Say: O peoples of the earth! Destroy the abodes of
negligence with the hands of power and assurance, and raise up the mansions of
true knowledge within your hearts, that the All-Merciful may shed the radiance
of His light upon them. Better is this for you than all whereon the sun
shineth, and unto this beareth witness He Who holdeth within His grasp the
ultimate decree. The Breeze of God hath been wafted over the world at the
advent of the Desired One in His great glory, whereupon every stone and clod of
earth hath cried out: “The Promised One is come! The Kingdom is God’s, the Mighty, the
Gracious, the Forgiving.”
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Pope
Pius IX, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
