Thou seest, O my God, how Thy servants have been cleaving
fast to Thy names, and have been calling on them in the daytime and in the
night season. No sooner, however, had He been made manifest through Whose word
the kingdom of names and the heaven of eternity were created, than they broke
away from Him and disbelieved in the greatest of Thy signs. They finally
banished Him from the land of His birth, and caused Him to dwell within the
most desolate of Thy cities, though all the world had been built up by Thee for
His sake. Within this, the Most Great Prison, He hath established His seat.
Though sore tried by trials, the like of which the eye of creation hath not
seen, He summoneth the people unto Thee, O Thou Who art the Fashioner of the
universe! - Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
