These, O my Lord, are Thy servants whom no corrupt
inclination hath kept back from what Thou didst send down in Thy Book. They
have bowed themselves before Thy Cause, and received Thy Book with such resolve
as is born of Thee, and observed what Thou hadst prescribed unto them, and
chosen to follow that which had been sent down by Thee.
Thou seest, O my Lord, how they have recognized and
confessed whatsoever Thou hast revealed in Thy Scriptures. Give them to drink,
O my Lord, from the hands of Thy graciousness the waters of Thine eternity.
Write down, then, for them the recompense ordained for him that hath immersed
himself in the ocean of Thy presence, and attained unto the choice wine of Thy
meeting.
I implore Thee, O Thou the King of kings and the Pitier of
the downtrodden, to ordain for them the good of this world and of the world to
come. Write down for them, moreover, what none of Thy creatures hath
discovered, and number them with those who have circled round Thee, and who
move about Thy throne in every world of Thy worlds.
Thou, truly, art the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the
All-Informed.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
