Wert thou to address a letter to Him Whom God shall make
manifest, begging that it be delivered unto His presence, perchance He would
graciously forgive thee and, at His behest, turn thy negation into affirmation.
He is in truth the All-Bountiful, the Most Generous, He Whose grace is
infinite. Otherwise, no way shalt thou find open unto thee and no benefit shalt
thou gain from the deeds thou hast wrought, by reason of thy failure to respond
‘yea, here am I’. Verily We have reduced thee and thy works to naught, as
though thou hadst never come into existence nor ever been of them that do good
works, that this may serve as a lesson for those unto whom the Bayán is given,
that they may take good heed when the sacred Writings of Him Whom God shall
make manifest will reach them and perchance, by pondering upon them, may be
enabled to save their own souls. (The Báb, from a Tablet addressed to Sulayman,
one of the Muslim divines in the land of Masqat, ‘Selections from the Writings
of the Báb’)
