Number him, then, O my God, with such as have allowed
nothing whatever to deter them from beholding Thy beauty, or from meditating on
the wondrous evidences of Thine everlasting handiwork, that he may have
fellowship with none except Thee, and turn to naught save Thyself, and discover
in whatever hath been created by Thee in the kingdoms of earth and heaven
nothing but Thy wondrous Beauty and the revelation of the splendors of Thy
face, and be so immersed beneath the billowing oceans of Thine overruling
providence and the surging seas of Thy holy unity, that he will forget every
mention except the mention of Thy transcendent oneness, and banish from his
soul the traces of all evil suggestions, O Thou in Whose hands are the kingdoms
of all names and attributes! - Bahá’u’lláh (Prayers and Meditations by
Bahá’u’lláh; compilation: ‘Prayer and Devotional Life’, prepared by the
Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, February 2019)
