Wert thou [1] to ponder a while, thou wouldst bear witness
unto the wisdom, and the power, and the sovereignty of God, exalted be His
glory. The few who were unaware of this Cause, and had not met Us, have spoken
in such a manner that all things, and those souls who are well assured,
pleased, and pleasing unto God, have testified unto the imposture of these
heedless ones. Wert thou now to exert thyself, the truth of this Cause would be
made apparent unto mankind, and the people would be delivered from this
grievous and oppressive darkness. Who else but Bahá can speak forth before the
face of men, and who else but He can have the power to pronounce that which He
was bidden by God, the Lord of Hosts?
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the
Wolf’)
[1] Shaykh Muhammad-Taqi, known as Aqa Najafi, a son of
Shaykh Muhammad-Baqir who was stigmatized by Him as 'Wolf'. After the death of
his father in 1883, Aqa Najafi succeeded him as a leading mujtahid of Isfahan.
He was an inveterate enemy and formidable opponent of the Cause of Bahá'u'lláh.
(Adib Taherzadeh, ‘The Revelation of Baha’u’llah, vol. 4)
