God…is My witness, O people! I am come to you with a
Revelation from the Lord, your God, the Lord of your fathers of old. Look not,
O people, at the things ye possess. Look rather at the things God hath sent
down unto you. This, surely, will be better for you than the whole of creation,
could ye but perceive it. Repeat the gaze, O people, and consider the testimony
of God and His proof which are in your possession, and compare them unto the
Revelation sent down unto you in this Day, that the truth, the infallible truth,
may be indubitably manifested unto you. Follow not, O people, the steps of the
Evil One; follow ye the Faith of the All-Merciful, and be ye of them that truly
believe. What would it profit man, if he were to fail to recognize the
Revelation of God? Nothing whatever. To this Mine own Self, the Omnipotent, the
Omniscient, the All-Wise, will testify.
- The Báb (Quoted by Baha’u’llah,
‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
