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€”I implore Thee to keep safe him who hath held fast and returned unto Thee,

and clung to Thy mercy, and seized the hem of Thy loving providence.

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Send down, then, upon him with a constancy vouchsafed by Thee,

and a tranquillity bestowed by Thy highness.

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Thou art, verily, the Healer, the Preserver, the Helper,

the Almighty, the Powerful,

the All-Glorious, the All-Knowing.

€”Baha-ullah

Praised be Thou, O Lord my God!

I implore Thee, by Thy Most Great Name

through which Thou didst stir up Thy servants and build up Thy cities,

and by Thy most excellent titles,

and Thy most august attributes,

to assist Thy people to turn in the direction of Thy manifold bounties,

and set their faces towards the Tabernacle of Thy wisdom.

Heal Thou the sicknesses that have assailed the souls on every side,

and have deterred them from directing their gaze

towards the Paradise that lieth in the shelter of Thy shadowing Name,

which Thou didst ordain to be the King of all names

unto all who are in heaven and all who are on earth.

Potent art Thou to do as pleaseth Thee.

In Thy hands is the empire of all names.

There is none other God but Thee, the Mighty, the Wise.

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I am merely a poor creature, O my Lord;

I have clung to the hem of Thy riches.

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I am sore sick;

I have held fast the cord of Thy healing.

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Deliver me from the ills that have encircled me,

and wash me thoroughly with the waters of Thy graciousness and mercy,

and attire me with the raiment of wholesomeness, through Thy forgiveness and bounty.

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Fix, then, mine eyes upon Thee,

and rid me of all attachment to anything else except Thyself.

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Aid me to do what Thou desirest, and to fulfill what Thou pleasest.

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Thou art truly the Lord of this life and of the next.

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Thou art, in truth, the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.

Baha-ullah

PRAYER FOR WOMEN

Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God!

I beg of Thee by Thy Name through which He Who is Thy Beauty

hath been established upon the throne of Thy Cause,

and by Thy Name through which Thou changest all things,

and gatherest together all things,

and callest to account all things,

and rewardest all things,

and preservest all things,

and sustainest all things€.

I beg of Thee to guard this handmaiden who hath fled for refuge to Thee,

and hath sought the shelter of Him in Whom Thou Thyself art manifest,

and hath put her whole trust and confidence in Thee.

She is sick, O my God,

and hath entered beneath the shadow of the Tree of Thy healing;

afflicted,

and hath fled to the City of Thy protection;

diseased,

and hath sought the Fountainhead of Thy favors;

sorely vexed,

and hath hasted to attain the Wellspring of Thy tranquillity;

burdened with sin,

and hath set her face toward the court of Thy forgiveness.

Attire her, by Thy sovereignty and Thy loving-kindness, O my God and my Beloved,

with the raiment of Thy balm and Thy healing,

and make her quaff of the cup of Thy mercy and Thy favors.

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Protect her, moreover, from every affliction and ailment,

from all pain and sickness,

and from whatsoever may be abhorrent unto Thee.

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Thou, in truth, art immensely exalted above all else except Thyself.

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Thou art, verily, the Healer, the All-Sufficing, the Preserver,

the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.

€”Baha-ullah

PRAYER FOR INFANTS

Thou art He, O my God,

through Whose name the sick are healed

and the ailing are restored,

and thirsty given drink

and the sore vexed tranquilized,

and the wayward are guided,

and the abased are exalted,

and the poor are enriched,

and the ignorant are enlightened,

and the gloomy are illumined,

and the sorrowful are cheered,

and the chilled are warmed,

and the downtrodden are raised up.

Through Thy name, O my God, all created things were stirred up,

and the heavens were spread, and earth was established,

and the clouds were raised and made to rain upon the earth.

This, verily, is a token of Thy grace unto all Thy creatures.

I implore Thee, therefore, by Thy Name through which Thou didst manifest Thy Godhead,

and didst exalt Thy Cause above all creation,

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and by each of Thy most excellent titles and most august attributes,

and by all the virtues wherewith Thy transcendent and most exalted Being is extolled,

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to send down this night from the clouds of Thy mercy the rains of Thy healing upon this suckling,

whom Thou hast related unto Thine all-glorious Self in the kingdom of Thy creation.

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Clothe him, then, O my God, by Thy grace,

with the robe of well-being and health, and guard him, O my Beloved,

from every affliction and disorder, and from whatsoever is obnoxious unto Thee.

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Thy might, verily, is equal to all things.

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Thou, in truth, art the Most Powerful, the Self-Subsistent.

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Send down, moreover, upon him, O my God,

the good of this world and of the next,

and the good of the former and latter generations,

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Thy might and Thy wisdom are, verily, equal unto this.

Baha-ullah

THE GREAT HEALING PRAYER

He is the Healer, the Sufficer, the Helper,

the All-Forgiving, the All-Merciful.

I call on Thee O Exalted [Lord], O Faithful [Lord], O Glorious [Lord]!