“Would that the universe had never been called into existence! Would that the world had never been brought into being!
Would that no Prophet had ever been raised up, no Messenger sent forth, and no Cause established amongst men!
Would that the Name of God had never been manifested betwixt earth and heaven, and that no Books, Tablets, or Scriptures had ever been revealed!
Would that the Ancient Beauty had never been made to dwell among these workers of iniquity, nor to suffer at the hands of those who openly disbelieved in God and who committed against Him that which none on earth had ever dared commit!
By the one true God! Wert thou, O ‘Alí, to examine My limbs and members, My heart and vitals, thou wouldst discover the traces of those same bullets that struck that Temple of God.
Alas, alas! Thus was the Revealer of verses prevented from revealing them, and this Ocean from surging, and this Tree from bearing fruit, and this Cloud from pouring down its rain, and this Sun from giving its light, and this Heaven from ascending on high.
Yet, so hath it been irrevocably decreed in this Day.”
~ Baha'u'llah,
(Súrih of Sorrows)
