Had you not been My guest your position would indeed have
been a grievous one. The all-encompassing grace of God has saved you. It is for
God to test His servants, and not for His servants to judge Him in accordance
with their deficient standards. Were I to fail to resolve your perplexities,
could the Reality that shines within Me be regarded as powerless, or My
knowledge be accused as faulty? Nay, by the righteousness of God! it behoves,
in this day, the peoples and nations of both the East and the West to hasten to
this threshold, and here seek to obtain the reviving grace of the Merciful.
Whoso hesitates will indeed be in grievous loss. Do not the peoples of the
earth testify that the fundamental purpose of their creation is the knowledge
and adoration of God? It behoves them to arise, as earnestly and spontaneously
as you have arisen, and to seek with determination and constancy their promised
Beloved.
- The Báb (Quoted by Mulla Husayn, chapter 3 of ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)
