..a humble attempt to highlight some of the spiritual gems contained in prayers revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

December 10, 2011

The incredibly exalted station of God

Insights from this prayer by 'Abdu'l-Baha
  • No “words” can a human being attempt to find to “glorify” God;
  • No way can the “bird” of a human being’s “mind” “soar upward” to God’s “Kingdom of Holiness”;
  • God, in His “very essence” is “sanctified” above any “tributes” offered by human beings;
  • God, in His “very being” is “beyond the reach of those praises which are offered” Him “by the people” that He has created.
  • God, in “the sanctity” of His “own being” has “ever been exalted above the understanding of the learned among the Company on high”;
  • God, will “forever” “remain enwrapped within the holiness” of His “own reality, unreached by the knowledge of those dwellers” in His “exalted Kingdom who glorify” His “Name”.
  • Knowing how “inaccessible” and “sanctified” God is “above every description and praise”, how then can a human being ever “glorify” or “describe” Him?