The more He extolled the remembrance of God, the greater
they waxed in their oppression, until all the divines pronounced sentence
against Him, save those that were acquainted with the precepts of God, the
All-Glorious, the Best-Beloved. Matters came to such a pass that they united to
put Him to death. They suspended Him in the air, and the hosts of misbelief
flung at Him the bullets of malice and hatred, piercing the body of the One
unto Whom the Holy Spirit is a humble servant, the dust of Whose feet is the
object of adoration of the Concourse on high, and from Whose very sandals the
inmates of Paradise seek a blessing. Whereupon the inhabitants of the unseen
realm wept sore beneath the pavilion of eternity, the pillars of the Throne
trembled, the inmost realities of all things were stirred into commotion, and
the divine Tree received its full measure of His gleaming blood which was shed
upon the earth.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
