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“O God! O thou Attracted of the hearts of the favored…” |
Verily, Thou art witnessing that the fire is ablaze in
the breasts, the tears are streaming from the eyes and
the period of patience and silence hath come to an end.
The eyes of the beloved ones, O my God, are swimming
in tears; the hearts of the yearning ones, O my Beloved,
are wandering in the wilderness of Thy mercifulness;
and the souls of the attracted ones, O my Desires, are
afflicted with anguish on account of Thy separation!
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Verily, they have heard Thy universal proclamation,
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O my God, and what Thou has revealed in the Koran:
“Say! travel ye on earth, so that ye may behold the
signs of the mercy of God.” thereupon, after Thy ascension,
the people of faithfulness have arisen, traveling
to distant lands and hastening to far and remote
regions of the world, in order to cry out Thy Name,
to remind the souls of the arrival of Thy days, to lead
the minds to the fountain of Thy signs, to demonstrate
to all the inhabitants of the world Thy proof and Thy
religion, to guide the truth seekers to the right path
and to indicate the straight highway to the strivers.
From among them is Thy servant … who is
firm in the Ancient Covenant, fleeing from the people
of darkness, drinking from the water of eternal life
and intoxicated with the wine which is overflowing from
the divine cup. Verily, he hath left his native abode,
waved the hand of farewell to his relatives, forsaken
ease and comfort, hastened to strange and unknown
kingdoms and accepted hardship and adversities while
heralding Thy Name, commemorating Thy glorification,
attracted to Thy beauty, stirred by the fragrances
of Thy holiness, speaking Thy praises, voicing Thy
Cause, guiding others to Thee, proving Thy religion,
demonstrating Thy irrefutable truth, becoming an answerer
to every questioning one and a guide to every
one held in error!
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O my Lord! O my Lord! Verily, he endured every
affliction in Thy path and bore patiently every hardship
and adversity in Thy love. A breath of rest hath he
not breathed, neither hath his sought after any favor,
abode or habitation in this world; nay, rather hath he
walked in the footsteps of Thy most exalted Word, His
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Highness Christ, for he hath taken the stars for his
lamp, the earth for his bed and the herbs for his food.
Notwithstanding this, his cry was raised in the assemblages
and his voice was heard in the meetings.
The seekers flowed toward him and the thirsty ones
hastened to drink from the water of his utterance. O
my God! This is no other than through Thy generosity,
Thy beneficence, Thy mercy and Thy favors. O
my God! Help him by the hosts of the approximate
angels, assist him by the cohorts of the Supreme Concourse
amid Thy creatures, make him a lamp of guidance
in that distant part of the earth and a luminary
shining and sparkling from the dawning-place of faithfulness,
in order that he may serve Thy holy threshold,
falling prostrate upon the ground thanking and praising
for Thy bounty, liberality and gifts to him; girding
up his loins of endeavor in Thy service and becoming
reinforced and empowered in Thy adoration!
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