O Children of Adam! Holy words and pure and goodly deeds
ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory. Strive that your deeds may be
cleansed from the dust of self and hypocrisy and find favor at the court of
glory; for ere long the assayers of mankind shall, in the holy presence of the
Adored One, accept naught but absolute virtue and deeds of stainless purity.
This is the daystar of wisdom and of divine mystery that hath shone above the
horizon of the divine will. Blessed are they that turn thereunto.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah’)
