…no eye hath beheld so great an outpouring of bounty, nor hath any ear heard of such a revelation [the Báb’s] of
loving kindness. Such bounty and revelation have been made manifest, that the
revealed verses seemed as vernal showers raining from the clouds of the mercy
of the All-Bountiful. The Prophets “endowed with constancy,” whose loftiness
and glory shine as the sun, were each honoured with a Book which all have seen,
and the verses of which have been duly ascertained. Whereas the verses which
have rained from this Cloud of divine mercy have been so abundant that none
hath yet been able to estimate their number. A score of volumes are now
available. How many still remain beyond our reach! How many have been plundered
and have fallen into the hands of the enemy, the fate of
which none knoweth.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
