O people of the
world! Follow not the promptings of the self, for it summoneth insistently to wickedness
and lust; follow, rather, Him Who is the Possessor of all created things, Who
biddeth you to show forth piety, and manifest the fear of God. He, verily, is
independent of all His creatures. Take heed not to stir up mischief in the land
after it hath been set in order. Whoso acteth in this way is not of Us, and We
are quit of him. Such is the command which hath, through the power of truth,
been made manifest from the heaven of Revelation.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
