We beseech the people of the Bayán, all the learned, the
sages, the divines, and witnesses amongst them, not to forget the wishes and
admonitions revealed in their Book. Let them, at all times, fix their gaze upon
the essentials of His Cause, lest when He, Who is the Quintessence of truth,
the inmost Reality of all things, the Source of all light, is made manifest,
they cling unto certain passages of the Book, and inflict upon Him that which
was inflicted in the Dispensation of the Qur’án. For, verily, powerful is He,
the King of divine might, to extinguish with one letter of His wondrous words,
the breath of life in the whole of the Bayán and the people thereof, and with
one letter bestow upon them a new and everlasting life, and cause them to arise
and speed out of the sepulchres of their vain and selfish desires. Take heed,
and be watchful; and remember that all things have their consummation in belief
in Him, in attainment unto His day, and in the realization of His divine
presence.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
