O loving God! I am a young child, a suppliant, a captive. Be
Thou my refuge, my support, my protector. I am in distress: give me the means
of tranquillity. I am needy: bestow upon me the treasure of the Kingdom. I am
dead: give me the Spirit of Life. I am weak: favor me with power and strength,
so that I may be a maid-servant in Thy Threshold, with perfect purity and
sanctity; sacrifice myself unto Thee, be quit of myself and seek Thee, walk in
the path of Thy good pleasure, speak Thy secret and witness the signs of Thy
Oneness wherever I look. O God! Make me ablaze, like unto the fire of Thy love,
and make me free from attachment to this mortal world, until I find the peace
of soul and the rest of conscience.
Thou art the Powerful, the Mighty! Thou art the Hearer, the
Seer!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 1’)
