my
face is, verily, Thy face, and my call is Thy call, and my Revelation Thy
Revelation, and my self Thy Self, and my Cause Thy Cause, and my behest
Thy behest, and my Being Thy Being, and my sovereignty Thy sovereignty,
and my glory Thy glory, and my power Thy power.

I implore Thee, O Thou Fashioner of the nations and the King of eternity,
to guard Thy handmaidens within the tabernacle of Thy chastity, and to
cancel such of their deeds as are unworthy of Thy days. Purge out, then,
from them, O my God, all doubts and idle fancies, and sanctify them from
whatsoever becometh not their kinship with Thee, O Thou Who art the Lord
of names, and the Source of utterance. Thou art He in Whose grasp are the
reins of the entire creation.

No God is there but Thee, the Almighty, the Most Exalted, the
All-Glorious, the Self-Subsisting.

CXLIII: "GLORY BE TO THEE, O MY GOD! I BEG OF THEE BY THY..."

Glory be to Thee, O my God! I beg of Thee by Thy name, the Most Merciful,
to protect Thy servants and Thy handmaidens when the tempests of trials
pass over them, and Thy manifold tests assail them. Enable them, then, O
my God, so to seek refuge within the stronghold of Thy love and of Thy
Revelation, that neither Thine adversaries nor the wicked doers among Thy
servants, who have broken Thy Covenant and Thy Testament, and turned away
most disdainfully from the Day-Spring of Thine Essence and the Revealer of
Thy glory, may prevail against them.

They themselves, O my Lord, have waited at the door of Thy grace. Do Thou
open it to their faces with the keys of Thy bountiful favors. Potent art
Thou to do what Thou willest, and to ordain what Thou pleasest. These are
the ones, O my Lord, who have set their faces towards Thee, and turned
unto Thy habitation. Do with them, therefore, as becometh Thy mercy, which
hath surpassed the worlds.

CXLIV: "O MY GOD AND MY MASTER! I AM THY SERVANT AND..."

O my God and my Master! I am Thy servant and the son of Thy servant. I
have risen from my couch at this dawn-tide when the Day-Star of Thy
oneness hath shone forth from the Day-Spring of Thy will, and hath shed
its radiance upon the whole world, according to what had been ordained in
the Books of Thy Decree.

Praise be unto Thee, O my God, that we have wakened to the splendors of
the light of Thy knowledge. Send down, then, upon us, O my Lord, what will
enable us to dispense with any one but Thee, and will rid us of all
att