In the Name of God, the Most Exalted, the Most High.
Verily I am God, no God is there but Me, and aught except Me is
but My creation. Say, worship Me then, O ye, My creatures.
I have called Thee into being, have nurtured Thee, protected Thee,
loved Thee, raised Thee up and have graciously chosen Thee to be the
manifestation of Mine Own Self, that Thou mayest recite My verses as ordained
by Me, and may summon whomsoever I have created unto My Religion which is none
other than this glorious and exalted Path.
I have fashioned all created things for Thy sake, and I have, by
virtue of My Will, set Thee sovereign Ruler over all mankind. Moreover, I have
decreed that whoso embraceth My religion shall believe in My unity, and I have
linked this belief with remembrance of Thee, and after Thee
the remembrance of such as Thou hast, by My leave, caused to be the ‘Letters of
the Living’, and of whatever hath been revealed from My religion in the Bayán.
This, indeed, is what will enable the sincere among My servants to gain
admittance into the celestial Paradise.
- The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings
of the Báb’)
