Morning
O concourse of the fair-minded! Observe and reflect upon the billows of the ocean of the utterance and knowledge of God, so that ye may testify with your inner and outer tongues that with Him is the knowledge of all that is in the Book. Nothing escapeth His knowledge. He, verily, hath manifested that which was hidden, when He, upon His return, mounted the throne of the Bayán. All that hath been sent down hath and will come to pass, word for word, upon earth. No possibility is left for anyone either to turn aside or protest. As fairness, however, is disgraced and concealed, most men speak as prompted by their own idle fancies.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the
Wolf’)
Evening
…in His interpretation of the letter “Há,” He [the Báb]
craved martyrdom, saying: “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
Husayn, [Imam Husayn] peace be upon him, hath offered up his life for My sake.’
And were I not regardful of this inevitable mystery, by Him, Who hath my being
between His hands 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 these servants 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”…
In this very verse there lieth concealed a breath of detachment, which if it were to be breathed full upon the world, all beings would renounce their lives, and sacrifice their souls.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
