Know thou and be well assured that from the first day
whereon the voice of the Most Sublime Pen was raised betwixt earth
and heaven We offered up Our souls, and Our bodies, and Our sons, and Our
possessions in the path of God, the Exalted, the Great, and We glory therein
amongst all created things and the Concourse on high. Unto this testify the
things which have befallen Us in this straight Path. By God! Our hearts were
consumed, and Our bodies were crucified, and Our blood was spilt, while Our
eyes were fixed on the horizon of the loving-kindness of their Lord, the
Witness, the All-Seeing. The more grievous their woes, the greater waxed the
love of the people of Bahá.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
