Say: O people! Fear ye God, and allow not your tongues to
utter, in their deceitfulness, that which displeaseth Him. Stand abashed before the One Who, as ye well
know, hath created you out of a drop of water. Say: We have created all that are in heaven and on
earth in the nature made by God.
Whosoever turneth unto this blessed Countenance shall manifest the
potentialities of that inborn nature, and whosoever remaineth veiled therefrom
shall be deprived of this invisible and all-encompassing grace. Verily, there is naught from which Our favour
hath been withheld, inasmuch as We have dealt equitably in the fashioning of
each and all, and by a word of Our mouth presented unto them the trust of Our
love. They that have accepted it are
indeed safe and secure, and are numbered among those who are immune from the
terrors of this Day. Those, however, who
have rejected it have, in truth, disbelieved in God, the Help in Peril, the
Self-Subsisting. Thus do We distinguish
between the people and pronounce judgement upon them. We, of a certainty, have the power to
discern.
(Baha'u'llah, Suriy-i-Haykal, The Summons of the Lord of Hosts)
