Naught shall avail
you in this Day but God, nor is there any refuge to flee to save Him, the
Omniscient, the All-Wise. Whoso hath known Me hath known the Goal of all
desire, and whoso hath turned unto Me hath turned unto the Object of all
adoration. Thus hath it been set forth in the Book, and thus hath it been
decreed by God, the Lord of all worlds. To read but one of the verses of My
Revelation is better than to peruse the Scriptures of both the former and
latter generations. This is the Utterance of the All-Merciful, would that ye
had ears to hear! Say: This is the essence of knowledge, did ye but understand.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
