Morning
Say: Naught is seen in My temple but the Temple of God, and in My beauty but His Beauty, and in My being but His Being, and in My self but His Self, and in My movement but His Movement, and in My acquiescence but His Acquiescence, and in My pen but His Pen, the Mighty, the All-Praised. There hath not been in My soul but the Truth, and in Myself naught could be seen but God.
- Baha'u'llah (Suriy-i-Haykal, The Summons of the Lord of Hosts)
Evening
When Moses came unto Pharaoh and delivered unto him, as
bidden by God, the divine Message, Pharaoh spoke insultingly saying: “Art thou
not he that committed murder, and became an infidel?” Thus recounted the Lord
of majesty as having been said by Pharaoh unto Moses: “What a deed is that
which Thou hast done! Thou art one of the ungrateful. He said: ‘I did it
indeed, and I was one of those who erred. And I fled from you when I feared
you, but My Lord hath given Me wisdom, and hath made Me one of His Apostles.’”
[Qur’án 26:19]
And now ponder in thy heart the commotion which God stirreth up. Reflect upon the strange and manifold trials with which He doth test His servants. Consider how He hath suddenly chosen from among His servants, and entrusted with the exalted mission of divine guidance Him Who was known as guilty of homicide, Who, Himself, had acknowledged His cruelty, and Who for well-nigh thirty years had, in the eyes of the world, been reared in the home of Pharaoh and been nourished at his table. Was not God, the omnipotent King, able to withhold the hand of Moses from murder, so that manslaughter should not be attributed unto Him, causing bewilderment and aversion among the people?
- Baha’u’llah ('The Kitáb-i-Iqán')
