God hath, likewise, as a bounty from His presence, abolished
the concept of “uncleanness”, whereby divers things and peoples have been held
to be impure. He, of a certainty, is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Generous.
Verily, all created things were immersed in the sea of purification when, on
that first day of Ridván, We shed upon the whole of creation the splendours of
Our most excellent Names and Our most exalted Attributes. This, verily, is a
token of My loving providence, which hath encompassed all the worlds. Consort
ye then with the followers of all religions, and proclaim ye the Cause of your
Lord, the Most Compassionate; this is the very crown of deeds, if ye be of them
who understand.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
