Since Thou hast revealed Thy grace, O my God, deter not Thy
servants from directing their eyes towards it. Consider not, O my God, their
estate, and their concerns and their works. Consider the greatness of Thy
glory, and the plenteousness of Thy gifts, and the power of Thy might, and the
excellence of Thy favors. I swear by Thy glory! Wert Thou to look upon them
with the eye of justice, all would deserve Thy wrath and the rod of Thine anger.
Hold Thou Thy creatures, O my God, with the hands of Thy grace, and make Thou
known unto them what is best for them of all the things that have been created
in the kingdom of Thine invention.
We testify, O my God, that Thou art God, and that there is
no God besides Thee. From eternity Thou hast existed with none to equal or
rival Thee, and wilt abide for ever the same. I beseech Thee, by the eyes which
see Thee stablished upon the throne of unity and the seat of oneness, to aid
all them that love Thee by Thy Most Great Name, and to lift them up into such
heights that they will testify with their own beings and with their tongues
that Thou art God alone, the Incomparable, the One, the Ever-Abiding. Thou hast
had at no time any peer or partner. Thou, in truth, art the All-Glorious, the
Almighty, Whose help is implored by all men.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and
Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
