Blessed Art Thou O My Servant Inasmuch

Sources: Gleanings From The Writings Of Baha'u'llah

Blessed art thou, O My servant, inasmuch as thou hast recognized the

Truth, and withdrawn from him who repudiated the All-Merciful, and was

condemned as wicked in the Mother Tablet. Walk thou steadfastly in the

love of God, and keep straight on in His Faith, and aid Him through the

power of thine utterance. Thus biddeth thee the All-Merciful Who is

suffering imprisonment at the hands of His oppressors.



If tribulation touch thee for My sake, call thou to mind My ills and

troubles, and remember My banishment and imprisonment. Thus do We devolve

on thee what hath descended upon Us from Him Who is the All-Glorious, the

All-Wise.



By My Self! The day is approaching when We will have rolled up the world

and all that is therein, and spread out a new order in its stead. He,

verily, is powerful over all things.



Sanctify thine heart, that thou mayest remember Me; and purge thine ear,

that thou mayest hearken unto My words. Set then thy face towards the Spot

wherein the throne of thy Lord, the God of Mercy, hath been established,

and say: Praise be to Thee, O my Lord, for having enabled me to recognize

the Manifestation of Thine own Self, and aided me to fix mine heart on the

court of Thy presence, the object of my soul's adoration. I beseech Thee,

by Thy name that caused the heavens to be rent and the earth to be cleft

asunder, to ordain for me what Thou didst ordain for them that have turned

away from all else but Thee, and rested their hearts firmly upon Thee.

Grant that I may be seated in Thy presence on the seat of truth, within

the Tabernacle of Glory. Powerful art Thou to do what Thou willest. There

is none other God but Thee, the All-Glorious, the All-Wise.