He it is, O my God, about Whom Thou hast said: “But for Thee
the Scriptures would have remained unrevealed, and the Prophets unsent.” And no
sooner had He, by Thy behest, been manifested and spoken forth Thy praise, than
the wicked doers among Thy creatures compassed Him round, with the swords of
hate drawn against Him, O Thou the Lord of all names! Thou well knowest what
befell Him at the hands of such as have rent asunder the veil of Thy grandeur,
and cast behind their backs Thy Covenant and Thy Testament, O Thou Who art the
Maker of the heavens! He is the One for Whose sake Thou (the Báb) hast yielded
Thy life, and hast consented to be touched by the manifold ills of the world
that He may manifest Himself, and summoned all mankind in His name. As soon as He
came down, however, from the heaven of majesty and power, Thy servants
stretched out against Him the hands of cruelty and sedition, and caused Him to
be afflicted with such troubles that the scrolls of the world are insufficient
to contain a full recital of them.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by
Baha’u’llah’)
