The Book of the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf CHAPTER ONE 24 страница
unto that which hath proceeded from My Most Exalted Pen. 799. Should ye inhale therefrom the fragrance of God, set not yourselves against Him, nor deny yourselves a portion of His gracious favour and His manifold bestowals. 800. Thus doth your Lord admonish you; He, verily, is the Counsellor, the Omniscient. 801. Whatsoever ye understand not in the Bayán, ask it of God, your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers. 802. Should He so desire, He will expound for you that which is revealed therein, and disclose to you the pearls of Divine knowledge and wisdom that lie concealed within the ocean of its words. 803. He, verily, is supreme over all names; no God is there but Him, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsistent. 804. The world's equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. 805. Mankind's ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System -- the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed. 806. Immerse yourselves in the ocean of My words, that ye may unravel its secrets, and discover all the pearls of wisdom that lie hid in its depths. 807. Take heed that ye do not vacillate in your determination to embrace the truth of this Cause -- a Cause through which the potentialities of the might of God have been revealed, and His sovereignty established. 808. With faces beaming with joy, hasten ye unto Him. 809. This is the changeless Faith of God, eternal in the past, eternal in the future. 810. Let him that seeketh, attain it; and as to him that hath refused to seek it -- verily, God is Self-Sufficient, above any need of His creatures. 811. Say: This is the infallible Balance which the Hand of God is holding, in which all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth are weighed, and their fate determined, if ye be of them that believe and recognize this truth. 812. Say: This is the Most Great Testimony, by which the validity of every proof throughout the ages hath been established, would that ye might be assured thereof. 813. Say: Through it the poor have been enriched, the learned enlightened, and the seekers enabled to ascend unto the presence of God. 814. Beware lest ye make it a cause of dissension amongst you. 815. Be ye as firmly settled as the immovable mountain in the Cause of your Lord, the Mighty, the Loving. The Book of the Most Holy CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT Division 816-850 THE MOST HOLY 816. Say: O source of perversion! Abandon thy willful blindness, and speak forth the truth amidst the people. 817. I swear by God that I have wept for thee to see thee following thy selfish passions and renouncing Him Who fashioned thee and brought thee into being. 818. Call to mind the tender mercy of thy Lord, and remember how We nurtured thee by day and by night for service to the Cause. 819. Fear God, and be thou of the truly repentant. 820. Granted that the people were confused about thy station, is it conceivable that thou thyself art similarly confused? 821. Tremble before thy Lord and recall the days when thou didst stand before Our throne, and didst write down the verses that We dictated unto thee -- verses sent down by God, the Omnipotent Protector, the Lord of might and power. 822. Beware lest the fire of thy presumptuousness debar thee from attaining to God's Holy Court. 823. Turn unto Him, and fear not because of thy deeds. 824. He, in truth, forgiveth whomsoever He desireth as a bounty on His part; no God is there but Him, the Ever-Forgiving, the All-Bounteous. 825. We admonish thee solely for the sake of God. 826. Shouldst thou accept this counsel, thou wilt have acted to thine own behoof; and shouldst thou reject it, thy Lord, verily, can well dispense with thee, and with all those who, in manifest delusion, have followed thee. 827. Behold! God hath laid hold on him who led thee astray. 828. Return unto God, humble, submissive and lowly; verily, He will put away from thee thy sins, for thy Lord, of a certainty, is the Forgiving, the Mighty, the All-Merciful. 829. This is the Counsel of God; would that thou mightest heed it! 830. This is the Bounty of God; would that thou mightest receive it! 831. This is the Utterance of God; if only thou wouldst apprehend it! 832. This is the Treasure of God; if only thou couldst understand! 833. This is a Book which hath become the Lamp of the Eternal unto the world, and His straight, undeviating Path amidst the peoples of the earth. 834. Say: This is the Dayspring of Divine knowledge, if ye be of them that understand, and the Dawning-place of God's commandments, if ye be of those who comprehend. 835. Burden not an animal with more than it can bear. 836. We, truly, have prohibited such treatment through a most binding interdiction in the Book. 837. Be ye the embodiments of justice and fairness amidst all creation. 838. Should anyone unintentionally take another's life, it is incumbent upon him to render to the family of the deceased an indemnity of 100 mithqáls of gold. 840. Observe ye that which hath been enjoined upon you in this Tablet, and be not of those who overstep its limits. 841. O members of parliaments throughout the world! 842. Select ye a single language for the use of all on earth, and adopt ye likewise a common script. 843. God, verily, maketh plain for you that which shall profit you and enable you to be independent of others. He, of a truth, is the Most Bountiful, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed. 844. This will be the cause of unity, could ye but comprehend it, and the greatest instrument for promoting harmony and civilization, would that ye might understand! 845. We have appointed two signs for the coming of age of the human race: 846. the first, which is the most firm foundation, We have set down in other of Our Tablets, while the second hath been revealed in this wondrous Book. 847. It hath been forbidden you to smoke opium. 848. We, truly, have prohibited this practice through a most binding interdiction in the Book. 849. Should anyone partake thereof, assuredly he is not of Me. 850. Fear God, O ye endued with understanding! A writing revealed by Bahá-ulláh, that is supplementary to the Book of the Most Holy A number of Tablets revealed by Bahá'u'lláh after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas contain passages supplementary to the provisions of the Most Holy Book. The most noteworthy of these have been published in Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. Included in this section is an extract from the Tablet of Ishráqát. The Tablet of Ishráqát CHAPTER Divisions [17] THE EIGHTH ISHRÁQ 1. This passage, now written by the Pen of Glory, is accounted as part of the Most Holy Book: The men of God's House of Justice have been charged with the affairs of the people. They, in truth, are the Trustees of God among His servants and the daysprings of authority in His countries. O people of God! That which traineth the world is Justice, for it is upheld by two pillars, reward and punishment. These two pillars are the sources of life to the world. Inasmuch as for each day there is a new problem and for every problem an expedient solution, such affairs should be referred to the House of Justice that the members thereof may act according to the needs and requirements of the time. They that, for the sake of God, arise to serve His Cause, are the recipients of divine inspiration from the unseen Kingdom. It is incumbent upon all to be obedient unto them. All matters of State should be referred to the House of Justice, but acts of worship must be observed according to that which God hath revealed in His Book. O people of Bahá! Ye are the dawning-places of the love of God and the daysprings of His loving-kindness. Defile not your tongues with the cursing and reviling of any soul, and guard your eyes against that which is not seemly. Set forth that which ye possess. If it be favourably received, your end is attained; if not, to protest is vain. Leave that soul to himself and turn unto the Lord, the Protector, the Self-Subsisting. Be not the cause of grief, much less of discord and strife. The hope is cherished that ye may obtain true education in the shelter of the tree of His tender mercies and act in accordance with that which God desireth. Ye are all the leaves of one tree and the drops of one ocean.
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The Book of the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf CHAPTER ONE
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Divisions 1-35
Translated by S. Effendi
SON OF THE WOLF
1.
In the name of God,
the One, the Incomparable, the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
2.
Praise be to God, the Eternal that perisheth not,
the Everlasting that declineth not, the Self-Subsistent that altereth not.
3.
He it is Who is transcendent in His sovereignty,
Who is manifest through His signs, and is hidden through His mysteries.
4.
He it is at Whose bidding the standard of the Most Exalted Word
hath been lifted up in the world of creation,
and the banner of “He doeth whatsoever He willeth” raised amidst all peoples.
5.
He it is Who hath revealed His Cause for the guidance of His creatures,
and sent down His verses to demonstrate His Proof and His Testimony,
and embellished the preface of the Book of Man* with the ornament of utterance through His saying:
6.
“The God of Mercy hath taught the Qurán,
hath created man, and taught him articulate speech.”
No God is there but Him,
the One, the Peerless, the Powerful, the Mighty, the Beneficent.
7.
The light that is shed from the heaven of bounty,
and the benediction that shineth from the dawning-place of the will of God,
the Lord of the Kingdom of Names,
rest upon Him Who is the Supreme Mediator, the Most Exalted Pen,
Him Whom God hath made the Dawning-Place of His most excellent names
and the Dayspring of His most exalted attributes.
8.
Through Him the light of unity hath shone forth above the horizon of the world,
and the law of oneness hath been revealed amidst the nations,
who, with radiant faces, have turned towards the Supreme Horizon,
and acknowledged that which the Tongue of Utterance hath spoken in the kingdom of His knowledge:
9.
“Earth and heaven, glory and dominion, are God’s,
the Omnipotent, the Almighty, the Lord of grace abounding!”
10.
Give ear, O distinguished divine, unto the voice of this Wronged One.
11.
He verily, counselleth thee for the sake of God,
and exhorteth thee unto that which will cause thee to draw nigh unto Him under all conditions.
He, in truth, is the All-Possessing, the Exalted.
12.
Know thou that the ear of man hath been created
that it may hearken unto the Divine Voice
on this Day that hath been mentioned in all the Books, Scriptures, and Tablets.
13.
Purify thou, first, thy soul with the waters of renunciation,
and adorn thine head with the crown of the fear of God,
and thy temple with the ornament of reliance upon Him.
14.
Arise, then, and, with thy face set towards the Most Great House,
the Spot round which, as decreed by the Eternal King, all that dwell on earth must circle, recite:
15.
“O God, my God, and my Desire, and my Adored One,
and my Master, and my Mainstay, and my utmost Hope, and my supreme Aspiration!
16.
Thou seest me turning towards Thee,
holding fast unto the cord of Thy bounty, clinging to the hem of Thy generosity,
acknowledging the sanctity of Thy Self and the purity of Thine Essence,
and testifying to Thy unity and Thy oneness.
17.
I bear witness that Thou art the One [Lord], the Single, the Incomparable, the Ever-Abiding.
18.
Thou didst not take unto Thyself a partner in Thy dominion,
nor didst Thou choose a peer for Thyself upon earth.
19.
All created things have borne witness
unto that which the Tongue of Thy grandeur hath testified ere their creation.
Verily Thou art God; there is none other God but Thee!
20.
From everlasting Thou wast sanctified from the mention of Thy servants,
and exalted above the description of Thy creatures.
21.
Thou beholdest, O Lord, the ignorant seeking the ocean of Thy knowledge,
the sore athirst, the living waters of Thine utterance,
the abased, the tabernacle of Thy glory,
the poor, the treasury of Thy riches,
the supplicant, the dawning-place of Thy wisdom,
the weak, the source of Thy strength,
the wretched, the heaven of Thy bounty,
the dumb, the kingdom of Thy mention.
The narration now turns to speak for the Son of the Wolf
22.
“I testify, O my God, and my King,
that Thou hast created me to remember Thee, to glorify Thee, and to aid Thy Cause.
23.
And yet, I have aided Thine enemies, who have broken Thy Covenant,
who have cast away Thy Book, disbelieved in Thee, and repudiated Thy signs.
24.
Alas, alas, for my waywardness, and my shame, and my sinfulness,
and my wrong-doing that have withheld me from the depths of the ocean of Thy unity
and from fathoming the sea of Thy mercy.
25.
Wherefore, alas, alas!
and again alas, alas!
for my wretchedness and the grievousness of my transgressions!
26.
Thou didst call me into being, O my God,
to exalt Thy Word, and to manifest Thy Cause.
27.
My heedlessness, however, hath deterred me and compassed me about,
in such wise that I have arisen [to shed the blood of Thy loved ones],
and to blot out Thy signs, and the dawning-places of Thy signs,
and the daysprings of Thy revelation,
and the repositories of Thy mysteries.
28.
“O Lord, my Lord! and again, O Lord, my Lord!
and yet again, O Lord, my Lord!
29.
I bear witness that by reason of mine iniquity the fruits of the tree of Thy justice have fallen,
30.
and through the fire of my rebelliousness
the hearts of such of Thy creatures as enjoy near access to Thee were consumed,
and the souls of the sincere among Thy servants have melted.
31.
O wretched, wretched that I am!
32.
O the cruelties, the glaring cruelties, I inflicted!
33.
Woe is me, woe is me, for my remoteness from Thee, and for my waywardness,
and mine ignorance, and my baseness,
and my repudiation of Thee, and my protests against Thee!
34.
How many the days during which Thou didst bid Thy servants and Thy loved ones to protect me, whilst I commanded them to harm Thee and to harm them that Thou didst trust!
35.
And how numerous the nights during which Thou didst graciously remember me,
and didst show me Thy path, whilst I turned away from Thee and from Thy signs!
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