With perfect compassion and mercy have We guided and
directed the people of the world to that whereby their souls shall be profited.
I swear by the Sun of Truth which hath shone forth from the highest horizons of
the world that the people of Bahá had not and have not any aim save the
prosperity and reformation of the world and the purifying of the nations. With
all men they have been in sincerity and charity. Their outward [appearance] is
one with their inward [heart], and their inward [heart] identical with their
outward [appearance]. The truth of the matter is not hidden or concealed, but
plain and evident before [men’s] faces. Their very deeds are the witness of
this assertion. Today let everyone endowed with vision win his way from deeds
and signs to the object of the people of Bahá and from their speech and conduct
gain knowledge of their intent.
- Baha’u’llah (Quoted by ‘Abdu’l-Baha in ‘A
Traveler’s Narrative’)
