We testify that when He [Christ] came into the world, He
shed the splendor of His glory upon all created things. Through Him the leper
recovered from the leprosy of perversity and ignorance. Through Him, the
unchaste and wayward were healed. Through His power, born of Almighty God, the
eyes of the blind were opened, and the soul of the sinner sanctified.
Leprosy may be interpreted as any veil that interveneth
between man and the recognition of the Lord, his God. Whoso alloweth himself to
be shut out from Him is indeed a leper, who shall not be remembered in the
Kingdom of God, the Mighty, the All-Praised. We bear witness that through the
power of the Word of God every leper was cleansed, every sickness was healed,
every human infirmity was banished. He it is Who purified the world. Blessed is
the man who, with a face beaming with light, hath turned towards Him.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
