tag name: Tablets to kings and rulers type: Rulers; Writings, Bahá'u'lláh web link: bahai-library.com/tags/-_Tablets_to_kings_and_rulers related tags: - Kings and rulers; – Monarchy (kingship); Proclamation referring tags: – Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh (book); – Summons of the Lord of Hosts (book); Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Selected topics; Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus (Tablet to Alexander II); Lawh-i-Malikih (Tablet to Queen Victoria); Lawh-i-Napulyun (Tablets to Napoleon III); Lawh-i-Pap (Tablet to Pope Pius IX); Lawh-i-Sultan (Tablet to Nasirid-Din Shah); Messages to religious leaders; Promised Day is Come (letter); Suriy-i-Haykal (Surih of the Temple); Suriy-i-Muluk (Surih to the Kings) notes: "... The Proclamation of His Mission had been, as already observed, directed particularly to the kings of the earth, who, by virtue of the power and authority they wielded, were invested with a peculiar and inescapable responsibility for the destinies of their subjects. It was to these kings, as well as to the world’s religious leaders, who exercised a no less pervasive influence on the mass of their followers, that the Prisoner of ‘Akká directed His appeals, warnings, and exhortations during the first years of His incarceration in that city. “Upon Our arrival at this Prison,” He Himself affirms, “We purposed to transmit to the kings the messages of their Lord, the Mighty, the All-Praised. Though We have transmitted to them, in several Tablets, that which We were commanded, yet We do it once again, as a token of God’s grace.”" – A Description of the Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh by Shoghi Effendi (extract from God Passes By, pp. 205-213).
"... That which the Lord hath ordained as the sovereign remedy and mightiest instrument for the healing of all the world is the union of all its peoples in one universal Cause, one common Faith. This can in no wise be achieved except through the power of a skilled, an all-powerful and inspired Physician. This, verily, is the truth, and all else naught but error. Each time that Most Mighty Instrument hath come, and that Light shone forth from the Ancient Dayspring, He was withheld by ignorant physicians who, even as clouds, interposed themselves between Him and the world. It failed, therefore, to recover, and its sickness hath persisted until this day...
O ye rulers of the earth! Wherefore have ye clouded the radiance of the Sun, and caused it to cease from shining? Hearken unto the counsel given you by the Pen of the Most High, that haply both ye and the poor may attain unto tranquillity and peace. We beseech God to assist the kings of the earth to establish peace on earth. He, verily, doth what He willeth...
... Now that ye have refused the Most Great Peace, hold ye fast unto this, the Lesser Peace, that haply ye may in some degree better your own condition and that of your dependents.
O rulers of the earth! Be reconciled among yourselves, that ye may need no more armaments save in a measure to safeguard your territories and dominions. Beware lest ye disregard the counsel of the All-Knowing, the Faithful.
Be united, O kings of the earth, for thereby will the tempest of discord be stilled amongst you, and your peoples find rest, if ye be of them that comprehend. Should any one among you take up arms against another, rise ye all against him, for this is naught but manifest justice..."
– Bahá'u'lláh, Súriy-i-Haykal (Súrih of the Temple), Tablet to Queen Victoria, ¶176, 178, 180-182 (BH00662, c. 1868–1873)
See also:
– Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'í Sacred Writings, chapter 8, section "To the Kings and Rulers"
references: bahai9.com/wiki/Tablets_to_the_Rulers
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