God is My witness, O people! I was asleep on My couch, when
lo, the Breeze of God wafting over Me roused Me from My slumber. His quickening
Spirit revived Me, and My tongue was unloosed to voice His Call. Accuse Me not
of having transgressed against God. Behold Me, not with your eyes but with
Mine. Thus admonisheth you He Who is the Gracious, the All-Knowing. Think ye, O
people, that I hold within My grasp the control of God’s ultimate Will and
Purpose? Far be it from Me to advance such claim. To this I testify before God,
the Almighty, the Exalted, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. Had the ultimate
destiny of God’s Faith been in Mine hands, I would have never consented, even
though for one moment, to manifest Myself unto you, nor would I have allowed
one word to fall from My lips. Of this God Himself is, verily, a witness.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
