Beware that ye divest not yourselves of the raiment of
Divine guidance. Drink ye your fill from the Cup which the Youths of Heaven
have raised above your heads. Thus biddeth you He Who hath more mercy upon you
than your own selves, He Who asketh not any recompense or thanks from you. His
reward is from Him Who hath, through the power of truth, sent Him down unto
you, and singled Him out and proclaimed Him as His own Testimony unto the whole
of creation. He it is Who hath empowered Him to manifest all His signs. Repeat
the gaze, that ye may perceive the things whereunto the Tongue of the Ancient
of Days hath summoned you, that haply ye may be of them that have apprehended
the truth. Heard it ye ever reported by your fathers of old, or by the generations
that preceded them, even unto the first Adam, that any one coming in the clouds
of revelation, being invested with manifest and transcendent sovereignty,
having on his right hand the Kingdom of God and on his left all the power and
glory of His everlasting dominion, any one preceded by the hosts of God, the
Almighty, the All-Compelling, the Most Powerful, and uttering continually
verses whose import the minds of the most learned and wisest of men are
powerless to fathom, should yet be the bearer of a message that is not of God?
Be discerning, then, and speak ye the truth, the very truth, if ye claim to be
honest and high-minded.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writing of
Baha’u’llah’)
