178 This is not a Cause which may be made a plaything for your idle
fancies, nor is it a field for the foolish and faint of heart. By God,
this is the arena of insight and detachment, of vision and upliftment,
where none may spur on their chargers save the valiant horsemen of the
Merciful, who have severed all attachment to the world of being. These,
truly, are they that render God victorious on earth, and are the
dawning-places of His sovereign might amidst mankind.
179 Beware lest aught that hath been revealed in the Bayán should keep you
from your Lord, the Most Compassionate. God is My witness that the Bayán
was sent down for no other purpose than to celebrate My praise, did ye but
know! In it the pure in heart will find only the fragrance of My love,
only My Name that overshadoweth all that seeth and is seen. Say: Turn ye,
O people, unto that which hath proceeded from My Most Exalted Pen. Should
ye inhale therefrom the fragrance of God, set not yourselves against Him,
nor deny yourselves a portion of His gracious favour and His manifold
bestowals. Thus doth your Lord admonish you; He, verily, is the
Counsellor, the Omniscient.
180 Whatsoever ye understand not in the Bayán, ask it of God, your Lord
and the Lord of your forefathers. Should He so desire, He will expound for
you that which is revealed therein, and disclose to you the pearls of
Divine knowledge and wisdom that lie concealed within the ocean of its
words. He, verily, is supreme over all names; no God is there but Him, the
Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
181 The world’s equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating
influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind’s ordered life
hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous
System—the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed.
182 Immerse yourselves in the ocean of My words, that ye may unravel its
secrets, and discover all the pearls of wisdom that lie hid in its depths.
Take heed that ye do not vacillate in your determination to embrace the
truth of this Cause—a Cause through which the potentialities of the might
of God have been revealed, and His sovereignty established. With faces
beaming with joy, hasten ye unto Him. This is the changeless Faith of God,
eternal in the past, eternal in the future. Let him that seeketh, attain
it; and as to him that hath refused to seek it—verily, God is
Self-Sufficient, above any need of His creatures.
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