O my Lord and my Master! O my Desired
One and my Best Beloved! O Thou who art the Beloved of all that are in the
heavens and on the earth! I beseech Thee to grant, from the ocean of Thy bounty
and the day-star of Thy heavenly grace, that I may be cursed, reviled and
denounced a myriad times for the sake' of Thy love, that these ears of mine may
but once be blessed by hearing Thy sweet words: "Verily thou art of
the people of Bahá".
- Baha’u’llah (Compilation: ‘Fire and Light’, prepared by the
Research Department of the Universal House of Justice; The Baha’i World
1979-1983)
