“It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.”

Kitáb-i-`Ahd http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/TB/tb-16.html (Book of the Covenant)

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