At this very moment My son
is being washed before My face, after Our having sacrificed him in the Most
Great Prison. Thereat have the dwellers of the Abhá Tabernacle wept with a
great weeping, and such as have suffered imprisonment with this Youth in the
path of God, the Lord of the promised Day, lamented. Under such conditions My
Pen hath not been prevented from remembering its Lord, the Lord of all nations.
It summoneth the people unto God, the Almighty, the All-Bountiful. This is the
day whereon he that was created by the light of Bahá has suffered martyrdom, at
a time when he lay imprisoned at the hands of his enemies.
(Baha’u’llah, quoted
by Shoghi Effendi in a letter dated December 21, 1939; ‘Messages to America’)
