Know thou and be well assured that from the first day
whereon the voice of the Most Sublime Pen was raised betwixt earth and heaven
We offered up Our souls, and Our bodies, and Our sons, and Our possessions in
the path of God, the Exalted, the Great, and We glory therein amongst all
created things and the Concourse on high. Unto this testify the things which
have befallen Us in this straight Path. By God! Our hearts were consumed, and
Our bodies were crucified, and Our blood was spilt, while Our eyes were fixed
on the horizon of the loving-kindness of their Lord, the Witness, the
All-Seeing.
- Baha’u’llah (From the ‘Tablet of the Proof’ [Kawh-i-Burhan]
addressed to Shaykh Muhammad Báqir, denounced by Bahá’u’lláh as the ‘Wolf’;
Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
