I swear by the truth of God! Wert thou to know that which I
know, thou wouldst forgo the sovereignty of this world and of the next, that
thou mightest attain My good-pleasure, through thine obedience unto the True
One... Wert thou to refuse, the Lord of the world would raise up one who would
exalt His Cause, and the Command of God would, verily, be carried into effect.
- The Báb (From an Epistle to Muhammad
Shah, ‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb)
