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away Thy Book, disbelieved in Thee, and repudiated
Thy signs. Alas, alas, for my waywardness, and my
shame, and my sinfulness, and my wrong-doing that
have withheld me from the depths of the ocean of
Thy unity and from fathoming the sea of Thy mercy.
Wherefore, alas, alas! and again alas, alas! for my
wretchedness and the grievousness of my transgressions!
Thou didst call me into being, O my God, to
exalt Thy Word, and to manifest Thy Cause. My
heedlessness, however, hath deterred me and compassed
me about, in such wise that I have arisen to
blot out Thy signs, and to shed the blood of Thy
loved ones, and of the dawning-places of Thy signs,
and of the daysprings of Thy revelation, and of the
repositories of Thy mysteries.
"O Lord, my Lord! and again, O Lord, my Lord!
and yet again, O Lord, my Lord! I bear witness that
by reason of mine iniquity the fruits of the tree of
Thy justice have fallen, and through the fire of my
rebelliousness the hearts of such of Thy creatures as
enjoy near access to Thee were consumed, and the
souls of the sincere among Thy servants have melted.
O wretched, wretched that I am! O the cruelties,
the glaring cruelties, I inflicted! Woe is me, woe is
me, for my remoteness from Thee, and for my waywardness,
and mine ignorance, and my baseness, and
my repudiation of Thee, and my protests against
Thee! How many the days during which Thou didst
bid Thy servants and Thy loved ones to protect me,
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