Take heed lest ye hesitate in recognizing this resplendent
Beauty when once He hath appeared in the plenitude of His sovereign might and
majesty. He, verily, is the True One,
and all else besides Him is as naught before a single one of His servants, and
paleth into nothingness when brought face to face with the revelation of His
splendours. Hasten, then, to attain the
living waters of His grace, and be not of the negligent. As to him who hesitateth, though it be for
less than a moment, God shall verily bring his works to naught and return him
to the seat of wrath; wretched indeed is the abode of them that tarry!
- Baha'u'llah (Suriy-i-Haykal
[Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
