Alas, alas, for your negligence, O people of the Bayán!
Alas, alas, for your blindness, O concourse of the faithless! For, prompted by
self-conceit and vainglory, ye have ascribed the station of successor to one of
His [Baha’u’llah’s] enemies and have contended thereby with God, the Author of
all religions aforetime and hereafter. Thus have ye returned to the arguments
of the people of the Qur’án, notwithstanding that We prohibited you from
uttering a single word in His presence save by His leave. God knoweth and
testifieth to the truth of My words. Contemplate, therefore, your condition and
the measure of your understanding. Woe betide you, and your thoughts, and your
judgement, O ye that are in grievous loss! Know ye not that We have rolled up
that which the people possessed, and have unfolded a new order in its place?
Blessed, then, be God, the sovereign King, the Unfolder, the Almighty, the Most
Generous. - Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet in which He speaks in the voice of the
Báb [based on footnotes]; ‘Days of Remembrance’)
