His Exalted Majesty (the Bab) from the beginning of the
arising of His Beauty to the day of the Greatest Martyrdom, spent days and
nights under severest trials, in the Path of God; He made His breast a target
for thousands of arrows of calamities, and with a breast pierced and torn,
hastened to the Most Glorious Kingdom.
The Eternal Beauty the Greatest Name (Baha’u’llah) tasted of
the poison of every calamity, drank of the cup brimful of all kinds of trials,
made His breast the target for every arrow, made His neck indebted to every
sword. He was incarcerated in a prison and was bound in merciless chains. He
was exposed to the derision of the crowds of enemies and became a butt for the
stones of miscreants. He was subjected to chains and collars, and was tightly
bound with ropes and fetters. He was exiled from His native land and was
carried to the land of Bulgers and Serbs. In the Most Great Prison (Acca) He
suffered inexorable calamities and His blessed days ended in this cruel prison
and dark dungoon, while a prisoner of oppression and injustice and He ascended
to His Kingdom.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; Star of the West, vol. 4, no. 4,
May 17, 1913)
