In this Most Holy
Book [The Kitab-i-Aqdas] Baha'u'llah declares: "By My life, if you knew
what We have desired for you in revealing Our holy laws, you would offer up
your souls for this sacred, mighty and lofty Cause." "This Book is
none other than the ancient Lamp of God for the whole world and His undeviating
Path amongst men. Say, it is verily the Dayspring of divine knowledge, did ye
but know it, and the Dawning-place of the commandments of God, could ye but
comprehend it." "Say, this is the spirit of the Scriptures breathed
into the Pen of Glory, causing all creation to be dumbfounded, except those who
are stirred by the vitalizing fragrance of My tender mercy and the sweet
savours of My bounty which pervade all created things."
- The Universal
House of Justice (From a message dated April 1973)
