O My God! Thou art
the All-Bountiful, Whose grace is infinite. Withhold not Thy servants from the
most mighty Ocean, which Thou hast made the repository of the pearls of Thy
knowledge and Thy wisdom, and turn them not away from Thy gate, which Thou hast
opened wide before all who are in Thy heaven and all who are on Thy earth. O
Lord! Leave them not to themselves, for they understand not and flee from that
which is better for them than all that Thou hast created upon Thine earth. Cast upon them, O My God, the glances of the
eye of Thy favour and bounty, and deliver them from self and passion, that they
may draw nigh unto Thy most exalted Horizon, taste the sweetness of Thy
remembrance, and delight in that bread which Thou hast sent down from the
heaven of Thy Will and the firmament of Thy grace. From everlasting Thy bounty hath embraced the
entire creation and Thy mercy hath surpassed all things. No God is there but
Thee, the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Compassionate.
- Baha'u'llah (From a Tablet
to Nasiri’d-Din Shah, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the
Lord of Hosts’)
