God is my witness! Had it not been in conflict with that
which the Tablets of God have decreed, I would have gladly kissed the hands of
whosoever attempted to shed my blood in the path of the Well-Beloved. I would,
moreover, have bestowed upon him a share of such worldly goods as God had
allowed me to possess, even though he who perpetrated this act would have
provoked the wrath of the Almighty, incurred His malediction, and deserved to
be tormented throughout the eternity of God, the All-Possessing, the Equitable,
the All-Wise.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
