O people of the Bayán! Abandon your idle fancies and vain
imaginings, then with the eye of fairness look at the Dayspring of His
Revelation and consider the things He hath manifested, the words He hath
divinely revealed and the sufferings that have befallen Him at the hands of His
enemies. He is the One Who hath willingly accepted every manner of tribulation
for the proclamation of His Cause and the exaltation of His Word. At one time
He suffered imprisonment in the land of Tá (Ṭihrán), at another in the land of
Mím (Mázindarán), then once again in the former land, for the sake of the Cause
of God, the Maker of the heavens. In His love for the Cause of God, the
Almighty, the All-Bountiful, He was subjected there to chains and fetters.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
