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Holy Kitab I Aqdas
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Texts 20-38
Texts 39-57
Texts 58-76
Texts 77-95
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Texts 115-133
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Texts 153-171
Texts 172-190
Holy Kitab I Iqan
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 9
Section 10
Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 9
Prayers & Meditations by Bahaullah
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 9
Section 10
Section 11
Section 12
Section 13
Section 14
Section 15
Section 16
Section 17
Section 18
Section 19
Section 20
Section 21
Section 22
Section 23
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Prayers and
Meditations by Bahaullah:
Section 21 |
CLXXVII
I beseech Thee, O my God, by Thy mighty Sign, and by the
revelation of Thy grace amongst men, 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. Thou seest me, O my God, holding to Thy Name, the
Most Holy, the Most Luminous, the Most Mighty, the Most Great,
the Most Exalted, the Most Glorious, and clinging to the hem of
the robe to which have clung all in this world and in the world
to come.
I beseech Thee, O my God, by Thy most sweet Voice and by Thy
most exalted Word, 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. Thou seest me, O my
God, holding to Thy Name, the Most Holy, the Most Luminous, the
Most Mighty, the Most Great, the Most Exalted, the Most
Glorious, and clinging to the hem of the robe to which have
clung all in this world and in the world to come.
I beseech Thee, O my God, by the splendor of Thy luminous brow
and the brightness of the light of Thy countenance, which
shineth from the all-highest horizon, to attract me by the
fragrance of Thy raiment, and make me drink of the choice wine
of Thine utterance. Thou seest me, O my God, holding to Thy
Name, the Most Holy, the Most Luminous, the Most Mighty, the
Most Great, the Most Exalted, the Most Glorious, and clinging to
the hem of the robe to which have clung all in this world and in
the world to come.
I beseech Thee, O my God, by Thy hair which moveth across Thy
face, even as Thy most exalted pen moveth across the pages of
Thy Tablets, shedding the musk of hidden meanings over the
kingdom of Thy creation, 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. Thou seest me, O my God, holding to Thy Name, the Most
Holy, the Most Luminous, the Most Mighty, the Most Great, the
Most Exalted, the Most Glorious, and clinging to the hem of the
robe to which have clung all in this world and in the world to
come.
I beseech Thee, O my God, by Thy Name which Thou hast made the
King of Names, by which all who are in heaven and all who are on
earth have been enraptured, to enable me to gaze on the Day-Star
of Thy Beauty, and to supply me with the wine of Thine
utterance. Thou seest me, O my God, holding to Thy Name, the
Most Holy, the Most Luminous, the Most Mighty, the Most Great,
the Most Exalted, the Most Glorious, and clinging to the hem of
the robe to which have clung all in this world and in the world
to come.
I beseech Thee, O my God, by the Tabernacle of Thy majesty upon
the loftiest summits, and the Canopy of Thy Revelation on the
highest hills, to graciously aid me to do what Thy will hath
desired and Thy purpose hath manifested. Thou seest me, O my
God, holding to Thy Name, the Most Holy, the Most Luminous, the
Most Mighty, the Most Great, the Most Exalted, the Most
Glorious, and clinging to the hem of the robe to which have
clung all in this world and in the world to come.
I beseech Thee, O my God, by Thy Beauty that shineth forth above
the horizon of eternity, a Beauty before which as soon as it
revealeth itself the kingdom of beauty boweth down in worship,
magnifying it in ringing tones, to grant that I may die to all
that I possess and live to whatsoever belongeth unto Thee. Thou
seest me, O my God, holding to Thy Name, the Most Holy, the Most
Luminous, the Most Mighty, the Most Great, the Most Exalted, the
Most Glorious, and clinging to the hem of the robe to which have
clung all in this world and in the world to come.
I beseech Thee, O my God, by the Manifestation of Thy Name, the
Well-Beloved, through Whom the hearts of Thy lovers were
consumed and the souls of all that dwell on earth have soared
aloft, to aid me to remember Thee amongst Thy creatures, and to
extol Thee amidst Thy people. Thou seest me, O my God, holding
to Thy Name, the Most Holy, the Most Luminous, the Most Mighty,
the Most Great, the Most Exalted, the Most Glorious, and
clinging to the hem of the robe to which have clung all in this
world and in the world to come.
I beseech Thee, O my God, by the rustling of the Divine Lote-Tree
and the murmur of the breezes of Thine utterance in the kingdom
of Thy names, 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. Thou seest me, O
my God, holding to Thy Name, the Most Holy, the Most Luminous,
the Most Mighty, the Most Great, the Most Exalted, the Most
Glorious, and clinging to the hem of the robe to which have
clung all in this world and in the world to come.
I beseech Thee, O my God, by that Letter which, as soon as it
proceeded out of the mouth of Thy will, hath caused the oceans
to surge, and the winds to blow, and the fruits to be revealed,
and the trees to spring forth, and all past traces to vanish,
and all veils to be rent asunder, and them who are devoted to
Thee to hasten unto the light of the countenance of their Lord,
the Unconstrained, to make known unto me what lay hid in the
treasuries of Thy knowledge and concealed within the
repositories of Thy wisdom. Thou seest me, O my God, holding to
Thy Name, the Most Holy, the Most Luminous, the Most Mighty, the
Most Great, the Most Exalted, the Most Glorious, and clinging to
the hem of the robe to which have clung all in this world and in
the world to come.
I beseech Thee, O my God, by the fire of Thy love which drove
sleep from the eyes of Thy chosen ones and Thy loved ones, and
by their remembrance and praise of Thee at the hour of dawn, to
number me with such as have attained unto that which Thou hast
sent down in Thy Book and manifested through Thy will. Thou
seest me, O my God, holding to Thy Name, the Most Holy, the Most
Luminous, the Most Mighty, the Most Great, the Most Exalted, the
Most Glorious, and clinging to the hem of the robe to which have
clung all in this world and in the world to come.
I beseech Thee, O my God, by the light of Thy countenance which
impelled them who are nigh unto Thee to meet the darts of Thy
decree, and such as are devoted to Thee to face the swords of
Thine enemies in Thy path, to write down for me with Thy most
exalted Pen what Thou hast written down for Thy trusted ones and
Thy chosen ones. Thou seest me, O my God, holding to Thy Name,
the Most Holy, the Most Luminous, the Most Mighty, the Most
Great, the Most Exalted, the Most Glorious, and clinging to the
hem of the robe to which have clung all in this world and in the
world to come.
I beseech Thee, O my God, by Thy Name through which Thou hast
hearkened unto the call of Thy lovers, and the sighs of them
that long for Thee, and the cry of them that enjoy near access
to Thee, and the groaning of them that are devoted to Thee, and
through which Thou hast fulfilled the wishes of them that have
set their hopes on Thee, and hast granted them their desires,
through Thy grace and Thy favors, and by Thy Name through which
the ocean of forgiveness surged before Thy face, and the clouds
of Thy generosity rained upon Thy servants, 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.
I beseech Thee, O my Lord, by Thyself, and by Thy signs, and Thy
clear tokens, and the shining light of the Day-Star of Thy
Beauty, and Thy Branches, 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. Thou seest me, O my God,
holding to Thy Name, the Most Holy, the Most Luminous, the Most
Mighty, the Most Great, the Most Exalted, the Most Glorious, and
clinging to the hem of the robe to which have clung all in this
world and in the world to come.
CLXXVIII
Praised be Thou, O Lord my God! I supplicate Thee by Him Whom
Thou hast called into being, Whose Revelation Thou hast ordained
to be Thine own Revelation and His Concealment Thine own
Concealment. Through His Firstness Thou hast confirmed Thine own
Firstness, and through His Lastness Thou hast affirmed Thine own
Lastness. Through the power of His might and the influence of
His sovereignty the mighty have apprehended Thine omnipotence,
and through His glory they who are endowed with authority have
acknowledged Thy majesty and greatness. Through His supreme
ascendancy Thy transcendent sovereignty and all-encompassing
dominion have been recognized, and through His will Thine own
will hath been revealed. Through the light of His countenance
the splendors of Thine own face have shone forth, and through
His Cause Thine own Cause hath been made manifest. Through the
generative power of His utterance the whole earth hath been made
the recipient of the wondrous signs and tokens of Thy
sovereignty, and the heavens have been filled with the
revelations of Thine incomparable majesty, and the seas have
been enriched with the sacred pearls of Thine omniscience and
wisdom, and the trees adorned with the fruits of Thy knowledge.
Through Him all things have sung Thy praise, and all the eyes
have been turned in the direction of Thy mercy. Through Him the
faces of all have been set towards the splendors of the light of
Thy countenance, and the souls of all have been inclined unto
the revelations of Thy divine greatness.
How great is Thy power! How exalted Thy sovereignty! How lofty
Thy might! How excellent Thy majesty! How supreme is Thy
grandeur--a grandeur which He Who is Thy Manifestation hath made
known and wherewith Thou hast invested Him as a sign of Thy
generosity and bountiful favor. I bear witness, O my God, that
through Him Thy most resplendent signs have been uncovered, and
Thy mercy hath encompassed the entire creation. But for Him, how
could the Celestial Dove have uttered its songs or the Heavenly
Nightingale, according to the decree of God, have warbled its
melody?
I testify that no sooner had the First Word proceeded, through
the potency of Thy will and purpose, out of His mouth, and the
First Call gone forth from His lips than the whole creation was
revolutionized, and all that are in the heavens and all that are
on earth were stirred to the depths. Through that Word the
realities of all created things were shaken, were divided,
separated, scattered, combined and reunited, disclosing, in both
the contingent world and the heavenly kingdom, entities of a new
creation, and revealing, in the unseen realms, the signs and
tokens of Thy unity and oneness. Through that Call Thou didst
announce unto all Thy servants the advent of Thy most great
Revelation and the appearance of Thy most perfect Cause.
No sooner had that Revelation been unveiled to men's eyes than
the signs of universal discord appeared among the peoples of the
world, and commotion seized the dwellers of earth and heaven,
and the foundations of all things were shaken. The forces of
dissension were released, the meaning of the Word was unfolded,
and every several atom in all created things acquired its own
distinct and separate character. Hell was made to blaze, and the
delights of Paradise were uncovered to men's eyes. Blessed is
the man that turneth towards Thee, and woe betide him who
standeth aloof from Thee, who denieth Thee and repudiateth Thy
signs in this Revelation wherein the faces of the exponents of
denial have turned black and the faces of the exponents of
truthfulness have turned white, O Thou Who art the Possessor of
all names and attributes, Who holdest in Thy grasp the empire of
whatever hath been created in heaven and on earth!
Praise be to Thee, therefore, O my God--such praise as Thou
didst ascribe to Thine own Self, and which none except Thee can
either comprehend or reckon. Thou art He, O my Lord, Who hath
made known His own Self unto me, at a time when Thy servants
have failed to recognize Thee--servants who, by virtue of the
ties that bind them to Thee, have been ruling over all that
dwell on earth and have been vaunting themselves over its
peoples. Were I, O my God, to exercise from pole to pole supreme
dominion over the earth, and were I to be offered all the
treasures it containeth, and were I to expend them in Thy path,
I would still be powerless to attain unto this station, unless I
were assisted and strengthened by Thee. And were I to glorify
Thee, O my God, so long as the glory of Thy majesty endureth and
the influence of Thy sovereignty and power will last, such a
glorification could never be compared with any of the praises
which Thou, as a token of Thy grace, hast taught me, and
wherewith Thou hast bidden me to extol Thy virtues. If such be
the excellence of each one of the praises which Thou hast taught
me, how immeasurably greater must be the excellence of the
station of the One Who hath known Thee, Who hath entered Thy
Presence, and pursued steadfastly the path of Thy Cause!
I have clearly perceived, and I am wholly persuaded, that Thou
hast from everlasting been immeasurably exalted above the
mention of all beings, and wilt continue unto everlasting to
remain far above the conception of Thy creatures. None can
befittingly praise Thee except Thine own Self and such as are
like unto Thee. Thou hast, verily, been at all times, and wilt
everlastingly continue to remain, immensely exalted beyond and
above all comparison and likeness, above all imagination of
parity or resemblance. Having, thus, recognized Thee as One Who
is incomparable, and Whose nature none can possess, it becometh
incontrovertibly evident that whosoever may praise Thee, his
praise can befit only such as are of his own nature, and are
subject to his own limitations, and it can in no wise adequately
describe the sublimity of Thy sovereignty, nor scale the heights
of Thy majesty and holiness. How sweet, therefore, is the praise
Thou givest to Thine own Self, and the description Thou givest
of Thine own Being!
I testify, O my God, that Thou hast, from eternity, sent down
upon Thy servants naught else except that which can cause them
to soar up and be drawn near unto Thee, and to ascend into the
heaven of Thy transcendent oneness. Thou hast established Thy
bounds among them, and ordained them to stand among Thy
creatures as evidences of Thy justice and as signs of Thy mercy,
and to be the stronghold of Thy protection amongst Thy people,
that no man may in Thy realm transgress against his neighbor.
How great is the blessedness of him who, for love of Thy beauty
and for the sake of Thy pleasure, hath curbed the desires of a
corrupt inclination and observed the precepts laid down by Thy
most exalted Pen! He, in truth, is to be numbered with them that
have attained unto all good, and followed the way of guidance.
I beseech Thee, O my Lord, by Thy Name through which Thou hast
enabled Thy servants and Thy people to know Thee, through which
Thou hast drawn the hearts of those who have recognized Thee
towards the resplendent court of Thy oneness, and the souls of
Thy favored ones unto the Day-Spring of Thy unity,--I beseech
Thee to grant that I may be assisted to observe the fast wholly
for Thy sake, O Thou Who art full of majesty and glory! Empower
me, then, O my God, to be reckoned among them that have clung to
Thy laws and precepts for the sake of Thee alone, their eyes
fixed on Thy face. These, indeed, are they whose wine is all
that hath proceeded out of the mouth of Thy primal will, whose
pure beverage is Thine enthralling call, whose heavenly River is
Thy love, whose Paradise is entrance into Thy presence and
reunion with Thee. For Thou hast been their Beginning and their
End, and their Highest Hope, and their Supreme Desire. Blinded
be the eye that gazeth on whatsoever may displease Thee, and
confounded be the soul that seeketh the things that are contrary
to Thy will.
Deign, O my God, I implore Thee, by Thy Self and by them, to
accept, through Thy grace and Thy loving-kindness, the works we
have performed, however much they fall short of the loftiness of
Thy state and the sublimity of Thy station, O Thou Who art most
dear to the hearts that long for Thee, and the Healer of the
souls that have recognized Thee! Rain down, therefore, upon us
from the heaven of Thy mercy and the clouds of Thy gracious
providence that which will cleanse us from the faintest trace of
evil and corrupt desires, and will draw us nearer unto Him Who
is the Manifestation of Thy most exalted and all-glorious Self.
Thou art, verily, the Lord of this world and of the next, and
art powerful to do all things.
Do Thou bless, O Lord my God, the Primal Point, through Whom the
point of creation hath been made to revolve in both the visible
and invisible worlds, Whom Thou hast designated as the One
whereunto should return whatsoever must return unto Thee, and as
the Revealer of whatsoever may be manifested by Thee. Do Thou
also bless such of His Letters as have not turned away from
Thee, who have been firmly established in Thy love, and clung
steadfastly to Thy good-pleasure. Bless Thou, likewise, as long
as Thine own Self endureth and Thine own Essence doth last, them
that have suffered martyrdom in Thy path. Thou art, verily, the
Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.
Moreover, I beseech Thee, O my God, by Him Whom Thou hast
announced unto us in all Thy Tablets and Thy Books and Thy
Scrolls and Thy Scriptures, through Whom the kingdom of names
hath been convulsed, and all that lay hid in the breasts of them
that have followed their evil and corrupt desires hath been
revealed,--I beseech Thee to strengthen us in our love for Him,
to make us steadfast in His Cause, to help us befriend His loved
ones and challenge His enemies. Shield us, then, O my God, from
the mischief wrought by them that have denied Thy presence, and
turned away from Thy face, and resolved to put an end to the
life of Him Who is the Manifestation of Thine own Self.
O my God and my Master! Thou knowest how they have disgraced Thy
Cause and dishonored Thee among Thy creatures, how they have
joined Thine enemies, that they may undermine Thy Revelation and
injure Thee. Lay hold on them with the power of Thy wrath and
might, O my God, and expose their shameful acts and their
wickedness, that whatever is hid in their breasts may be
revealed unto the people that dwell within Thy land, O Thou Who
art the Inflictor of trials, the Fashioner of nations, and the
Bestower of favors! No God is there beside Thee, the
All-Glorious, the Most Bountiful. |
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