The word of God which the
Abhá Pen hath revealed and inscribed on the
first leaf of the
Most Exalted Paradise is this: Verily I say: The fear of God hath ever been a
sure defence and a safe stronghold for all the peoples of the world. It is the
chief cause of the protection of mankind, and the supreme instrument for its
preservation. Indeed, there existeth in man a faculty which deterreth him from,
and guardeth him against, whatever is unworthy and unseemly, and which is known
as his sense of shame. This, however, is confined to but a few; all have not
possessed and do not possess it.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
