O Hádí![1] Be thou of one face in the path of God. When in
company with the infidels, thou art an infidel and with the pious, thou art
pious. Reflect thou upon such souls as offered up their lives and their
substance in that land, that haply thou mayest be admonished and roused from
slumber. Consider: who is to be preferred, he who preserveth his body, his life
and his possessions or the one who surrendereth his all in the path of God?
Judge thou fairly and be not of the unjust. Take fast hold of justice and
adhere unto equity that perchance thou mayest not, for selfish motives, use
religion as a snare, nor disregard the truth for the sake of gold. Indeed thine
iniquity and the iniquity of such people as thyself have
waxed so grievous that the Pen of Glory was moved to make such observations.
Fear thou God. He Who heralded this Revelation hath declared: ‘He shall
proclaim under all conditions: “Verily, verily, I am God, no God is there but
Me, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.”’
(Baha’u’llah, Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
(Baha’u’llah, Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
[1] Mírzá Hádí Dawlat-Ábádí, one of the divines of Iṣfáhán,
who became a follower of the Báb, later supported Mírzá Yaḥyá, and was
appointed his representative in Írán and his successor. During the persecutions
against the Bábís he recanted his faith.
