O Salmán! Say: O people! Tread ye in the path of the one
true God and ponder the ways and words of Him Who is the Manifestation of His
ancient Being, that perchance ye may attain unto the Wellspring of the living
waters of the All-Glorious. Were believers and non-believers to occupy the same
station, were the worlds of God to be confined to this ephemeral plane, never
would My previous Manifestation have surrendered Himself into the hands of His
foes or laid down His life as a sacrifice. I swear by the dawning-light of this
Cause that were the people to grasp the barest intimation of the fervour and
longing which overcame that sovereign Beauty when His celestial Temple was
suspended in the air, all would, in the intensity of their own yearning, offer
up their souls in the path of this Manifestation of supernal glory.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
