The Book of the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR
Divisions 1011-1045
EPISTLE TO THE SON OF THE WOLF
1011.
Meditate, that thou mayest be made aware of thine act, O heedless outcast!
1012.
Erelong will the breaths of chastisement seize thee, as they seized others before thee.
1013.
Wait, O thou who hast joined partners with God,
the Lord of the visible and the invisible.
1014.
This is the day which God hath announced through the tongue of His Apostle.
1015.
Reflect, that thou mayest apprehend what the All-Merciful hath sent down in the Qur’án and in this inscribed Tablet.
1016.
This is the day whereon He Who is the Dayspring of Revelation hath arrived
with clear tokens which none can number.
1017.
This is the day whereon every man endued with perception
hath discovered the fragrance of the breeze of the All-Merciful in the world of creation,
and every man of insight hath hastened unto the living waters of the mercy of his Lord,
the King of Kings.
1018.
O heedless one!
The tale of the Sacrifice hath been retold, (Abraham and Isaac (or Ishmael))
and he who was to be offered up hath directed his steps towards the place of sacrifice,
and returned not, by reason of that which thy hand hath wrought, O perverse hater!
1019.
Didst thou imagine that martyrdom could abase this Cause?
1020.
Nay, by Him Whom God hath made to be the Repository of His Revelation,
if thou be of them that comprehend.
1021.
Woe betide thee, O thou who hast joined partners with God,
and woe betide them that have taken thee as their leader, without a clear token nor a clear Book.
1022.
How numerous the oppressors before thee who have arisen to quench the light of God,
and how many the impious who murdered and pillaged
until the hearts and souls of men groaned by reason of their cruelty!
1023.
The sun of justice hath been obscured,
inasmuch as the embodiment of tyranny hath been stablished upon the throne of hatred,
and yet the people understand not.
1024.
O foolish one!
Thou hast slain the children of the Apostle and pillaged their property.
1025.
Say:
Was it, in thine estimation, their property or themselves that denied God?
1026.
Judge fairly,
O ignorant one that hath been shut out as by a veil from God.
1027.
Thou hast clung to tyranny, and cast away justice;
whereupon all created things have lamented, and still thou art among the wayward.
1028.
Thou hast put to death the aged, and plundered the young.
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1029.
Thinkest thou that thou wilt consume that which thine iniquity hath amassed?
1030.
Nay, by Myself! Thus informeth thee He Who is cognizant of all.
1031.
By God! The things thou possessest shall profit thee not,
nor what thou hast laid up through thy cruelty.
Unto this beareth witness thy Lord, the All-Knowing.
1032.
Thou hast arisen to put out the light of this Cause;
erelong will thine own fire be quenched, at His behest.
1033.
He, verily, is the Lord of strength and of might.
The changes and chances of the world, and the powers of the nations, cannot frustrate Him.
1034.
He doeth what He pleaseth, and ordaineth what He willeth through the power of His sovereignty.
1035.
Consider the she-camel.
Though but a beast, yet hath the All-Merciful exalted her to so high a station
that the tongues of the earth made mention of her and celebrated her praise.
1036.
He, verily, overshadoweth all that is in the heavens and on earth.
No God is there but Him, the Almighty, the Great.
1037.
Thus have We adorned the heaven of Our Tablet with the suns of Our words.
1038.
Blessed the man that hath attained thereunto, and been illumined with their light,
and woe betide such as have turned aside, and denied Him, and strayed far from Him.
Praised be God, the Lord of the worlds!”
1039.
O Sheik!
We have enabled thee to hear the melodies of the Nightingale of Paradise,
and unveiled to thine eyes the signs which God, by His all-compelling behest,
hath sent down in the Most Great Prison,
that thine eye might be cheered, and thy soul be well-assured.
He, verily, is the All-Bounteous, the Generous.
1040.
Arise thou through the power of His testimony to serve the Cause of God, thy Lord, the God of Mercy.
1041.
If thy faith be fearful, seize thou My Tablet, and preserve it in the bosom of trust.
1042.
And when thou enterest into the place of resurrection, and God asketh thee by what proof thou hast believed in this Revelation, draw forth the Tablet and say:
“By this Book, the holy, the mighty, the incomparable.”
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1043.
Thereupon all will lift up their hands towards thee, and will seize the Tablet, and will press it to their eyes, and will inhale therefrom the fragrance of the utterance of God, the Lord of the worlds.
1044.
Were God to torment thee for having believed in His signs in this Revelation, for what reason could He then torment such as have disbelieved in Muhammad, the Apostle of God, and before Him in Jesus, the Son of Mary,
and before Him in the One Who conversed with God (Moses), and before Him in the One Who is the Friend of God (Abraham),
and as far back as the One Who was the First Manifestation, Who was created by the will of thy Lord, the Potent, the All-Encompassing.
1045.
Thus have We sent down Our verses unto one before thee, and recalled them unto thee, in this day, that thou mayest understand, and be of them who are well assured.
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