O Khalíl! God beareth Me witness. Though My Pen be still
moving on My Tablet, yet, in its very heart, it weepeth and is sore distressed.
The lamp burning before the Throne, likewise, weepeth and groaneth by reason of
the things which the Ancient Beauty hath suffered at the hands of them who are
but a creation of His Will. God, Himself, knoweth and testifieth to the truth
of My words. No man that hath purged his ear from the loud clamor of the
infidels, and inclined it to all created things, can fail to hear the voice of
their lamentation and weeping over the trouble that hath befallen Us at the
hands of those of Our servants that have disbelieved in, and rebelled against,
Us. Thus have We disclosed to thee a glimmer of the woes that have come upon
us, that thou mayest be made aware of Our sufferings, and patiently endure thy
sorrows. - Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
