Prayer for the City of Washington

O God! Grant Washington happiness and peace. Illuminate that land with the lights of the faces of the friends. Make it a paradise of Glory. Let it become an aspiration of the green gardens of the earth.

Help the friends, increase their number, make their hearts sources of inspiration and the souls springs of Light.

Thus may that City become a beautiful paradise and perfumed with the fragrance of musk.

(`Abdu’l-Baha, March 15, 1905)