Feast of Ilm

(Knowledge)

14th of October
2016

O thou who art turning thy face

towards God!
Close thine eyes to all things else,
and open them to the realm of the
All-Glorious. Ask whatsoever thou
wishest of Him alone; seek
whatsoever thou seekest from Him
alone. With a look He granteth a
hundred thousand hopes, with a
glance He healeth a hundred
thousand incurable ills, with a nod
He layeth balm on every wound, with
a glimpse He freeth the hearts from
the shackles of grief. He doeth as He
doeth, and what recourse have we?
He carrieth out His Will, He
ordaineth what He pleaseth. Then
better for thee to bow down thy head
in submission, and put thy trust in



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O compassionate God! Thanks be to Thee

for Thou hast awakened and made me
conscious. Thou hast given me a seeing
eye and favored me with a hearing ear,
hast led me to Thy kingdom and guided me
to Thy path. Thou hast shown me the right
way and caused me to enter the ark of
deliverance. O God! Keep me steadfast
and make me firm and staunch. Protect
me from violent tests and preserve and
shelter me in the strongly fortified fortress
of Thy Covenant and Testament. Thou art
the Powerful. Thou art the Seeing. Thou
art the Hearing.
O Thou the Compassionate God.
Bestow upon me a heart which, like unto a
glass, may be illumined with the light of
Thy love, and confer upon me thoughts
which may change this world into a rose
garden through the outpourings of
heavenly grace.
Thou art the Compassionate, the
Merciful. Thou art the Great Beneficent
God.
Abdul Baha

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O FLEETING SHADOW!
Pass beyond the baser stages of
doubt and rise to the exalted
heights of certainty. Open the
eye of truth, that thou mayest
behold the veilless Beauty and
exclaim: Hallowed be the Lord,
the most excellent of all
creators!

O SON OF EARTH!
Wouldst thou have Me, seek none
other than Me; and wouldst thou
gaze upon My beauty, close thine
eyes to the world and all that is
therein; for My will and the will of
another than Me, even as fire and
water, cannot dwell together in one
heart.

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(Deepening)

And if, confirmed by the Creator, the

lover escapes from the claws of the
eagle of love, he will enters the valley
of knowledge, come out of doubt into
certitude, and turn from the darkness
of illusion to the guiding light of the
fear of God. His inner eyes will open
and he will privily converse with his
Beloved; he will set ajar the gate of
truth and piety, and shut the doors of
vain imaginings. He in this station is
content with the decree of God, and
seeth war as peace, and findeth in
death the secrets of everlasting life.
With inward and outward eyes he
witnesseth
the
mysteries
of
resurrection in the realms of creation
and the souls of men, and with a pure
heart apprehendeth the divine wisdom
in
the
endless
Manifestations apprehendeth
the
divine
wisdom
in
the
endless
Manifestations of God. In the ocean he
findeth a drop, in a drop he beholdeth
the secrets of the sea.

( Concluding prayer)

O
Divine
Providence!
This
assemblage is composed of Thy friends
who are attracted to Thy beauty and
are set ablaze by the fire of Thy love.
Turn these souls into heavenly angels,
resuscitate them through the breath of
Thy Holy Spirit, grant them eloquent
tongues and resolute hearts, bestow
upon them heavenly power and
merciful susceptibilities, cause them to
become the promulgators of the
oneness of mankind and the cause of
love and concord in the world of
humanity, so that the perilous
darkness of ignorant prejudice may
vanish through the light of the Sun of
Truth, this dreary world may become
illumined, this material realm may
absorb the rays of the world of spirit,
these different colors may merge into
one color and the melody of praise may
rise to the kingdom of Thy sanctity.

Verily, Thou art the

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