You should exhort all the friends to patience, to
acquiescence, and to tranquillity, saying: O ye loved ones of God in that land!
Ye are glorified in all the worlds of God because of your relationship to Him
Who is the Eternal Truth, but in your lives on this earthly plane, which pass
away as a fleeting moment, ye are afflicted with abasement. For the sake of the
one true God, ye have been reviled and persecuted, ye have been imprisoned, and
surrendered your lives in His path. Ye should not, however, by reason of the
tyrannical acts of some heedless souls, transgress the limits of God's
commandments by contending with anyone.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Bahá'í World vol.
XVIII’; The Compilation of Compilations vol. I, Crisis and Victory)
