Say: If ye be seekers after this life and the vanities
thereof, ye should have sought them while ye were still enclosed in your
mothers’ wombs, for at that time ye were continually approaching them, could ye
but perceive it. Ye have, on the other hand, ever since ye were born and
attained maturity, been all the while receding from the world and drawing
closer to dust. Why, then, exhibit such greed in amassing the treasures of the
earth, when your days are numbered and your chance is well-nigh lost? Will ye
not, then, O heedless ones, shake off your slumber?
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings
from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
