O God, my God, and my Master, and my Mainstay, and my Desire, and my Beloved!  I ask Thee by the mysteries which were hid in Thy knowledge, and by the signs which have diffused the fragrance of Thy loving-kindness, and by the billows of the ocean of Thy bounty, and by the heaven of Thy grace and generosity, and by the blood spilt in Thy path, and by the hearts consumed in their love for Thee, to assist His Majesty the Shah with Thy power and Thy sovereignty, that from him may be manifested that which will everlastingly endure in Thy Books, and Thy Scriptures, and Thy Tablets.  Hold Thou his hand, O my Lord, with the hand of Thine omnipotence, and illuminate him with the light of Thy knowledge, and adorn him with the adornment of Thy virtues.  Potent art Thou to do what pleaseth Thee, and in Thy grasp are the reins of all created things.  No God is there but Thee, the Ever-Forgiving, the All-Bounteous.

In the Epistle to the Romans Saint Paul hath written:  “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.  For there is no power but of God; the powers that be are ordained of God.  Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God.”  And further:  “For he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.”  He saith that the appearance of the kings, and their majesty and power are of God.

Moreover, in the traditions of old, references have been made which the divines have seen and heard.  We beseech God—­blessed and glorified be He—­to aid thee, O Shay_kh_, to lay fast hold on that which hath been sent down from the heaven of the bounty of God, the Lord of the worlds.  The divines must needs unite with His Majesty, the Shah, and cleave unto that which will insure the protection, the security, the welfare and prosperity of men.  A just king enjoyeth nearer access unto God than anyone.  Unto this testifieth He Who speaketh in His Most Great Prison.  God!  There is none other God but Him, the One, the Incomparable, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

Wert thou, for the sake of God, to ponder, though it be but for an hour, upon the things which have occurred in former times and more recently, thou wouldst turn away from the things thou dost possess unto the things which belong unto God, and wouldst become a means for the exaltation of His Word.  Hath, from the foundation of the world until the present day, any Light or Revelation shone forth from the dayspring of the will of God which the kindreds of the earth have accepted, and Whose Cause they have acknowledged?  Where is it to be found, and what is its name?  Since the Seal of the Prophets (Muhammad)—­may all else but Him be His sacrifice—­and before Him the Spirit of God (Jesus), as far back as the First Manifestation, all have at the time of Their appearance suffered grievously.  Some were held to be possessed, others were called impostors, and were treated in a manner that the pen is ashamed to describe.  By God!  There befell Them what hath made all created things to sigh, and yet the people are, for the most part, sunk in manifest ignorance!  We pray God to assist them to return unto Him, and to repent before the door of His mercy.  Potent is He over all things.