We have decreed, O people, that the highest and last end of all
learning be the recognition of Him Who is the Object of all knowledge; and yet,
behold how ye have allowed your learning to shut you out, as by a veil, from
Him Who is the Dayspring of this Light, through Whom every hidden thing hath
been revealed. Could ye but discover the source whence the splendour of this
utterance is diffused, ye would cast away the peoples of the world and all that
they possess, and would draw nigh unto this most blessed Seat of glory.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
