“O ye that are bereft of understanding! A severe trial
pursueth you, and will suddenly overtake you. Bestir yourselves, that haply it
may pass and inflict no harm upon you.” “O ye peoples of the world! Know,
verily, that an unforeseen calamity is following you, and that grievous
retribution awaiteth you. Think not the deeds ye have committed have been
blotted from My sight.” “O heedless ones! Though the wonders of My mercy have
encompassed all created things, both visible and invisible, and though the
revelations of My grace and bounty have permeated every atom of the universe,
yet the rod with which I can chastise the wicked is grievous, and the
fierceness of Mine anger against them terrible.”
- Baha’u’llah (Excerpts quoted
by Shoghi Effendi in ‘The Advent of Divine Justice’)
