[Baha’u’llah and the New Era by J.E. Esslemont]@TWC D-Link bookBaha’u’llah and the New Era CHAPTER 6: PRAYER 21/25
In the Baha'i view, the power that brings about answers to prayer is the inexhaustible Power of God.
The part of the suppliant is only to exert the feeble force necessary to release the flow or determine the course of the Divine Bounty, which is ever ready to serve those who have learned how to draw upon it. Baha'i Prayers Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha have revealed innumerable prayers for the use of Their followers at various times and for various purposes.
The greatness of conception and depth of spirituality revealed in these utterances must impress every thoughtful student, but only by making their use a regular and important part of one's daily life can their significance be fully appreciated and their power for good realized. Unfortunately, considerations of space prevent our giving more than a very few short specimens of these prayers.
For further examples the reader must be referred to other works. O my Lord! Make Thy beauty to be my food, and Thy presence my drink, and Thy pleasure my hope, and praise of Thee my action, and remembrance of Thee my companion, and the power of Thy sovereignty my succorer, and Thy habitation my home, and my dwelling-place the seat Thou hast sanctified from the limitations imposed upon them who are shut out as by a veil from Thee. Thou art, verily, the Almighty, the All-Glorious, the Most Powerful .-- BAHA'U'LLAH. I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created Me to know Thee and to worship Thee.
I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting .-- BAHA'U'LLAH. O my God! O my God! Unite the hearts of Thy servants and reveal to them Thy great purpose.
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