Gleanings — Paragraph 202

Source (Arabic)

... فونفسه المحبوب ما أردتُ أن أكون رئیسًا لمن علی الأرض بل ألقي علیهم ما أُمرتُ به من لدن عزیز جمیل لینقطعهم عن شؤونات الأرض ویصعدهم إلی مقرّ الّذي انقطعت عنه عرفان المشركین ثمّ إدراك المعرضین ...

Translation

By the righteousness of God, my Well-Beloved! I have never aspired after worldly leadership. My sole purpose hath been to hand down unto men that which I was bidden to deliver by God, the Gracious, the Incomparable, that it may detach them from all that pertaineth to this world, and cause them to attain such heights as neither the ungodly can conceive, nor the froward imagine.