Know thou… that We have been cast into an afflictive Prison,
and are encompassed with the hosts of tyranny, as a result of what the hands of
the infidels have wrought. Such is the gladness, however, which the Youth hath
tasted that no earthly joy can compare unto it. By God! The harm He suffereth
at the hands of the oppressor can never grieve His heart, nor can He be
saddened by the ascendancy of such as have repudiated His truth.
Say: Tribulation is a horizon unto My Revelation. The day
star of grace shineth above it, and sheddeth a light which neither the clouds
of men’s idle fancy nor the vain imaginations of the aggressor can obscure.
(Baha’u’llah,
‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
