O God! Thou beholdest Thy lovers in Iran in the clutches of
hate and enmity. I beg of Thee, by Thy mercy which hath preceded the contingent
world, to raise up from the earth those who will be moved to aid and protect
them, and to preserve their rights and the restitution due to them by those who
broke Thy Covenant and Testament, and perpetrated such acts as made the inmates
of the cities of Thy justice and equity to lament. Thou art, verily, the All-Powerful,
the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Fire and Light,
Excerpts from the Bahá'í Sacred Writings’, prepared by the Research Department
of the Universal House of Justice; The Baha’i World 1979-1983)
