Thus have We built the Temple with the hands of power and
might, could ye but know it. This is the
Temple promised unto you in the Book. Draw ye nigh unto it. This is
that which profiteth you, could ye but comprehend it. Be fair, O peoples of the earth! Which is preferable, this, or a temple which
is built of clay? Set your faces towards
it. Thus have ye been commanded by God,
the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. Follow ye His bidding, and praise ye God, your Lord, for that which He
hath bestowed upon you. He, verily, is
the Truth. No God is there but He. He revealeth what He pleaseth, through His
words “Be and it is”.
- Baha'u'llah (Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The
Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
