Great is thy blessedness, for thou hast received the wine of
utterance from the hand of the All-Merciful, and became so enraptured by the
sweet fragrance of the Best-Beloved as to renounce thy comfort and to be
numbered with them that have hastened unto His Paradise, the Dawning-Place of the
signs of thy Lord, the Gracious, the Peerless. Happy the one who hath quaffed the wine of inner mysteries from the
countenance of his Lord and been intoxicated by this pure and crystal draught. By God! It causeth every true believer to soar in the heaven of majesty and
grandeur, and transmuteth every doubt into certainty.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The
Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
