God hath, through His tongue that uttereth the truth, testified
in all His Tablets to these words: “I am He that liveth in the Abhá Realm of
Glory.”
By the righteousness of God! He, from the heights of this
sublime, this holy, this mighty, and transcendent station, seeth all things,
heareth all things, and is, at this hour, proclaiming: Blessed art thou, O
Javád, inasmuch as thou hast attained unto that which no man before thee hath
attained. I swear by Him Who is the Eternal Truth! Through thee the eyes of the
inmates of the Exalted Paradise have been gladdened. The people, however, are
utterly heedless. Were We to reveal thy station, the hearts of men would be
sorely agitated, their footsteps would slip, the embodiments of vain-glory
would be dumbfounded, would fall down upon the ground, and would thrust the fingers
of heedlessness into their ears, for fear of hearing.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings
from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
