O servants! Lifeless is the body that
is bereft of a soul, and withered the heart that is devoid of the remembrance
of its Lord. Commune with the remembrance of the Friend and shun the enemy.
Your enemy is such things as ye have acquired of your own inclination, to which
ye have firmly clung, and whereby ye have sullied your souls. The soul hath
been created for the remembrance of the Friend; safeguard its purity. The
tongue hath been created to bear witness to God; pollute it not with the
mention of the wayward.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The
Tabernacle of Unity’)
