Baha’u’llah’s sufferings

•  Yahya’s contribution
• Baha’u’llah’s sufferings due to “the workers of iniquity”; His resignation to “be afflicted every day and every moment with a fresh tribulation”; Asking God to hasten His passing; Divine assistance for believers to be preserved “from fear and trembling” after His passing
• “By Thy might! No pen can recount them, nor can any tongue describe or number them.”
• Baha’u’llah’s sufferings and believers spiritual growth and development
• Depth of Baha’u’llah’s sufferings; “my tears and lamentations”, “my sighing”, “my cry and bitter wailing”; Protection of those in His company
• “the Lord of all mankind confined in His Most Great Prison”
• “Thou beholdest me in the clutches of my oppressors”
• Magnitude of tribulations born by Baha’u’llah
• The effect of “successive afflictions” on “the pen of the Most High”
• “the darts of affliction and the lances of vengeance have rained from the clouds of power”
• Baha’u’llah’s readiness for martyrdom; Baha’u’llah’s obedience to God’s bidding; “With Thy [God’s] love in My heart nothing can ever alarm Me”; “in the path of Thy [God’s] good pleasure all the world’s afflictions can in no wise dismay Me.”
• The amazing outcome of the sacrifices and imprisonments endured by Baha’u’llah
• “the sun of abasement hath risen”; “the swords of calamity are drawn”;” the heavens of sorrow have been upraised”

• “Through Baha’u’llah’s “captivity the standards of Thine [God’s] almighty power were hoisted”; Baha’u’llah’s station: “Thou art, in very truth, the Self-Subsisting as testified by the tongue of God, the All-Glorious, the one alone Beloved; and Thou art the Desire of the world…”

• Magnitude of Baha’u’llah’s sufferings – “the darts of affliction and the lances of vengeance have rained from the clouds of power”

• Baha’u’llah’s sufferings; His station: “But for Thee the Scriptures would have remained unrevealed, and the Prophets unsent.”

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