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"Be Thou" hath been enforced, |
and God's hidden Secret hath been divulged, |
and all created things have been called into being, |
and all the |
Revelations have been sent down. |
I bear witness, |
moreover, |
that through Thy beauty the beauty of the Adored |
One hath been unveiled, |
and through Thy face the face of the Desired One |
hath shone forth, |
and that through a word from Thee Thou hast decided |
between all created things, |
causing them who are devoted to Thee to ascend |
unto the summit of glory, |
and the infidels to fall into the lowest abyss. |
I bear witness that he who hath known Thee hath known God, |
and he who hath |
attained unto Thy presence hath attained unto the presence of God. |
Great, |
therefore, |
is the blessedness of him who hath believed in Thee, |
and in Thy |
signs, |
and hath humbled himself before Thy sovereignty, |
and hath been |
honored with meeting Thee, |
and hath attained the good pleasure of Thy |
will, |
and circled around Thee, |
and stood before Thy throne. |
Woe betide him |
that hath transgressed against Thee, |
and hath denied Thee, |
and repudiated |
Thy signs, |
and gainsaid Thy sovereignty, |
and risen up against Thee, |
and |
waxed proud before Thy face, |
and hath disputed Thy testimonies, |
and fled |
from Thy rule and Thy dominion, |
and been numbered with the infidels whose |
names have been inscribed by the fingers of Thy behest upon Thy holy |
Tablets. |
Waft, |
then, |
unto me, |
O my God and my Beloved, |
from the right hand of Thy |
mercy and Thy loving-kindness, |
the holy breaths of Thy favors, |
that they |
may draw me away from myself and from the world unto the courts of Thy |
nearness and Thy presence. |
Potent art Thou to do what pleaseth Thee. |
Thou, |
truly, |
hast been supreme over all things. |
The remembrance of God and His praise, |
and the glory of God and His |
splendor, |
rest upon Thee, |
O Thou Who art His Beauty! |
I bear witness that |
the eye of creation hath never gazed upon one wronged like Thee. |
Thou wast |
immersed all the days of Thy life beneath an ocean of tribulations. |
At one |
time Thou wast in chains and fetters; |
at another Thou wast threatened by |
the sword of Thine enemies. |
Yet, |
despite all this, |
Thou didst enjoin upon |
all men to observe what had been prescribed unto Thee by Him Who is the |
All-Knowing, |
the All-Wise. |
May my spirit be a sacrifice to the wrongs Thou didst suffer, |
and my soul |
be a ransom for the adversities Thou didst sustain. |
I beseech God, |
by Thee |
and by them whose faces have been illumined with the splendors of the |
light of Thy countenance, |
and who, |