Call thou to remembrance, O Land of Tá (Tihrán), the former
days in which thy Lord had made thee the seat of His throne, and had enveloped
thee with the effulgence of His glory. How vast the number of those sanctified
beings, those symbols of certitude, who, in their great love for thee, have
laid down their lives and sacrificed their all for thy sake! Joy be to thee,
and blissfulness to them that inhabit thee. I testify that out of thee, as
every discerning heart knoweth, proceedeth the living breath of Him Who is the
Desire of the world. In thee the Unseen hath been revealed, and out of thee
hath gone forth that which lay hid from the eyes of men.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
