All praise, O Lord my God, be unto Him Who is the
Manifestation of Thine Essence, the Dayspring of Thy oneness, the Mine of Thy
knowledge, the Source of Thy Revelation, the Repository of Thine inspiration,
the Seat of Thy sovereignty, and the Dawning-Place of Thy Divinity—He Who is
the Primal Point, the Most Exalted Countenance, the Ancient Root, and the
Quickener of nations; and glory be upon him[1] who was the first to believe in
Him and in His verses, whom Thou didst make a throne for the ascendancy of Thy
most sublime Word, a focal-point for the manifestation of Thy most excellent
names, a dayspring of the radiance of the Sun of Thy providence, a
dawning-place for the appearance of Thy names and attributes, and a treasury of
the pearls of Thy wisdom and Thy commandments.
And all honor be upon him [2] who was the last to come unto Him, whose
arrival was like His arrival, and Thy manifestation in him [3] like Thy
manifestation in Him,[4] except that he was illumined with the lights of His
face and prostrated himself before Him and testified to his servitude unto Him;
and glory be upon those who were martyred in His path and who offered up their
lives for love of His beauty. - Baha’u’llah (compilation: The Importance of
Obligatory Prayer and Fasting, prepared by the Research Department of the
Universal House of Justice)
[1] Mullá Husayn
[2] Quddús
[2] Quddús
[4] The Báb
