The most honoured, esteemed and respected mother.
He is God!
Praised be Thou O Lord, My God! This is My mother who hath
acknowledged Thy oneness, confessed Thy unity, attained the honour of meeting
Thy Manifestations in Thy days, reached the station of recognition and entered
the tabernacle of Heaven, for she loved Thyself and Thy Servant and held fast
to the cord of Thy love through the sanctified Temples of Thy Sovereignty.
I beseech Thee, therefore, O My God, to grant her the honour
of beholding Thy Beauty, and vouchsafe unto her the gift of Thy Presence. Give
her to drink then from the ocean of Thy mercy and the chalice of Thy
forgiveness. Make her to dwell, O My God, in the precincts of Thy mercy in the
Heaven of eternity. Grant her to hear Thy holy melodies that she may cast the
veil from her head in her eagerness to meet Thee and speed through the domains
of Thy nearness and union.
Thou art verily powerful over all that Thou desirest, and
Thou art verily the Mighty, the Most Luminous.
- Baha’u’llah (Provisional
translation approved by the Baha’i World Center for inclusion in the book: ‘Leaves
of the Twin Divine Trees’, by Baharieh Rouhani-Ma’ani)
