Question : What is the changeless commandment of
God?
Indeed
thou didst grasp the significance of rendering assistance unto God and didst
arise to achieve this through the power of wisdom and utterance. Say: To assist
Me is to teach My Cause. This is a theme with which whole Tablets are laden.
This is the changeless commandment of God, eternal in the past, eternal in the
future. Comprehend this, O ye men of insight. They that have passed beyond the
bounds of wisdom fail to understand the meaning of assisting God as set forth
in the Book. Say: Fear ye God and sow not the seeds of dissension amongst men.
Observe ye that which hath been enjoined upon you by your Lord, the Almighty,
the All-Knowing. He knoweth the reality of victory and hath taught it to you
with an utterance that the vain imaginings of them that rove distraught in the
wilderness of doubt can never corrupt.
(Bahá'u'lláh, Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 196)
Question. Why is the changeless commandment of God to teach
His Cause?
Say:
If it be Our pleasure We shall render the Cause victorious through the power of
a single word from Our presence. He is in truth the Omnipotent, the
All-Compelling. Should it be God's intention, there would appear out of the
forests of celestial might the lion of indomitable strength whose roaring is
like unto the peals of thunder reverberating in the mountains. However, since
Our loving providence surpasseth all things, We have ordained that complete
victory should be achieved through speech and utterance, that Our servants
throughout the earth may thereby become the recipients of divine good. This is
but a token of God's bounty vouchsafed unto them. Verily thy Lord is the
All-Sufficing, the Most Exalted.
(Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p.
197)
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