May 14
Heed not your weaknesses and frailty;
fix your gaze upon the invincible power of the Lord, your God, the Almighty.
Has He not, in past days, caused Abraham, in spite of His seeming helplessness,
to triumph over the forces of Nimrod? Has He not enabled Moses, whose staff was
His only companion, to vanquish Pharaoh and his hosts? Has He not established
the ascendancy of Jesus, poor and lowly as He was in the eyes of men, over the
combined forces of the Jewish people? Has He not subjected the barbarous and
militant tribes of Arabia to the holy and transforming discipline of Muhammad,
His Prophet? Arise in His name, put your trust wholly in Him, and be assured of
ultimate victory. (The Báb, Addressed to the Letters of the Living, quoted in
The Dawn-Breakers; The Compilation of
Compilations, vol. II, The Power of Divine Assistance)
