All praise to the unity of God, and all honor to Him, the
sovereign Lord, the incomparable and all-glorious Ruler of the universe, Who,
out of utter nothingness, hath created the reality of all things, Who, from
naught, hath brought into being the most refined and subtle elements of His
creation, and Who, rescuing His creatures from the abasement of remoteness and
the perils of ultimate extinction, hath received them into His kingdom of
incorruptible glory. Nothing short of His all-encompassing grace, His
all-pervading mercy, could have possibly achieved it. How could it, otherwise,
have been possible for sheer nothingness to have acquired by itself the
worthiness and capacity to emerge from its state of non-existence into the
realm of being?
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
