Praise be unto Thee, O Lord My God! Thou hearest the voice of My lamentation, and
beholdest My condition, My distress and affliction! Thou knowest all that is in
Me. If the call I have raised be wholly
for Thy sake, then draw thereby the hearts of Thy creatures towards the heaven
of Thy knowledge, and the heart of the Sovereign towards the right hand of the
throne of Thy name, the All-Merciful.
Supply him then, O My God, with a portion of that goodly sustenance
which hath descended from the heaven of Thy generosity and the clouds of Thy
mercy, that he may forsake his all and turn unto the court of Thy favour. Aid
him, O My God, to assist Thy Cause and to exalt Thy Word amidst Thy creatures.
Strengthen him, then, with the hosts of the seen and the unseen, that he may
subdue every city in Thy Name, and hold sway, through Thy sovereignty and
might, over all that dwell on earth, O Thou in Whose hand is the kingdom of
creation! Thou, verily, art the Supreme Ordainer in both the beginning and the
end. No God is there but Thee, the Most Powerful, the All-Glorious, the
All-Wise.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Nasiri’d-Din Shah, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of
Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
