Gracious God! In His [the Báb’s] Book, which He hath
entitled “Qayyúmu’l-Asmá,”—the first, the greatest and mightiest of all
books—He prophesied His own martyrdom. In it is this passage: “O thou Remnant
of God! I have sacrificed myself wholly for Thee; I have accepted curses for
Thy sake; and have yearned for naught but martyrdom in the path of Thy love.
Sufficient Witness unto me is God, the Exalted, the Protector, the Ancient of
Days!”
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
