O thou who bearest My Name! [1] The glances of the
loving-kindness of God have been and continue to be directed towards thee.
While in His presence, thou hast heard the Voice of the One true God—exalted be
His glory—and hast beheld the unveiled splendour of the Light of divine
knowledge. Ponder a while! How sublime is the Utterance of Him Who is the
Sovereign Truth and how abject are the idle contentions of the people! The
accumulations of vain fancy have obstructed men’s ears and stopped them from
hearing the Voice of God, and the veils of human learning and false imaginings
have prevented their eyes from beholding the splendour of the light of His
countenance. With the arm of might and power We have rescued a number of souls
from the slough of impending extinction and enabled them to attain the
Dayspring of glory. Moreover We have laid bare the divine mysteries and in most
explicit language foretold future events, that neither the doubts of the faithless,
nor the denials of the froward, nor the whisperings of the heedless may keep
back the seekers of truth from the Source of the light of the One true God.
Nevertheless some people seem to have been seized with epilepsy, others are
torn up even as hollow tree-stumps. They abandon God, the Most Exalted—He
before Whose revelation of a single verse, all the Scriptures of the past and
of more recent times pale into lowliness and insignificance—and set their
hearts on lying tales and follow empty words.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of
Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
[1] Muhammad Javád-i-Qazvíní, upon whom Bahá’u’lláh bestowed
the title Ismu’lláhi’l-Júd (The Name of God, Bounty). He transcribed numerous
Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh during His Ministry, but subsequently broke the
Covenant.
