Methinks I heard a voice calling in My inmost being: “Do
Thou sacrifice the thing which Thou lovest most in the path of God, even as Ḥusayn,
peace be upon him, hath offered up his life for My sake.” And were I not
regardful of this inevitable mystery, by Him in whose hand is My soul, even if
all the kings of the earth were to be leagued together, they would be powerless
to take from Me a single letter; how much less can such servants as these, who
are worthy of no attention, and who verily are of the outcast? that all may
know the degree of My patience, My resignation and self-sacrifice in the path
of God.
- The Báb (Quoted by Baha’u’llah in the ‘Kitáb-i-Íqán’)
