By the righteousness of Him Who hath called thee into being
and unto Whom ere long thou shalt return, if thou remainest, at the moment of
death, a disbeliever in the signs of thy Lord thou shalt surely enter the gates
of hell, and none of the deeds thy hands have wrought will profit thee, nor
shalt thou find a patron nor anyone to plead for thee. Fear thou God and pride
not thyself on thine earthly possessions, inasmuch as what God doth possess is
better for them that tread the path of righteousness.
Verily in this Day all that dwell on earth are the servants of God. As to those who truly believe in God and are well
assured in the signs revealed by Him, perchance He will graciously forgive them
the things their hands have committed, and will grant them admission into the
precincts of His mercy. He, in truth, is the Ever-Forgiving, the Compassionate.
But the verdict of divine chastisement is pronounced against those who have
turned away disdainfully from Me and have repudiated the conclusive proofs and
the unerring Book with which God hath invested Me, and on the Day of Severing
they shall find no protector or helper. (The Báb, Extracts from an Epistle to
Muhammad Shah of Persia, ‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb)
