Vouchsafe unto me, O my God, the full measure of Thy love
and Thy good-pleasure, and through the attractions of Thy resplendent light
enrapture our hearts, O Thou Who art the Supreme Evidence and the
All-Glorified. Send down upon me, as a token of Thy grace, Thy vitalizing
breezes, throughout the day-time and in the night season, O Lord of bounty.
No deed have I done, O my God, to merit beholding Thy face,
and I know of a certainty that were I to live as long as the world lasts I
would fail to accomplish any deed such as to deserve this favour, inasmuch as
the station of a servant shall ever fall short of access to Thy holy precincts,
unless Thy bounty should reach me and Thy tender mercy pervade me and Thy
loving-kindness encompass me.
All praise be unto Thee, O Thou besides Whom there is none
other God. Graciously enable me to ascend unto Thee, to be granted the honour
of dwelling in Thy nearness and to have communion with Thee alone. No God is
there but Thee.
Indeed shouldst Thou desire to confer blessing upon a
servant Thou wouldst blot out from the realm of his heart every mention or
disposition except Thine Own mention; and shouldst Thou ordain evil for a
servant by reason of that which his hands have unjustly wrought before Thy
face, Thou wouldst test him with the benefits of this world and of the next
that he might become preoccupied therewith and forget Thy remembrance.
- The
Báb (‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb)
