O Children of Men! Know ye not why We created you all from
the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Ponder at all
times in your hearts how ye were created. Since We have created you all from
one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with
the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your
inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence
of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of
light! Heed ye this counsel that ye may obtain the fruit of holiness from the
tree of wondrous glory.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The
Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh’; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Women)
