This is an allusion to the story of Joseph in the Qur'an and the Old
Testament, in which Joseph's garment, brought by his brothers to Jacob,
their father, enabled Jacob to identify his beloved long-lost son. The
metaphor of the fragrant "garment" is frequently used in the Baha'i
Writings to refer to the recognition of the Manifestation of God and His
Revelation.
Baha'u'llah, in one of His Tablets, describes Himself as the "Divine
Joseph" Who has been "bartered away" by the heedless "for the most paltry
of prices". The Bab, in the Qayyumu'l-Asma, identifies Baha'u'llah as the
"true Joseph" and forecasts the ordeals that He would endure at the hands
of His treacherous brother (see note 190). Likewise, Shoghi Effendi draws
a parallel between the intense jealousy which the preeminence of
'Abdu'l-Baha had aroused in His half-brother, Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, and the
deadly envy "which the superior excellence of Joseph had kindled in the
hearts of his brothers".
2. We have unsealed the choice Wine with the fingers of might and power.
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The consumption of wine and other intoxicants is prohibited in the
Kitab-i-Aqdas (see notes 144 and 170).
Reference to the use of "wine" in an allegorical sense--such as being the
cause of spiritual ecstasy--is found, not only in the Revelation of
Baha'u'llah, but in the Bible, in the Qur'an, and in ancient Hindu
traditions.
For example, in the Qur'an the righteous are promised that they will be
given to drink of the "choice sealed wine". In His Tablets, Baha'u'llah
identifies the "choice Wine" with His Revelation whose "musk-laden
fragrance" has been wafted "upon all created things". He states that He
has "unsealed" this "Wine", thereby disclosing spiritual truths that were
hitherto unknown, and enabling those who quaff thereof to "discern the
splendours of the light of divine unity" and to "grasp the essential
purpose underlying the Scriptures of God".
In one of His meditations, Baha'u'llah entreats God to supply the
believers with "the choice Wine of Thy mercy, that it may cause them to be
forgetful of any one except Thee, and to arise to serve Thy Cause, and to
be steadfast in their love for Thee".