Insights from this prayer by 'Abdu'l-Baha
- He is our “holy Lord”
- He is our “Lord of loving-kindness”
- We “stray about” His “dwelling”,
- We long to “behold” His “beauty,”
- We love “all” His “ways.”
- “We are hapless, lowly, and of small account.”
- “We are paupers: show us mercy, give us bounty;
- We ask Him not to “look … upon our failings”;
- We ask Him to “hide … our endless sins.”;
- “Whatever we are, still are we Thine”;
- “what we speak and hear is praise of Thee”;
- “it is Thy face we seek, Thy path we follow.”
