The Pen of Revelation, O Dhabíh, hath, in most of the
divinely-revealed Tablets, recorded these words: We have admonished all the
loved ones of God to take heed lest the hem of Our sacred vesture be smirched
with the mire of unlawful deeds, or be stained with the dust of reprehensible
conduct. We have, moreover, exhorted them to fix their gaze upon whatsoever
hath been revealed in Our Tablets. Had their inner ears been attentive to the
Divine counsels which have shone forth from the Day Spring of the Pen of the
All-Merciful, and hearkened unto His Voice, most of the peoples of the earth
would have by now been adorned with the ornament of His guidance. What had been
pre-ordained, however, hath come to pass.
- Baha'u'llah (Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha’u’llah’)
