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’)
