Adorn yourselves with the raiment of goodly deeds. He whose
deeds attain unto God’s good pleasure is assuredly of the people of Bahá and is
remembered before His throne. Assist ye the Lord of all creation with works of
righteousness, and also through wisdom and utterance. Thus, indeed, have ye
been commanded in most of the Tablets by Him Who is the All-Merciful. He,
truly, is cognizant of what I say. Let none contend with another, and let no
soul slay another; this, verily, is that which was forbidden you in a Book that
hath lain concealed within the Tabernacle of glory. What! Would ye kill him
whom God hath quickened, whom He hath endowed with spirit through a breath from
Him? Grievous then would be your trespass before His throne! Fear God, and lift
not the hand of injustice and oppression to destroy what He hath Himself raised
up; nay, walk ye in the way of God, the True One. No sooner did the hosts of
true knowledge appear, bearing the standards of Divine utterance, than the
tribes of the religions were put to flight, save only those who willed to drink
from the stream of everlasting life in a Paradise created by the breath of the
All-Glorious.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
