…hear, O My brother, My plaint against them that claim to be
associated with God and with the Manifestations of His knowledge, and yet
follow their corrupt inclinations, consume the substance of their neighbour,
are given to wine, commit murder, defraud and slander each other, hurl
calumnies against God, and are wont to speak falsely. The people attribute all
these deeds unto Us, whilst their perpetrators remain shameless before God.
They cast aside that which He hath enjoined upon them and commit that which He
hath forbidden….
These people, however, have turned aside from all this and
placed instead their affections upon that which accordeth with their own
corrupt inclinations. Thus do they roam in the wilderness of arrogance and
pride. I bear witness at this moment that God is wholly quit of them, and
likewise are We. We beseech God to suffer Us not to associate with them either
in this life or in the life to come. He, verily, is the Eternal Truth. No God
is there but Him, and His might is equal to all things.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Gems of
Divine Mysteries’)
