Of all the tributes which Bahá’u’lláh’s unerring pen has
chosen to pay to the memory of the Báb, His “Best-Beloved,” the most memorable
and touching is this brief, yet eloquent passage which so greatly enhances the
value of the concluding passages of that same epistle. “Amidst them all,” He
writes, referring to the afflictive trials and dangers besetting Him in the
city of Baghdád, “We stand life in hand wholly resigned to His Will, that
perchance through God’s loving kindness and grace, this revealed and manifest
Letter (Bahá’u’lláh) may lay down His life as a sacrifice in the path of the
Primal Point, the most exalted Word (the Báb). By Him, at Whose bidding the Spirit
hath spoken, but for this yearning of Our soul, We would not, for one moment,
have tarried any longer in this city.” - Shoghi Effendi (‘The Dispensation of
Baha’u’llah; included in ‘The World Order of Baha’u’llah’)
