That Sovereign Lord [God] Who doeth whatsoever He pleaseth
hath entrusted the kingdom of creation, its lands and its seas, into the hands
of the kings, for they are, each according to his degree, the manifestations of
His divine power. Should they enter
beneath the shadow of the True One, they will be accounted of God, and if not,
thy Lord, verily, knoweth and observeth all things.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Nasiri’d-Din Shah,
Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
