has chosen for him to leave it. Let him feel no pain over this, for he will praise the outcome of leaving it.
(Extending the Seeking of God’s Choice to the Day’s Activities)
The people of God should perform the prayer for seeking God’s choice at a set time they appoint, by night or day, every day. When they make the supplication after the salutation of the two units, at the point where one is commanded to name one’s need, they say what we shall mention.
He says, “O God, if You know that all I undertake concerning myself and others, and all that others undertake concerning me, my family, my children, and those whom my right hand possesses, is good for me in my religion, my worldly life, and my immediate and later affairs, from this hour until the same hour of the following day, then make it easy for me, ordain it, and make me content with it.
And if You know that all I undertake concerning myself and others, and all that others undertake concerning me, my family, my children, and those whom my right hand possesses, from this hour until the same hour of the following day, is bad for me in my religion, my worldly life, and my immediate and later affairs,” and so on, as will come in the supplication below, God willing.
When he does this, he makes no movement, nor is any movement made concerning him, without there being a verified good for him in it, whether in doing it or leaving it. I have tested this continually. Let him do it every day at one particular time, keeping to it without changing it.
(The Transmitted Supplication for Seeking God’s Choice)
The form of the supplication is, “O God, I seek Your choice through Your knowledge, seek Your enabling through Your power, and ask You of Your immense bounty. For You are able and I am not, You know and I do not, and You are
