Lauded Be Thy Name, O My God! Aid Thou By

Sources: Prayers And Meditations

Lauded be Thy name, O my God! Aid Thou by Thy strengthening grace Thy

servants and Thy handmaidens to recount Thy virtues and to be steadfast in

their love towards Thee. How many the leaves which the tempests of trials

have caused to fall, and how many, too, are those which, clinging

tenaciously to the tree of Thy Cause, have remained unshaken by the tests

that have assailed them, O Thou Who art our Lord, the Most Merciful!
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I render Thee thanks that Thou hast made known unto me such servants as

have utterly abolished, by the power of Thy might and of Thy sovereignty,

the idols of their corrupt desires, and were not kept back by the things

which are possessed by Thy creatures from turning in the direction of Thy

grace. These have so vehemently rent the veils asunder that the dwellers

of the cities of self have wept, and fear and trembling seized the people

of envy and wickedness who, adorning their heads and their bodies with the

emblems of knowledge, have proudly rejected Thee and turned away from Thy

beauty.



I implore Thee, O my Lord, by Thy surpassing majesty and Thine Ancient

Name, to enable Thy loved ones to assist Thee. Direct, then, continually

their faces towards Thy face, and write down for them what will cause all

hearts to exult and all eyes to be gladdened.



Thou, truly, art the Help in peril, the Self-Subsisting.