Ye [1] perpetrate every day a fresh injustice, and treat Me
as ye treated Me in times past, though I never attempted to meddle with your
affairs. At no time have I opposed you, neither have I rebelled against your
laws. Behold how ye have, at the last, made Me a prisoner in this far-off land!
Know for a certainty, however, that whatever your hands or the hands of the
infidels have wrought will never, as they never did of old, change the Cause of
God or alter His ways.
Give heed to My warning, ye people of Persia! If I be slain
at your hands, God will assuredly raise up one who will fill the seat made
vacant through My death, for such is God’s method carried into effect of old,
and no change can ye find in God’s method of dealing. Seek ye to put out God’s
light that shineth upon His earth? Averse is God from what ye desire. He shall
perfect His light, albeit ye abhor it in the secret of your hearts.
- 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
