We testify that when He came into the world, He shed the splendor of His glory upon all created things. Through Him the leper recovered from the leprosy of perversity and ignorance. Through Him, the unchaste and wayward were healed. Through His power, born of Almighty God, the eyes of the blind were opened, and the soul of the sinner sanctified (100:1)

Leprosy may be interpreted as any veil that interveneth between man and the recognition of the Lord, His God. Whoso alloweth himself to be shut out from Him is indeed a leper, who shall not be remembered in the Kingdom of God, the Mighty, the All Praised. We bear witness that through the power of the Word of God every leper was cleansed, every sickness was healed, every human infirmity was banished. He it was Who purified the world. Blessed is the man who, with a face beaming with light, hath turned towards Him. Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 85 (100:2)

It was through Christ's suffering that His followers received the blessings of everlasting life. Baha'u'llah also suffered at the hands of the people and government, and was called upon to sacrifice everything in the path of God. Once again, the Holy One of God, come to bestow spiritual life and happiness both in this world and in the next, was feared, rejected, and persecuted by the religious leaders. Baha'u'llah was imprisoned and exiled for forty years under the cruelest conditions. His crime: He claimed that God had fulfilled those ancient promises given to all the peoples of the world (100:3)

BAHA'U'LLAH WRITES:-
The Revelation which, from time immemorial, hath been acclaimed as the Purpose and Promise of all the Prophets of God, and the most cherished Desire of His Messengers, hath now, by virtue of the pervasive Will of the Almighty and at His irresistible bidding, been revealed unto men. The advent of such a Revelation hath been heralded in all the sacred Scriptures. Behold how, notwithstanding such an announcement, mankind hath strayed from its path and shut out itself from its glory. Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 5 (100:4)

I sorrow not for the burden of My imprisonment. Neither do I grieve over My abasement, or the tribulation I suffer at the hands of Mine enemies. By my life! They are My glory, a glory wherewith God hath adorned His own Self. Would that ye know it! (100:5)

The shame I was made to bear hath uncovered the glory with which the whole of creation had been invested, and through cruelties I have endured, the Day Star of Justice hath manifested itself and shed its splendor upon men. Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 100 (100:6)

Say: Tribulation is a horizon unto My Revelation. The day star of grace shineth above it, and sheddeth a light which neither the clouds of men's idle fancy nor the vain imaginations of the aggressor can obscure. Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 42 (100:7)

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