Glorified art Thou, O my God! I invoke Thee by Thy Most
Great Name through which the hidden secrets of God, the Most Exalted, were
divulged and the kindreds of all nations converged toward the focal centre of
faith and certitude, through which Thy luminous Words streamed forth for the
quickening of mankind and the essence of all knowledge was revealed from that
Embodiment of bounty. May my life, my inmost being, my soul and my body be
offered up as a sacrifice for the dust ennobled by His footsteps.
- The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb’)
