Morning
O Temple of God! No sooner had the hosts of Divine
Revelation been sent down by the Lord of all names and attributes bearing the
banners of His signs, than the exponents of doubt and fancy were put to flight.
They disbelieved in the clear tokens of God, the Help in Peril, the
Self-Subsisting, and rose up against Him in enmity and opposition. Amongst them
were those who claimed: “These are not clear verses from God, nor do they
proceed from an innate and untaught nature.”
Thus do the unbelievers seek to remedy the sickness of their hearts,
utterly heedless that they thus render themselves accursed of all who dwell in
heaven and on earth.
Say: The Holy Spirit Itself hath been generated through the agency of a single letter revealed by this Most Great Spirit, if ye be of them that comprehend. And that innate and untaught nature in its essence is called into being by the verses of God, the Help in Peril, the All-Glorious, the Best-Beloved. Say: This nature prideth itself in its relation to Our transcendent Truth, whilst We, for Our part, glory neither in it nor in aught else, for all beside Myself hath been created through the potency of My word, could ye but understand.
- Baha'u'llah (Suriy-i-Haykal, The Summons of the Lord of Hosts)
Evening
Know verily that the essence of justice and the source thereof are both embodied in the ordinance prescribed by Him Who is the Manifestation of the Self of God amongst men, if ye be of them that recognize this truth. He doth verily incarnate the highest, the infallible standard of justice unto all creation. Were His law to be such as to strike terror in the hearts of all that are in heaven and on earth, that law is naught but manifest justice. The fears and agitation which the revelation of this law provoke in men's hearts should indeed be likened to the cries of the suckling babe weaned from his mother's milk, if ye be of them that perceive...
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
