O King of the Earth!
Hearken unto the call of this Vassal: Verily, I am a Servant Who hath believed in God and in His signs, and
have sacrificed Myself in His path. Unto
this bear witness the woes which now beset Me, woes the like of which no man
hath ever before sustained. My Lord, the
All-Knowing, testifieth to the truth of My words. I have summoned the people unto none save
God, thy Lord and the Lord of the worlds, and have endured for love of Him such
afflictions as the eye of creation hath never beheld. To this testify those whom the veils of human
fancy have not deterred from turning unto the Most Sublime Vision, and, beyond
them, He with Whom is the knowledge of all things in the preserved Tablet.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Nasiri’d-Din Shah,
Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
