Tablet to Fuad Pasha the Heart 9 страница
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So rejoice, O ye people of the Bayán!
16.
During this night, the oceans of forgiveness have surged
and the breezes of divine bestowals were wafted.
17.
Therefore, rejoice with exceeding gladness, O companions of the All-Merciful!
18.
On this night, all the sins of mankind have been forgiven.
19.
This is a joyous message unto all created things!
20.
Say:
This, verily, is a night during which a pre-ordained measure of bounty and grace
hath been decreed in the Scrolls of celestial glory and certitude,
so that sorrow may be dispelled from all created things forever more.
21.
Therefore, rejoice in thy hearts, O ye who hath entered the realms of being and creation!
22.
At this, the Herald of the Spirit crieth out in the midmost heart of eternity
— the center of transcendent glory and sublimity.
This is by the grace of God, the Omnipotent, the Beneficent!
23.
By God! The Hand of Power, endowed with ascendant sovereignty,
hath opened the [perfumed] seal.
24.
Through the Beauty of the All-Glorious,
the hand of the Divine Joseph hath borne round the [prophetic] cup of pomegranate wine.
25.
Therefore, O peoples of the world,
hasten and partake of this Salsabil of everlasting life.
26.
Say:
O concourse of the [lovers] of God!
The unveiled and [naked] Beauty of the Beloved [of God] hath shone forth.
27.
O concourse of the loved ones of God!
The Beauty of the Best-Beloved hath risen above the Horizon of Holiness.
28.
Therefore, bestir yourselves and arise, O people of the Bayán!
29.
The Testimony[4] and the Proof[5] hath appeared,
for the Resurrection hath come to pass through God’s Manifestation of His own Being,
the Ancient of Days.
30.
The ages have persisted, the cycles have repeated, and the Lights have rejoiced,
for God hath shed the splendor of His effulgent glory from the branches of every Tree.
31.
Bestir yourselves, O chosen ones of God,
for the spirits have emerged,
the divine winds have been diffused,
the likenesses of God have been torn asunder,
and the Tongues of Eternity have sung upon the boughs of every Tree.
32.
By God! The veils have been rent asunder,
the dense coverings have been consumed by fire,
the abstruse allusions have been unveiled,
and the subtle signs have been unraveled by Him Who is endowed with Power and Omnipotence.
33.
Rejoice and silently conceal this secret and hidden Symbol,
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lest your foes learn of that which ye have quaffed from this wine of rapturous joy.
34.
O people of the Bayan! I swear by God!
The favour of God is fulfilled, His mercy perfected, [6]
and the light of the divine visage hath shone forth with exultation and rapture.
35.
Drink ye, O concourse of people and assemblage of God’s loved ones,
from this effulgent and radiant Salsabil!
Verily, this bounty is from God, the Exalted, the Beneficent!
Translated by W. F. McCants
Tablet to Hájí Muhammad Nasír of Qazvíní CHAPTER ONE
Divisions [1-35]
Excerpts
NAZIR
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By God! This is He Who hath at one time appeared in the name of the Spirit,
thereafter in the name of the Friend,
then in the name of ‘Alí, (the Bab)
and afterwards in this blessed, lofty, Self-Subsistent, Exalted, and Beloved Name.
4.
In truth, this is Husayn,
Who hath appeared through divine grace in the dominion of justice,
against Whom have arisen the infidels, with what they possess of wickedness and iniquity.
5
Thereupon they severed His head with the sword of malice,
and lifted it upon a spear in the midst of earth and heaven.
6
Verily, that head is speaking from atop that spear, saying:
7.
“O assemblage of shadows!
Stand ashamed before My beauty, My might, My sovereignty, and My grandeur.
8.
Turn your gaze to the countenance of your Lord, the Unconstrained,
so that you may find Me crying out among you with holy and cherished melodies.”
9.
O Nasír, O My servant!
God, the Eternal Truth, beareth Me witness.
10.
The Celestial Youth hath, in this Day,
raised above the heads of men the glorious Chalice of Immortality,
and is standing expectant upon His seat,
wondering what eye will recognize His glory,
and what arm will, unhesitatingly, be stretched forth
to seize the Cup from His snow-white Hand and drain it.
11.
Only a few have as yet quaffed from this peerless, this soft-flowing grace of the Ancient King.
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12.
These occupy the loftiest mansions of Paradise,
and are firmly established upon the seats of authority.
13.
By the righteousness of God! Neither the mirrors of His glory,
nor the revealers of His names,
nor any created thing, that hath been or will ever be,
can ever excel them, if ye be of them that comprehend this truth.
14.
O Nasír!
The excellence of this Day is immensely exalted above the comprehension of men,
however extensive their knowledge, however profound their understanding.
15.
How much more must it transcend the imaginations of them that have strayed from its light,
and been shut out from its glory!
16.
Shouldst thou rend asunder the grievous veil that blindeth thy vision,
thou wouldst behold such a bounty as naught,
from the beginning that hath no beginning till the end that hath no end,
can either resemble or equal.
17.
What language should He Who is the Mouthpiece of God choose to speak,
so that they who are shut out as by a veil from Him can recognize His glory?
18.
The righteous, inmates of the Kingdom on high,
shall drink deep from the Wine of Holiness, in my name, the All-Glorious.
19.
None other besides them will share such benefits.
20.
Tear asunder, in My Name, the veils that have grievously blinded your vision,
and, through the power born of your belief in the unity of God, scatter the idols of vain imitation.
21.
Enter, then, the holy paradise of the good-pleasure of the All-Merciful.
22.
Sanctify your souls from whatsoever is not of God,
and taste ye the sweetness of rest within the pale of His vast and mighty Revelation,
and beneath the shadow of His supreme and infallible authority.
23.
Suffer not yourselves to be wrapt in the dense veils of your selfish desires,
inasmuch as I have perfected in every one of you My creation,
so that the excellence of My handiwork may be fully revealed unto men.
24.
It follows, therefore, that every man hath been, and will continue to be,
able of himself to appreciate the Beauty of God, the Glorified.
25.
Had he not been endowed with such a capacity, how could he be called to account for his failure?
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26.
If, in the Day when all the peoples of the earth will be gathered together,
any man should, whilst standing in the presence of God, be asked:
“Wherefore hast thou disbelieved in My Beauty and turned away from My Self,”
27.
and if such a man should reply and say:
“Inasmuch as all men have erred, and none hath been found willing to turn his face to the Truth,
I, too, following their example, have grievously failed to recognize the Beauty of the Eternal,”
such a plea will, assuredly, be rejected.
28.
For the faith of no man can be conditioned by any person except himself.
29.
This is one of the certainties that lie enshrined in My Revelation--
a certainty which I have revealed in all the heavenly Books,
which I have caused the Tongue of Grandeur to utter, and the Pen of Power to inscribe.
30.
Ponder a while thereon, that with both your inner and outer eye,
ye may perceive the subtleties of Divine wisdom and discover the gems of heavenly knowledge
which, in clear and weighty language, I have revealed in this exalted and incorruptible Tablet,
31.
and that ye may not stray far from the All-Highest Throne,
from the Tree beyond which there is no passing,
from the Habitation of everlasting might and glory.
32.
The signs of God shine as manifest and resplendent as the sun amidst the works of His creatures.
33.
Whatsoever proceedeth from Him is apart,
and will always remain distinguished, from the inventions of men.
34.
From the Source of His knowledge countless Luminaries of learning and wisdom have risen,
and out of the Paradise of His Pen
the breath of the All-Merciful hath continually been wafted to the hearts and souls of men.
35.
Happy are they that have recognized this truth. Translated by S.Effendi, and N. and C. Buck
First Tablet to Napoleon III CHAPTER ONE
Divisions 1-35
Excerpts
1867 [?]
Many months before this second tablet to Napoleon III was written, arriving at Saint-Jean-d’Acre, Bahá’u’lláh had addressed, through the intermediary of the French Consul, Cesar Cattafago, a letter to Napoleon III which had remained unanswered. Introduction of H. Dreyfus
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NAPOLEON THE 3RD
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2.
3.
For 25 years an entire group of God’s servants
hath not had a single restful night nor an instant’s tranquility,
and hath been continuously exposed to the assaults of calumny and the workings of violence.
4.
How many the children that have been made into orphans!
5.
How many the mothers who have lost their child!
6.
How many more weep to find themselves separated from their children!
7.
How many children do lament and groan in search of their mother!
8.
Sucklings have well nigh drank the cup of martyrdom,
and pity hath been shown to neither men nor women!
9.
How many the nights when,
while the savage beasts and birds of prey reposed peacefully in their forests,
these servants could not, in their distress and exhaustion, find safe retreat or shelter!
10.
How many the people who,
in the eve, were posessed of rank and fortune,
yet in the morrow woke in poverty and misery,
their goods pillaged and their possessions taken!
11.
No land remains untinged by the blood of these oppressed ones,
nor soil where the graves of these wretched ones may not be found.
12.
How many the women that have been ravished
and taken from country to country and town to town,
and how many the men that have been sold to slavery!
13.
How many have fled into the deserts, with none apprised of their whereabouts!
14.
How many others still remain imprisoned!
15.
The sighs of these wronged ones rise up night and day,
and their appeals for succour can be heard incessantly.
16.
And yet they have perpetrated no crime.
17.
Two statements graciously uttered by the king of the age have reached the ears of these wronged ones.
18.
These pronouncements are, in truth, the king of all pronouncements,
the like of which have never been heard from any sovereign.
19.
The first was the answer given the Russian Government when it inquired why the war (Crimean) was waged against it.
20.
Thou didst reply:
"The cry of the oppressed who, without guilt or blame,
were drowned in the Black Sea wakened me at dawn.
21.
Wherefore, I took up arms against thee."
22.
These oppressed ones, however, have suffered a greater wrong, and are in greater distress.
23.
Whereas the trials inflicted upon those people lasted but one day,
the troubles borne by these servants have continued for 25 years,
every moment of which has held for us a grievous affliction.
24.
The other weighty statement,
which was indeed a wondrous statement manifested to the world, was this:
25.
"Ours is the responsibility to avenge the oppressed and succour the helpless."
26.
The fame of the Emperor’s justice and fairness hath brought hope to a great many souls.
27.
It beseemeth the king of the age to inquire into the condition of such as have been wronged,
and it behooveth him to extend his care to the weak.
28.
Verily, there hath not been, nor is there now,
on earth any one as oppressed as we are, or as helpless as these wanderers.
29.
For all living beings, even the savage beasts and birds of prey,
have a corner in which to find shelter.
30.
These wronged ones, alone, are constantly captive in the chains of violence,
their necks prisoned in the bondage of hatred and passion.
31.
Their strength hath reached its limit,
and there remains in their hearts neither patience nor endurance.
32.
They call upon thee to accord them thy good will,
that they might enjoy the shelter of royal protection.
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Translated by H. Dreyfus and I. Velasco 2001
Tablet to Sháh Muhammad Amín
Tablet of the Celebration of Birth CHAPTER ONE
Divisions 1-30
Revealed by Bahá-ulláh to honor his Birth
CELEBRATION OF BIRTH
1.
The Most Holy, the Unapproachable, the Almighty.
2.
The celebration of His birth has come;
the beauty of God, the Powerful, the Sublime, the Beloved, is seated upon the throne.
3.
Blessed is the one who is present, in this day,
before the divine visage;
4.
the gaze of God,
the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsistent, shall rest upon them.
5.
Say:
We observe the celebration in the Most Great Prison,
after the kings have arisen against Us.
6.
The ascendency of the oppressor cannot frustrate Our purpose,
nor do the hosts of earthly dominion trouble Us.
7.
This is that whereunto the All-Merciful has borne witness in this illustrious station.
8.
Could the very essence of serenity be perturbed by the tumult raised by any man? No!
9.
By His beauty dawning in its effulgence on all that is and shall be!
10.
This is the sovereignty of God which encompassed all things;
11.
this is His might which has overshadowed every seer and all that be seen.
12.
Hold fast onto the rope of empowerment,
then remember your Lord, the Unconstrained,
in this dawn wherein all that had been hidden and concealed has been revealed;
13.
thus has the tongue of the Eternal pronounced on this day
when the sealed wine [of prophecy] has been offered.
14.
Do not let the delusions of those who deny God perturb you,
nor prejudices debar you from this outstretched path.
15.
O People of Baha!
Soar on the wings of detachment in the heaven of the love of your Lord, the All-Merciful,
then render Him victorious with that which has been sent down in a preserved tablet.
16.
Beware lest you dispute with any man;
17.
reveal yourselves with the fragrance of God and with His Bayan whereby faces are turned.
18.
Such as are heedless in this day abide in the drunkenness of passion, yet understand not.
19.
Blessed is the one who turns toward
the dawning-place of the verses of their Lord in humility and repents.
20.
Arise amidst His servants,
then invite them unto remembrance of what has been revealed in the book of their Lord,
the Mighty, the Unconstrained.
21.
Say:
Be ever mindful of God,
and pay no regard to the delusions of those who follow every doubting sinner.
22.
Turn with hearts full of light toward the throne of your Lord,
the Possessor of all names;
23.
indeed, He shall confirm you in the truth.
24.
No other god is there beside Him,
the Mighty, the Beneficent.
25.
Would you hasten to the pond while the most great ocean is before you?
26.
Turn to it
and do not follow every deceiving idolater.
27.
Thus does the bird of immortality warble upon the branches of Our lote-tree
beyond which there is no passing.
28.
By God, by merely one of its melodies, the heavenly concourse is enraptured,
then the denizens of the cities of names,
who circle round this throne at eve and dawn break.
29.
Thus do the rains of teaching descend
from the firmament of the will of your Lord, the All-Merciful.
30.
Advance toward it, O people,
and do not follow those who dispute the signs of God when they are revealed,
and who deny their Lord, the All-Merciful, though He come with proof and evidence.
Translated by J. Hall 2016
Tablet of the Wondrous (Maiden) CHAPTER ONE
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