My God, my Fire and my Light! The days which Thou hast named
the Ayyám-i-Há (the Days of Há, Intercalary days) in Thy Book have begun, O
Thou Who art the King of names, and the fast which Thy most exalted Pen hath
enjoined unto all who are in the kingdom of Thy creation to observe is approaching.
I entreat Thee, O my Lord, by these days and by all such as have during that
period clung to the cord of Thy commandments, and laid hold on the handle of
Thy precepts, to grant that unto every soul may be assigned a place within the
precincts of Thy court, and a seat at the revelation of the splendors of the
light of Thy countenance.
- Baha’u’llah (’Prayers and Meditations')
