Tablet of Baha'u'llah to Ibn-i Asdaq decrying Absolutism
Baha’u’llah/Ibn-i Asdaq, n.d.O Pen, mention when we dispatched our Tablet entitled "the Cry" to the leader of the people. He sent it to those renowned for their knowledge, and once they had read it they were bewildered and spoke forth according to their selfish passions. In truth, your Lord is All-Knowing, All-Encompassing.
One among them said, "He desires absolute power!"
Say: Woe be to you, who are heedless and remote from God! We have commanded [even] the monarchs to toss it behind them, and to advance toward God, the Glorious, the Beauteous. We affirm the appearance of Reason [al-`aql] among all human beings. Therefore, you will see absolutism (as-sultah al-mutlaqah) discarded upon the dust, nor will any approach it. Thus was the matter decreed in a manifest tablet. Say: It [despotism] is the most degraded of stations in my view, though you might see it as the most exalted station. Open your eyes, so that you might recognize the one whose Pen rules over all who are in the heavens and the earth.