Glorified be Thy name, O Lord my God! Thou beholdest my
dwelling-place, and the prison into which I am cast, and the woes I suffer. By
Thy might! No pen can recount them, nor can any tongue describe or number them.
I know not, O my God, for what purpose Thou hast abandoned me to Thine
adversaries. Thy glory beareth me witness! I sorrow not for the vexations I
endure for love of Thee, nor feel perturbed by the
calamities that overtake me in Thy path. My grief is rather because Thou
delayest to fulfill what Thou hast determined in the Tablets of Thy Revelation,
and ordained in the books of Thy decree and judgment.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers
and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
