Likewise, in His interpretation of the letter “Ha,” He craved martyrdom, saying:  “Methinks I heard a Voice calling in my inmost being:  ’Do thou sacrifice the thing which Thou lovest most in the path of God, even as Husayn, peace be upon him, hath offered up his life for My sake.’  And were I not regardful of this inevitable mystery, by Him, Who hath my being between His hands even if all the kings of the earth were to be leagued together they would be powerless to take from me a single letter, how much less can these servants who are worthy of no attention, and who verily are of the outcast...  That all may know the degree of My patience, My resignation, and self-sacrifice in the path of God.”

Could the Revealer of such utterance be regarded as walking any way but the way of God, and as having yearned for aught else except His good-pleasure?  In this very verse there lieth concealed a breath of detachment, which if it were to be breathed full upon the world, all beings would renounce their lives, and sacrifice their souls.  Reflect upon the villainous behaviour of this generation, and witness their astounding ingratitude.  Observe how they have closed their eyes to all this glory, and are abjectly pursuing those foul carcasses from whose bellies ascendeth the cry of the swallowed substance of the faithful.  And yet, what unseemly calumnies they have hurled against those Daysprings of Holiness?  Thus do We recount unto thee that which the hands of the infidels have wrought, they who, in the Day of Resurrection, have turned their face away from the divine Presence, whom God hath tormented with the fire of their own misbelief, and for whom He hath prepared in the world to come a chastisement which shall devour both their bodies and souls.  For these have said:  “God is powerless, and His hand of mercy is fettered.”

Steadfastness in the Faith is a sure testimony, and a glorious evidence of the truth.  Even as the “Seal of the Prophets” hath said:  “Two verses have made Me old.”  Both these verses are indicative of constancy in the Cause of God.  Even as He saith:  “Be thou steadfast as thou hast been bidden."(179)

And now consider how this Sadrih of the Ridvan of God hath, in the prime of youth, risen to proclaim the Cause of God.  Behold what steadfastness that Beauty of God hath revealed.  The whole world rose to hinder Him, yet it utterly failed.  The more severe the persecution they inflicted on that Sadrih of Blessedness, the more His fervour increased, and the brighter burned the flame of His love.  All this is evident, and none disputeth its truth.  Finally, He surrendered His soul, and winged His flight unto the realms above.