Praise be to God, the All-Possessing, the King of
incomparable glory, a praise which is immeasurably above the understanding of
all created things, and is exalted beyond the grasp of the minds of men. None
else besides Him hath ever been able to sing adequately His praise, nor will
any man succeed at any time in describing the full measure of His glory. Who is
it that can claim to have attained the heights of His exalted Essence, and what
mind can measure the depths of His unfathomable mystery? From each and every
revelation emanating from the Source of His glory, holy and never-ending
evidences of unimaginable splendor have appeared, and out of every
manifestation of His invincible power oceans of eternal light have outpoured.
How immensely exalted are the wondrous testimonies of His almighty sovereignty,
a glimmer of which, if it but touched them, would utterly consume all that are
in the heavens and in the earth! How indescribably lofty are the tokens of His
consummate power, a single sign of which, however inconsiderable, must
transcend the comprehension of whatsoever hath, from the beginning that hath no
beginning, been brought into being, or will be created in the future till the
end that hath no end. All the Embodiments of His Names wander in the wilderness
of search, athirst and eager to discover His Essence, and all the
Manifestations of His Attributes implore Him, from the Sinai of Holiness, to
unravel His mystery.
A drop of the billowing ocean of His endless mercy hath
adorned all creation with the ornament of existence, and a breath wafted from
His peerless Paradise hath invested all beings with the robe of His sanctity
and glory. A sprinkling from the unfathomed deep of His sovereign and
all-pervasive Will hath, out of utter nothingness, called into being a creation
which is infinite in its range and deathless in its duration. The wonders of
His bounty can never cease, and the stream of His merciful grace can never be
arrested. The process of His creation hath had no beginning, and can have no
end.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the
Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
