I know not, O my
God, what the Fire is which Thou didst kindle in Thy land. Earth can never
cloud its splendor, nor water quench its flame. All the peoples of the world
are powerless to resist its force. Great is the blessedness of him that hath
drawn nigh unto it, and heard its roaring.
Some, O my God, Thou
didst, through Thy strengthening grace, enable to approach it, while others
Thou didst keep back by reason of what their hands have wrought in Thy days.
Whoso hath hasted towards it and attained unto it hath, in his eagerness to
gaze on Thy beauty, yielded his life in Thy path, and ascended unto Thee, wholly
detached from aught else except Thyself.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations
of Baha’u’llah’)
