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 acknowledgement 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 splendours 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.
Ignite, then, within their hearts the torch of Thy love, that its flame may
consume all else except their wondrous remembrance of Thee, and that no trace
may be left in those hearts except the gem-like evidences of Thy most holy
sovereignty, so that from the land wherein they dwell no voice may be heard
except the voice that extolleth Thy mercifulness and might, that on the earth
on which they walk no light may shine except the light of Thy beauty, and that
within every soul naught may be discovered except the revelation of Thy
countenance and the tokens of Thy glory, that haply Thy servants may show forth
only that which shall please Thee and shall conform wholly unto Thy most potent
will.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of remembrance’)
