O God, my God, and my Master, and my Mainstay, and my
Desire, and my Beloved! I ask Thee by the mysteries which were hid in Thy
knowledge, and by the signs which have diffused the fragrance of Thy
loving-kindness, and by the billows of the ocean of Thy bounty, and by the
heaven of Thy grace and generosity, and by the blood spilt in Thy path, and by
the hearts consumed in their love for Thee, to assist His Majesty the Sháh with
Thy power and Thy sovereignty, that from him may be manifested that which will
everlastingly endure in Thy Books, and Thy Scriptures, and Thy Tablets. Hold
Thou his hand, O my Lord, with the hand of Thine omnipotence, and illuminate
him with the light of Thy knowledge, and adorn him with the adornment of Thy
virtues. Potent art Thou to do what pleaseth Thee, and in Thy grasp are the
reins of all created things. No God is there but Thee, the Ever-Forgiving, the
All-Bounteous.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
