Call then to mind
these words which have streamed forth, in tribute to this Revelation, from the
Pen of Him Who was My Herald, and consider what the hands of the oppressors
have wrought throughout My days. Truly they are numbered with the lost. He
said: “Should ye attain the presence of Him Whom We shall make manifest,
beseech ye God, in His bounty, to grant that He might deign to seat Himself
upon your couches, for that act in itself would confer upon you matchless and
surpassing honour. Should He drink a cup of water in your homes, this would be
of greater consequence for you than your proffering unto every soul, nay unto
every created thing, the water of its very life. Know this, O ye My servants!”
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
