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“VOUCHSAFE unto me, O my God, the full measure of …” |
VOUCHSAFE unto me, O my God, the full measure of
Thy love and Thy good-pleasure, and through the attractions
of Thy resplendent light enrapture our hearts, O Thou
Who art the Supreme Evidence and the All-Glorified.
Send down upon me, as a token of Thy grace, Thy vitalizing
breezes, throughout the day-time and in the night season,
O Lord of bounty.
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No deed have I done, O my God, to merit beholding
Thy face, and I know of a certainty that were I to live as
long as the world lasts I would fail to accomplish any deed
such as to deserve this favour, inasmuch as the station of a
servant shall ever fall short of access to Thy holy precincts,
unless Thy bounty should reach me and Thy tender mercy
pervade me and Thy loving-kindness encompass me.
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Indeed shouldst Thou desire to confer blessing upon a
servant Thou wouldst blot out from the realm of his heart
every mention or disposition except Thine Own mention;
and shouldst Thou ordain evil for a servant by reason of
that which his hands have unjustly wrought before Thy
face, Thou wouldst test him with the benefits of this world
and of the next that he might become preoccupied therewith
and forget Thy remembrance.
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