Selections from the Writings of the Báb
7 PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS
THOU art aware, O ...
THOU art aware, O My God, that since the day Thou
didst call Me into being out of the water of Thy love till I
reached fifteen years of age I lived in the land which
witnessed My birth [Shíráz]. Then Thou didst enable Me
to go to the seaport [Búshihr] where for five years I was
engaged in trading with the goodly gifts of Thy realm and
was occupied in that with which Thou hast favoured Me
through the wondrous essence of Thy loving-kindness.
I proceeded therefrom to the Holy Land [Kárbilá] where
I sojourned for one year. Then I returned to the place of
My birth. There I experienced the revelation of Thy sublime
bestowals and the evidences of Thy boundless grace.
I yield Thee praise for all Thy goodly gifts and I render
Thee thanksgiving for all Thy bounties. Then at the age of
twenty-five I proceeded to thy sacred House [Mecca], and
by the time I returned to the place where I was born, a
year had elapsed. There I tarried patiently in the path of Thy
love and beheld the evidences of Thy manifold bounties
and of Thy loving-kindness until Thou didst ordain for Me
to set out in Thy direction and to migrate to Thy presence.
Thus I departed therefrom by Thy leave, spending six
months in the land of Sád [Isfahán] and seven months in
the First Mountain [Mákú], where Thou didst rain down
upon Me that which beseemeth the glory of Thy heavenly
blessings and befitteth the sublimity of Thy gracious gifts
and favours. Now, in My thirtieth year, Thou beholdest
Me, O My God, in this Grievous Mountain [Chihríq]
where I have dwelt for one whole year.
Praise be unto Thee, O My Lord, for all times, heretofore
and hereafter; and thanks be unto Thee, O My God,
under all conditions, whether of the past or the future.
The gifts Thou hast bestowed upon Me have reached their
fullest measure and the blessings Thou hast vouchsafed
unto Me have attained their consummation. Naught do I
now witness but the manifold evidences of Thy grace and
loving-kindness, Thy bounty and gracious favours, Thy
generosity and loftiness, Thy sovereignty and might,
Thy splendour and Thy glory, and that which befitteth
the holy court of Thy transcendent dominion and majesty
and beseemeth the glorious precincts of Thine eternity
and exaltation.
Selections from the Writings of the Báb
7 PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS
pages 180-182
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