The days of your life are far spent, O people, and your end
is fast approaching. Put away, therefore, the things ye have devised and to
which ye cleave, and take firm hold on the precepts of God, that haply ye may
attain that which He hath purposed for you, and be of them that pursue a right
course. Delight not yourselves in the things of the world and its vain
ornaments, neither set your hopes on them. Let your reliance be on the
remembrance of God, the Most Exalted, the Most Great. He will, erelong, bring
to naught all the things ye possess. Let Him be your fear, and forget not His
covenant with you, and be not of them that are shut out as by a veil from Him.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
