Say, how dare ye flagrantly deny the verses sent down from
the heaven of justice, yet ye read the Books of God revealed in the past? How
do ye repudiate the meeting with your Lord which was appointed with you
aforetime, and fail in this Day to heed His warning? Indeed, by adhering to
forms and by following the promptings of your selfish desires, ye have deprived
yourselves of the good-pleasure of your Lord, except those whom their Lord hath
endowed with knowledge and who in this Day render thanks unto Him for the
bounty of being identified with the true Faith of God. Therefore announce ye
the Message unto those who manifest virtue and teach them the ways of the One
True God, that haply they may comprehend.
- The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings
of the Báb)
