Thou knowest, O my Lord, that I am but one of Thy servants.
I have tasted of the sweetness of Thy speech, and acknowledged Thy unity and
Thy singleness, and set my face towards the Source of Thy most excellent names
and the Day-Spring of Thy transcendent attributes, and wished to be enabled by
Thee to immerse myself beneath the ocean of Thy oneness and to be submerged by
the mighty waters of Thy unity.
Assist me, by Thy strengthening grace, O my Lord, to do what
Thou didst will, and withhold not from me the things Thou dost possess. So
enravish me with the wonders of Thine utterances that the noise and distraction
of this world may be powerless to deter me from turning unto Thee, and may fail
to shake my constancy in Thy Cause, or to distract my gaze from the horizon of
Thy grace. Aid me, then, O my God, to do what pleaseth Thee, and to carry out
Thy will. Write down for me, moreover, the good of this world and of the world
which is to come, and ordain for me a seat of truth in Thy presence. Potent art
Thou to do what Thou willest, and to rule as Thou pleasest. No God is there but
Thee, the Inaccessible, the All-Glorious, the Most Great.
All-praise to Thee, O Lord of the worlds and the Object of
the adoration of the entire creation!
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by
Baha’u’llah’)
