Dear Baha'i friends,
As you know, the persecution of our friends in Iran
continues unabated, and our oppressed brethren are bearing this ordeal with
resignation and valour. The Universal House of Justice feels that the time has
come to once again call for a day of prayer, and it asks that you inform the
members of your community to offer special prayers on the Feast of Jamal
(Beauty) on Thursday, 28 April 1983.
The House of Justice is confident that the friends will also
want to pray for the believers in Iran during the Fast, particularly at dawn,
and it would be useful for National Spiritual Assemblies to remind the friends
of the privilege of joining universally in prayers during this period about
which Baha'u'llah has written, "Thou hast endowed every hour of these days
with a special virtue, inscrutable to all except Thee, ..."
In addition, your Assembly should set aside time during your
National Convention for such prayers, as will be done at the International
Convention.
It is hoped that these manifold supplications, reverberating
from every corner of the globe, will attract in ever greater measure the
blessings of the Almighty upon His lovers in the Cradle of His Faith, and will
reinvigorate our determination to accelerate the tempo of our activities, in
order to compensate for and indeed more than offset the setbacks being suffered
by our beleaguered co-workers in Iran.
With loving Baha'i greetings,
Department of the Secretariat
(‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 1963-1986’)