Relate unto them [“kings of the earth”], O Servant, the
story of ‘Alí, [the Báb] when He came unto them with truth, bearing His
glorious and weighty Book, and holding in His hands a testimony and proof from
God, and holy and blessed tokens from Him. Ye, however, O kings, have failed to
heed the Remembrance of God in His days and to be guided by the lights which
arose and shone forth above the horizon of a resplendent Heaven. Ye examined
not His Cause when so to do would have been better for you than all that the
sun shineth upon, could ye but perceive it. Ye remained careless until the
divines of Persia—those cruel ones—pronounced judgement against Him, and
unjustly slew Him. His spirit ascended unto God, and the eyes of the inmates of
Paradise and the angels that are nigh unto Him wept sore by reason of this
cruelty. Beware that ye be not careless henceforth as ye have been careless
aforetime. Return, then, unto God, your Maker, and be not of the heedless.
- Baha’u’llah (Súriy-i-Mulúk; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
