How great the number of those who, in bygone ages, have
committed the things ye have committed, and who, though superior to you in
rank, have, in the end, returned unto dust, and been consigned to their
inevitable doom! Would that ye might ponder the Cause of God in your hearts! Ye
shall follow in their wake, and shall be made to enter a habitation wherein
none shall be found to befriend or help you. Ye shall, of a truth, be asked of
your doings, shall be called to account for your failure in duty with regard to
the Cause of God, and for having disdainfully rejected His loved ones who, with
manifest sincerity, have come unto you.
It is ye who have taken counsel together regarding them, ye
that have preferred to follow the promptings of your own desires, and forsaken
the commandment of God, the Help in Peril, the Almighty.
- Baha’u’llah (Súriy-i-Mulúk
[Tablet to Kings], ‘Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
