…while in ‘Iráq, We wished to come together with the divines
of Persia. No sooner did they hear of this, than they fled and said: ‘He indeed
is a manifest sorcerer!’ This is the word that proceeded aforetime out of the
mouths of such as were like them. These [divines] objected to what they said,
and yet, they themselves repeat, in this day, what was said before them, and
understand not. By My life! They are even as ashes in the sight of thy Lord. If
He be willing, tempestuous gales will blow over them, and make them as dust.
Thy Lord, verily, doth what He pleaseth.
- Baha’u’llah (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi
in ‘The Promised Day Is Come’)
