Thus was I bidden to deliver unto you the message of God,
your Creator, and I have fulfilled that whereunto I was bidden. Unto this bear
witness God, and His angels, and His Messengers, and His sanctified servants.
Inhale, then, the sweet savours of Paradise from its roses and be not of them
that are deprived. Hasten to win your share of the grace which God hath
bestowed upon you and suffer not yourselves to be veiled therefrom.
We have sent Him down in the form of a human temple. Blest
and sanctified be God Who createth whatsoever He willeth through His
inviolable, His infallible decree. They who deprive themselves of the shadow of
the Branch are lost in the wilderness of error, are consumed by the heat of
worldly desires, and are of those who will assuredly perish.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
