Prayer
“I beseech Thee, O my God…- to cast
me not away from the gate of the city of Thy presence, and to disappoint not
the hopes I have set on the manifestations of Thy grace amidst Thy creatures.
- to draw
me ever nearer to the threshold of Thy door, and to suffer me not to be far removed
from the shadow of Thy mercy and the canopy of Thy bounty.
- to
attract me by the fragrance of Thy raiment, and make me drink of the choice
wine of Thine utterance.
- so to
raise me up to serve Thy Cause that I shall not fall back, nor be hindered by
the suggestions of them who have caviled at Thy signs and turned away from Thy
face.
- to enable
me to gaze on the Day-Star of Thy Beauty, and to supply me with the wine of
Thine utterance.
- to
graciously aid me to do what Thy will hath desired and Thy purpose hath
manifested.
- to grant
that I may die to all that I possess and live to whatsoever belongeth unto
Thee.
- to aid me
to remember Thee amongst Thy creatures, and to extol Thee amidst Thy people.
- to remove
me far from whatsoever Thy will abhorreth, and draw me nigh unto the station
wherein He Who is the Day-Spring of Thy signs hath shone forth.
- to make
known unto me what lay hid in the treasuries of Thy knowledge and concealed
within the repositories of Thy wisdom.
- to number
me with such as have attained unto that which Thou hast sent down in Thy Book
and manifested through Thy will.
- to write
down for me with Thy most exalted Pen what Thou hast written down for Thy
trusted ones and Thy chosen ones.
- to write
down for every one who hath turned unto Thee, and observed the fast prescribed
by Thee, the recompense decreed for such as speak not except by Thy leave, and
who forsook all that they possessed in Thy path and for love of Thee.
- to cancel
the trespasses of those who have held fast to Thy laws, and have observed what
Thou hast prescribed unto them in Thy Book.”
- Baha’u’llah
(‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
