O Jalíl! Upon thee be My glory and My loving providence.
Verily We have enjoined the people to do what is meet and seemly and yet they
have committed such things as have caused My heart and My Pen to lament.
Incline thine ear to that which is sent down from the heaven of My Will and the
realm of My good-pleasure. I sorrow not for My captivity, nor for the things
that have befallen Me at the hand of Mine enemies. Nay, My sorrows are
occasioned by those who claim to be related to Me and yet commit that which
causeth the voice of My lamentations to be lifted up and My tears to flow. We
have exhorted them at length in various Tablets and beseech God to graciously
assist them, to enable them to draw nigh unto Him and to confirm them in that
which would bring peace to the hearts and tranquillity to the souls and would
stay their hands from whatsoever ill-beseemeth His days.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets
of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas)
