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Prayers and Meditations by Bahá'u'lláh
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Pages 20-21
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XVIII: "Praised be Thou, O my God! How can I thank..."
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Praised be Thou, O my God! How can I thank Thee for having singled me out and chosen me above
all Thy servants to reveal Thee, at a time when all
had turned away from Thy beauty! I testify, O my
God, that if I were given a thousand lives by Thee,
and offered them up all in Thy path, I would still
have failed to repay the least of the gifts which, by
Thy grace, Thou hast bestowed upon me.
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I lay asleep on the bed of self when lo, Thou didst
waken me with the divine accents of Thy voice, and
didst unveil to me Thy beauty, and didst enable me
to listen to Thine utterances, and to recognize Thy
Self, and to speak forth Thy praise, and to extol Thy
virtues, and to be steadfast in Thy love. Finally I
fell a captive into the hands of the wayward among
Thy servants.
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Thou beholdest, therefore, the exile which I suffer
in Thy days, and art aware of my vehement longing
to look upon Thy face, and of mine irrepressible
yearnings to enter the court of Thy glory, and of the
stirrings of my heart under the influences of the winds
of Thy mercy.
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I entreat Thee, O Thou Who art the Ruler of the
kingdoms of creation and the Author of all names,
to write down my name with the names of them who,
from eternity, have circled round the Tabernacle
of Thy majesty, and clung to the hem of Thy loving-kindness,
and held fast the cord of Thy tender mercy.
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Thou art, in truth, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
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