O friend! In the Bayán We directed everyone in this Most
Great Revelation to see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears. However
when the horizon of the world was illumined with the resplendent light of this
Revelation, many people forgot this divine commandment, lost sight of this
heavenly exhortation and immersed themselves in the vain imaginings which their
minds had devised. Indeed the face of the sun of justice and fairness is hidden
behind the clouds of idle fancy which the foolish ones have conceived.
Therefore it is not to be wondered at that the movements of the birds of
darkness attract attention. Through the potency of the Name of the
Best-Beloved, invite thou the receptive souls unto God’s holy court, that
perchance they may not remain deprived of the heavenly Fountain of living
water. He is in truth the Gracious, the Forgiving.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of
Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
