O Vafa! [1] Render thanks unto thy Lord for having aided
thee to embrace His Cause, enabled thee to recognize the Manifestation of His
Own Self and raised thee up to magnify Him Who is the Most Great Remembrance in
this glorious Announcement.
Blessed art thou O Vafá, inasmuch as thou hast been faithful
to the Covenant of God and His Testament at a time when all men have violated
it and have repudiated the One in Whom they had believed, and this
notwithstanding that He hath appeared invested with every testimony, and hath
dawned from the horizon of Revelation clothed with undoubted sovereignty.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
[1] Muhammad Ḥusayn, one of the early believers of Shíráz,
surnamed ‘Vafá (Fidelity) by Bahá’u’lláh
