Lauded be Thy name, O my God! Thou beholdest me in the
clutches of my oppressors. Every time I turn to my right, I hear the voice of
the lamentation of them that are dear to Thee, whom the infidels have made
captives for having believed in Thee and in Thy signs, and for having set their
faces towards the horizon of Thy grace and of Thy loving-kindness. And when I
turn to my left, I hear the clamor of the wicked doers who have disbelieved in
Thee and in Thy signs, and persistently striven to put out the light of Thy
lamp which sheddeth the radiance of Thine own Self over all that are in Thy
heaven and all that are on Thy earth. - Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
