Blessed are they that have soared on the wings of detachment
and attained the station which, as ordained by God, overshadoweth the entire
creation, whom neither the vain imaginations of the learned, nor the multitude
of the hosts of the earth have succeeded in deflecting from His Cause. Who is
there among you, O people, who will renounce the world, and draw nigh unto God,
the Lord of all names? Where is he to be found who, through the power of My
name that transcendeth all created things, will cast away the things that men
possess, and cling, with all his might, to the things which God, the Knower of
the unseen and of the seen, hath bidden him observe? Thus hath His bounty been
sent down unto men, His testimony fulfilled, and His proof shone forth above
the Horizon of mercy. Rich is the prize that shall be won by him who hath
believed and exclaimed: “Lauded art Thou, O Beloved of all worlds! Magnified be
Thy name, O Thou the Desire of every understanding heart!” (Baha’u’llah,
‘Gleanings form the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
