…the Tongue of the Ancient of Days reveal, while in this Most
Great Prison, these words which are recorded in this snow-white Scroll: O ye
the beloved of the one true God! Pass beyond the narrow retreats of your evil
and corrupt desires, and advance into the vast immensity of the realm of God,
and abide ye in the meads of sanctity and of detachment, that the fragrance of
your deeds may lead the whole of mankind to the ocean of God’s unfading glory.
Forbear ye from concerning yourselves with the affairs of this world and all
that pertaineth unto it, or from meddling with the activities of those who are
its outward leaders.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha’u’llah’)
