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Prayers and Meditations by Bahá'u'lláh
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Pages 17-18
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XV: "O Thou Who art the Ruler of earth and heaven..."
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O Thou Who art the Ruler of earth and heaven and the Author of all names! Thou hearest the voice
of my lamentation which from the fortress-town of
Akká ascendeth towards Thee, and beholdest how
my captive friends have fallen into the hands of the
workers of iniquity.
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We render Thee thanks, O our Lord, for all the
troubles which have touched us in Thy path. Oh, that
the span of my earthly life could be so extended as
to embrace the lives of the former and the latter
generations, or could even be so lengthened that no
man on the face of the earth could measure it, and
be afflicted every day and every moment with a fresh
tribulation for love of Thee and for Thy pleasure's
sake!
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Thou well knowest, however, O my God, that my
wish is wholly dissolved in Thy wish, and that Thou
hast irrevocably decreed that my soul should ascend
unto the loftiest mansions of Thy Kingdom, and pass
into the presence of my all-glorious Companion.
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Hasten, by Thy grace and bounty, my passing, O
my Lord, and pour forth upon all them that are dear
to Thee what will preserve them from fear and trembling
after me. Powerful art Thou to do whatsoever
may please Thee. No God is there except Thee, the
All-Glorious, the All-Wise.
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Thou seest, O my Lord, how Thy servants have
left their homes in their longing to meet Thee, and
how they have been hindered by the ungodly from
looking upon Thy face, and from circumambulating
the sanctuary of Thy grandeur. Pour out Thy steadfastness
and send down Thy calm upon them, O my
Lord! Thou art, in truth, the Ever-Forgiving, the
Most Compassionate.
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