Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder97

If anyone possesses a hundred mithqals [see note 1, p.38] of gold, nineteen mithqals of them are for God, the Maker of earth and heaven. Beware, o people, lest you deny yourselves this great favour.

We have commanded you to do this although We can do without you and without all who are in the heavens and the earths.

In that, there are wise and useful things of which no one has acquired knowledge except God, the Omniscient, the Knower.

Say: By that command God desired the purification of your wealth and your drawing near to those stations which are only attained by those whom God wills. Indeed, He is the Generous, Almighty Giver of Grace.

0 People, do not be dishonest in the duties owed to God; do not spend (God's money) except by His permission. [note 1] Thus is the matter decided in the Tablets and in this Powerful Tablet.

Whoever cheats God is cheated by Justice, but when one does what he is commanded there descends upon him a blessing from the heaven of giving, from his Lord, the Bountiful, the Giver, the Eternal Bestower.

He desires for you that which you do not know to-day. The People shall know it whenever spirits soar and the rich carpets of joy are folded up. Thus does he who has a Preserved Tablet [see note 1, p. 52.] remind you.