O concourse of the fair-minded! Observe and reflect upon the billows of
the ocean of the utterance and knowledge of God, so that ye may testify
with your inner and outer tongues that with Him is the knowledge of all
that is in the Book. Nothing escapeth His knowledge. He, verily, hath
manifested that which was hidden, when He, upon His return, mounted the
throne of the Bayán. All that hath been sent down hath and will come to
pass, word for word, upon earth. No possibility is left for anyone either
to turn aside or protest. As fairness, however, is disgraced and
concealed, most men speak as prompted by their own idle fancies.
O God, my God! Debar not Thy servants from turning their faces towards the
light of certitude, that hath dawned above the horizon of Thy will, and
suffer them not to be deprived, O my God, of the oceans of Thy signs.
They, O my Lord, are Thy servants in Thy cities, and Thy slaves in Thy
lands. If Thou hast not mercy upon them, who, then, will show them mercy?
Take Thou, O my God, the hands of such as have been drowned in the sea of
idle fancies, and deliver them by Thy power and Thy sovereignty. Save
them, then, with the arms of Thy might. Powerful art Thou to do what Thou
willest, and in Thy right hand are the reins of all that is in the heavens
and all that is on earth.
In like manner, the Primal Point saith: "Behold ye Him with His own eyes.
Were ye to behold Him with the eyes of another, ye would never recognize
and know Him." This referreth to naught else except this Most Great
Revelation. Well is it with them that judge fairly. And likewise, He
saith: "The year-old germ that holdeth within itself the potentialities of
the Revelation that is to come is endowed with a potency superior to the
combined forces of the whole of the Bayán." These glad-tidings of the
Bayán and of the Books of former times have been repeatedly mentioned
under divers names in numerous books, that perchance men might judge
equitably that which hath arisen and shone forth above the horizon of the
will of God, the Lord of the Mighty Throne.
O _Sh_ay_kh_! Tell the people of the Bayán: "Ponder ye these blessed
words. He saith: ‘The whole of the Bayán is only a leaf amongst the leaves
of His Paradise.’ Be fair, O people, and be not of such as are accounted
as lost in the Book of God, the Lord of the worlds." The blessed Lote-Tree
standeth, in this day, before thy face, laden with heavenly, with new and
wondrous fruits. Gaze on it, detached from all else save it. Thus hath the
Tongue of might and power spoken at this Spot which God hath adorned with
the footsteps of His Most Great Name and Mighty Announcement.
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