The events that have happened in Persia during the early
years have truly saddened the well-favored and sincere ones. Each year
witnessed a fresh massacre, pillage, plunder, and shedding of blood. At one
time there appeared in Zanján that which caused the greatest consternation; at
another in Nayríz, and at yet another in Tabarsí, and finally there occurred
the episode of the Land of Tá (Tihrán). From that time onwards this Wronged
One, assisted by the One True God—exalted be His glory—acquainted this
oppressed people with the things which beseemed them. All have sanctified
themselves from the things which they and others possess, and have clung unto,
and fixed their eyes upon that which pertaineth unto God.
- Baha’u’llah ('Epistle
to the Son of the Wolf’)
