Say: If it be Our pleasure We shall render the Cause
victorious through the power of a single word from Our presence. He is in truth
the Omnipotent, the All-Compelling. Should it be God’s intention, there would
appear out of the forests of celestial might the lion of indomitable strength
whose roaring is like unto the peals of thunder reverberating in the mountains.
However, since Our loving providence surpasseth all things, We have ordained
that complete victory should be achieved through speech and utterance, that Our
servants throughout the earth may thereby become the recipients of divine good.
This is but a token of God’s bounty vouchsafed unto them. Verily thy Lord is
the All-Sufficing, the Most Exalted.
-Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah
revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
