Gracious God! How far have that people strayed from the way
of God! Although the Day of Resurrection was ushered in through the Revelation
of Muhammad, although His light and tokens had encompassed the earth and all
that is therein, yet that people derided Him, gave themselves up to those idols
which the divines of that age, in their vain and idle fancy, had conceived, and
deprived themselves of the light of heavenly grace and of the showers of divine
mercy. Yea, the abject beetle can never scent the fragrance of holiness, and
the bat of darkness can never face the splendour of the sun.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The
Kitab-i-Iqan’)
