O friends! Let not the deceptive glamour of this fleeting
world--to whose impermanence all things attest--cut you off from God's enduring
bestowals, nor deprive you from partaking of the spiritual sustenance that He
hath sent down from the heaven of His bounty. Keep your gaze centred on Him Who
is the Sovereign Word of Truth: place your whole reliance upon Him, and beg of
Him to destine for you what is meet and fitting. Resign your affairs into the
hands of God, the Lord of creation. Call ye to mind the people of former ages:
whither are they sped, the prideful and vainglorious, the workers of iniquity
and unrighteousness? Where are their hoards of treasure, their palaces,
citadels and thrones? Reflect upon those bygone days, and the vicissitudes of
which they tell, and be ye admonished thereby. The prayer of this Wronged One
is that God may assist all to do what shall meet with His favour and
acceptance.
- Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet; The Compilation of Compilations, Vol.
II, Trustworthiness)
