God hath committed into your [kings] hands the reins of the
government of the people, that ye may rule with justice over them, safeguard
the rights of the down-trodden, and punish the wrong-doers. If ye neglect the
duty prescribed unto you by God in His Book, your names shall be numbered with
those of the unjust in His sight. Grievous, indeed, will be your error. Cleave
ye to that which your imaginations have devised, and cast behind your backs the
commandments of God, the Most Exalted, the Inaccessible, the All-Compelling,
the Almighty? Cast away the things ye possess, and cling to that which God hath
bidden you observe. Seek ye His grace, for he that seeketh it treadeth His
straight Path.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
