O thou who hast turned thy gaze towards My face! In these
days there occurred that which hath plunged Me into dire sadness. Certain
wrong-doers who profess allegiance to the Cause of God committed such deeds as
have caused the limbs of sincerity, of honesty, of justice, of equity to quake.
One known individual to whom the utmost kindness and favour had been extended
perpetrated such acts as have brought tears to the eye of God. Formerly We
uttered words of warning and premonition, then for a number of years We kept
the matter secret that haply he might take heed and repent. But all to no
purpose. In the end he bent his energies upon vilifying the Cause of God before
the eyes of all men. He tore the veil of fairness asunder and felt sympathy
neither for himself nor for the Cause of God. Now, however, the deeds of
certain individuals have brought sorrows far more grievous than those which the
deeds of the former had caused. Beseech thou God, the True One, that He may
graciously enable the heedless to retract and repent. Verily He is the
Forgiving, the Bountiful, the Most Generous.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Tablets of
Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
