I swear by the Most Great Lord! Wert thou to be told in what
place I dwell, the first person to have mercy on Me would be thyself. In the
heart of a mountain is a fortress [Mákú] ... the inmates of which are confined
to two guards and four dogs. Picture, then, My plight... I swear by the truth
of God! Were he who hath been willing to treat Me in such a manner to know Who
it is Whom he hath so treated, he, verily, would never in his life be happy.
Nay—I, verily, acquaint thee with the truth of the matter—it is as if he hath
imprisoned all the Prophets, and all the men of truth and all the chosen
ones...
- The Báb, (From an Epistle to Muhammad Shah, ‘Selections from the
Writings of the Báb)
