ompense
Him with the things God hath chosen to bestow upon thee, Him Who
unerringly treadeth the Straight Path ...Set before thine eyes God's
unerring Balance and, as one standing in His presence, weigh in that
Balance thine actions every day, every moment of thy life. Bring thyself
to account ere thou art summoned to a reckoning, on the day when no man
shall have strength to stand for fear of God, the day when the hearts of
the heedless ones shall be made to tremble."

To the Ministers of the Turkish State, He, in that same Tablet, revealed:
"It behooveth you, O Ministers of State, to keep the precepts of God, and
to forsake your own laws and regulations, and to be of them who are guided
aright... Ye shall, erelong, discover the consequences of that which ye
shall have done in this vain life, and shall be repaid for them... How
great the number of those who, in bygone ages, have committed the things
ye have committed, and who, though superior to you in rank, have, in the
end, returned unto dust, and been consigned to their inevitable doom!...
Ye shall follow in their wake, and shall be made to enter a habitation
wherein none shall be found to befriend or help you... The days of your
life shall roll away, and all the things with which ye are occupied, and
of which ye boast yourselves, shall perish, and ye shall, most certainly,
be summoned by a company of His angels to appear at the spot where the
limbs of the entire creation shall be made to tremble, and the flesh of
every oppressor to creep... This is the day that shall inevitably come
upon you, the hour that none can put back."

To the inhabitants of Constantinople, while He lived the life of an exile
in their midst, Baha'u'llah, in that same Tablet, addressed these words:
"Fear God, ye inhabitants of the City, and sow not the seeds of dissension
amongst men... Your days shall pass away as have the days of them who were
before you. To dust shall ye return, even as your fathers of old did
return." "We found," He, moreover, remarks, "upon Our arrival in the City
its governors and elders as children gathered about and disporting
themselves with clay... Our inner eye wept sore over them, and over their
transgressions and their total disregard of the thing for which they were
created... The day is approaching when God will have raised up a people
who will call to remembrance Our days, who will tell the tale of Our
trials, who will demand the restitution of Our rights from