Glorified be Thy name, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by Him
Who is Thine exalted and supreme Remembrance, Whom Thou hast sent down unto all
Thy creatures and invested with Thy name, the All-Glorious, Whose will Thou
hast ordained to be Thine own will, Whose self Thou hast decreed to be the
revealer of Thine own Self, and His essence the Day-Spring of Thy wisdom, and
His heart the treasury of Thine inspiration, and His breast the dawning-place
of Thy most excellent attributes and most exalted titles, and His tongue the
fountain-head of the waters of Thy praise and the well-spring of the
soft-flowing streams of Thy wisdom, to send down upon us that which will enable
us to dispense with all else except Thee, and will cause us to direct our steps
towards the sanctuary of Thy pleasure and to aspire after the things Thou didst
ordain for us according to Thine irrevocable decree. Empower us, then, O my
God, to forsake ourselves and cleave steadfastly to Him Who is the
Manifestation of Thy Self, the Most Exalted, the Most High.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
