To everyone We have been a most kindly companion, a most
forbearing and affectionate friend. In the company of the poor We have sought
their fellowship, and amidst the exalted and learned We have been submissive
and resigned. I swear by God, the one true God! grievous as have been the woes
and sufferings which the hand of the enemy and the people of the Book inflicted
upon Us, yet all these fade into utter nothingness when compared with that
which hath befallen Us at the hand of those who profess to be Our friends.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
