"Yea, the abject beetle can never scent the fragrance of holiness, and the bat of darkness can never face the splendor of the sun."

 

photo by Margarete Pitaw

"Gracious God! How far have that people strayed from the way of God! Although the Day of Resurrection was ushered in through the Revelation of Muḥammad, although His light and tokens had encompassed the earth and all that is therein, yet that people derided Him, gave themselves up to those idols which the divines of that age, in their vain and idle fancy, had conceived, and deprived themselves of the light of heavenly grace and of the showers of divine mercy. Yea, the abject beetle can never scent the fragrance of holiness, and the bat of darkness can never face the splendor of the sun."

Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán 
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