Say: Fear ye God, then observe equity in your judgement of
this Great Announcement before which, as soon as it shone forth, every
momentous announcement bowed low in adoration. Say: O concourse of the foolish!
If ye reject Him, by what evidence can ye prove your allegiance to the former
Messengers of God or vindicate your belief in that which He hath sent down from
His mighty and exalted Kingdom? What benefit do your possessions bestow upon
you? What protection can your treasures afford you? None, I swear by the Spirit
of God that pervadeth all that are in the heavens and on the earth. Cast away
that which ye have put together with the hands of idle fancy and vain
imaginings and take fast hold of the Book of God which hath been sent down by
virtue of His all-compelling and inviolable authority.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets
of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
