text stringlengths 0 76 |
|---|
Praised be Thou, |
O my God, |
that Thou hast been true to what the Pen of Thy |
Revelation hath inscribed upon the Tablets sent down by Thee unto Them |
Whom Thou hast chosen above all Thy creatures, |
and through Whom Thou hast |
unlocked the doors of Thy mercy, |
and shed abroad the radiance of the light |
of Thy guidance. |
Glory to Thee that Thou hast laid bare what had from |
eternity been wrapped up within the Tabernacle of Thy majesty, |
Thine |
omnipotence and glory, |
and through which Thou hadst decked forth the |
heaven of Thy Revelation and adorned the pages of the book of Thy |
testimony. |
And when the Pledge was fulfilled and the Promised One appeared, |
He was |
rejected by such of Thy servants as profess to have believed in Him in |
Whom Thy Godhead was manifested, |
Whom Thou didst ordain to be the Herald |
of this Revelation, |
and through Whose advent the eyes of the inmates of |
the sanctuary of Thy unity were cheered. |
I know, |
O my Lord, |
neither their reasoning with which they have |
acknowledged Thee and believed in Thy signs, |
nor their argument whereby |
they have repudiated Thy sovereignty. |
Every time I call them to Thee and |
say: |
"O people! |
Consider the utterances of the Lord your God which are in |
your possession and those that have been sent down from the heaven of His |
will and power, |
" they cavil at Thee, |
and turn their backs to Thee, |
though--as Thou art aware--each of the words that have gone out of the mouth |
of Thy will sheddeth the fragrance of the breaths of Thy mercy. |
Some have chosen to cleave to him who is counted unworthy to converse with |
any of Thy servants that watch at Thy door (Mírzá Yahyá), |
how much more to |
enter into the court in which the Tongue of Thy majesty speaketh. |
Cleanse |
Thou their hearts and their eyes, |
O my Lord, |
that they may see with their |
eyes and understand with their hearts, |
that haply they may be attracted by |
Thine utterances to the Day-Spring of Thine inspiration, |
and draw nigh |
unto the soft-flowing stream of Thy knowledge. |
Thou art He, |
O my Lord, |
Who hath, |
in every line of Thy Book, |
entered into |
covenant with them for me, |
and made it so sure that none of Thy creatures |
can any longer evade it. |
Thou didst say--and Thy word is the truth: |
"One |
single letter from Him excelleth all that hath been sent down in the |
Bayán. |
" |
Thou dost consider, |
therefore, |
O my God, |
how they have transgressed |
against Thy Cause, |
and beholdest what their hands have wrought in Thy |
days. |
They have so grievously wronged me that the Lote-Tree of Thy |
Revelation moaneth, |
and the inmates of the Tabernacle of Thy majesty and |
the dwellers of the cities of Thy names lament. |
I know not, |
O my God, |
for |
what reason they have risen up to oppress me, |
and by what proof they have |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.