Concerning the questions of Manakji Limji Hataria 9 страница
367.
Káf referreth to Kuffi, that is:
368.
"Take off from thyself the wrappings of limitations,
that thou mayest come to know what thou hast not known of the states of Sanctity."
(from the teachings of Islám.)
369.
Wert thou to harken to the melodies of this mortal Bird,
(a reference to Bahá-ulláh, in the traditional Persian style)
then wouldst thou seek out the undying chalice and pass by every perishable cup.
370.
Peace be upon those who walk in the Right Path!
Unofficial list of 330 names of God, according to the Bahai writings. And/or the Holy Koran.
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Abiding One
Adored
All-Abiding
All-Bountiful
All-Compelling
All-Glorious
All-Glorious Being
All-Glorious Lord
All-Hearing
All-Highest
All-Highest Throne
All-Informed
All-Knowing
All-Knowing Physician
All-Merciful
All-Perceiving
All-Pervading
All-Possessing
All-Powerful
All-Praised
All-Searching
All-Seeing
All-Subduing
All-Sufficing
All-Wise
Almighty
Ancient and Sovereign Lord of All
Ancient Beauty
Ancient Being
Ancient King
Ancient of Days
Ancient of Everlasting Days
Author
Bahá
Beauty
Beginning and End
Beloved
Beloved of All Things
Beloved of All Worlds
Beloved of Our Hearts
Beneficient
Benevolent
Best-Beloved
Best-Informed
Bird of Desire
Blissful
Breath
Central Orb of the Universe
Compassionate
Concealer
Concealer of Sins
Counsellor
Creator
Creator of All Names
Creator of the Earth and Heaven
Creator of the Heavens
Day Spring
Day Spring of Glory
Day Spring of the Spirit
Day Star
Day Star of Glory
Day Star of Unfading Glory
Daystar of Eternal Guidance
Deathless Beauty
Desire of All Nations
Desire of Every Understanding Heart
Desire of the World
Desired One
Divine and Infallible Physician
Divine Being
Divine Charmer
Divine Countenance
Divine Educator
Divine Essence
Divine King
Divine Ordainer
Divine Presence
Divine Spirit
Dominant
Educator
Educator of All Beings
Equitable
Essence of All Learning
Essence of Bounty
Essence of Loving Kindness
Eternal
Eternal Being
Eternal Essence
Eternal Essence of Essences
Eternal King
Eternal Lord
Eternal Truth
Ever-Abiding
Ever-Abiding God
Ever-Abiding Lord
Ever-Forgiving
Everlasting Beauty
Everlasting Candle
Everlasting King
Exalted
Exalted One
Expounder
Eye of Grandeur
Faithful
Faithful One
Faithful Spirit
Fashioner
Fashioner of All Created Things
Fashioner of the Heavens
Father
Finger of Holiness
First and Last
Forgiving
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Generous One
Glorified
Glorified Countenance
Glorious
Glorious One
Glory
God
God of Mercy
Gracious
Grandeur
Great
Great Being
Great Giver
Guardian
Hand of Divine Power
Hand of Mercy
Hearts' Desire
Heaven of Generosity
Help in Peril
Highest and Last End
Him Who Causeth the Dawn to Break
Holy of Holies
Ideal King
Immortal Beauty
Immortal King
Inaccessible
Incomparable
Incomparable One
Incorruptible
Infinite Spirit
Inmost Essence
Innermost Spirit of Spirits
Invisible
Invisible Essence
Invisible of Invisibles
Invisible One
King
King of Divine Might
King of Everlasting Days
King of Existance
King of Glory
King of Incomparable Glory
King of Kings
King of Names
King of Names and Attributes
Knower
Knower of All Things
Knower of the Unseen and the Seen
Knower of Things Unseen
Knowledge
Life-Giver
Living God
Lode Star
Lord of All Beings
Lord of All Faiths
Lord of All Names
Lord of All Things
Lord of All Worlds
Lord of Bounty
Lord of Creation
Lord of Earth and Heaven
Lord of Eternity
Lord of Lords
Lord of Mankind
Lord of Men
Lord of Names
Lord of Revelation
Lord of the Day of Reckoning
Lord of the Easts and the Wests
Lord of the Exalted Throne
Lord of the Frequented Fane
Lord of the Glorious Throne
Lord of the Kingdom of Utterance
Lord of the Mighty Throne
Lord of Thy Fathers
Lord of Wealth
Lord the Most High
Loved One
Loving
Luminary
Majesty
Maker
Maker of the Heavens
Manifest
manifest and Sovereign Ruler
Merciful
Mercy
Mighty
Monarch of All Names
Most Bountiful
Most Bountiful of the Bountiful
Most Exalted
Most Exalted Being
Most Generous
Most Great
Most Great Beauty
Most Great Light
Most Great Spirit
Most High
Most Holy
Most Manifest
Most Merciful
Most Mighty King
Most Powerful
Mover
Mover of All Beings
Munificent
Mystic Source
Nightingale of Holiness
Object of All Adoration
Object of All Knowledge
Object of All Learning
Ocean of Everlasting Bounty
Ocean of mercy
Omnipotent
Omnipotent Avenger
Omnipotent Protector
Omniscient
One
One True God
One Who Heareth
Ordainer
Origin of All Things
Paradise
Peerless
Perspicuous
Possessor of All Created Things
Possessor of Infinite Names
Possessor of Names
Potent
Powerful
Praised
Primal Will
Promised One
Protector
Protector of the Doers of Good
Providence
Provider of All Means
Pure and Hidden One
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Quickener
Quintessence of All Truth
Quintessence of Glory
Raiser from the Dead
Reckoner
Redeemer
Resplendent
Revealer
Rich
Root of Knowledge
Ruler
Ruler of All Nations
Ruler of Earth and Heaven
Ruler of the Day of Reckoning
Ruler of the Kingdom of Names
Ruler of the Universe
Sea of Seas
Seen and Hidden
Self-Subsisting
Self-Sufficient
Self-Sufficing
Slayer
Source of All Grace
Source of All Knowledge
Source of Divine Grace
Source of Divine Inspiration
Source of Eternal Light
Source of Everlasting Life
Source of Infinite Grace
Source of Power and Wisdom
Source of All Splendour
Sovereign Lord
Sovereign Lord of All
Sovereign Lord of Eternity
Sovereign Ordainer
Sovereign Protector
Sovereign Revealer
Sovereign Truth
Spirit
Subtile
Summit
Sun of Truth
Supreme Being
Supreme Ordainer
Supreme Protector
Supreme Redeemer
Supreme Singleness
Sustainer
Tabernacle of Ancient Glory
Tabernacle of Majesty and Glory
The Great Announcement
Throne of Glory
Tongue of Grandeur
Tree of Life
True One
True Physician
Truth
Ultimate Desire
Unchangeable Being
Unchangeable Countenance
Unchangeable Essence
Unconditioned
Unconstrained
Uncreated
Undying Fire
Unfailing Protector
Unifier
Unknowable
Unknowable Essence
Unrestrained
Unseen
Unseen Beauty
Unseen Treasure
Visible and Invisible
Voice
Well-Beloved
Will
Wise
Wise One
Tablet of the Companions CHAPTER ONE
Divisions 1-35
THE COMPANIONS
1.
In the name of God, the Glorious, the Most Glorious, the All-Glorious.
2.
Give ear to the divine summons from the precincts of the throne,
as we recite to you the verses of God, the Help in Peril, the Hallowed, the Most Great.
3.
Perhaps you will then turn to your Lord with all that is within you
and proclaim the sovereignty of this Cause between the heavens and the earth.
4.
Thus will you attain such power within yourself
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that even if all who dwell on earth were to contend with you with keen, finely honed sword blades,
5.
you would meet them without trepidation
and find yourself altogether independent of them by virtue of my name,
the Self-Sufficient, the Mighty, the Powerful, the Omnipotent.
6.
In truth, you are aware of what has befallen us,
insofar as you became acquainted in the course of your travels with secrets unknown to others.
7.
For at the time when we emigrated to God
there was no man of insight with us save you.
8.
Thus did you pay heed, and came to know what none of those pretenders knew.
9.
This is the choice wine for which God has singled you out,
so quaff it within yourself in secret, lest the heedless become cognizant of it.
10.
Render thanks to God, insofar as he has made you aware of what none of his creatures discovered,
and has taken your hand in the Hand of Might and delivered you out of the desert of negligence.
11.
There is no God but he, and he is, in truth, the Guardian of the Near Ones.
12.
By God, the Eternal Truth!
The chalice of joy could contain nothing better than what we have ordained for you.
13.
Therefore, drink from it and be steadfast in this Cause, and be not of the fearful.
14.
Then gaze with a seeing eye on those who claim,
`In truth, we have believed in the verses of God, the Protector, the Mighty, the Powerful.'
15.
But when these verses were revealed yet another time in his name,
the Exalted, the Omnipotent, the Most Great,
behold, they fled from him, showed pride toward him
and demonstrated a hypocrisy greater than that of any previous people.
16.
Say:
By God, we have endured what has never been borne by the mountains,
nor by the heavens and all that is in them, nor by the earth and all that are on it,
nor even by those who support the throne of the Almighty.
17.
Say:
Not the waves, nor the seas, nor the trees, nor all that has been and will be,
nor even the hosts of the invisible Lord among the concourse of the worlds can ever bear this burden.
18.
Behold, the eyes of grandeur are on the brink of tears,
as are the eyes of those who attained everlasting life,
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19.
and those who dwell in the eternal paradise in their crimson chambers,
then those in the Ark of Glory beyond the depths wherein dwell the people of sanctity.
20.
My beloved friend!
You shall find that our opponents have clung to the same arguments
as did the people of the Qur'an in the past, nay have stooped even lower.
21.
God is sufficient to me in this regard as a witness.
22.
Indeed, you shall hear from them
what never was heard from any of the learned among the Muslims,
nor from their ignorant ones, nor even from their street-sweepers in the markets.
23.
By God, this is a great iniquity!
24.
Say:
This is he who appeared once before.
25.
All else besides me has been created by my decree, if you are among the seeing.
26.
Say:
Do you grow haughty toward him who made your names manifest and your ranks exalted?
27.
In truth, this is a wrong that you have committed against God,
the Help in Peril, the Glorious, the All-Knowing.
28.
Have you not seen the sovereignty and power, the grandeur and majesty,
the authority and sublimity of God?
29.
Then may your vision grow dim, concourse of the hateful!
30.
Was it for any living thing to ask `Wherefore?' or `Whereby?'
or to speak forth in our Presence?
Nay, by my Being, the Mighty, the Knowing!
31.
All heads have bowed before my glorious and beautiful visage,
and all have humbly submitted to my powerful and invincible dominion.
32.
Within the throat of this youth lie imprisoned words that,
if revealed to mankind to an extent smaller than a needle's eye,
would be sufficient to cause every mountain to crumble,
the leaves of the trees to be discolored and their fruits to fall;
33.
would compel every head to bow down in worship
and every face to turn in adoration towards this omnipotent ruler
who, at various times and in diverse manners, appears as a devouring flame,
as a billowing ocean, as a radiant light,
as the tree which, rooted in the soil of holiness, lifts its branches
and spreads out its limbs as far as and beyond the throne of deathless glory.
34.
At yet other times, you will find him in the form of the beloved,
in this cloak that none in all the creation can recognize.
35.
Should any of them desire to recognize him,
they would swoon within their own spirits,
all save those who approach their Lord with a sincere heart.
Tablet of the Companions CHAPTER TWO
Divisions 36-60
THE COMPANIONS
36.
Thus does the crier call out on my right hand,
the speaker declare on my left hand,
the caller shout aloud from behind me and the Spirit from before me,
and the tongue of God proclaim from above my head.
37.
By God! This is, in truth, he whom you have sought from the beginning that has no beginning.
38.
This is the visage toward which all faces turned, though they might now be without understanding,
and whoever rejects this manifest, refulgent, exalted and illumined grace
must inquire of his condition from his mother.
39.
Such a one will return to the lowest depths of hell.
40.
Do you think within yourselves that, if you deny these verses,
your faith in any of the former Messengers of God, even in `Ali (the Bab), can be credited?
41.
No, by the Lord of the Worlds!
42.
Behold, you are given the lie by all the atoms,
and beyond them by the tongues of power, might, glory and grandeur,
and beyond all these by the tongue of God, the Omnipotent, the Almighty, the All-Wise.
43.
My beloved friend,
grasp the hem of the veil with the fingers of might and barely lift it,
so that none could perceive what you had done.
44.
Should you hear the clamor of the hateful, remove your fingertips and leave it as it was.
45.
Subsist behind a curtain of beauty with patience and perseverance.
46.
Then bring the fingers of power near and raise the veil of contingent beings higher than before.
47.
If the howling of those who join partners with God should begin lay it down
and retreat before the beasts of prey, seeking an impregnable shelter.
48.
Dwell with the dignity and tranquillity of God,
then prepare yourself for the service of God and turn your face to him with manifest authority.
49.
Detach yourself from all who are in the heavens and on earth, and from the likes of the idolaters.
50.
Then extend the fingers of might and power
from the cloak that we bestowed on you before the creation of all things,
when Adam was yet between water and clay.
51.
Rend asunder the illusions of the people
by means of the sovereignty whereby all veils were torn from all things.
52.
Demonstrate such wondrous integrity
that it will efface the idle fancies of those who have turned away
and the delusions of those who depend on false intimations without any warrant from us,
if you are among those who act.
53.
Friend, shatter the idols and do not sorrow at what befalls you,
and fear not the demonic hosts.
54.
Say:
O concourse of deniers, we do not fear you.
55.
You may perish, or swoon, or pass out of existence, yet the Cause of God shall not be turned back.
56.
It has, in truth, become manifest, in spite of you and despite those who join partners with God.
57.
Whenever we have, at one time, concealed this Cause from you, and at another revealed it to you,
this has been a mercy from us on you, and on all the worlds.
58.
For some of the people are weak and feeble,
such that they would be unable to witness the light of the sun by reason of the infirmity in their eyes.
59.
Therefore have we treated them with gentle courtesy, lest they expire altogether.
60.
Say:
It will not profit you to turn to the right or the left, to answer or to ask,
if you be of those with certitude.
Tablet of the Companions CHAPTER THREE
Divisions 61-80
THE COMPANIONS
61.
Say:
Consider in yourselves when `Ali (the Bab) came in truth from the Egypt of Spirit with the verses of God, the Powerful, the unconstrained.
62.
Did any of the people of the Qur'an profit from what was with them?
63.
Nay, by your Lord, the All-Merciful!
64.
1n the same way, peruse the Bayan, if you will.
65.
By my life, nothing that they possessed availed them,
neither anyone's question nor any soul's answer.
66.
Every individual of perspicacious understanding knows this.
67.
Say:
By God, what was never manifested before has now appeared,
and he enjoins on you what you were commanded in the Book of God,
the Omnipotent, the Mighty, the Omniscient.
68.
All that you have was created by my Word, did you but know.
69.
Say:
In this day, no one can become rich save by making himself poor in the presence of God.
70.
This is a sanctified and luminous station.
71.
Nor can anything gain mention save by forgetting itself,
and becoming oblivious to all that is in the kingdom of the Cause and the world of creation,
how much more so to all that was created between the heavens and the earth.
72.
Say:
Have you not heard it said in the past, that `his evidence is his verses and his proof is his being.'?
73.
Then woe to you, concourse of the heedless.
74.
Were the veil to be drawn from the face of this Cause even to so small an extent that none of the mystic knowers could discern it,
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