Bahá’u’lláh questions Sultán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz if he has “any proof that can establish My disloyalty to thee?”

“Have I, O King, ever disobeyed thee? Have I, at any time, transgressed any of thy laws? Can any of thy ministers that represent thee in ‘Iráq produce any proof that can establish My disloyalty to thee? No, by Him Who is the Lord of all worlds! Not for one short moment did We rebel against thee, or against any of thy ministers. Never, God willing, shall We revolt against thee, though We be exposed to trials more severe than any We suffered in the past. In the daytime and in the night season, at even and at morn, We pray to God on thy behalf, that He may graciously aid thee to be obedient unto Him and to observe His commandments, that He may shield thee from the hosts of the evil ones. Do, therefore, as it pleaseth thee, and treat Us as befitteth thy station and beseemeth thy sovereignty. 

- Baha’u’llah  (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in ‘The Promised Day Is Come’)

Bahá’u’lláh recounts His sufferings to Sultán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz

By the righteousness of God! The tribulations We have sustained are such that any pen that recounteth them cannot but be overwhelmed with anguish. No one of them that truly believe and uphold the unity of God can bear the burden of their recital. So great have been Our sufferings that even the eyes of our enemies have wept over Us, and beyond those of every discerning person. And to all these trials have We been subjected, in spite of Our action in approaching thee, and in bidding the people to enter beneath thy shadow, that thou mightest be a stronghold unto them that believe in and uphold the unity of God. 

- Baha’u’llah  (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in ‘The Promised Day Is Come’)

Bahá’u’lláh counsels Sultán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz: “Let the oppressor desist from his tyranny”

Let thine ear be attentive, O King, to the words We have addressed thee. Let the oppressor desist from his tyranny, and cut off the perpetrators of injustice from among them that profess thy faith. By the righteousness of God! 

- Baha’u’llah  (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in ‘The Promised Day Is Come’)

Bahá’u’lláh counsels Sultán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz: - “cleanse thine heart from the world and all its vanities, and suffer not the love of any stranger to enter and dwell therein”

Return, then, and cleave wholly unto God, and cleanse thine heart from the world and all its vanities, and suffer not the love of any stranger to enter and dwell therein. Not until thou dost purify thine heart from every trace of such love can the brightness of the light of God shed its radiance upon it, for to none hath God given more than one heart. This, verily, hath been decreed and written down in His ancient Book. And as the human heart, as fashioned by God, is one and undivided, it behooveth thee to take heed that its affections be, also, one and undivided. Cleave thou, therefore, with the whole affection of thine heart, unto His love, and withdraw it from the love of anyone besides Him, that He may aid thee to immerse thyself in the ocean of His unity, and enable thee to become a true upholder of His oneness.... 

- Baha’u’llah  (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in ‘The Promised Day Is Come’)

Bahá’u’lláh counsels Sultán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz concerning his station as “God’s shadow on earth”

“Thou art God’s shadow on earth. Strive, therefore, to act in such a manner as befitteth so eminent, so august a station. If thou dost depart from following the things We have caused to descend upon thee and taught thee, thou wilt, assuredly, be derogating from that great and priceless honor.” 

- Baha’u’llah  (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in ‘The Promised Day Is Come’)

Bahá’u’lláh counsels Sultán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz to “weigh” his “actions every day” as one “standing in His [God’s] presence”

“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.... 

- Baha’u’llah  (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in ‘The Promised Day Is Come’)