Say:
Would ye worship him who neither heareth nor seeth, and who is of a
truth the most abject and wretched of all God’s servants? Wherefore have ye failed to follow the One Who
hath come unto you from the Source of Divine Command bearing the tidings of
God, the Most Exalted, the Most Great? O
people! Be not like unto those who
presented themselves before Our throne, and yet failed to perceive or
comprehend; these are indeed a contemptible people. We recited unto them verses that would
enrapture the dwellers of the heavenly Dominion and the inmates of the Kingdom
on high, and yet they departed veiled therefrom, and hearkened rather unto the
voice of him who is but a servant of God and a mere creation of His Will. Thus do We impart unto you that which shall
guide you towards the path of God’s favoured ones.
(Baha'u'llah,
‘Suriy-i-Haykal, ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
