Consider these days in which He Who is the Ancient Beauty
hath come in the Most Great Name, that He may quicken the world and unite its
peoples. They, however, rose up against Him with sharpened swords, and
committed that which caused the Faithful Spirit to lament, until in the end
they imprisoned Him in the most desolate of cities, and broke the grasp of the
faithful upon the hem of His robe. Were anyone to tell them: ‘The World
Reformer is come,’ they would answer and say: ‘Indeed it is proven that He is a
fomenter of discord!’, and this notwithstanding that they have never associated
with Him, and have perceived that He did not seek, for one moment, to protect
Himself. At all times He was at the mercy of the wicked doers. At one time they
cast Him into prison, at another they banished Him, and at yet another
hurried Him from land to land. Thus have they pronounced judgment against Us,
and God, truly, is aware of what I say.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Epistle to the Son of
the Wolf’)
