Thou Dost Witness, O My God, How He Who Is

Sources: Prayers And Meditations

Thou dost witness, O my God, how He Who is Thy splendor calleth Thee to

remembrance, notwithstanding the manifold troubles that have touched Him,

troubles which none except Thee can number. Thou beholdest how, in His

prison-house, He recounteth Thy wondrous praises with which Thou didst

inspire Him. Such is His fervor that His enemies are powerless to deter

Him from mentioning Thee, O Thou Who art the Possessor of all names!
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Praised be Thou that Thou hast so strengthened Him with Thy strength, and

endowed Him by Thine almighty power with such potency, that aught save

Thee is in His estimation but a handful of dust. The lights of unfading

splendor have so enveloped Him that all else but Thee is in His eyes but a

shadow.



And when Thine irresistible summons reached me, I arose, fortified by Thy

strength, and called all that are in Thy heaven and all that are on Thy

earth to turn in the direction of Thy favors and the horizon of Thy

bounties. Some caviled at me, and determined to hurt me and slay me.

Others drank to the full of the wine of Thy grace, and hastened towards

the habitation of Thy throne.



I beseech Thee, O Thou Who art the Creator of earth and heaven and the

Source of all things, to attract Thy servants through the fragrances of

the Robe of Thine Inspiration and Thy Revelation, and to help them attain

the Tabernacle of Thy behest and power. From eternity Thou wert by Thy

transcendent might supreme over all things, and Thou wilt be exalted unto

eternity in Thy Godhead and surpassing sovereignty.



Let Thy mercy, then, be upon Thy servants and Thy creatures. Thou art, in

truth, the Almighty, the Inaccessible, the All-Glorious, the

Unconditioned.