VI. Need God’s protection “from the faintest trace of evil and corrupt desires”

I implore Thee, O Beloved of my heart and the Object of my soul's adoration, to shield them that love me from the faintest trace of evil and corrupt desires. Supply them, then, with the good of this world and of the next. 

- Baha'u'llah 

VI. How God distinguishes “the assured” from “the doubters”

Thine own might beareth me witness! But for tribulations, how could the assured be distinguished from the doubters among Thy servants? 

- Baha’u’llah

VI. Our inability to behold God with our own eyes

Is there any man of insight, O my God, that can behold Thee with Thine own eye, and where is the thirsty one who can direct his face towards the living waters of Thy love?

- Baha'u'llah

VI. “Successive afflictions” and “incessant trials” prevented Baha’u’llah from “laying bare that which is hidden” from our eyes

Praise he to Thee, O Lord my God! I swear by Thy might! Successive afflictions have withheld the pen of the Most High from laying bare that which is hidden from the eyes of Thy creatures, and incessant trials have hindered the tongue of the Divine Ordainer from proclaiming the wonders of Thy glorification and praise. With a stammering tongue, therefore, I call upon Thee, O my God, and with this my afflicted pen I occupy myself in remembrance of Thy name.- -

- Baha’u’llah

V. The “veil of vain imaginings” prevents believers who are “wholly devoted” to Baha’u’llah from seeing Him “seated on the throne” of His “majesty” – we need Baha’u’llah’s assistance to tear this veil asunder

Tear asunder with the hand of Thy transcendent power, O my Lord, the veil of vain imaginings, that they who are wholly devoted to Thee may see Thee seated on the throne of Thy majesty, and the eyes of  such as adore Thy unity may rejoice at the splendors of the glory of Thy face. The doors of hope have been shut against the hearts that long for Thee, O my Lord! Their keys are in Thy hands; open them by the power of Thy might and Thy sovereignty. Potent art Thou to do as Thou pleasest. Thou art, verily, the Almighty, the Beneficent. 

- Baha’u’llah

V. Baha’u’llah embodies God’s attributes of “Maker of the heavens and Lord of all names”

The hearts of Thy chosen ones, O my Lord, have melted because of their separation from Thee, and the souls of Thy loved ones are burnt up by the fire of their yearning after Thee in Thy days. I implore Thee, O Thou Maker of the heavens and Lord of all names, by Thy most effulgent Self and Thy most exalted and all-glorious Remembrance, to send down upon Thy loved ones that which will draw them nearer unto Thee, and enable them to hearken unto Thine utterances. 

- Baha’u’llah

V. Baha’u’llah is the “lamp” that gives out the light of God’s “own Self” to all that are in heaven and all that are on earth

And when I turn to my left, I hear the clamor of the wicked doers who have disbelieved in Thee and in Thy signs, and persistently striven to put out the light of Thy lamp which sheddeth the radiance of Thine own Self over all that are in Thy heaven and all that are on Thy earth. 

- Baha’u’llah

IV. God’s “chosen ones” and the “souls” of those who “love” God are “vivified” by God’s “living waters”

I implore Thee, [God] …to enable me to drink deep of the living waters through which Thou hast vivified the hearts of Thy chosen ones and quickened the souls of them that love Thee, that I may, at all times and under all conditions, turn my face wholly towards Thee. 

- Baha’u’llah

IV. The “word” that brought “creation into being and fashion the universe” shines above the horizon of God’s “will”

I implore Thee, [God] by this very word [the word that “brought “creation into being and gashion the universe”] that hath shone forth above the horizon of Thy will… to enable me to drink deep of the living waters through which Thou hast vivified the hearts of Thy chosen ones and quickened the souls of them that love Thee, that I may, at all times and under all conditions, turn my face wholly towards Thee. 

- Baha’u’llah

IV. God brought “creation into being and fashion the universe” – through a word of His mouth

Thou [God] didst wish to make Thyself known unto men; therefore, Thou didst, through a word of Thy mouth, bring creation into being and fashion the universe. There is none other God except Thee, the Fashioner, the Creator, the Almighty, the Most Powerful. 

- Baha’u’llah

IV. God – “knoweth all things and is known of none”

Magnified be Thy name, O Lord my God! Thou art He Whom all things worship and Who worshipeth no one, Who is the Lord of all things and is the vassal of none, Who knoweth all things and is known of none. 

- Baha’u’llah

III. The “splendors of the light of” God’s “face” have “illuminated the whole world”

Deprive me not, O my Lord, of the splendors of the light of Thy face, whose brightness hath illuminated the whole world. 

- Baha’u’llah

III. Though it is in one’s “power” to love and remember God at all times – need God’s assistance “to enable”

I entreat Thee to enable me to cleave steadfastly to Thy Love and Thy remembrance. This is, verily, within my power, and Thou art the One that knoweth all that is in me. Thou, in truth, art knowing, apprised of all. 

- Baha’u’llah

III. Condition of the people of our generation

…these days when all have turned away from Thy beauty, have disputed with Thee, and turned away disdainfully from Him Who is the Revealer of Thy Cause. 

- Baha’u’llah

III. Baha’u’llah’s is God’s “Most Great Name”; “no tongue can describe” the extent of His sufferings

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I beseech Thee by Him Who is Thy Most Great Name, Who hath been sorely afflicted by such of Thy creatures as have repudiated Thy truth, and Who hath been hemmed in by sorrows which no tongue can describe… 

- Baha’u’llah

II. The resulting effects of being able to drink waters from God’s “river” in Paradise

…that mine eyes may be opened, and my face be illumined, and my heart be assured, and my soul be enlightened, and my steps be made firm.

- Baha'u'llah

II. There is a “river” full of life in God’s Paradise

Give me to drink of the river that is life indeed, whose waters have streamed forth from the Paradise (Ridvan) in which the throne of Thy Name, the All-Merciful, was established…

- Baha'u'llah

II. We need God’s assistance to gain His “knowledge” and “guidance”

Suffer me not, O my Lord, to be deprived of the knowledge of Thee in Thy days, and divest me not of the robe of Thy guidance.

- Baha'u'llah

We need God’s assistance “to rend asunder the veils” that would shut us out from God and His Manifestation

…to rend asunder the veils that shut me out from Thee, that I may hasten unto the Fountain-Head of Thy mighty inspiration, and to the Day-Spring of Thy Revelation and bountiful favors, and may be immersed beneath the ocean of Thy nearness and pleasure.

- Baha'u'llah