Could the people but taste that choice Wine of the mercy of
their Lord, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, which lieth in store for them in the
world beyond, they would assuredly cease their censure, and seek only to win
the good pleasure of this Youth. For now, however, they have hidden Me behind a
veil of darkness, whose fabric they have woven with the hands of idle fancy and
vain imagination. Erelong shall the snow-white hand of God rend an opening
through the darkness of this night and unlock a mighty portal unto His City. On
that Day shall the people enter therein by troops, uttering what the blamers
aforetime exclaimed, [Qur’an 12:31] that there shall be made manifest in the
end that which appeared in the beginning.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Nasiri’d-Din
Shah, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
