O My handmaiden and My leaf! Rejoice with great joy inasmuch
as thy call hath ascended unto the Divine Lote-Tree and is answered from the
all-glorious Horizon. Verily, no God is there but Me, the Wronged One, the
Exile.
We have revealed Ourself unto men, have unveiled the Cause,
guided all mankind towards God’s Straight Path, promulgated the laws and have
enjoined upon everyone that which shall truly profit them both in this world
and in the next; yet they have pronounced judgement to shed My blood, whereat
the Maid of Heaven hath wept sore, Sinai hath lamented and the Faithful Spirit
was made to sigh with grief.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed
after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
