Some lamented in their separation from Me, others endured
hardships in My path, and still others laid down their lives for the sake of My
Beauty, could ye but know it. Say: I, verily, have not sought to extol Mine own
Self, but rather God Himself, were ye to judge fairly. Naught can be seen in Me except God and His
Cause, could ye but perceive it. I am
the One Whom the tongue of Isaiah hath extolled, the One with Whose name both
the Torah and the Evangel were adorned. Thus hath it been decreed in the Scriptures of thy Lord, the Most
Merciful. He, verily, hath borne witness
unto Me, as I bear witness unto Him. And
God testifieth to the truth of My words.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Czar Alexander
II, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
