Every unbiased observer will readily admit that, ever since
the dawn of His Revelation, this wronged One hath invited all mankind to turn
their faces towards the Day Spring of Glory, and hath forbidden corruption,
hatred, oppression, and wickedness. And yet, behold what the hand of the
oppressor hath wrought! No pen dare describe his tyranny. Though the purpose of
Him Who is the Eternal Truth hath been to confer everlasting life upon all men,
and ensure their security and peace, yet witness how they have arisen to shed
the blood of His loved ones, and have pronounced on Him the sentence of death.
The instigators of this oppression are those very persons
who, though so foolish, are reputed the wisest of the wise. Such is their
blindness that, with unfeigned severity, they have cast into this fortified and
afflictive Prison Him, for the servants of Whose Threshold the world hath been
created. The Almighty, however, in spite of them and those that have repudiated
the truth of this “Great Announcement,” hath transformed this Prison House into
the Most Exalted Paradise, the Heaven of Heavens.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from
the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
