Such abasement hath been inflicted that each day they spread
fresh calumnies. This Wronged One, however, cleaveth to seemly patience. Would
that His Majesty the Sháh of Persia would ask for a report of the things which
befell Us in Constantinople, that he might become fully acquainted with the
true facts. O Sháh! I adjure thee by thy Lord, the God of Mercy, to look into
this matter with the eye of fairness. Is there to be found a just man who will
judge in this day according to that which God hath sent down in His Book? Where
is the fair-minded person who will equitably consider what hath been
perpetrated against Us without any clear token or proof?
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle
to the Son of the Wolf’)
