The Desire of the World by Rúhíyyih Rabbání

Author:Rúhíyyih Rabbání [Rabbání, Rúhíyyih]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bahá’í
Publisher: Bahá’í eBooks Publications
Published: 2015-06-09T21:00:00+00:00

Other Prayers and Part of a Long Meditation

It is in the nature of the Manifestations of God to have a veritable passion of love and attachment to the God Who has made Them His Emissaries, the Embodiments of His attributes, the Carriers of His Message and the blameless targets of every woe that men could inflict upon Them. Many of Bahá’u’lláh’s prayers addressed to His Maker reflect the tumult in His soul, a threshing about like the leaping waves of the sea tossed by the tempest of His longing to express and pour out His praise and adoration for His Beloved. Something of this inner struggle is reflected in these words: “Praised be Thou, O Lord my God! Every time I am reminded of Thee and muse on Thy virtues, I am seized with such ecstasies and am so enravished by Thee that I find myself unable to make mention of Thy name and to extol Thee, . . .” “O Thou, the Light of the world!” He exclaims, “The fire of Thy love that burneth continually within me hast so inflamed me that whoever among Thy creatures approacheth me, and inclineth his inner ear towards me, cannot fail to hear its raging within each of my veins.”

The terms He uses are very revealing of Himself for Bahá’u’lláh was a very adorable person. Our awe of His station, our sense of complete non-existence in the face of His grandeur and power, often prevent us from glimpsing this other, infinitely endearing and bewitching side of His nature. For instance, He addresses God as “the Fountain of my life!”, “the Exultation of my heart”—not only most jubilant and tender expressions but ones which convey an intimacy and oneness far beyond our comprehension. “I swear by Thy might,” He says, “O Thou in Whose grasp are the reins of all mankind, and the destinies of the nations! I am so inflamed by my love for Thee, and so inebriated with the wine of Thy oneness, that I can hear from the whisper of the winds the sound of Thy glorification and praise, and can recognize in the murmur of the waters the voice that proclaimeth Thy virtues and Thine attributes, and can apprehend from the rustling of the leaves the mysteries that have been irrevocably ordained by Thee in Thy realm.”

In Himself, and in all things, Bahá’u’lláh sees the moving of His God: “Every time I lift up mine eyes unto Thy heaven, I call to mind Thy highness and Thy loftiness, and Thine incomparable glory and greatness; and every time I turn my gaze to Thine earth, I am made to recognize the evidences of Thy power and the tokens of Thy bounty. And when I behold the sea, I find that it speaketh to me of Thy majesty, and of the potency of Thy might, and of Thy sovereignty and Thy grandeur. And at whatever time I contemplate the mountains, I am led to discover the ensigns of Thy victory and the standards of Thine omnipresence.

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