Bahá'í Reference Library - Proclamation of Bahá’u’lláh

Proclamation of Bahá’u’lláh

	Author:	Bahá’u’lláh
	Source:	US Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1978 reprint
	Pages:	122

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
SULTÁN ‘ABDU’L-‘AZÍZ
NÁSIRI’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 (Muhammad) 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…”