They whom God hath endued with insight will readily
recognize that the precepts laid down by God constitute the highest means for
the maintenance of order in the world and the security of its peoples. He that
turneth away from them, is accounted among the abject and foolish. We, verily,
have commanded you to refuse the dictates of your evil passions and corrupt
desires, and not to transgress the bounds which the Pen of the Most High hath
fixed, for these are the breath of life unto all created things. The seas of
Divine wisdom and divine utterance have risen under the breath of the breeze of
the All-Merciful. Hasten to drink your fill, O men of understanding! They that
have violated the Covenant of God by breaking His commandments, and have turned
back on their heels, these have erred grievously in the sight of God, the
All-Possessing, the Most High. - Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha’u’llah’)
