Dear friends! Alas, a thousand times alas, that a Revelation
so incomparably great, so infinitely precious, so mightily potent, so
manifestly innocent, should have received, at the hands of a generation so
blind and so perverse, so infamous a treatment! “O My servants!” Bahá’u’lláh
Himself testifies, “The one true God is My witness! This most great, this
fathomless and surging ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you. Behold it
is closer to you than your life vein! Swift as the twinkling of an eye ye can,
if ye but wish it, reach and partake of this imperishable favor, this God-given
grace, this incorruptible gift, this most potent and unspeakably glorious
bounty.”
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated March 28, 1941, published as:
‘The Promised One Is Come’)
