Reflect, O Shaykh, upon the Shí’ih sect. How many the
edifices which they reared with the hands of idle fancies and vain imaginings,
and how numerous the cities which they built! At length those vain imaginings
were converted into bullets and aimed at Him Who is the Prince of the world.
Not one single soul among the leaders of that sect acknowledged Him in the Day
of His Revelation! Whenever His blessed name was mentioned, all would say: “May
God hasten the joy His coming will bring!” On the day of the Revelation of that
Sun of Truth, however, all, as hath been observed, have exclaimed, saying: “May
God hasten His chastisement!” He Who was the Essence of being and Lord of the
seen and unseen they suspended, and committed what made the Tablet to weep, and
the Pen to groan, and the cries of the sincere to break forth, and the tears of
the favored ones to flow.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
