O Thou, my God, Who guidest the seeker to the pathway that
leadeth aright, Who deliverest the lost and blinded soul out of the wastes of
perdition, Thou Who bestowest upon the sincere great bounties and favours, Who
guardest the frightened within Thine impregnable refuge, Who answerest, from
Thine all-highest horizon, the cry of those who cry out unto Thee. Praised be
Thou, O my Lord! Thou hast guided the distracted out of the death of unbelief,
and hast brought those who draw nigh unto Thee to the journey’s goal, and hast
rejoiced the assured among Thy servants by granting them their most cherished
desires, and hast, from Thy Kingdom of beauty, opened before the faces of those
who yearn after Thee the gates of reunion, and hast rescued them from the fires
of deprivation and loss—so that they hastened unto Thee and gained Thy
presence, and arrived at Thy welcoming door, and received of gifts an abundant
share.
O my Lord, they thirsted, Thou didst lift to their parched
lips the waters of reunion. O Tender One, Bestowing One, Thou didst calm their
pain with the balm of Thy bounty and grace, and didst heal their ailments with
the sovereign medicine of Thy compassion. O Lord, make firm their feet on Thy
straight path, make wide for them the needle’s eye, and cause them, dressed in
royal robes, to walk in glory for ever and ever.
Verily art Thou the Generous, the Ever-Giving, the Precious,
the Most Bountiful. There is none other God but Thee, the Mighty, the Powerful,
the Exalted, the Victorious.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of
‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
