Morning
The world is encircled with calamities. Even if at times some good may be evident, it is inevitable that a great calamity followeth — and yet no one on earth hath perceived its origin.... The world is in travail and its agitation waxeth day by day. Its face is turned towards waywardness and unbelief. Such shall be its plight that to disclose it now would not be meet and seemly. Its perversity will long continue. And when the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly appear that which shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then and only then will the Divine Standard be unfurled and the Nightingale of Paradise warble its melody.
- Baha’u’llah (Quoted by the
Universal House of Justice in a message dated 10 February 1980 addressed to the
Iranian believers resident in other countries throughout the world)
Evening
O my servant! O Joseph! Hear the tone of God and do not
compare this day with any other day, neither the wonderful, sweet Word of God
with any other words; look to the apparent matters with thine own eye, and do
not follow anyone in knowing the Greatest and Brilliant Orb.
In this day, the beloved of God must not hesitate or delay an instant in teaching the Cause of the Manifestation, and must summon the people continually, with great admonition and conciliating words, to the Religion of Majestic Oneness; because, verily, in this day, to the soul who is the cause of guidance to another soul the recompense of a martyr in the way of God will be assuredly recorded by the Pen of the Cause, for his deed.
- Baha’u’llah (Star of the West, vol. 2, no. 3, April 28, 1911)
