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the Báb, Selections from the Writings of the Báb (1976)

# “Be thou content with the commandment of God, the ...”

*From the Bahai Story Library — drawn from* **Selections from the Writings of the Báb** *by the Báb* (1976).

> "Be thou content with the commandment of God, the True"

Be thou content with the commandment of God, the True One, inasmuch as sovereignty, as recorded in the Mother Book by the hand of God, is surely invested in Him Who is His…

Be thou content with the commandment of God, the True One, inasmuch as sovereignty, as recorded in the Mother Book by the hand of God, is surely invested in Him Who is His Remembrance... O Minister of the Sháh! Fear thou God, besides Whom there is none other God but Him, the Sovereign Truth, the Just, and lay aside thy dominion, for We, by the leave of God, the All-Wise, inherit the earth and all who are upon it,10 and He shall rightfully be a witness unto thee and unto the Sháh. […]

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