We ask God graciously to grant that all may evince such
fairness of character, such goodliness of deed and kindliness of word as will
meet with His good pleasure. It hath been decreed that the citadels of men's
hearts should be subdued through the hosts of a noble character and
praiseworthy deeds. Contention, discord, strife and sedition have all been
forbidden in the Book of God. Beseech the Lord that He deprive not His
dominions of the effulgent light of the sun of trustworthiness, nor deny them
the radiance of the Day-Star of truthfulness or the splendour of the orb of
justice and equity. Trustworthiness and piety are even as two luminaries
shining resplendent above the horizon of the heaven of the Tablet in which are
inscribed the ordinances of God. Well is it with them that have discerned them,
and woe betide the heedless!
(Baha’u’llah, The Compilation of Compilations,
Vol. II, Trustworthiness)
