Please God ye may all be strengthened to carry out that
which is the Will of God, and may be graciously assisted to appreciate the rank
conferred upon such of His loved ones as have arisen to serve Him and magnify
His name. Upon them be the glory of God, the glory of all that is in the
heavens and all that is on earth, and the glory of the inmates of the most
exalted Paradise, the heaven of heavens. 
“The day is approaching when God will have, by an act of His
Will, raised up a race of men the nature of which is inscrutable to all save
God, the All-Powerful, the Self-Subsisting.” “He will, erelong, out of the
Bosom of Power, draw forth the Hands of Ascendancy and Might—Hands who will
arise to win victory for this Youth, and who will purge mankind from the
defilement of the outcast and the ungodly. These Hands will gird up their loins
to champion the Faith of God, and will, in My name, the Self-Subsistent, the
Mighty, subdue the peoples and kindreds of the earth. They will enter the
cities, and will inspire with fear the hearts of all their inhabitants. Such
are the evidences of the might of God; how fearful, how vehement is His might!”
Praise be to Thee, O Thou Who art the Well-Beloved of all
that have known Thee, and the Desire of the hearts of such as are devoted to
Thee, inasmuch as Thou hast made me a target for the ills that I suffer in my
love for Thee, and the object of the assaults launched against me in Thy path.
Thy glory beareth me witness! I can, on no account, feel impatient of the
adversities that I have borne in my love for Thee. From the very day Thou didst
reveal Thyself unto me, I have accepted for myself every manner of tribulation…
Behold, then, O my God, my loneliness among Thy servants and my remoteness from
Thy friends and Thy chosen ones…
Praise be to Him Whose Essence is immeasurably exalted above
the strivings of human hearts, however pure, to soar into the atmosphere of His
nearness, and Whose Being is immensely sanctified beyond the exertions of human
minds, however lofty, to ascend unto the heaven of His presence. From time
immemorial He hath been exalted above the description of aught save Himself,
and He will forever continue to be sanctified beyond the praise of all created
things. The hearts of them that have recognized Him are sore perplexed before
the tokens of His everlasting handiwork, and the minds of them that have
attained His court are bewildered by the wondrous evidences of the Revealers of
His oneness. He, verily, is the All-Possessing, the Almighty, the Most
Glorious, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
This profitless world produceth naught save deadly poison,
and its ephemeral dregs can never yield the everlasting cup. Were the Jesus of
the spirit to give ear to the call of holiness from the Falcon of the realm
above, He would assuredly cry out from His inmost being and be seized with
fervid longing even as the lover’s soul. It is through that call that the Moses
of eternity was dumbfounded; it is by its virtue that the Abraham of
faithfulness shattered the idol of the mortal body. Shatter then, in turn, this
idol, that thou mayest take up thine abode in the land of the Beloved; and
forsake all desire, that thou mayest take flight unto the Egypt of imperishable
glory. Sanctify the city of thine heart, that thou mayest behold the beauty of
the Divine Essence and be quickened to a new life through the grace of the Holy
Spirit.
O ye wise men of the City [Constantinople] and philosophers
of the world! Beware lest human learning and wisdom cause you to wax proud
before God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. Know ye that true wisdom is
to fear God, to know Him, and to recognize His Manifestations. This wisdom,
however, can be attained only by those who detach themselves from the world,
and who walk in the ways of the good pleasure of their Lord.
By God! Wert thou [1] to realize what thou hast done, thou
wouldst surely weep sore over thyself, and wouldst flee for refuge to God, and
wouldst pine away and mourn all the days of thy life, till God will have
forgiven thee, for He, verily, is the Most Generous, the All-Bountiful. Thou
wilt, however, persist, till the hour of thy death, in thy heedlessness,
inasmuch as thou hast, with all thine heart, thy soul and inmost being, busied
thyself with the vanities of the world. Thou shalt, after thy departure,
discover what We have revealed unto thee, and shalt find all thy doings
recorded in the Book wherein the works of all them that dwell on earth, be they
greater or less than the weight of an atom, are noted down.
I beseech Thee, [God] by the showers of the clouds of Thy
mercy, whereby Thou hast caused the blossoms of Thy praise and utterance and
the flowers of Thy wisdom and testimony to spring forth in the hearts of all
them that have recognized Thy oneness, to supply Thy servants and my kindred
with the fruits of the tree of Thy unity, in these days when Thou hast been
established upon the throne of Thy mercy. Hinder them not, O my Lord, from
attaining unto the things Thou dost possess, and write down for them that which
will aid them to scale the heights of Thy grace and favor. Give them, moreover,
to drink of the living waters of Thy knowledge, and ordain for them the good of
this world and of the world to come.
Thou knowest, O my God, that I have severed every tie that
bindeth me to any of Thy creatures except that most exalted tie that uniteth me
with whosoever cleaveth unto Thee, in this the day of the revelation of Thy
most august Self, that hath appeared in Thy name, the All-Glorious. Thou
knowest that I have dissolved every bond that knitteth me to any one of my
kindred except such as have enjoyed near access to Thy most effulgent face.
Despite what thou [1] hast done I entertain—and to this God is
My witness—no ill-will against thee, nor against any one, though from thee and
others We receive such hurt as no believer in the unity of God can sustain. My
cause is in the hand of none except God, and My trust is in no one else but
Him. Erelong shall your days pass away, as shall pass away the days of those
who now, with flagrant pride, vaunt themselves over their neighbor. Soon shall
ye be gathered together in the presence of God, and shall be asked of your
doings, and shall be repaid for what your hands have wrought, and wretched the
abode of the wicked doers!
We make mention of him who hath been attracted by Our Call
when it was raised from the summit of transcendent glory and hath set his face
towards God, the Lord of creation. He is numbered with such as have heard and
responded to the summons of their Lord at a time when the peoples of the world
are wrapt in palpable veils. He testifieth unto that whereunto God hath
testified, and acknowledgeth his belief in that which the Tongue of Grandeur
hath uttered. Unto this beareth witness the Lord of Names in this wondrous
Tablet.
O Son of Spirit! Burst thy cage asunder, and even as the
phoenix of love soar into the firmament of holiness. Renounce thyself and,
filled with the spirit of mercy, abide in the realm of celestial sanctity.
O Javád! The manifold bounties of God have ever been and
will continue to be vouchsafed unto thee. Praised be God! Thou hast been
shielded from the most great terror and hast succeeded in drawing nigh unto the
Most Great Bounty at a time when all men were prevented from recognizing the
eternal King by the interposition of the veils of outward glory, namely the
divines of this day. Cherish thou as dearly as thine own life this testimony
pronounced by the All-Glorious Pen and strive with all thy might to preserve it
by the potency of the Name of Him Who is the Beloved One of the entire
creation, that this sublime honour may be proof against the eyes and the hands
of robbers. Verily thy Lord is the Expounder, the All-Knowing.
One must judge of search by the standard of the Majnún of
love.[1] It is related that one day they came upon Majnún sifting the dust, his
tears flowing down. They asked, “What doest thou?” He said, “I seek for Laylí.”
“Alas for thee!” they cried, “Laylí is of pure spirit, yet thou seekest her in
the dust!” He said, “I seek her everywhere; haply somewhere I shall find her.”
This is a Tablet from this Servant, who is called Husayn in
the kingdom of names, to the concourse of the kings of the earth. Haply they
may approach it in a spirit of open-mindedness, discover from its message the
mysteries of divine providence, and be of those that comprehend its meaning,
and perchance they may forsake all they possess, turn towards the retreats of
holiness, and draw nigh unto God, the All-Glorious, the Incomparable.
“This Day is different from other days, and this Cause
different from other causes. Entreat ye the one true God that He may deprive
not the eyes of men from beholding His signs, nor their ears from hearkening
unto the shrill voice of the Pen of Glory.” “These days are God’s days, a
moment of which ages and centuries can never rival. An atom, in these days, is
as the sun, a drop as the ocean. One single breath exhaled in the love of God
and for His service is written down by the Pen of Glory as a princely deed.
Were the virtues of this Day to be recounted, all would be thunderstruck,
except those whom thy Lord hath exempted.”
Great indeed is this Day! The allusions made to it in all
the sacred Scriptures as the Day of God attest its greatness. The soul of every
Prophet of God, of every Divine Messenger, hath thirsted for this wondrous Day.
All the divers kindreds of the earth have, likewise, yearned to attain it.
Verily, I am the One Who abideth disconsolate beneath the
canopy of this world.