Glorified is He besides Whom there is none other God. In His
grasp He holdeth the source of authority, and verily God is powerful over all
things. We have decreed that every long life shall in truth suffer decline [cf. Qur’an 36:68] and that every hardship shall be followed by ease, that
perchance men may recognise the Gate of God as He Who is the eternal Truth, and
verily God shall stand as witness unto those that have believed. - The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb)
