Bahá'í prayers : $b a selection of prayers revealed by Bahá'u'lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu'l-BaháBahá'u'lláh
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Bahá'í prayers : $b a selection of prayers revealed by Bahá'u'lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu'l-Bahá
Bahá'u'lláh
Bahai Faith -- Prayers and devotions
Inspire then my soul, O my God, with Thy wondrous remembrance, that I may
glorify Thy name. Number me not with them who read Thy words and fail to
find Thy hidden gift which, as decreed by Thee, is contained therein, and
which quickeneth the souls of Thy creatures and the hearts of Thy
servants. Cause me, O my Lord, to be reckoned among them who have been so
stirred up by the sweet savors that have been wafted in Thy days that they
have laid down their lives for Thee and hastened to the scene of their
death in their longing to gaze on Thy beauty and in their yearning to
attain Thy presence. And were anyone to say unto them on their way,
“Whither go ye?” they would say, “Unto God, the All-Possessing, the Help
in Peril, the Self-Subsisting!”
The transgressions committed by such as have turned away from Thee and
have borne themselves haughtily towards Thee have not availed to hinder
them from loving Thee, and from setting their faces towards Thee, and from
turning in the direction of Thy mercy. These are they who are blessed by
the Concourse on high, who are glorified by the denizens of the
everlasting Cities, and beyond them by those on whose foreheads Thy most
exalted pen hath written: “These! The people of Bahá. Through them have
been shed the splendors of the light of guidance.” Thus hath it been
ordained, at Thy behest and by Thy will, in the Tablet of Thine
irrevocable decree.
Proclaim, therefore, O my God, their greatness and the greatness of those
who while living or after death have circled round them. Supply them with
that which Thou hast ordained for the righteous among Thy creatures.
Potent art Thou to do all things. There is no God but Thee, the
All-Powerful, the Help in Peril, the Almighty, the Most Bountiful.
Do not bring our fasts to an end with this fast, O my Lord, nor the
covenants Thou hast made with this covenant. Do Thou accept all that we
have done for love of Thee, and for the sake of Thy pleasure, and all that
we have left undone as a result of our subjection to our evil and corrupt
desires. Enable us, then, to cleave steadfastly to Thy love and Thy good
pleasure, and preserve us from the mischief of such as have denied Thee
and repudiated Thy most resplendent signs. Thou art, in truth, the Lord of
this world and of the next. No God is there beside Thee, the Exalted, the
Most High.
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