The blind fanaticism of former times hath withheld the
hapless creatures from the Straight Path. Meditate on the Shí’ih sect. For
twelve hundred years they have cried “O Qá’im!”, until in the end all
pronounced the sentence of His death, and caused Him to suffer martyrdom,
notwithstanding their belief in, and their acceptance and acknowledgment of,
the True One—exalted be His glory—and of the Seal of the Prophets, and of the
Chosen Ones. It is now necessary to reflect a while, that haply that which hath
come between the True One and His creatures may be discovered, and the deeds
which have been the cause of protest and denial be made known.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
