As lawlessness spreads in the world, as governments rise and
fall, as rival groups and feuding peoples struggle, each for its own advantage,
the plight of the oppressed and the deprived wrings the heart of every true
Bahá'í, tempting him to cry out in protest or to arise in wrath at the
perpetrators of injustice. For this is a time of testing which calls to mind
Bahá'u'lláh's words, "O concourse of the heedless! I swear by God! The
promised day is come, the day when tormenting trials will have surged above
your heads, and beneath your feet, saying: 'Taste ye what your hands have
wrought!'"
- The Universal House of Justice (Naw-Ruz, 1979, ‘Messages from
the Universal House of Justice, 1963 to 1986’)
