Kitab-i-Badi/English664

This is the book of the first point to those who believe in God, the One, the Unique, the Mighty, the All-Knowing. And in it he addresses those who paused in this matter from the ranks of the clairvoyants, so that they might feel the beginnings of God’s words and rise from the sleep of heedlessness in this bright and enlightening dawn. Say: We commanded you in the Book not to give precedence to a group from which the beloved of the gnostics and the destination of those in the heavens and the earth appear. And we commanded you, if you realize the meeting with God, stand face to face, and then pronounce before me this mighty and invincible word: “On you, O Baha’u’llah and your kin, remember God and praise all things at all times and before and after.” And We made this word a source of honor for the people of the statement, so that by it they may ascend to the ascents of Jerusalem and be among the winners. And they abandoned [353] what they were commanded to do, so that no one appeared on the face of what We commanded them in the Tablets of Great Glory, but rather they shot towards him from all horizons the shot of hypocrisy. And with that I wept and the people of the might of greatness wept, then the soul of the Secretary.