Call Thou to mind God’s mercy unto Thee; how, when Thou wert
imprisoned with a number of other souls, He delivered Thee and aided Thee with
the hosts of the seen and the unseen, until the King sent Thee to ‘Iráq after
We had disclosed unto him that Thou wert not of the sowers of sedition. Those
who follow their corrupt desires and lay aside the fear of God are indeed in
grievous error. They that spread disorder in the land, shed the blood of men,
and wrongfully consume the substance of others — We, verily, are clear of them,
and We beseech God not to associate Us with them, whether in this world or in
the world to come, unless they should repent unto Him. He, verily, is of those
who show mercy the most merciful.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Nasiri’d-Din Shah,
Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
