Let him then raise his hands, and repeat three times the Greatest Name. Let him then bend down with hands resting on the knees before God-- blessed and exalted be He-- and say: (319:1) Thou seest, O my God, how my spirit hath been stirred up within my limbs and members, in its longing to worship Thee, and in its yearning to remember Thee and extol Thee; how it testifieth to that whereunto the Tongue of Thy Commandment hath testified in the kingdom of Thine utterance and the heaven of Thy knowledge. I love, in this state, O my Lord, to beg of Thee all that is with Thee, that I may demonstrate my poverty, and magnify Thy bounty and Thy riches, and may declare my powerlessness, and manifest Thy power and Thy might. (319:2) Let him then stand and raise his hands twice in supplication, and say:
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