[In their message published in Baha’i News Jan. 1925, the
NSA of United States and Canada referred to this prayer as “Shoghi Effendi’s
favorite prayer”]
In the Name of the Lord!
O Lord, my God, my Haven in my distress! My Shield and my
Shelter in my woes! My Asylum and Refuge in time of need and in my loneliness
my Companion! In my anguish my Solace, and in my solitude a loving Friend. The
Remover of the pangs of my sorrows and the Pardoner of my sins!
Wholly to Thee do I turn, fervently imploring Thee with all
my heart, my mind and my tongue, to shield me from all that runs counter to Thy
will, in this, the cycle of Thy divine unity, and to cleanse me from all
defilement that will hinder me from seeking, stainless and unsullied, the shade
of the Tree of Thy grace.
Have mercy, O Lord, on the feeble, make whole the sick, and
quench the burning thirst.
Gladden the bosom wherein the fire of Thy love doth smolder
and set it aglow with the flame of Thy celestial love and spirit.
Robe the Tabernacle of Divine Unity with the vesture of
holiness and set on my head the crown of Thy favor.
Illumine my face with the radiance of the orb of Thy bounty,
and graciously assist me in ministering at Thy holy threshold.
Make my heart overflow with love for Thy creatures and grant
that I may become the sign of Thy mercy, the token of Thy grace, the promoter
of concord amongst Thy loved ones, devoted unto Thee, uttering Thy
commemoration and forgetful of self but ever mindful of what is Thine.
O God! My God! Stay not from me the gentle gale of Thy pardon
and grace, and deprive me not of the well-springs of Thine aid and favor.
Neath the shade of Thy protecting Wings let me nestle, and
cast upon me the glance of Thine all-protecting eye.
Loose my tongue to laud Thy name amidst Thy people, that my
voice may be raised in great assemblies, and from my lips may stream the flood
of Thy Praise.
Thou art, in all truth, the Gracious, the Glorified, the
Mighty, the Omnipotent!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Baha’i News, no. 2, January 1925;
compilation: ‘Baha’i Prayers’, 1991 edition)
