Morning
Say: It is in Our
power, should We wish it, to cause all created things to expire in an instant,
and, with the next, to endue them again with life. The knowledge thereof, however, is with God
alone, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed.
It is in Our power, should We wish it, to enable a speck of floating
dust to generate, in less than the twinkling of an eye, suns of infinite, of
unimaginable splendour, to cause a dewdrop to develop into vast and numberless
oceans, to infuse into every letter such a force as to empower it to unfold all
the knowledge of past and future ages.
This, in truth, is a matter simple of accomplishment. Such have been the evidences of My power from
the beginning that hath no beginning until the end that hath no end. My creatures, however, have been oblivious of
My power, have repudiated My sovereignty, and contended with Mine own Self, the
All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
- Baha'u'llah (Suriy-i-Haykal, The Summons of the Lord of Hosts)
Evening
Sanctified be the Lord of all mankind, at the mention of Whose name all the atoms of the earth have been made to vibrate, and the Tongue of Grandeur hath been moved to disclose that which had been wrapt in His knowledge and lay concealed within the treasury of His might. He, verily, through the potency of His name, the Mighty, the All-Powerful, the Most High, is the ruler of all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
