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the wayward obscure. Illumine, O my Lord, the eyes of Thy servants, and |
brighten their hearts with the splendors of the light of Thy knowledge, |
that they may apprehend the greatness of this most sublime station, and |
recognize this most luminous Horizon, that haply the clamor of men may |
fail to deter them from turning their gaze towards the effulgent light of |
Thy unity, and to hinder them from setting their faces toward the Horizon |
of detachment. |
This is the Day, O my Lord, which Thou didst announce unto all mankind as |
the Day whereon Thou wouldst reveal Thy Self, and shed Thy radiance, and |
shine brightly over all Thy creatures. Thou hast, moreover, entered into a |
covenant with them, in Thy Books, and Thy Scriptures, and Thy Scrolls, and |
Thy Tablets, concerning Him Who is the Day-Spring of Thy Revelation, and |
hast appointed the Bayán to be the Herald of this Most Great and |
all-glorious Manifestation, and this most resplendent and most sublime |
Appearance. |
And when the world's horizon was illumined, and He Who is the Most Great |
Name was manifested, all disbelieved in Him and in His signs, except such |
as have been carried away by the sweetness of Thy glorification and |
praise. There befell Him what must remain inscrutable to everyone except |
Thee, Whose knowledge transcendeth all who are in Thy heaven and all who |
are on Thy earth. |
Thou well knowest, O my God, that the Revealer of the Bayán (the Báb) hath |
commanded all mankind concerning Thy Cause, and Thy Revelation, and Thy |
Sovereignty. He hath said, and sweet is His speech: "Beware lest the Bayán |
and its Letters keep you back from Him Who is the Most Merciful and from |
His sovereignty." He, moreover, hath written: "Were He to produce no more |
than one verse, ye must not deny Him. Haste ye towards Him, that haply He |
may cause to descend upon you what He pleaseth, as a token of His grace |
unto you. He truly is the Possessor of His servants, and the King of |
creation." |
Thou seest, then, O Thou Who art the Beloved of the world and the Revealer |
of the Most Great Name, how He hath come down with the kingdom of His |
signs, and in a manner that hath caused the atoms of the earth to testify |
that the whole world hath been filled with these signs. And yet, |
notwithstanding this most manifest and all-glorious Revelation, and these |
signs which none can appraise except Thee, O Thou the King of names, Thou |
beholdest how they have broken off from Him Who is the Day-Spring of Thine |
Essence, and have caviled at the One Who is the Fountain-Head of Thy |
wisdom and of Thine utterance. They were so seized with thirst for fame, |
that they rejected Thy tokens, and Thy testimonies, and Thy signs, which |
every man of insight perceiveth in whatsoever declareth Thy greatness, and |
Thy sovereignty, and acknowledgeth Thy Revelation and Thy might. They have |
so traduced Him as to cause the inmates of the all-glorious Tabernacle and |
the Concourse on high to lament, and have uttered such calumnies against |
Him that the souls of Thy chosen Ones and the hearts of them that are dear |
to Thee have melted. They have erred so grievously that they cast away Thy |
most resplendent signs, and clung to their idle fancies, O Thou Who art |
the Possessor of Names and the Lord of the Throne on high and of earth |
below! |
Thou art, O my God and the Exultation of my heart, the One Who hath |
adorned Thy Tablet, of which none is aware except Thee, with the mention |
of this Day which Thou didst call after Thy name, that haply none may on |
that day be seen save Thy most august Self, and naught else be brought to |
mind except Thy most sweet remembrance. |
No sooner had He revealed Himself than the foundations of the kindreds of |
the earth shook and trembled, and the learned swooned away, and the wise |
were bewildered, except such as have, through the power of Thy might, |
drawn nigh unto Thee, and received the choice wine of Thy Revelation from |
the hand of Thy grace, and have quaffed it in Thy name, and exclaimed: |
"Praise be unto Thee, O Thou the Desire of the worlds! and glory be to |
Thee, O Thou Who art the Exultation of the hearts that pant after Thee!" |
My God, my Master, my Highest Hope, and the Goal of my desire! Thou seest |
and hearest the sighing of this wronged One, from this darksome well which |
the vain imaginations of Thine adversaries have built, and from this blind |
pit which the idle fancies of the wicked among Thy creatures have digged. |
By Thy Beauty, O Thou Whose glory is uncovered to the face of men! I am |
not impatient in the troubles that touch me in my love for Thee, neither |
in the adversities which I suffer in Thy path. Nay, I have, by Thy power, |
chosen them for mine own self, and I glory in them amongst such of Thy |
creatures as enjoy near access to Thee, and those of Thy servants that are |
wholly devoted to Thy Self. |
I beseech Thee, however, O Thou Who art the Enlightener of the world and |
the Lord of the nations, at this very moment when, with the hands of hope, |
I have clung to the hem of the raiment of Thy mercy and Thy bounty, to |
forgive Thy servants who have soared in the atmosphere of Thy nearness, |
and set their faces towards the splendors of the light of Thy countenance, |
and turned unto the horizon of Thy good pleasure, and approached the ocean |
of Thy mercy, and all their lives long have spoken forth Thy praise, and |
have been inflamed with the fire of their love for Thee. Do Thou ordain |
for them, O Lord my God, both before and after their death, what becometh |
the loftiness of Thy bounty and the excellence of Thy loving-kindness. |
Grant, O my Lord, that they who have ascended unto Thee may repair unto |
Him Who is the most exalted Companion, and abide beneath the shadow of the |
Tabernacle of Thy majesty and the Sanctuary of Thy glory. Sprinkle, O my |
Lord, upon them from the ocean of Thy forgiveness what will make them |
worthy to abide, so long as Thine own sovereignty endureth, within Thy |
most exalted kingdom and Thine all-highest dominion. Potent art Thou to do |
what pleaseth Thee. |
Deny not Thy loved ones, O my Lord, the sweet savors of this Day whereon |
the mysteries of Thy name, the Self-Subsisting, were unraveled, and all |
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