The more He [the Báb] extolled the remembrance of God, the
greater they waxed in their oppression, until all the divines pronounced
sentence against Him, save those that were acquainted with the precepts of God,
the All-Glorious, the Best-Beloved. Matters came to such a pass that they
united to put Him to death. They suspended Him in the air, and the hosts of
misbelief flung at Him the bullets of malice and hatred, piercing the body of
the One unto Whom the Holy Spirit is a humble servant, the dust of Whose feet
is the object of adoration of the Concourse on high, and from Whose very
sandals the inmates of Paradise seek a blessing.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of
Remembrance’)
