Morning
Ages rolled away, until they attained their consummation in this, the Lord of days, the Day whereon the Day-Star of the Bayán manifested itself above the horizon of mercy, the Day in which the Beauty of the All-Glorious shone forth in the exalted person of ‘Alí-Muhammad, the Báb. No sooner did He reveal Himself, than all the people rose up against Him. By some He was denounced as one that hath uttered slanders against God, the Almighty, the Ancient of Days. Others regarded Him as a man smitten with madness, an allegation which I, Myself, have heard from the lips of one of the divines. Still others disputed His claim to be the Mouthpiece of God, and stigmatized Him as one who had stolen and used as his the words of the Almighty, who had perverted their meaning, and mingled them with his own. The Eye of Grandeur weepeth sore for the things which their mouths have uttered, while they continue to rejoice upon their seats.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
Evening
Methinks I heard a voice calling in My inmost being: “Do
Thou sacrifice the thing which Thou lovest most in the path of God, even as Ḥusayn, peace be upon him, hath
offered up his life for My sake.” And were I not regardful of this inevitable
mystery, by Him in whose hand is My soul, even if all the kings of the earth
were to be leagued together, they would be powerless to take from Me a single
letter; how much less can such servants as these, who are worthy of no
attention, and who verily are of the outcast? that all may know the degree of
My patience, My resignation and self-sacrifice in the path of God.
- The Báb (Quoted by
Baha’u’llah in the ‘Kitáb-i-Íqán’)
