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Extracts on Covenant Breakers
Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
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There is no peace for thee save by renouncing thyself and turning unto
Me; for it behooveth thee to glory in My name, not in thine own; to put thy trust in Me
and not in thyself, since I desire to be loved alone and above all that is. |
| 2 |
My love is My stronghold; he that entereth therein is safe and secure,
and he that turneth away shall surely stray and perish |
| 3 |
I desire communion with thee, but thou wouldst put no trust in Me. The
sword of thy rebellion hath felled the tree of thy hope. At all times I am near unto thee,
but thou art ever far from Me. Imperishable glory I have chosen for thee, yet boundless
shame thou hast chosen for thyself. While there is yet time, return, and lose not thy
chance. |
| 4 |
Wherefore do ye wear the guise of shepherds, when inwardly ye have become
wolves, intent upon My flock? Ye are even as the star, which riseth ere the dawn, and
which, though it seem radiant and luminous, leadeth the wayfarers of My city astray into
the paths of perdition. |
| 5 |
Wouldst thou have Me, seek none other than Me; and wouldst thou gaze upon
My beauty, close thine eyes to the world and all that is therein; for My will and the will
of another than Me, even as fire and water, cannot dwell together in one heart. |
| 6 |
Even as the swiftness of lightning ye have passed by the Beloved One, and
have set your hearts on satanic fancies. Ye bow the knee before your vain imagining, and
call it truth. Ye turn your eyes towards the thorn, and name it a flower. Not a pure
breath have ye breathed, nor hath the breeze of detachment been wafted from the meadows of
your hearts. Ye have cast to the winds the loving counsels of the Beloved and have effaced
them utterly from the tablet of your hearts, and even as the beasts of the field, ye move
and have your being within the pastures of desire and passion. |
| 7 |
Call ye to mind that covenant ye have entered into with Me upon Mount
Paran, situate within the hallowed precincts of Zaman. I have taken to witness the
concourse on high and the dwellers in the city of eternity, yet now none do I find
faithful unto the covenant. Of a certainty pride and rebellion have effaced it from the
hearts, in such wise that no trace thereof remaineth. Yet knowing this, I waited and
disclosed it not. |
| 8 |
Leprosy may be interpreted as any veil that interveneth between man and
the recognition of the Lord, his God. Whoso alloweth himself to be shut out from Him is
indeed a leper, who shall not be remembered in the Kingdom of God, the Mighty, the
All-Praised. |
| 9 |
I beseech Thee, by Thy Most Great Name, to open the eyes of Thy servants,
that they may behold Thee shining above the horizon of Thy majesty and glory, and that
they may not be hindered by the croaking of the raven from hearkening to the voice of the
Dove of Thy sublime oneness, nor be prevented by the corrupt waters from partaking of the
pure wine of Thy bounty and the everlasting streams of Thy gifts. Gather them, then,
together around this Divine Law, the covenant of which Thou hast established with all Thy
Prophets and Thy Messengers, and Whose ordinances Thou hast written down in Thy Tablets
and Thy Scriptures. Raise them up, moreover, to such heights as will enable them to
perceive Thy Call.
Potent art Thou to do what pleaseth Thee. Thou art, verily, the Inaccessible, the
All-Glorious |
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Introduction