Tablet on the Reason for Creation

Introduction

In the following remarkable Tablet, Bahá’u’lláh grounds the moral imperative of universal love among human beings in their origin in a God through Whose primordial and eternal love all creation unfolded.

Tablet on the Reason for Creation (Lawḥ-i-‘Illat-i-Áfarínish)

Provisional Translation

Love was the reason underlying the creation of all contingent beings, even as stated in the famous tradition: “I was a hidden treasure, and loved that I be known, and thus created My creation that I might be known.” This truth being thus established, all must so ingather under the Divine law of love such that no odor of dissension be diffused amidst the friends and companions of God. Having set their gaze on love, all men shall act as one, such that disunion will be seen in none. All share in fortune and in ill, in profit and in woe, in hardship and in ease. It is Our hope that the breeze of unity be borne from the city of the Lord, and that He adorn all with the raiment of oneness, of love and of detachment.

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