Consider this wronged One. Though the clearest proofs attest
the truth of His Cause; though the prophecies He, in an unmistakable language,
hath made have been fulfilled; though, in spite of His not being accounted
among the learned, His being unschooled and inexperienced in the disputations
current among the divines, He hath rained upon men the showers of His manifold
and Divinely-inspired knowledge; yet, behold how this generation hath rejected
His authority, and rebelled against Him! He hath, during the greater part of
His life, been sore-tried in the clutches of His enemies. His sufferings have
now reached their culmination in this afflictive Prison, into which His
oppressors have so unjustly thrown Him. God grant that, with a penetrating
vision and radiant heart, thou mayest observe the things that have come to pass
and are now happening, and, pondering them in thine heart, mayest recognize
that which most men have, in this Day, failed to perceive.
- Baha'u'llah (‘Gleanings from the
Writings of Baha'u'llah’)
