…call to mind the
shameful circumstances that have attended the martyrdom of Husayn.[Imam Husayn]
Reflect upon his loneliness, how, to outer seeming, none could be found to aid
him, none to take up his body and bury it. And yet, behold how numerous, in
this day, are those who from the uttermost corners of the earth don the garb of
pilgrimage, seeking the site of his martyrdom, that there they may lay their
heads upon the threshold of his shrine! Such is the ascendancy and power of
God! Such is the glory of His dominion and majesty!
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
