We exhort the men of
the House of Justice and command them to ensure the protection and safeguarding
of men, women and children. It is incumbent upon them to have the utmost regard
for the interests of the people at all times and under all conditions. Blessed
is the ruler who succoureth the captive, and the rich one who careth for the
poor, and the just one who secureth from the wrong doer the rights of the
downtrodden, and happy the trustee who observeth that which the Ordainer, the
Ancient of Days hath prescribed unto him.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Words of Paradise’; Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
