It is clear and evident that whenever the Manifestations of
Holiness were revealed, the divines of their day have hindered the people from
attaining unto the way of truth. To this testify the records of all the
scriptures and heavenly books. Not one Prophet of God was made manifest Who did
not fall a victim to the relentless hate, to the denunciation, denial, and
execration of the clerics of His day! Woe unto them for the iniquities their
hands have formerly wrought! Woe unto them for that which they are now doing! What
veils of glory more grievous than these embodiments of error! By the
righteousness of God! to pierce such veils is the mightiest of all acts, and to
rend them asunder the most meritorious of all deeds!
- Baha’u’llah (‘The
Kitab-i-Iqan’)
