O God, my God! I yield Thee thanks inasmuch as Thou hast
made me to drink of Thy Sealed Wine from the hand of the bounty of Thy Name,
the Self-Subsisting. I entreat Thee by the splendors of the Dayspring of Thy
Revelation, and by the potency of Thy Most Sublime Word, and by the might of
Thy Most Exalted Pen, through Whose movement the realities of all created
things have been enraptured, to aid His Majesty the Sháh to render Thy Cause
victorious, and to turn towards the horizon of Thy Revelation, and to set his
face in the direction of the lights of Thy countenance. Assist him, O my Lord,
to draw nigh unto Thee. Help him, then, with the hosts of the heavens and of
earth. I implore Thee, O Thou Who art the Lord of all Names and the Maker of
the heavens, by the light of Thy Cause, and by the fire of the Lote-Tree of Thy
loving-kindness, to help His Majesty to reveal Thy Cause amidst Thy creatures.
Open, then, before his face the doors of Thy grace, and Thy mercy, and Thy
bounty. Potent art Thou to do what pleaseth Thee by Thy word: ‘Be, and it is.’”
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
