BY the righteousness of God! The Mother Book is made
manifest, summoning mankind unto God, the Lord of the worlds, while the seas
proclaim: The Most Great Ocean hath appeared, from whose waves one can hear the
thundering cry: ‘Verily, no God is there but Me, the Peerless, the
All-Knowing.’ And the trees raising their clamour exclaim: O people of the
world! The voice of the Divine Lote-Tree is clearly sounding and the shrill cry
of the Pen of Glory is ringing loud: Give ye ear and be not of the heedless. The
sun is calling out: O concourse of the divines! The heaven of religions is
split and the moon cleft asunder and the peoples of the earth are brought
together in a new resurrection. Fear ye God and follow not the promptings of
your passions, rather follow Him unto Whom have testified the Scriptures of
God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah
revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
