By My Lord! Were I
given the choice between, on the one hand, the wealth and opulence, the ease
and comfort, the honour and glory which they [certain divines] enjoy, and, on
the other, the adversities and trials which are Mine, I would unhesitatingly
choose My present condition and would refuse to barter a single atom of these
hardships for all that hath been created in the world of being.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Nasiri’d-Din Shah, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of
the Lord of Hosts’)
