O kings of the earth! He Who is the sovereign Lord of all is
come. The Kingdom is God’s, the omnipotent Protector, the Self-Subsisting.
Worship none but God, and, with radiant hearts, lift up your faces unto your
Lord, the Lord of all names. This is a Revelation to which whatever ye possess
can never be compared, could ye but know it.
We see you rejoicing in that which ye have amassed for
others and shutting out yourselves from the worlds which naught except My
guarded Tablet can reckon. The treasures ye have laid up have drawn you far
away from your ultimate objective. This ill beseemeth you, could ye but
understand it. Wash from your hearts all earthly defilements, and hasten to
enter the Kingdom of your Lord, the Creator of earth and heaven, Who caused the
world to tremble and all its peoples to wail, except them that have renounced
all things and clung to that which the Hidden Tablet hath ordained.
(Baha’u’llah,
‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
