O Land of Tá! (Tihrán) Thou art still, through the grace of
God, a center around which His beloved ones have gathered. Happy are they;
happy every refugee that seeketh thy shelter, in his sufferings in the path of
God, the Lord of this wondrous Day! Blessed are they that remember the one true
God, that magnify His Name, and seek diligently to serve His Cause. It is to
these men that the sacred Books of old have referred. On them hath the
Commander of the Faithful lavished his praise, saying: “The blessedness
awaiting them excelleth the blessedness we now enjoy.” He, verily, hath spoken
the truth, and to this We now testify. The glory of their station, however, is
as yet undisclosed. The Hand of Divine power will, assuredly, lift up the veil,
and expose to the sight of men that which shall cheer and lighten the eye of
the world.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
