Notwithstanding the divinely-inspired admonitions of all the
Prophets, the Saints, and Chosen ones of God, enjoining the people to see with
their own eyes and hear with their own ears, they have disdainfully rejected
their counsels and have blindly followed, and will continue to follow, the
leaders of their Faith. Should a poor and obscure person, destitute of the
attire of men of learning, address them saying: “Follow ye, O people! the
Messengers of God,” [Qur’an 36:20] they would, greatly surprised at such a
statement, reply: “What! Meanest thou that all these divines, all these
exponents of learning, with all their authority, their pomp and pageantry, have
erred, and failed to distinguish truth from falsehood? Dost thou, and people
like thyself, pretend to have comprehended that which they have not
understood?”
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
