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1 My God, what thinkest Thou? Wilt Thou
chastise me after my faith in Thee, drive me far away after my love for
Thee, deprive me while I hope for Thy mercy and forgiveness, forsake me
while I seek sanctuary in Thy pardon? How could Thy generous face
disappoint me?! Would that I knew - Did my mother bear me for
wretchedness? Did she nurture me for suffering? Would then that she had
not borne me and had not nurtured me! Would that I had knowledge - Hast
Thou appointed me one of the people of felicity? Hast Thou singled me out
for Thy nearness and neighbourhood? Then would my eyes be gladdened, and
in that my soul reach serenity.
2. My God, dost Thou blacken faces which fall
down in prostration before Thy mightiness? Dost Thou strike dumb tongues
which speak in laudation of Thy glory and majesty? Dost Thou seal hearts
which harbour Thy love? Dost Thou deafen ears which take pleasure in
hearing Thy remembrance according to Thy will? Dost Thou manacle hands
which expectations have raised to Thee in hope of Thy clemency? Dost Thou
punish bodies which worked to obey Thee until they grew thin in struggling
for Thee? Dost Thou chastise legs which ran to worship Thee?
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3. My God, lock not toward those who profess
Thy Unity the doors of Thy mercy, and veil not those who yearn for Thee
from looking upon the vision of Thy beauty!
4. My God, a soul which Thou hast exalted by
its professing Thy Unity - how wilt Thou burn it in the heat of Thy fires?
5 My God, give me sanctuary from Thy painful
wrath and Thy mighty anger! O All-loving, O All-kind! O Compassionate, O
Merciful! O Compeller, O Subduer! O All-forgiver, O All-covering! Deliver
me through Thy mercy from the chastisement of the Fire and the disgrace of
shame when the good are set apart from the evil, forms are transformed,
terrors terrify, the good-doers are brought near, the evildoers taken far,
and every soul is paid in full what it has earned, and they shall not be
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