The word of God which the Abha Pen hath revealed and
inscribed on the first leaf of the Most Exalted Paradise is this: Verily I say:
The fear of God hath ever been a sure defence and a safe stronghold for all the
peoples of the world. It is the chief cause of the protection of mankind, and
the supreme instrument for its preservation. Indeed, there existeth in man a
faculty which deterreth him from, and guardeth him against, whatever is
unworthy and unseemly, and which is known as his sense of shame. This, however,
is confined to but a few; all have not possessed and do not possess it.
(Baha'u'llah,
Tablets of Baha'u'llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas)
