O concourse of kings and of the sons of kings! Lay aside,
one and all, your dominion which belongeth unto God.... Vain indeed is your dominion,
for God hath set aside earthly possessions for such as have denied Him.... O
concourse of kings! Deliver with truth and in all haste the verses sent down by
Us to the peoples of Turkey and of India, and beyond them, with power and with
truth, to lands in both the East and the West.... By God! If ye do well, to
your own behoof will ye do well; and if ye deny God and His signs, We, in very
truth, having God, can well dispense with all creatures and all earthly
dominion.
- The Báb (From Qayyúm-i-Asmá, quoted by Shoghi Effendi in ‘Promised
Day Is Come’)
