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.
- Baha'u'llah ('Tablets of Baha'u'llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas')
