O Vafa! [1]… It behoveth thee, however, to exert thine
utmost to attain the very essence of fidelity. This implieth to be well assured
in thy heart and to testify with thy tongue to that whereunto God hath
testified for His Own exalted Self, proclaiming: ‘Verily, self-subsisting am I
within the Realm of Glory.’ Whoso is enabled in these days to solemnly affirm
this truth, hath attained unto all good, and the heavenly Spirit shall descend
upon him in the daytime and in the night season, shall graciously assist him to
glorify the Name of his Lord and suffer him to unloose his tongue and uphold
with his words the Cause of his Lord, the Merciful, the Compassionate. And none
can ever achieve this except he who hath purged his heart from whatsoever is
created between heaven and earth, and hath entirely detached himself from all
but God, the sovereign Lord, the Almighty, the Gracious.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets
of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
[1] Muhammad Husayn, one of the early believers of Shíráz, surnamed
‘Vafá (Fidelity) by Bahá’u’lláh
