Give ear unto God’s holy Voice, and heed thou His sweet and
immortal melody. Behold how He hath solemnly warned them that have repudiated
the verses of God, and hath disowned them that have denied His [the Báb’s] holy
words. Consider how far the people have strayed from the Kawthar of the divine
Presence, and how grievous hath been the faithlessness and arrogance of the
spiritually destitute in the face of that sanctified Beauty. Although that
Essence of lovingkindness and bounty caused those evanescent beings to step
into the realm of immortality, and guided those destitute souls to the sacred
river of wealth, yet some denounced Him as “a calumniator of God, the Lord of
all creatures,” others accused Him of being “the one that withholdeth the
people from the path of faith and true belief,” and still others declared Him
to be “a lunatic” and the like.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan)
