Certain ones among you have said: “He it is Who hath laid
claim to be God.” By God! This is a gross calumny. I am but a servant of God
Who hath believed in Him and in His signs, and in His Prophets and in His
angels. My tongue, and My heart, and My inner and My outer being testify that
there is no God but Him, that all others have been created by His behest, and
been fashioned through the operation of His Will. There is none other God but
Him, the Creator, the Raiser from the dead, the Quickener, the Slayer. I am He
that telleth abroad the favors with which God hath, through His bounty, favored
Me. If this be My transgression, then I am truly the first of the
transgressors. I and My kindred are at your mercy. Do ye as ye please, and be
not of them that hesitate, that I might return to God My Lord, and reach the
place where I can no longer behold your faces. This, indeed, is My dearest
wish, My most ardent desire. Of My state God is, verily, sufficiently informed,
observant.
- Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet to a Minister of the Shah; ‘Gleanings
from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
