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CXIX: “Lauded be Thy name, O my God! Thou seest how…” |
Lauded be Thy name, O my God! Thou seest how
I have been sorely vexed among Thy servants, and
beholdest the things that have befallen me in Thy
path. Thou knowest full well that I have not spoken
a word but by Thy leave, that my lips have never
been opened except at Thy bidding and in accordance
with Thy pleasure, that every breath I have
breathed hath been animated with Thy praise and
Thy remembrance, that I have summoned all men
to naught else except that whereunto Thy chosen
ones have through all eternity been summoned, and
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that I have bidden them observe only the things that
would draw them nearer unto the Day-Spring of
Thy loving-kindness, and the Dawning-Place of Thy
favors, and the Horizon of Thy riches, and the
Manifestation of Thine inspiration and Thy revelation.
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Thou art well aware, O my God, that I have not
failed in my duty towards Thy Cause. At all times
and under all conditions I have wafted, in every
direction, the breezes of Thine inspiration, and shed
abroad the sweet smell of the raiment of Thy mercy,
that haply Thy servants may discover its fragrance,
and through it be enabled to turn towards Thee.
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I implore Thee, O my God, by the Lights of Thy
unity and the Repositories of Thy revelation, to send
down from the clouds of Thy mercy that which will
cleanse the hearts of all such as have turned towards
Thee. Blot out, then, from their hearts all that may
induce Thy servants to cavil at Thy Cause.
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Assist Thou Thy servants, O my God, to help Thy
Cause, and give them to drink what will quicken
their hearts in Thy realm, lest anything hinder them
from remembering Thee and from extolling Thy
virtues, that they may quit their homes in Thy name,
and summon all the multitudes unto Thee. Guard
their faces, O my God, from turning to any one save
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Thee, and their ears from hearkening unto the sayings
of all such as have turned away from Thy beauty
and repudiated Thy signs.
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