Though the fierce winds of the hatred of the wicked doers
blew and beat on this Lamp, [Baha’u’llah] He was, at no time, in His love for
Thy [God’s] beauty, hindered from shedding the fragrance of His light. As the
transgressions committed against Thee waxed greater and greater, my eagerness
to reveal Thy Cause correspondingly increased, and as the tribulations
deepened—and to this Thy glory beareth me witness— a fuller measure of Thy sovereignty
and of Thy power was vouchsafed by me unto Thy creatures.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
