Men have, at all times, considered every World Reformer a
fomenter of discord, and have referred unto Him in terms with which all are
familiar. Each time the Daystar of Divine Revelation shed its radiance from the
horizon of God’s Will a great number of men denied Him, others turned aside
from Him, and still others calumniated Him, and thereby withheld the servants
of God from the river of loving providence of Him Who is the King of creation.
In like manner, they who, in this day, have neither met this Wronged One nor
associated with Him have said, and even now continue to say, the things thou
hast heard and hearest still. Say: “O people! The Sun of Utterance beameth
forth in this day, above the horizon of bounty, and the radiance of the
Revelation of Him Who spoke on Sinai flasheth and glisteneth before all
religions. Purge and sanctify your breasts, and your hearts, and your ears, and
your eyes with the living waters of the utterance of the All-Merciful, and set,
then, your faces towards Him. By the righteousness of God! Ye shall hear all
things proclaim: ‘Verily, He the True One is come. Blessed are they that judge
with fairness, and blessed they that turn towards Him!’”
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Epistle
to the Son of the Wolf’)
