We enjoin the servants of God and His handmaidens to be pure
and to fear God, that they may shake off the slumber of their corrupt desires,
and turn toward God, the Maker of the heavens and of the earth. Thus have We
commanded the faithful when the Daystar of the world shone forth from the
horizon of ‘Iráq. My imprisonment doeth Me no harm, neither the tribulations I
suffer, nor the things that have befallen Me at the hands of My oppressors.
That which harmeth Me is the conduct of those who, though they bear My name,
yet commit that which maketh My heart and My pen to lament. They that spread
disorder in the land, and lay hands on the property of others, and enter a
house without leave of its owner, We, verily, are clear of them, unless they
repent and return unto God, the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful. - Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
