Ponder in thine [1] heart. Did ye, notwithstanding your
behavior and the things your hands have wrought, succeed in quenching the fire
of God or in putting out the light of His Revelation—a light that hath
enveloped with its brightness them that are immersed in the billowing oceans of
immortality, and hath attracted the souls of such as truly believe in and
uphold His unity? Know ye not that the Hand of God is over your hands, that His
irrevocable Decree transcendeth all your devices, that He is supreme over His
servants, that He is equal to His Purpose, that He doth what He wisheth, that
He shall not be asked of whatever He willeth, that He ordaineth what He
pleaseth, that He is the Most Powerful, the Almighty? If ye believe this to be
the truth, wherefore, then, will ye not cease from troubling and be at peace
with yourselves?
- Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet to a Minister of the Shah;
‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
[1] a Minister of the Shah
