In this mountain I have remained alone, and have come to
such a pass that none of those gone before Me have suffered what I have
suffered, nor any transgressor endured what I have endured! I render praise
unto God and yet again praise Him. I find Myself free from sorrow, inasmuch as
I abide within the good-pleasure of My Lord and Master. Methinks I am in the
all-highest Paradise, rejoicing at My communion with God, the Most Great.
Verily this is a bounty which God hath conferred upon Me; and He is the Lord of
unbounded blessings.
I swear by the truth of God! Wert thou to know that which I
know, thou wouldst forgo the sovereignty of this world and of the next, that
thou mightest attain My good-pleasure, through thine obedience unto the True
One... Wert thou to refuse, the Lord of the world would raise up one who would
exalt His Cause, and the Command of God would, verily, be carried into effect.
- The Báb (From an Epistle to Muhammad Shah, ‘Selections from the
Writings of the Báb)
