Thou art He, O my God, Who hath unlocked the gate of heaven
with the key of Thy Name, the Ever-Blessed, the All-Powerful, the All-Glorious,
the Most Great, and hast summoned all mankind to the ocean of Thy presence. No
sooner had Thy most sweet voice been raised, than all the inmates of the
Kingdom of Names and the Concourse on high were stirred up. By Thy call the
fragrance of the raiment of Thy Revelation was wafted over such of Thy
creatures as have loved Thee, and such of Thy people as have yearned towards
Thee. They rose up and rushed forth to attain the Ocean of Thy meeting, and the
Horizon of Thy beauty, and the Tabernacle of Thy Revelation and Thy majesty,
and the Sanctuary of Thy Presence and Thy glory. They were so inebriated with
the wine of their reunion with Thee, that they rid themselves of all attachment
to whatever they themselves and others possessed.
These are Thy servants whom the ascendancy of the oppressor
hath failed to deter from fixing their eyes on the Tabernacle of Thy majesty,
and whom the hosts of tyranny have been powerless to affright and divert their
gaze from the Day-Spring of Thy signs and the Dawning-Place of Thy testimonies.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations
by Baha’u’llah’)
