Say: O ye that have strayed and lost your way! The Divine
Messenger, Who speaketh naught but the truth, hath announced unto you the
coming of the Best-Beloved. Behold, He is now come. Wherefore are ye downcast
and dejected? Why remain despondent when the Pure and Hidden One hath appeared
unveiled amongst you? He Who is both the Beginning and the End, He Who is both
Stillness and Motion, is now manifest before your eyes. Behold how, in this
Day, the Beginning is reflected in the End, how out of Stillness Motion hath
been engendered. This motion hath been generated by the potent energies which
the words of the Almighty have released throughout the entire creation. Whoso
hath been quickened by its vitalizing power, will find himself impelled to
attain the court of the Beloved; and whoso hath deprived himself therefrom,
will sink into irretrievable despondency.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the
Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
