By God! Wert thou [1] to realize what thou hast done, thou
wouldst surely weep sore over thyself, and wouldst flee for refuge to God, and
wouldst pine away and mourn all the days of thy life, till God will have
forgiven thee, for He, verily, is the Most Generous, the All-Bountiful. Thou
wilt, however, persist, till the hour of thy death, in thy heedlessness,
inasmuch as thou hast, with all thine heart, thy soul and inmost being, busied
thyself with the vanities of the world. Thou shalt, after thy departure,
discover what We have revealed unto thee, and shalt find all thy doings
recorded in the Book wherein the works of all them that dwell on earth, be they
greater or less than the weight of an atom, are noted down.
- 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
