O My servant, who hast sought the good-pleasure of God and
clung to His love on the Day when all except a few who were endued with insight
have broken away from Him! May God, through His grace, recompense thee with a
generous, an incorruptible and everlasting reward, inasmuch as thou hast sought
Him on the Day when eyes were blinded. Know thou that if We reveal to thee but
a sprinkling of the showers which, through God’s decree, and at the hands of
the envious and the malicious, have rained upon Us, thou wouldst weep with a
great weeping, and wouldst bewail day and night Our plight. Oh, would that a
discerning and fair-minded soul could be found who would recognize the wonders
of this Revelation—wonders that proclaim the sovereignty of God and the
greatness of its power. Would that such a man might arise and, wholly for the
sake of God, admonish, privately and openly, the people, that haply they may
bestir themselves and aid this wronged One Whom the workers of iniquity have so
sorely afflicted.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
