things Thou hast caused or wilt cause to exist. In truth Thy
knowledge embraceth all things. Praised be Thou, verily no God is there but
Thee, and nothing whatsoever in the heavens or on the earth and all that is
between them can ever thwart Thy Purpose. Indeed potent art Thou over all
things.
Far be it from the sublimity of Thy Being, O my God, that
anyone seek Thy loving-kindness or favour. Far be it from Thy transcendent
glory that anyone entreat Thee for the evidences of Thy bestowals and tender
mercy. Too high art Thou for any soul to beseech the revelation of Thy gracious
providence and loving care, and too sanctified is Thy glory for anyone to beg
of Thee the outpourings of Thy blessings and of Thy heavenly bounty and grace.
Throughout Thy kingdom of heaven and earth, which is endowed with manifold
bounties, Thou art immeasurably glorified above aught whereunto any identity
could be ascribed.
All that I beg of Thee, O my God, is to enable me, ere my
soul departeth from my body, to attain Thy good-pleasure, even were it granted
to me for a moment tinier than the infinitesimal
fraction of a mustard seed. For if it departeth while Thou art pleased with me,
then I shall be free from every concern or anxiety; but if it abandoneth me
while Thou art displeased with me, then, even had I wrought every good deed,
none would be of any avail, and had I earned every honour and glory, none would
serve to exalt me.
I earnestly beseech Thee then, O my God, to graciously
bestow Thy good-pleasure upon me when Thou dost cause me to ascend unto Thee
and make me appear before Thy holy presence, inasmuch as Thou hast, from
everlasting, been the God of immense bounty unto the people of Thy realm, and
the Lord of most excellent gifts to all that dwell in the exalted heaven of
Thine omnipotence.
- The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb)
