O my God! Thou beholdest the Lord of all mankind confined in
His Most Great Prison, calling aloud Thy Name, gazing upon Thy face,
proclaiming that which hath enraptured the denizens of Thy kingdoms of
revelation and of creation. O my God! I behold Mine own Self captive in the
hands of Thy servants, yet the light of Thy sovereignty and the revelations of
Thine invincible power shine resplendent from His face, enabling all to know of
a certainty that Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee.
Neither can the power of the powerful frustrate Thee, nor the ascendancy of the
rulers prevail against Thee. Thou doest whatsoever Thou willest by virtue of
Thy sovereignty which encompasseth all created things, and ordainest that which
Thou pleasest through the potency of Thy behest which pervadeth the entire
creation.
I implore Thee by the glory of Thy Manifestation and by the
power of Thy might, Thy sovereignty and Thine exaltation to render victorious
those who have arisen to serve Thee, who have aided Thy Cause and humbled
themselves before the splendour of the light of Thy face. Make them then, O my
God, triumphant over Thine enemies and cause them to be steadfast in Thy
service, that through them the evidences of Thy dominion may be established
throughout Thy realms and the tokens of Thine indomitable power be manifested
in Thy lands. Verily Thou art potent to do what Thou willest; no God is there
but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of
Remembrance’)
