“Would that we had followed the path of the Báb! Would that we had sought refuge only with Him ..."

"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 death1 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! For verily the Remembrance of God appeared before us,2 behind us, and on all sides, yet we were, in very truth, shut out as by a veil from Him.” Chapter VII."

-The Báb, Selections from the Writings of the Báb, Excerpts from the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá’


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