Pay thou no heed to the humiliation to which the loved ones
of God have in this Day been subjected. This humiliation is the pride and glory
of all temporal honor and worldly elevation. What greater honor can be imagined
than the honor conferred by the Tongue of the Ancient of Days when He calleth
to remembrance His loved ones in His Most Great Prison? The day is approaching
when the intervening clouds will have been completely dissipated, when the
light of the words, "All honor belongeth unto God and unto them that love
Him," will have appeared, as manifest as the sun, above the horizon of the
Will of the Almighty.
Ere long the world and all that is therein shall be as a
thing forgotten, and all honor shall belong to the loved ones of thy Lord, the
All-Glorious, the Most Bountiful.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of
Bahá'u'lláh’; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Opposition)
