In the eighth of the
most holy lines, in the fifth Tablet of Paradise, He saith:
O Ye that are Lying
as Dead on the Couch of Heedlessness! Ages have passed and your precious lives
are well-nigh ended, yet not a single breath of purity hath reached Our court
of holiness from you. Though immersed in the ocean of misbelief, yet with your
lips ye profess the one true faith of God. Him whom I abhor ye have loved, and
of My foe ye have made a friend. Notwithstanding, ye walk on My earth
complacent and self-satisfied, heedless that My earth is weary of you and
everything within it shunneth you. Were ye but to open your eyes, ye would, in
truth, prefer a myriad griefs unto this joy, and would count death itself
better than this life.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah’)
