We see you [“kings of the earth”] rejoicing in that which ye
have amassed for others and shutting out yourselves from the worlds which
naught except My guarded Tablet can reckon. The treasures ye have laid up have
drawn you far away from your ultimate objective. This ill beseemeth you, could
ye but understand it. Wash your hearts from all earthly defilements, and hasten
to enter the Kingdom of your Lord, the Creator of earth and heaven, Who caused
the world to tremble and all its peoples to wail, except them that have
renounced all things and clung to that which the Hidden Tablet hath ordained.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
