Thou seest, O God of Mercy, Thou Whose power pervadeth all
created things, these servants of Thine, Thy thralls, who, according to the
good-pleasure of Thy Will, observe in the daytime the fast prescribed by Thee,
who arise, at the earliest dawn of day, to make mention of Thy Name, and to
celebrate Thy praise, in the hope of obtaining their share of the goodly things
that are treasured up within the treasuries of Thy grace and bounty. I beseech
Thee, O Thou that holdest in Thine hands the reins of
the entire creation, in Whose grasp is the whole kingdom of Thy names and of
Thine attributes, not to deprive, in Thy Day, Thy servants from the showers
pouring from the clouds of Thy mercy, nor to hinder them from taking their
portion of the ocean of Thy good-pleasure.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Gleanings from the
Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
