Thou hast, O Chief, committed that which hath caused
Muhammad, the Apostle of God, to lament in the most sublime Paradise. The world
hath made thee proud, so much so that thou hast turned away from the Face
through whose brightness the Concourse on high hath been illumined. Soon thou
shalt find thyself in manifest loss! Thou didst conspire with the Persian
Ambassador to harm Me, though I had come unto you from the source of majesty
and grandeur with a Revelation that hath solaced the eyes of the favoured ones
of God.
- Baha’u’llah (Súriy-i-Ra’ís, Tablet addressed to ‘Álí Páshá, the Ottoman Prime
Minister, [referred to here as Ra’ís (Chief or Ruler)]; ‘The Summons of the
Lord of Hosts’)
