By the righteousness of
God! It is not Our wish to lay hands on your kingdoms. Our mission is to seize
and possess the hearts of men. Upon them the eyes of Bahá are fastened. To this
testifieth the Kingdom of Names, could ye but comprehend it. Whoso followeth
his Lord will renounce the world and all that is therein; how much greater,
then, must be the detachment of Him Who holdeth so august a station! Forsake
your palaces, and haste ye to gain admittance into His Kingdom. This, indeed,
will profit you both in this world and in the next. To this testifieth the Lord
of the realm on high, did ye but know it.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
