I know not the path ye have chosen and which ye tread, O
congregation of My ill-wishers! We summon you to God, We remind you of His Day,
We announce unto you tidings of your reunion with Him, We draw you nigh unto
His court, and send down upon you tokens of His wondrous wisdom, and yet lo,
behold how ye reject Us, how ye condemn Us, through the things which your lying
mouths have uttered, as an infidel, how ye devise your devices against Us! And
when We manifest unto you what God hath, through His bountiful favor, bestowed
upon Us, ye say, “It is but plain magic.” The same words were spoken by the
generations that were before you and were what you are, did ye but perceive it.
Ye have thereby deprived yourselves of the bounty of God and of His grace, and
shall never obtain them till the day when God will have judged between Us and
you, and He, verily, is the best of Judges.
- Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet to a
Minister of the Shah; ‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
