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Prayers and Meditations by Bahá'u'lláh
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Pages 56-57
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XL: "Praise be to Thee, O Lord my God! I implore Thee,..."
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Praise be to Thee, O Lord my God! I implore Thee, by Thy Name which none hath befittingly recognized,
and whose import no soul hath fathomed; I
beseech Thee, by Him Who is the Fountain-Head of
Thy Revelation and the Day-Spring of Thy signs, to
make my heart to be a receptacle of Thy love and of
remembrance of Thee. Knit it, then, to Thy most
great Ocean, that from it may flow out the living
waters of Thy wisdom and the crystal streams of Thy
glorification and praise.
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The limbs of my body testify to Thy unity, and
the hair of my head declareth the power of Thy sovereignty
and might. I have stood at the door of Thy
grace with utter self-effacement and complete abnegation,
and clung to the hem of Thy bounty, and
fixed mine eyes upon the horizon of Thy gifts.
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Do Thou destine for me, O my God, what becometh
the greatness of Thy majesty, and assist me,
by Thy strengthening grace, so to teach Thy Cause
that the dead may speed out of their sepulchers, and
rush forth towards Thee, trusting wholly in Thee,
and fixing their gaze upon the orient of Thy Cause,
and the dawning-place of Thy Revelation.
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Thou, verily, art the Most Powerful, the Most
High, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
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