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Prayers and Meditations by Bahá'u'lláh
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Pages 73-74
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LI: "Thou dost witness, O my God, how He Who is..."
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Thou dost witness, O my God, how He Who is Thy splendor calleth Thee to remembrance, notwithstanding
the manifold troubles that have touched
Him, troubles which none except Thee can number.
Thou beholdest how, in His prison-house, He recounteth
Thy wondrous praises with which Thou
didst inspire Him. Such is His fervor that His enemies
are powerless to deter Him from mentioning
Thee, O Thou Who art the Possessor of all names!
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Praised be Thou that Thou hast so strengthened
Him with Thy strength, and endowed Him by Thine
almighty power with such potency, that aught save
Thee is in His estimation but a handful of dust. The
lights of unfading splendor have so enveloped Him
that all else but Thee is in His eyes but a shadow.
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And when Thine irresistible summons reached me, I
arose, fortified by Thy strength, and called all that
are in Thy heaven and all that are on Thy earth to
turn in the direction of Thy favors and the horizon
of Thy bounties. Some caviled at me, and determined
to hurt me and slay me. Others drank to the
full of the wine of Thy grace, and hastened towards
the habitation of Thy throne.
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I beseech Thee, O Thou Who art the Creator of
earth and heaven and the Source of all things, to
attract Thy servants through the fragrances of the
Robe of Thine Inspiration and Thy Revelation, and
to help them attain the Tabernacle of Thy behest
and power. From eternity Thou wert by Thy transcendent
might supreme over all things, and Thou
wilt be exalted unto eternity in Thy Godhead and
surpassing sovereignty.
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Let Thy mercy, then, be upon Thy servants and
Thy creatures. Thou art, in truth, the Almighty, the
Inaccessible, the All-Glorious, the Unconditioned.
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