Glorified, immeasurably glorified art Thou, my Best-Beloved!
Inasmuch as Thou hast ordained that the utmost limit to which they who lift
their hearts to Thee can rise is the confession of their powerlessness to enter
the realms of Thy holy and transcendent unity, and that the highest station which
they who aspire to know Thee can reach is the acknowledgment of their impotence
to attain the retreats of Thy sublime knowledge I, therefore, beseech Thee, by
this very powerlessness which is beloved of Thee, and which Thou hast decreed
as the goal of them that have reached and attained Thy court, and by the
splendors of Thy countenance that have encompassed all things, and by the
energies of Thy Will whereby the entire creation hath been generated, not to
deprive them that have set their hopes in Thee of the wonders of Thy mercy, nor
to withhold from such as have sought Thee the treasures of Thy grace.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
