All that I beg of Thee, O my God, is to
enable me, ere my soul departeth from my body, to attain Thy good-pleasure,
even were it granted to me for a moment tinier than the
infinitesimal fraction of a mustard seed. For if it departeth while Thou art
pleased with me, then I shall be free from every concern or anxiety; but if it
abandoneth me while Thou art displeased with me, then, even had I wrought every
good deed, none would be of any avail, and had I earned every honour and glory,
none would serve to exalt me.
I earnestly beseech Thee then, O my
God, to graciously bestow Thy good-pleasure upon me when Thou dost cause me to
ascend unto Thee and make me appear before Thy holy presence, inasmuch as Thou
hast, from everlasting, been the God of immense bounty unto the people of Thy
realm, and the Lord of most excellent gifts to all that dwell in the exalted
heaven of Thine omnipotence.
- The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings of the
Báb’)
