Lauded
be Thy name, O Thou Who art the Goal of my desire! I swear by Thy
glory! How great is my wish to attain unto a detachment so complete that
were there to appear before me those countenances which are hid within
the chambers of chastity, and the beauty of which Thou didst veil from
the eyes of the entire creation, and whose faces Thou didst sanctify
from the sight of all beings, and were they to unveil themselves in all
the glory of the splendors of Thine incomparable beauty, I would refuse
to look upon them, and would behold them solely for the purpose of
discerning the mysteries of Thy handiwork, which have perplexed the
minds of such as have drawn nigh unto Thee, and awed the souls of all
them that have recognized Thee. I would, by Thy power and Thy might,
soar to such heights that nothing whatsoever would have the power to
keep me back from the manifold evidences of Thy transcendent dominion,
nor would any earthly scheme shut me out from the manifestations of Thy
Divine holiness.