Say: If the laws and
regulations to which ye cleave be of your own making, We will, in no wise,
follow them. Thus have I been instructed by Him Who is the All-Wise, the
All-Informed. Such hath been My way in the past, and such will it remain in the
future, through the power of God and His might. This, indeed, is the true and
right way. If they be ordained by God,
bring forth, then, your proofs, if ye be of them that speak the truth. Say:
We have written down in a Book which leaveth not unrecorded the work of
any man, however insignificant, all that they have imputed to Thee, and all
that they have done unto Thee.
Say: It behoveth you, O Ministers of State, to keep the
precepts of God, and to forsake your own laws and regulations, and to be of
them who are guided aright. Better is
this for you than all ye possess, did ye but know it. If ye transgress the
commandment of God, not one jot or one tittle of all your works shall be
acceptable in His sight. Ye shall, erelong, discover the consequences of that
which ye shall have done in this vain life, and shall be repaid for them. This,
verily, is the truth, the undoubted truth.
- Baha’u’llah (Súriy-i-Mulúk [Tablet
to Kings], ‘Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
