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 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.
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.
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.
Thy will hath overruled my will, O my God, and I have shown forth what
hath grievously vexed me. Have mercy, then, upon me, O Thou Who of all
those who show mercy art the Most Merciful!
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 Thee, and their
ears from hearkening unto the sayings of all such as have turned away from
Thy beauty and repudiated Thy signs.
Supreme art Thou over all things. There is none other God save Thee, the
All-Knowing, the All-Wise.