…dumbfounded, the Pen of the Most High cried out: “O Thou
Who art exalted above all names! I adjure Thee by Thy might that encompasseth
the heavens and the earth to exempt me from mentioning Thee, for I myself have
been called into being by virtue of Thy creative power. How, then, can I depict
that which all created things are powerless to describe? And yet, I swear by
Thy glory, were I to proclaim that wherewith Thou hast inspired me, the entire
creation would pass away from joy and ecstasy, how much more then would it be
overwhelmed before the billows of the ocean of Thine utterance in this most
luminous, most exalted and transcendent Spot! Absolve, O Lord, this faltering
Pen from magnifying so august a station, and deal mercifully with me, O my
Possessor and my King. Overlook then my trespasses in Thy presence. Thou,
verily, art the Lord of bounty, the All-Powerful, the Ever-Forgiving, the Most
Generous.”
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
