The Prophets and Chosen Ones have all been commissioned by
the One True God, magnified be His glory, to nurture the trees of human
existence with the living waters of uprightness and understanding, that there
may appear from them that which God hath deposited within their inmost selves.
As may be readily observed, each tree yieldeth a certain fruit, and a barren
tree is but fit for fire. The purpose of these Educators, in all they said and
taught, was to preserve man’s exalted station. Well is it with him who in the
Day of God hath laid fast hold upon His precepts and hath not deviated from His
true and fundamental Law.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Questions and Answers’, ‘The
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
