His Exalted Majesty (the Báb) 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.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; ‘Star of
the West’, vol. 4, no. 4, May 17, 1913)
