God had, in truth, proposed Our Mission unto the heavens and
the earth and the mountains, but they refused to bear it and were afraid
thereof. However, Man, this ‘Alí, Who is none other but the Great Remembrance
of God, undertook to bear it. Hence God, the All-Encompassing, hath referred to
Him in His Preserved Book as the ‘Wronged One’, and by reason of His being
undistinguished before the eyes of men, He hath, according to the judgement of
the Book, been entitled ‘the Unknown’[Qur’án 33:72]...
(The Báb, ‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb’)
(The Báb, ‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb’)
