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Merciful. Ordain, then, O my God, for me and for whosoever hath sought |
Thee what beseemeth the excellence of Thy glory and the greatness of Thy |
majesty. No God is there but Thee, the Ever-Forgiving, the Most |
Compassionate. |
Thou seest Thy dear One, O my God, lying at the mercy of Thine enemies, |
and hearest the voice of His lamentation from the midst of such of Thy |
creatures as have dealt wickedly in Thy sight. He it is, O my Lord, |
through Whose name Thou didst beautify Thy Tablets, and for Whose greater |
glory Thou didst send down the Bayán, and at Whose separation from Thee |
Thou didst weep continually. Look Thou, then, upon His loneliness, O my |
God, and behold Him fallen into the hands of them that have disbelieved in |
Thy signs, have turned their backs upon Thee, and have forgotten the |
wonders of Thy mercy. |
He it is, O my God, about Whom Thou hast said: "But for Thee the |
Scriptures would have remained unrevealed, and the Prophets unsent." And |
no sooner had He, by Thy behest, been manifested and spoken forth Thy |
praise, than the wicked doers among Thy creatures compassed Him round, |
with the swords of hate drawn against Him, O Thou the Lord of all names! |
Thou well knowest what befell Him at the hands of such as have rent |
asunder the veil of Thy grandeur, and cast behind their backs Thy Covenant |
and Thy Testament, O Thou Who art the Maker of the heavens! He is the One |
for Whose sake Thou (the Báb) hast yielded Thy life, and hast consented to |
be touched by the manifold ills of the world that He may manifest Himself, |
and summoned all mankind in His name. As soon as He came down, however, |
from the heaven of majesty and power, Thy servants stretched out against |
Him the hands of cruelty and sedition, and caused Him to be afflicted with |
such troubles that the scrolls of the world are insufficient to contain a |
full recital of them. |
Thou seest, therefore, O Thou Beloved of the world, Him Who is dear to |
Thee in the clutches of such as have denied Thee, and beholdest Thy |
heart's desire under the swords of the ungodly. Methinks He, from His most |
exalted station, saith unto me: "Would that my soul, O Prisoner, could be |
a ransom for Thy captivity, and my being, O wronged One, be sacrificed for |
the adversities Thou didst suffer! Thou art He through Whose captivity the |
standards of Thine almighty power were hoisted, and the day-star of Thy |
revelation shone forth above the horizon of tribulation, in such wise that |
all created things bowed down before the greatness of Thy majesty. |
"The more they strove to hinder Thee from remembering Thy God and from |
extolling His virtues, the more passionately didst Thou glorify Him and |
the more loudly didst Thou call upon Him. And every time the veils of the |
perverse came in between Thee and Thy servants, Thou didst shed the |
splendors of the light of Thy countenance out of the heaven of Thy grace. |
Thou art, in very truth, the Self-Subsisting as testified by the tongue of |
God, the All-Glorious, the one alone Beloved; and Thou art the Desire of |
the world as attested by what hath flowed down from the Pen of Him Who |
hath announced unto Thy servants Thy hidden Name, and adorned the entire |
creation with the ornament of Thy love, the Most Precious, the Most |
Exalted. |
"The eyes of the world were gladdened at the sight of Thy luminous |
countenance, and yet the peoples have united to put out Thy light, O Thou |
in Whose hands are the reins of the worlds! All the atoms of the earth |
have celebrated Thy praise, and all created things have been set ablaze |
with the drops sprinkled by the ocean of Thy love, and yet the people |
still seek to quench Thy fire. Nay--and to this Thine own Self beareth me |
witness--they are all weakness, and Thou, verily, art the All-Powerful; and |
they are but paupers and Thou, in truth, art the All-Possessing; and they |
are impotent and Thou art, truly, the Almighty. Naught can ever frustrate |
Thy purpose, neither can the dissensions of the world harm Thee. Through |
the breaths of Thine utterance the heaven of understanding hath been |
adorned, and by the effusions of Thy pen every moldering bone hath been |
quickened. Grieve not at what hath befallen Thee, neither do Thou lay hold |
on them for the things they have committed in Thy days. Do Thou be |
forbearing toward them. Thou art the Ever-Forgiving, the Most |
Compassionate." |
Praise be unto Thee, O my God! Thou art He Who by a word of His mouth hath |
revolutionized the entire creation, and by a stroke of His pen hath |
divided Thy servants one from another. I bear witness, O my God, that |
through a word spoken by Thee in this Revelation all created things were |
made to expire, and through yet another word all such as Thou didst wish |
were, by Thy grace and bounty, endued with new life. |
I render Thee thanks, therefore, and extol Thee, in the name of all them |
that are dear to Thee, for that Thou hast caused them to be born again, by |
reason of the living waters which have flowed down out of the mouth of Thy |
will. Since Thou didst quicken them by Thy bounteousness, O my God, make |
them steadfastly inclined, through Thy graciousness, towards Thy will; and |
since Thou didst suffer them to enter into the Tabernacle of Thy Cause, |
grant by Thy grace that they may not be kept back from Thee. |
Unlock, then, to their hearts, O my God, the portals of Thy knowledge, |
that they may recognize Thee as One Who is far above the reach and ken of |
the understanding of Thy creatures, and immeasurably exalted above the |
strivings of Thy people to hint at Thy nature, and may not follow every |
clamorous impostor that presumeth to speak in Thy name. Enable them, |
moreover, O my Lord, to cleave so tenaciously to Thy Cause that they may |
remain unmoved by the perplexing suggestions of them who, prompted by |
their desires, utter what hath been forbidden unto them in Thy Tablets and |
Thy Scriptures. |
Thou art well aware, O my Lord, that I hear the howling of the wolves |
which appear in Thy servants' clothing. Keep safe, therefore, Thy loved |
ones from their mischief, and enable them to cling steadfastly to |
whatsoever hath been manifested by Thee in this Revelation, which no other |
Revelation within Thy knowledge hath excelled. |
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