Dost thou imagine, O Minister of the Sháh in the City
(Constantinople), that I hold within My grasp the ultimate destiny of the Cause
of God? Thinkest thou that My imprisonment, or the shame I have been made to
suffer, or even My death and utter annihilation, can deflect its course?
Wretched is what thou hast imagined in thine heart! Thou art indeed of them
that walk after the vain imaginings which their hearts devise. No God is there
but Him. Powerful is He to manifest His Cause, and to exalt His testimony, and
to establish whatsoever is His Will, and to elevate it to so eminent a position
that neither thine own hands, nor the hands of them that have turned away from
Him, can ever touch or harm it.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha’u’llah’)
