Whoever sets out on a teaching journey to any place, let
him recite this prayer day and night during his travels in foreign lands:
O God, my God! Thou seest me enraptured and attracted toward
Thy glorious kingdom, enkindled with the fire of Thy love amongst mankind, a
herald of Thy kingdom in these vast and spacious lands, severed from aught else
save Thee, relying on Thee, abandoning rest and comfort, remote from my native
home, a wanderer in these regions, a stranger fallen upon the ground, humble
before Thine exalted threshold, submissive toward the heaven of Thine
omnipotent glory, supplicating Thee in the dead of night and at the break of
dawn, entreating and invoking Thee at morn and at eventide to graciously aid me
to serve Thy Cause, to spread abroad Thy teachings and to exalt Thy Word
throughout the East and the West.
O Lord! Strengthen my back, enable me to serve Thee with the
utmost endeavor, and leave me not to myself, lonely and helpless in these
regions.
O Lord! Grant me communion with Thee in my loneliness, and
be my companion in these foreign lands.
Verily, Thou art the Confirmer of whomsoever Thou willest in
that which Thou desirest, and, verily, Thou art the All-Powerful, the
Omnipotent.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of the Divine Plan’)
