Say: This Youth hath departed out of this country and
deposited beneath every tree and every stone a trust, which God will erelong
bring forth through the power of truth. Thus hath the True One come and the
command of Him Who is the Ordainer, the All-Wise, been fulfilled. The hosts of
earth and heaven are powerless to resist His Cause, nor can all the kings and
rulers of the world ever frustrate His purpose. Say: Adversity is the oil which
feedeth the flame of this Lamp and by which its light is increased, did ye but
know. Indeed, the repudiation of the froward serveth but to proclaim this Faith
and to spread the Cause of God and His Revelation throughout the world.
- Baha’u’llah (Súriy-i-Ra’ís, addressed to ‘Álí Páshá, the Ottoman Prime
Minister; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
