Lawh-i-Khalíl

Extract

"But the One (from among his sons) who will appear among them with innate knowledge, God will cause the verses of His power to flow from his tongue, and he is the One to whom God has assigned His Cause. Verily there is no God but Him, in whom is the creation and the command, and verily we are all performing His commands.

"I beg of God to incline them to his obedience, and to nourish them with that whereby their mind is satisfied, and the minds of those who are facing the direction of God at every instant, and to overlook their oppression, and to ordain them of those who will inherit the heaven of paradise from before God, the Mighty, the Protector, the Self-subsistent!

"(Words of Baha'o'llah: Extract from Tablet revealed for Haji Khaleel. Prayers, Tablets, Instructions and Miscellany gathered by American visitors, during the summer of 1900.)"

(Star of the West, vol. 8, issue 14, p. 185)