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moment with a fresh torment. They idly imagine that tribulations can

frustrate Our Purpose. Vain indeed is that which they have imagined.

Verily, thy Lord is the One Who ordaineth whatsoever He pleaseth.

I never passed a tree but Mine heart addressed it saying: ‘O would that

thou wert cut down in My name, and My body crucified upon thee.’ We

revealed this passage in the Epistle to the Sháh that it might serve as a

warning to the followers of religions. Verily, thy Lord is the

All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

Let not the things they have perpetrated grieve thee. Truly they are even

as dead, and not living. Leave them unto the dead, then turn thy face

towards Him Who is the Life-Giver of the world. Beware lest the sayings of

the heedless sadden thee. Be thou steadfast in the Cause, and teach the

people with consummate wisdom. Thus enjoineth thee the Ruler of earth and

heaven. He is in truth the Almighty, the Most Generous. Ere long will God

exalt thy remembrance and will inscribe with the Pen of Glory that which

thou didst utter for the sake of His love. He is in truth the Protector of

the doers of good.

Give My remembrance to the one named Murád and say: ‘Blessed art thou, O

Murád, inasmuch as thou didst cast away the promptings of thine own desire

and hast followed Him Who is the Desire of all mankind.’

Say: Blessed the slumberer who is awakened by My Breeze. Blessed the

lifeless one who is quickened through My reviving breaths. Blessed the eye

that is solaced by gazing at My beauty. Blessed the wayfarer who directeth

his steps towards the Tabernacle of My glory and majesty. Blessed the

distressed one who seeketh refuge beneath the shadow of My canopy. Blessed

the sore athirst who hasteneth to the soft-flowing waters of My

loving-kindness. Blessed the insatiate soul who casteth away his selfish

desires for love of Me and taketh his place at the banquet table which I

have sent down from the heaven of divine bounty for My chosen ones.

Blessed the abased one who layeth fast hold on the cord of My glory; and

the needy one who entereth beneath the shadow of the Tabernacle of My

wealth. Blessed the ignorant one who seeketh the fountain of My knowledge;

and the heedless one who cleaveth to the cord of My remembrance. Blessed

the soul that hath been raised to life through My quickening breath and

hath gained admittance into My heavenly Kingdom. Blessed the man whom the

sweet savours of reunion with Me have stirred and caused to draw nigh unto

the Dayspring of My Revelation. Blessed the ear that hath heard and the

tongue that hath borne witness and the eye that hath seen and recognized

the Lord Himself, in His great glory and majesty, invested with grandeur

and dominion. Blessed are they that have attained His presence. Blessed

the man who hath sought enlightenment from the Day-Star of My Word.

Blessed he who hath attired his head with the diadem of My love. Blessed

is he who hath heard of My grief and hath arisen to aid Me among My

people. Blessed is he who hath laid down his life in My path and hath

borne manifold hardships for the sake of My Name. Blessed the man who,

assured of My Word, hath arisen from among the dead to celebrate My

praise. Blessed is he that hath been enraptured by My wondrous melodies

and hath rent the veils asunder through the potency of My might. Blessed

is he who hath remained faithful to My Covenant, and whom the things of

the world have not kept back from attaining My Court of holiness. Blessed

is the man who hath detached himself from all else but Me, hath soared in

the atmosphere of My love, hath gained admittance into My Kingdom, gazed

upon My realms of glory, quaffed the living waters of My bounty, hath

drunk his fill from the heavenly river of My loving providence, acquainted

himself with My Cause, apprehended that which I concealed within the

treasury of My Words, and hath shone forth from the horizon of divine

knowledge engaged in My praise and glorification. Verily, he is of Me.

Upon him rest My mercy, My loving-kindness, My bounty and My glory.

BISHÁRÁT (GLAD-TIDINGS)

This is the Call of the All-Glorious which is proclaimed from the Supreme

Horizon in the Prison of Akká

He is the Expounder, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed.

GOD, the True One, testifieth and the Revealers of His names and

attributes bear witness that Our sole purpose in raising the Call and in

proclaiming His sublime Word is that the ear of the entire creation may,

through the living waters of divine utterance, be purged from lying tales

and become attuned to the holy, the glorious and exalted Word which hath

issued forth from the repository of the knowledge of the Maker of the

Heavens and the Creator of Names. Happy are they that judge with fairness.

O people of the earth!

The first Glad-Tidings which the Mother Book hath, in this Most Great

Revelation, imparted unto all the peoples of the world is that the law of

holy war hath been blotted out from the Book. Glorified be the

All-Merciful, the Lord of grace abounding, through Whom the door of

heavenly bounty hath been flung open in the face of all that are in heaven

and on earth.

The second Glad-Tidings

It is permitted that the peoples and kindreds of the world associate with

one another with joy and radiance. O people! Consort with the followers of

all religions in a spirit of friendliness and fellowship. Thus hath the

day-star of His sanction and authority shone forth above the horizon of

the decree of God, the Lord of the worlds.