…it is incumbent upon a lowly servant to acquiesce to whatever
proof God hath appointed, and not to follow his own idle fancy. If the wishes
of the people [re miracles] were to be gratified not a single disbeliever would
remain on earth. For once the Apostle of God had fulfilled the wishes of the
people they would unhesitatingly have embraced His Faith. May God save thee,
shouldst thou seek any evidence according to thy selfish desire; rather it
behooveth thee to uphold the unfailing proof which God hath appointed. The
object of thy belief in God is but to secure His good-pleasure. How then dost
thou seek as a proof of thy faith a thing which hath been and is contrary to
His good-pleasure?
- The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb’)
