All glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! I bear witness for Thee
to that whereto Thou Thyself didst bear witness for Thine own Self, ere the day
Thou hadst created the creation or made mention thereof, that Thou art God, and
that there is none other God beside Thee. From eternity Thou hast, in Thy
transcendent oneness, been immeasurably exalted above Thy servants’ conception
of Thy unity, and wilt to eternity remain, in Thine unapproachable singleness,
far above the praise of Thy creatures. No words that any one beside Thee may
utter can ever beseem Thee, and no man’s description except Thine own
description can befit Thy nature. All who adore Thy unity have been sore
perplexed to fathom the mystery of Thy oneness, and all have confessed their
powerlessness to attain unto the comprehension of Thine essence and to scale
the pinnacle of Thy knowledge.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by
Baha’u’llah’)
