O ye peoples of the world! Know assuredly that My commandments are the
lamps of My loving providence among My servants, and the keys of My mercy for
My creatures. Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your
Lord, the Lord of Revelation. Were any man to taste the sweetness of the words
which the lips of the All-Merciful have willed to utter, he would, though the
treasures of the earth be in his possession, renounce them one and all, that he
might vindicate the truth of even one of His commandments, shining above the
Dayspring of His bountiful care and loving-kindness.
(Baha'u'llah, ‘The
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
