Of all the tributes which Bahá'u'lláh's unerring pen has
chosen to pay to the memory of the Báb, His "Best-Beloved," the most
memorable and touching is this brief, yet eloquent passage which so greatly
enhances the value of the concluding passages of that same epistle.
"Amidst them all," He writes, referring to the afflictive trials and
dangers besetting Him in the city of Baghdad, "We stand life in hand
wholly resigned to His Will, that perchance through God's loving kindness and
grace, this revealed and manifest Letter (Bahá'u'lláh) may lay down His life as
a sacrifice in the path of the Primal Point, the most exalted Word (the Bab).
By Him, at Whose bidding the Spirit hath spoken, but for this yearning of
Our soul, We would not, for one moment, have tarried any longer in this
city."
(Shoghi Effendi, ‘The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah’)
