In these days, inasmuch as We have lifted not the veils that
conceal the countenance of the Cause of God, nor disclosed unto men the fruits
of these stations which We have been forbidden to describe, thou beholdest them
drunk with heedlessness. Otherwise, were the glory of this station to be revealed
unto men to an extent smaller than a needle’s eye, thou wouldst witness them
gathering before the threshold of divine mercy and hastening from all sides to
the court of nearness in the realms of divine glory. We have concealed it,
however, as mentioned before, that those who believe may be distinguished from
them that deny, and that those who turn unto God may be discerned from them
that turn aside. I verily proclaim: “There is no power nor strength except in
God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.”
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gems of Divine Mysteries’)
