Consider and reflect upon His [Muhammad] days, when God raised
Him up to promote His Cause and to stand as the representative of His own Self.
Witness how He was assailed, denied, and denounced by all; how, when He set
foot in the streets and marketplaces, the people derided Him, wagged their
heads at Him, and laughed Him to scorn; how at every moment they sought to slay
Him. Such were their doings that the earth in all its vastness was straitened
for Him, the Concourse on High bewailed His plight, the foundations of
existence were reduced to nothingness, and the eyes of the well-favoured
denizens of His Kingdom wept sore over Him. Indeed, so grievous were the
afflictions which the infidels and the wicked showered upon Him that no
faithful soul can bear to hear them.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Gems of Divine Mysteries’,
‘Javáhiru’l-Asrár’)
