Behold how contrary are the ways of the Manifestations of
God, as ordained by the King of creation, to the ways and desires of men! As
thou comest to comprehend the essence of these divine mysteries, thou wilt
grasp the purpose of God, the divine Charmer, the Best-Beloved. Thou wilt
regard the words and the deeds of that almighty Sovereign as one and the same;
in such wise that whatsoever thou dost behold in His deeds, the same wilt thou
find in His sayings, and whatsoever thou dost read in His sayings, that wilt
thou recognize in His deeds. Thus it is that outwardly such deeds and words are
the fire of vengeance unto the wicked, and inwardly the waters of mercy unto
the righteous. Were the eye of the heart to open, it would surely perceive that
the words revealed from the heaven of the will of God are at one with, and the
same as, the deeds that have emanated from the Kingdom of divine power.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The Kitab-i-Iqán’)
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The Kitab-i-Iqán’)
