" ... For verily the Remembrance of God appeared before us, behind us, and on all sides, yet we were, in very truth, shut out as by a veil from Him.’"

Commemoration of the Birth of the Báb (1819-1850)

"DO men imagine that We are far distant from the people of the world? Nay, the day We cause them to be assailed by the pangs of death 1 they shall, upon the plain of Resurrection, behold how the Lord of Mercy and His Remembrance were near. Thereupon they shall exclaim: ‘Would that we had followed the path of the Báb! Would that we had sought refuge only with Him, and not with men of perversity and error! 2 behind us, and on all sides, yet we were, in very truth, shut out as by a veil from Him.’"

The Báb, Selections From the Writings of the Báb, pp. 4-47 

1. cf. Qur’án 68:42 
2. cf. Qur’án 7:63, 69