Let My counsel be acceptable to thee [1], and strive thou to
rule with equity among men, that God may exalt thy name and spread abroad the
fame of thy justice in all the world. Beware lest thou aggrandize thy ministers
at the expense of thy subjects. Fear the sighs of the poor and of the upright
in heart who, at every break of day, bewail their plight, and be unto them a
benignant sovereign. They, verily, are thy treasures on earth. It behoveth
thee, therefore, to safeguard thy treasures from the assaults of them who wish
to rob thee. Inquire into their affairs, and ascertain, every year, nay every
month, their condition, and be not of them that are careless of their duty.
- Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet to Sultan ‘Abdu’l-‘Aziz; ‘Gleanings from the Writings
of Baha’u’llah’)
[1] ‘Abdu’l-‘Aziz
