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This is the prayer of glorification which you should recite in the morning, that you may believe in what God hath revealed.

He is God!

Glorified art Thou, O my God! I bear witness before Thee, and all things at this moment when I was known by Thee as one of limited vision and a beholder of Thy decrees, that Thou art God, there is no God but Thee, alone without partner, having no likeness, no peer, no equal, and no equivalent. Thou hast ever been single and alone, and wilt forever continue to be as Thou hast been, single and alone. Thine are the most excellent names exalted on high, and Thine are the most sublime and inaccessible examples, wherein Thou hast described Thyself to Thy creation. The All-Powerful hath made Thee known through Thy Self, as a favor from Thee, a mercy from Thy presence, a bounty from Thee, and a generosity from Thee. There is no God but Thee.

Whomsoever Thou, O my God, dost enrich shall never be poor, and whomsoever Thou, O my Hope, dost help shall never be distressed. Whomsoever Thou dost remove shall not draw near, and whomsoever Thou, O my Guide, dost draw near shall not be removed. How great is Thy bounty, Thy generosity and Thy favor, that Thou dost manifest through Thy servants what no other soul in all lands can match, and dost inspire them with Thy verses and teach them Thy signs, whereby Thy divine attributes are manifested through them, Thy light shineth forth from them, Thy utterances are revealed through them, and thereby Thou dost attract the hearts of Thy servants that they may stand firm in Thy Cause and hasten towards it, seeking Thy good-pleasure, Thy forgiveness and Thy gifts.

Glorified art Thou, O King that never passeth away and Sovereign that never ceaseth to be, Who was in the glory of pre-existence, manifest in His concealment and established upon His throne—a throne wherein the hidden was captured in concealment just as concealment was captured in His throne. Blind is the eye that seeth Thee not, and dumb is the tongue that remembereth Thee not, while Thou hast been mindful of them from the first day Thou didst create me and from the moment Thou didst manifest Thyself to them through Thy grace, Thy gifts, Thy generosity and Thy decrees, wherein I found none like unto Thee known, save those who remember Thee through Thy Messengers and describe Thee through Thy witnesses unto Thy creation. Verily Thou art known through Thy primacy and described through Thy finality.

I beseech Thee, O God, by Thy name O God, O Most Merciful, O Sovereign, then by Thy name O First, then by Thy name O Last, then by Thy name O Manifest, then by Thy name O Hidden, that Thou shouldst bless the Bayan and its people, and punish those who opposed it, denied it, rejected its Cause and usurped its rights, and that Thou shouldst seize them with Thy grip and all Thy power of the Almighty, the Compelling, the Severe, the Subduing, the Seizing, the Forceful, and the Avenging. Verily, Thou art the most severe in might and the most severe in vengeance.