Yesterday they executed a woman in the State of Virginia. The last time that a woman was executed in Virginia it was the year 1912, and Abdu'l-Baha was here in the United States. I was wondering what Abdu'l-Baha might have said about such an act.
I decided to look at the prayers for the departed that had been written by Abdu'l-Baha. I have decided to post one of those prayers in this blog:
O Thou forgiving Lord!
Although some souls have spent the days of their lives in ignorance, and became estranged and contumacious, yet, with one wave from the ocean of forgiveness, all those encompassed by sin will be set free. Whomsoever thou willest thou makest a confidant, and whosoever is not the object of Thy choice is accounted a transgressor. Shouldst thou deal with us with Thy justice, we are all naught but sinners and deserving to be shut out from Thee, but shouldst Thou uphold mercy, every sinner every sinner would be made pure and every stranger a friend. Bestow then Thy forgiveness and pardon and grant Thy mercy unto all.
Thou art the Forgiver, the Lightgiver and the Omnipotent.
--Abdu'l-Baha
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