Let no one imagine that by Our assertion that all created
things are the signs of the revelation of God is meant that—God forbid—all men,
be they good or evil, pious or infidel, are equal in the sight of God. Nor doth
it imply that the Divine Being—magnified be His name and exalted be His
glory—is, under any circumstances, comparable unto men, or can, in any way, be
associated with His creatures. Such an error hath been committed by certain
foolish ones who, after having ascended into the heavens of their idle fancies,
have interpreted Divine Unity to mean that all created things are the signs of
God, and that, consequently, there is no distinction whatsoever between them.
Some have even outstripped them by maintaining that these signs are peers and
partners of God Himself. Gracious God! He, verily, is one and indivisible; one
in His essence, one in His attributes. Everything besides Him is as nothing
when brought face to face with the resplendent revelation of but one of His
names, with no more than the faintest intimation of His glory—how much less
when confronted with His own Self!
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings
of Baha’u’llah’)
