...an attempt to gradually compile all published Baha'i prayers in English

8/25/25

Believers – Praise and gratitude; Assistance to become: “the cause of the tranquility of the world of creation”, “to be the servants of the human race”, “servants of the human race”, “real friends of all nations”, “spiritual companions of the adherents of all religions”; “to dispel the darkness of strangeness and to spread the lights of friendship in this transitory world!”

O Thou Pure God!

Thou art the Seer and the Hearer! Thou art the Powerful and the Mighty! The fame of Thy Most Great Cause hath traveled forth and radiated from all the horizons! The believers have attracted to the Face of that Brilliant Orb. The tongues are engaged in Thy Commemoration and the hearts are at all times dilated with the Fragrances of Thy Holiness. The faces are all turned toward Thee; the hearts are captive of Thy Abode, and the souls are athirst for the Salubrious Water of Thy River. The call of Thy Greatest Name hath caused a mighty reverberation throughout all the kingdoms, and the Power of Thy Consummate Word hath unfurled Thy Ensign to the East and to the West! The favored ones supplicate with the utmost humility, and the righteous ones are in an attitude of soulful invocation to the Kingdom of Beauty.

O my God! Assist Thou all of them and pour upon them the showers of Thy Supreme Confirmations; so that they may become the cause of the tranquility of the world of creation; to be the servants of the human race; to become, with all their hearts and souls, the real friends of all nations; to become with the utmost joy and fragrance, the spiritual companions of the adherents of all religions; to dispel the darkness of strangeness and to spread the lights of friendship in this transitory world!

O God! Grant Thou to all of them an Asylum in Thy Neighborhood and gladden their hearts and impart to them rejoicing through Thine Incomparable bounties! Thou are the Omnipotent and the Mighty! Thou art the Seer and the Hearer! 

- ‘Abdu’l-Baha ('Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 3')

8/15/25

Humanity, Group – “Revive the souls through Thy most joyful glad-tidings”; “Give us everlasting life and grant us heavenly perfections”; “Make us instruments of concord”; “Confer upon us heavenly power and bestow upon us everlasting joy”

He is God.

O Thou kind Lord! Illumine the hearts with the light of Thy most great guidance. Revive the souls through Thy most joyful glad-tidings. Illumine the eyes by granting them to behold Thy lights. Make the ears attentive by causing them to hear Thy call. Enable us to enter the Kingdom of Thy holiness and quicken us with the breaths of the Holy Spirit. Give us everlasting life and grant us heavenly perfections. O Lord! Make our lives to be a ransom for Thy sake and bestow upon us a new spirit. Confer upon us heavenly power and bestow upon us everlasting joy. Confirm us in service to the world of humanity. Make us instruments of concord, binding together the hearts. O Lord! Awaken us from our slumber and grant us wisdom and understanding, that we may unravel the secrets of Thy Book and discover the mysteries that lie hid in Thy Words. Thou art the Almighty. Thou art the Giver. Thou art the Ever-Loving. 

- ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá (‘Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh’; Baha’i Reference Library of the Baha’i World Center)

8/5/25

Believers – “Make them…the signs of Thy [God’s] Divine Unity amidst all people, and the emblems of Thy Oneness in Thy most exalted Realm”; “become inebriated with the wine of Thy[God’s] love”; Assistance

O God, my God! Assist Thou Thy servants who have found “at the fire a guide”,[Qur’an 20:10]  and have caught the light of the immortal flame kindled in the Tree of Sinai. Make them, O Lord, the signs of Thy Divine Unity amidst all people, and the emblems of Thy Oneness in Thy most exalted Realm. Give them to quaff from the wellspring of Thy mercy and from the clear waters flowing from Thy blissful paradise, that they may become inebriated with the wine of Thy love in the verdant meadows and vast gardens of Thy holiness. Assist them, O Lord, with the cohorts of the Supreme Horizon and the hosts of the Concourse on high. Thou, verily, art the Generous, the Compassionate, the Lord of grace and bounty unto Thy feeble servants! Thou, verily, art the Clement, the Merciful…. 

- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; ‘Light of the World’)