Consider the people and the things they have wrought in My
days. We revealed unto one of the rulers that which overpowereth all the
dwellers of the earth, and requested him to bring Us face to face with the
learned men of this age, that We might set forth for him the testimony of God,
His proofs, His glory and His majesty; and naught did We intend thereby but the
highest good. However, he committed that which hath caused the inmates of the
cities of justice and equity to lament. Thus hath judgement been given between
Me and him. Verily thy Lord is the Ordainer, the All-Informed. In such
circumstances as thou seest, how can the Celestial Bird soar into the
atmosphere of divine mysteries when its wings have been battered with the
stones of idle fancy and bitter hatred, and it is cast into a prison built of
unyielding stone? By the righteousness of God! The people have perpetrated a
grievous injustice.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
