Blessed art thou, O
night! For through thee was born the Day of God, a Day which We have ordained
to be the lamp of salvation unto the denizens of the cities of names, the
chalice of victory unto the champions of the arenas of eternity, and the
dawning-place of joy and exultation unto all creation.
Immeasurably exalted
is God, the Maker of the heavens, Who hath caused this Day to speak forth that
Name whereby the veils of idle fancy have been rent asunder, the mists of vain
imagining have been dispelled, and His name “the Self-Subsisting” hath dawned
above the horizon of certitude. Through Thee the choice wine of everlasting
life hath been unsealed, the doors of knowledge and utterance have been
unlocked before the peoples of the earth, and the breezes of the All-Merciful
have been wafted over every region. All
glory be to that hour wherein the Treasure of God, the All-Powerful, the
All-Knowing, the All-Wise, hath appeared!
- Baha’u’llah (Excerpt from a Tablet
revealed at the Anniversary of the Birth of the Báb, included in ‘Days of
Remembrance’, attached to a letter dated 6 July 2015 written on behalf of the Universal
House of Justice to all NSAs dated 6 July 2015)
