Lạy Thượng Đế của con, xin Ngài dẫn dắt con, che chở con, thắp sáng ngọn đèn tâm hồn con, và biến con thành ngôi sao sáng. Quả thật, Ngài là Đấng Hùng mạnh và Uy quyền.

Đức Abdul-Baha

خدایا هدایت نما حفظ فرما سراج روشن کن ستاره درخشنده نما توئی مقتدر و توانا

حضرت عبدالبهاء

This most beloved of all Bahá’í prayers for children was originally included in a letter from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to a certain “Mrs. E.C.” (Ella Cooper) and published in Star of the West, vol. 9, no. 10 (September 8, 1918), p. 114.

You can see the prayer in the second-to-last paragraph on the right-hand column of that page by following

http://starofthewest.info/viewer.erb?vol=09u0026amp;page=114u0022 target=u0022_blank

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Interesting Fact

The portion of this earlier translation which reads “illumine the lamp of my heart” is actually a mistranslation of the original text, whereby siráj-i-rawshan kun has been misread as siráj rawshan kun. It was later changed to correctly read “make of me a shining lamp,” which is now part of the authorized translation of this prayer.

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