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earth and heaven We offered up Our souls, and Our
bodies, and Our sons, and Our possessions in the
path of God, the Exalted, the Great, and We glory
therein amongst all created things and the Concourse
on high. Unto this testify the things which have befallen
Us in this straight Path. By God! Our hearts
were consumed, and Our bodies were crucified, and
Our blood was spilt, while Our eyes were fixed on
the horizon of the loving-kindness of their Lord, the
Witness, the All-Seeing. The more grievous their
woes, the greater waxed the love of the people of
Bahá. Unto their sincerity hath borne witness what
the All-Merciful hath sent down in the Qur'án.
He saith: `Wish ye, then, for death, if ye are sincere.'
Who is to be preferred, he that hath sheltered himself
behind curtains, or he that hath offered himself
in the path of God? Judge thou fairly, and be not of
them that rove distraught in the wilderness of falsehood.
So carried away have they been by the living
waters of the love of the Most Merciful, that neither
the arms of the world nor the swords of the nations
have deterred them from setting their faces towards
the ocean of the bounty of their Lord, the Giver,
the Generous.
"By God! Troubles have failed to unnerve Me, and
the repudiation of the divines hath been powerless to
weaken Me. I have spoken, and still speak forth
before the face of men: `The door of grace hath
been unlocked and He Who is the Dayspring of
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