…one of the signs of the Day of Revelation; even as it is
said: “The abased amongst you, He shall exalt; and they that are exalted, He
shall abase.” And likewise, He hath revealed in the Qur’án: “And We desire to
show favour to those who were brought low in the land, and to make them
spiritual leaders among men, and to make of them Our heirs.” [Qur’án 28:5] It
hath been witnessed in this day how many of the divines, owing to their
rejection of the Truth, have fallen into, and abide within, the uttermost
depths of ignorance, and whose names have been effaced from the scroll of the
glorious and learned. And how many of the ignorant who, by reason of their
acceptance of the Faith, have soared aloft and attained the high summit of
knowledge, and whose names have been inscribed by the Pen of Power upon the
Tablet of divine Knowledge.
- Baha’u’llah (The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
