Morning
Great is the blessedness of him who hath in this Day cast away the things current amongst men and hath clung unto that which is ordained by God, the Lord of Names and the Fashioner of all created things, He Who is come from the heaven of eternity through the power of the Most Great Name, invested with so invincible an authority that all the powers of the earth are unable to withstand Him. Unto this beareth witness the Mother Book, calling from the Most Sublime Station.
- Baha’u’llah (From Tajalliyat [Effulgences]; ‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
Evening
Behold how the sovereignty of Muhammad, the Messenger of
God, is today apparent and manifest amongst the people. You are well aware of
what befell His Faith in the early days of His Dispensation. What woeful
sufferings did the hand of the infidel and erring, the divines of that age and
their associates, inflict upon that spiritual Essence, that most pure and holy
Being! How abundant the thorns and briars which they have strewn over His path!
It is evident that that wretched generation, in their wicked and satanic fancy,
regarded every injury to that immortal Being as a means to the attainment of an
abiding felicity; inasmuch as the recognized divines of that age …all treated
Him as an impostor... Such sore accusations they brought against Him that in
recounting them God forbiddeth the ink to flow, Our pen to move, or the page to
bear them. These malicious imputations provoked the people to arise and torment
Him…
For this reason did Muhammad cry out: “No Prophet of God hath suffered such harm as I have suffered.” And in the Qur’án are recorded all the calumnies and reproaches uttered against Him, as well as all the afflictions which He suffered.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
