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What did Bahá’u’lláh write to Iran’s Nasiri‘d-Din Shah?

O KING! I was but a man like others, asleep upon My couch, when lo, thebreezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over Me, and taught Me theknowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from Me, but from One Whois Almighty and All-Knowing. And He bade Me lift up My voice between earthand heaven, and for this there befell Me what hath caused the tears of everyman of understanding to flow….
Can any one speak forth of his own accord that for which all men, both highand low, will protest against him? Nay, by Him Who taught the Pen the eternalmysteries, save him whom the grace of the Almighty, the All-Powerful, hathstrengthened….
I have seen, O Shah, in the path of God what eye hath not seen nor ear heard…How numerous the tribulations which have rained, and will soon rain, uponMe…
By God! Though weariness lay Me low, and hunger consume Me, and the barerock be My bed, and My fellows the beasts of the field, I will not complain, butwill endure patiently as those endued with constancy and firmness haveendured patiently, through the power of God, the Eternal King and Creator ofthe nations, and will render thanks unto God under all conditions. We praythat, out of His bounty -- exalted be He -- He may release, through thisimprisonment, the necks of men from chains and fetters, and cause them toturn, with sincere faces, towards His Face, Who is the Mighty, the Bounteous.Ready is He to answer whosoever calleth upon Him, and nigh is He unto suchas commune with Him.
Bahá’u’lláh, The Proclamation of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 5

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