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Verily Thou art the Forgiver, the Compassionate, and Thou art the Generous, the Beloved! - 'Abdu'l-Baha (67:6) O compassionate God! Thanks be to Thee for Thou hast awakened and made me conscious. Thou hast given me a seeing eye and favored me with a hearing ear; hast led me to Thy Kingdom and guided me to Thy Path. Thou hast shown me the right way and caused me to enter the Ark of Deliverance. O God! Keep me steadfast and make me firm and staunch. Protect me from violent tests and preserve and shelter me in the strongly fortified fortress of Thy Covenant and Testament. Thou art the Powerful! Thou art the Seeing! Thou art the Hearing! O Thou the Compassionate God! Bestow upon me a heart which, like unto glass, may be illumined with the light of Thy love, and confer upon me a thought which may change this world into a rose- garden through the spiritual bounty. Thou art the Compassionate, the Merciful! Thou art the Great Beneficent God! - 'Abdu'l-Baha (67:7) Baha'i prayer is not, however, confined to the use of prescribed forms, important as those are. Baha'u'llah teaches that one's whole life should be a prayer, that work done in the right spirit is worship, that every thought, word and deed devoted to the Glory of God and the good of one's fellows is prayer, in the truest sense of the word.1
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