Imagine thyself [1] to be under the eye of God, O Minister!
If thou seest Him not, He, in truth, clearly seeth thee. Observe, and judge
fairly Our Cause. What is it that We have committed that could have induced
thee to rise up against Us, and to slander Us to the people, if thou be of them
who are just? We departed out of Ṭihrán, at the bidding of the King, and, by
his leave, transferred Our residence to ‘Iráq. If I had transgressed against
him, why, then, did he release Me? And if I were innocent of guilt, wherefore
did ye afflict Us with such tribulation as none among them that profess your
faith hath suffered? Hath any of Mine acts, after Mine arrival in ‘Iráq, been
such as to subvert the authority of the government? Who is it that can be said
to have detected any thing reprehensible in Our behavior? Enquire for thyself
of its people, that thou mayest be of them who have discerned the truth.
- Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet to a Minister of the Shah; ‘Gleanings from the
Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
[1] a Minister of the Shah
