In brief,
ye have undoubtedly heard and read His [Baha’u’llah] Holy Instructions. But
alas! we have entirely neglected them and are pursuing our own desires,
following our own opinions, seeking our own ideas, and chasing our own shadows!
Is it not a shame to change His Rose Garden into a bramble patch? His
Delectable Paradise into a ruined abode? To seek to eradicate His Foundation
and completely destroy His structure? To forget the Divine Instructions and
cast behind our backs the Commands of God; with our lips to speak of the waves
of the tumultuous Ocean, while inwardly we are dying of thirst; and while
claiming divine wealth of consciousness, we are so poverty-stricken in spirit
as to be but illusive phantoms-blown about by every wind?
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a
Tablet to the Spiritual Assembly of Baku, Russia; Star of the West, vol. 2, no.
6, June 24, 1911)
