June 1

By the One in Whose hand is My soul!  We were dismayed by his[Yahya's, Baha’u’llah’s half-brother] deceitfulness—nay, bewildered were all things visible and invisible.  Nor did he find respite from what he harboured in his bosom until he had committed that which no pen dare describe, and by which he disgraced the dignity of My station and profaned the sanctity of God, the Almighty, the All-Glorious, the All-Praised.  Were God to turn all the oceans of the earth into ink and all created things into pens, they would not suffice Me to exhaust the record of his wrongdoings.  Thus do We recount that which befell Us, that haply ye may be of them that understand. (Baha’u’llah, Súriy-i-Haykal, ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)