O people of Baha! Ye are the dawning-places of
the love of God and the daysprings of His loving-kindness.
Defile not your tongues with the cursing and reviling
of any soul, and guard your eyes against that which
is not seemly. Set forth that which ye possess.
If it be favourably received, your end is attained;
if not, to protest is vain. Leave that soul to
himself and turn unto the Lord, the Protector, the
Self-Subsisting. Be not the cause of grief, much
less of discord and strife. The hope is cherished
that ye may obtain true education in the shelter of
the tree of His tender mercies and act in accordance
with that which God desireth. Ye are all the
leaves of one tree and the drops of one ocean.
The fourteenth Glad-Tidings
It is not necessary to undertake special journeys
to visit the resting-places of the dead. If people
of substance and affluence offer the cost of such
journeys to the House of Justice, it will be pleasing
and acceptable in the presence of God. Happy
are they that observe His precepts.
The fifteenth Glad-Tidings
Although a republican form of government profiteth
all the peoples of the world, yet the majesty of kingship
is one of the signs of God. We do not wish that
the countries of the world should remain deprived thereof.
If the sagacious combine the two forms into one, great
will be their reward in the presence of God.
In former religions such ordinances as holy war, destruction
of books, the ban on association and companionship
with other peoples or on reading certain books had
been laid down and affirmed according to the exigencies
of the time; however, in this mighty Revelation, in
this momentous Announcement, the manifold bestowals
and favours of God have overshadowed all men, and
from the horizon of the Will of the Ever-Abiding Lord,
His infallible decree hath prescribed that which We
have set forth above.
We yield praise unto God—hallowed and glorified
be He—for whatsoever He hath graciously
revealed in this blessed, this glorious and incomparable
Day. Indeed if everyone on earth were endowed
with a myriad tongues and were to continually praise
God and magnify His Name to the end that knoweth no
end, their thanksgiving would not prove adequate for
even one of the gracious favours We have mentioned
in this Tablet. Unto this beareth witness every
man of wisdom and discernment, of understanding and
knowledge.
We earnestly beseech God—exalted be His
glory—to aid the rulers and sovereigns,
who are the exponents of power and the daysprings of
glory, to enforce His laws and ordinances. He
is in truth the Omnipotent, the All-Powerful, He Who
is wont to answer the call of men.
In My Name, which standeth supreme above all names
Praise and glory beseem the Lord of Names and
the Creator of the heavens, He, the waves of Whose
ocean of Revelation surge before the eyes of the peoples
of the world. The Day-Star of His Cause shineth
through every veil and His Word of affirmation standeth
beyond the reach of negation. Neither the ascendancy
of the oppressor nor the tyranny of the wicked hath
been able to thwart His Purpose. How glorified
is His sovereignty, how exalted His dominion!
