As My tribulations multiplied, so did My love for God and
for His Cause increase, in such wise that all that befell Me from the hosts of
the wayward was powerless to deter Me from My purpose. Should they hide Me away in the depths of the
earth, yet would they find Me riding aloft on the clouds, and calling out unto
God, the Lord of strength and of might.
I have offered Myself up in the way of God, and I yearn after
tribulations in My love for Him, and for the sake of His good pleasure. Unto this bear witness the woes which now
afflict Me, the like of which no other man hath suffered. Every single hair of Mine head calleth out
that which the Burning Bush uttered on Sinai, and each vein of My body invoketh
God and saith: “O would I had been
severed in Thy path, so that the world might be quickened, and all its peoples
be united!” Thus hath it been decreed by Him Who is the All-Knowing, the
All-Informed.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Napoleon III, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of
Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
