The Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh
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Baha'u'llah. The Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh
Introduction
SUMMONS TO THE KINGS AND RULERS OF THE WORLD COLLECTIVELY
“O KINGS of the earth! He Who is the sovereign…”
“O KINGS of the earth! Give ear unto the Voice of God,…”
“O KINGS of the earth! We see you increasing every year…”
“THE one true God, exalted be His glory, hath ever regarded,…”
NAPOLEON III
CZAR ALEXANDER II
QUEEN VICTORIA
KAISER WILHELM I
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH
SULṬÁN ‘ABDU’L-‘AZÍZ
NÁṢIRI’D-DÍN SHÁH
THE RULERS OF AMERICA
THE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLES IN EVERY LAND
SUMMONS TO THE WORLD’S RELIGIOUS LEADERS COLLECTIVELY
“O LEADERS of religion! Weigh not the Book of…”
“O CONCOURSE of divines! When My verses were sent…”
“HOW long will ye, O concourse of divines, level the…”
“O CONCOURSE of divines! Can any one of you race with…”
“WHEN We observed carefully, We discovered that Our…”
“O YE the dawning-places of knowledge! Beware that ye…”
“THOSE divines … who are truly adorned with the ornament…”
“THE divine whose conduct is upright, and the sage who…”
“THE divine who hath seized and quaffed the most holy…”
“GREAT is the blessedness of that divine that hath not…”
“O CONCOURSE of divines! Ye shall not henceforth behold…”
POPE PIUS IX
THE CLERGY AND PEOPLE OF VARIOUS FAITHS
“At one time We address the people of the Torah and summon…”
“CALL out to Zion, O Carmel, and announce the…”
“THE Most Great Law is come, and the Ancient Beauty…”
“THE Breath hath been wafted, and the Breeze hath…”
“LEND an ear unto the song of David. He saith: ‘Who will…”
“O CONCOURSE of Christians! We have, on a previous…”
“WE, verily, have come for your sakes, and have borne…”
“O CONCOURSE of patriarchs! He Whom ye were promised…”
“O CONCOURSE of archbishops! He Who is the Lord of…”
“O CONCOURSE of bishops! Trembling hath seized all the…”
“O CONCOURSE of bishops! Ye are the stars of the heaven…”
“O CONCOURSE of priests! Leave the bells, and come…”
“O CONCOURSE of priests! The Day of Reckoning hath…”
“O CONCOURSE of monks! Seclude not yourselves in…”
“O CONCOURSE of monks! If ye choose to follow Me, I…”
“CONSIDER, likewise, how numerous at this time are the…”
“READ ye the Evangel and yet refuse to acknowledge the…”
“PERUSED ye not the Qur’án? Read it, that haply ye may…”
“BY Him Who is the Great Announcement! The All-Merciful…”
“O CONCOURSE of Persian divines! In My name ye have…”
“O YE divines of the City! We came to you with the…”
“BECAUSE of you the Apostle (Muḥammad) lamented,…”
“OF all the peoples of the world, they that have suffered…”
“IN this day the world is redolent with the fragrances of the…”
“O CONCOURSE of divines!… Lay aside that which ye…”
“O HIGH priests! Ears have been given you that they may…”
“WHATSOEVER hath been announced in the Books hath…”
“THIS is not the day whereon the high priests can command…”
“O HIGH priests! The Hand of Omnipotence is stretched…”
THE GREAT ANNOUNCEMENT TO MANKIND
“THE time fore-ordained unto the peoples and…”
“VERILY I say, this is the Day in which mankind can behold…”
“O YE children of men! The fundamental purpose animating…”
“O CONTENDING peoples and kindreds of the earth! Set…”
“THE Great Being, wishing to reveal the prerequisites of…”
“THE All-Knowing Physician hath His finger on the…”
“O PEOPLES of the earth! God, the Eternal Truth, is My…”
“THE world’s equilibrium hath been upset through the…”
“O YE peoples of the world! Know assuredly that My…”
“THIS is the Day in which God’s most excellent favours…”
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O KINGS of the earth! He Who is the sovereign Lord of all is come. The Kingdom is God’s, the omnipotent Protector, the Self-Subsisting. Worship none but God, and, with radiant hearts, lift up your faces unto your Lord, the Lord of all names. This is a Revelation to which whatever ye possess can never be compared, could ye but know it. We see you rejoicing in that which ye have amassed for others, and shutting out yourselves from the worlds which naught except My Guarded Tablet can reckon. The treasures ye have laid up have drawn you far away from your ultimate objective. This ill beseemeth you, could ye but understand it. Wash your hearts from all earthly defilements, and hasten to enter the Kingdom of your Lord, the Creator of earth and heaven, Who caused the world to tremble, and all its peoples to wail, except them that have renounced all things and clung to that which the Hidden Tablet hath ordained....
O Kings of the earth! The Most Great Law hath been revealed in this Spot, this Scene of transcendent splendour. Every hidden thing hath been brought to light, by virtue of the Will of the Supreme Ordainer, He Who hath ushered in the Last Hour, through Whom the Moon hath been cleft, and every irrevocable decree expounded.
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God hath committed into your hands the reins of the government of the people, that ye may rule with justice over them, safeguard the rights of the down-trodden, and punish the wrong-doers. If ye neglect the duty prescribed unto you by God in His Book, your names shall be numbered with those of the unjust in His sight. Grievous, indeed, will be your error. Cleave ye to that which your imaginations have devised, and cast behind your backs the commandments of God, the Most Exalted, the Inaccessible, the All-Compelling, the Almighty? Cast away the things ye possess, and cling to that which God hath bidden you observe. Seek ye His grace, for he that seeketh it treadeth His straight Path....
The day is approaching when God will have exalted His Cause and magnified His testimony in the eyes of all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth. Place, in all circumstances, Thy whole trust in Thy Lord, and fix Thy gaze upon Him, and turn away from all them that repudiate His truth. Let God, Thy Lord, be Thy sufficing Succourer and Helper. We have pledged Ourself to secure Thy triumph upon earth and to exalt Our Cause above all men, though no king be found who would turn his face towards Thee.
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