In His Name, the Exalted, the All-Highest, the Most Sublime!
Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! O Thou Who art my God,
and my Master, and my Lord, and my Support, and my Hope, and my Refuge, and my
Light. I ask of Thee, by Thine Hidden and Treasured Name, that none knoweth
save Thine own Self, to protect the bearer of this Tablet from every calamity
and pestilence, and from every wicked man and woman; from the evil of the
evil-doers, and from the scheming of the unbelievers. Preserve him, moreover, O
my God, from every pain and vexation, O Thou Who holdest in Thy hand the empire
of all things. Thou, truly, art powerful over all things. Thou doest as Thou
willest, and ordainest as Thou pleasest.
O Thou King of Kings! O Thou kind Lord! O Thou Source of
ancient bounty, of grace, of generosity and bestowal! O Thou Healer of
sicknesses! O Thou Sufficer of needs! O Thou Light of Light! O Thou Light above
all Lights! O Thou Revealer of every Manifestation! O Thou the Compassionate! O
Thou the Merciful! Do Thou have mercy upon the bearer of this Tablet, through
Thy most great mercy and Thine abundant grace, O Thou the Gracious, Thou the
Bounteous. Guard him, moreover, through Thy protection, from whatsoever his
heart and mind may find repugnant. Of those endued with power, Thou, verily,
art the most powerful. The Glory of God rest upon thee, O thou rising sun! Do
thou testify unto that which God hath testified of His own Self, that there is
none other God besides Him, the Almighty, the Best-Beloved. (Baha’u’llah,
prayer of protection for the bearer, translated into English from Arabic at the
Bahá'í World Centre, included in a letter written on behalf of the Universal
House of Justice to an individual believer, 12 August 1996) (To see the entire
letter please visit Baha’i Points of Interest)
