O Children of Negligence and Passion! Ye have suffered My
enemy to enter My house and have cast out My friend, for ye have enshrined the
love of another than Me in your hearts. Give ear to the sayings of the Friend
and turn towards His paradise. Worldly friends, seeking their own good, appear
to love one the other, whereas the true Friend hath loved and doth love you for
your own sakes; indeed He hath suffered for your guidance countless
afflictions. Be not disloyal to such a Friend, nay rather hasten unto Him. Such
is the daystar of the word of truth and faithfulness, that hath dawned above
the horizon of the pen of the Lord of all names. Open your ears that ye may
hearken unto the word of God, the Help in peril, the Self-existent.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Hidden Words’)
