When the infidels, so unjustly, decided to put him to death,
they sent and fetched his mother, that perchance she might admonish him, and
induce him to recant his faith, and follow in the footsteps of them that have
repudiated the truth of God, the Lord of all worlds.
No sooner did she behold the face of her son, than she spoke
to him such words as caused the hearts of the lovers of God, and beyond them
those of the Concourse on high, to cry out and be sore pained with grief.
Truly, thy Lord knoweth what My tongue speaketh. He Himself beareth witness to
My words.
And when addressing him she said: “My son, mine own son!
Fail not to offer up thyself in the path of thy Lord. Beware that thou betray
not thy faith in Him before Whose face have bowed down in adoration all who are
in the heavens and all who are on the earth. Go thou straight on, O my son, and
persevere in the path of the Lord, thy God. Haste thee to attain the presence
of Him Who is the Well-Beloved of all worlds.”
On her be My blessings, and My mercy, and My praise, and My
glory. I Myself shall atone for the loss of her son—a son who now dwelleth
within the tabernacle of My majesty and glory, and whose face beameth with a
light that envelopeth with its radiance the Maids of Heaven in their celestial
chambers, and beyond them the inmates of My Paradise, and the denizens of the
Cities of Holiness. Were any eye to gaze on his face, he would exclaim: “Lo,
this is no other than a noble angel!”
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings
of Baha’u’llah’)
