Say: It is in Our
power, should We wish it, to cause all created things to expire in an instant,
and, with the next, to endue them again with life. The knowledge thereof, however, is with God
alone, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed.
It is in Our power, should We wish it, to enable a speck of floating dust
to generate, in less than the twinkling of an eye, suns of infinite, of
unimaginable splendour, to cause a dewdrop to develop into vast and numberless
oceans, to infuse into every letter such a force as to empower it to unfold all
the knowledge of past and future ages.
This, in truth, is a matter simple of accomplishment. Such have been the evidences of My power from
the beginning that hath no beginning until the end that hath no end. My creatures, however, have been oblivious of
My power, have repudiated My sovereignty, and contended with Mine own Self, the
All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
(Baha'u'llah, Suriy-i-Haykal, The Summons of the
Lord of Hosts)
