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.
(Baha’u’llah,
‘Prayers and meditations of Baha’u’llah’)
