The Book of the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
Divisions 786-820
EPISTLE TO THE SON OF THE WOLF
786.
O Sheik!
These perspicuous verses have been sent down in one of the Tablets by the Abhá Pen:
787.
“Hearken, O servant, unto the voice of this Wronged One,
Who hath endured grievous vexations and trials in the path of God, the Lord of all Names,
until such time as He was cast into prison, in the Land of Tá. (Tihrán)
788.
He summoned men unto the most sublime Paradise,
and yet they seized Him and paraded Him through cities and countries.
789.
How many the nights during which slumber fled from the eyes of My loved ones,
because of their love for Me;
and how numerous the days whereon I had to face the assaults of the peoples against Me!
790.
At one time I found Myself on the heights of mountains;
at another in the depths of the prison of Tá (Tihrán), in chains and fetters.
791.
By the righteousness of God!
I was at all times thankful unto Him, uttering His praise, engaged in remembering Him,
directed towards Him, satisfied with His pleasure, and lowly and submissive before Him.
792.
So passed My days, until they ended in this Prison (‘Akká) which hath made the earth to tremble and the heavens to sigh.
793.
Happy that one who hath cast away his vain imaginings,
when He Who was hid came with the standards of His signs.
794.
We, verily, have announced unto men this Most Great Revelation,
and yet the people are in a state of strange stupor.”
795.
Thereupon, a Voice was raised from the direction of Hijáz, calling aloud and saying:
796.
“Great is thy blessedness, O ‘Akká,
in that God hath made thee the dayspring of His Most Sweet Voice,
and the dawn of His most mighty signs.
797.
Happy art thou in that the Throne of Justice hath been established upon thee,
and the Daystar of God’s loving-kindness and bounty hath shone forth above thy horizon.
798.
Well is it with every fair-minded person
that hath judged fairly Him Who is the Most Great Remembrance,
and woe betide him that hath erred and doubted.”
799.
Following upon the death of some of the martyrs, the Lawh-i-Burhán (Tablet of the Proof)
was sent down from the heaven of the Revelation of Him Who is the Lord of Religions:
800.
“He is the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise!
801.
The winds of hatred have encompassed the Ark of Bathá (Mecca),
by reason of that which the hands of the oppressors have wrought.
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802.
O thou who art reputed for thy learning!
Thou hast pronounced sentence against them for whom the books of the world have wept,
and in whose favor the scriptures of all religions have testified.
803.
Thou, who art gone far astray, art indeed wrapt in a thick veil.
804.
By God Himself! Thou hast pronounced judgment against them through whom the horizon of faith hath been illumined.
805.
Unto this bear witness They Who are the Dawning-Places of Revelation
and the Manifestations of the Cause of thy Lord, the Most Merciful,
Who have sacrificed Their souls and all that They possessed in His straight Path.
806.
The Faith of God hath cried everywhere, by reason of thy tyranny,
and yet thou disportest thyself and art of them that exult.
807.
There is no hatred in Mine heart for thee nor for anyone.
808.
Every man of discernment beholdeth thee, and such as are like thee, engulfed in evident folly.
809.
Hadst thou realized that which thou hast done, thou wouldst have cast thyself into the fire,
or abandoned thine home and fled unto the mountains,
or wouldst have groaned until thou hadst returned unto the place destined for thee
by Him Who is the Lord of strength and of might.
810.
O thou who art even as nothing!
Rend thou asunder the veils of idle fancies and vain imaginings,
that thou mayest behold the Daystar of knowledge shining from this resplendent Horizon.
811.
Thou hast torn in pieces a remnant of the Prophet Himself,
and imagined that thou hadst helped the Faith of God.
812.
Thus hath thy soul prompted thee, and thou art truly one of the heedless.
813.
Thine act hath consumed the hearts of the Concourse on high,
and those of such as have circled round the Cause of God, the Lord of the worlds.
814.
The soul of the Chaste One (Fátimih) [melted] by reason of thy cruelty,
and the inmates of Paradise wept sore in that blessed Spot.
815.
“Judge thou fairly, I adjure thee by God.
816.
What proof did the Jewish doctors adduce wherewith to condemn Him Who was the Spirit of God (Jesus Christ), when He came unto them with truth?
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817.
What could have been the evidence produced by the Pharisees and the idolatrous priests
to justify their denial of Muhammad, the Apostle of God
when He came unto them with a Book that judged between truth and falsehood
with a justice which turned into light the darkness of the earth,
and enraptured the hearts of such as had known Him?
818.
Indeed thou hast produced, in this day,
the same proofs which the foolish divines advanced in that age.
819.
Unto this testifieth He Who is the King of the realm of grace in this great Prison.
820.
Thou hast, truly, walked in their ways,
nay, hast surpassed them in their cruelty,
and hast deemed thyself to be helping the Faith and defending the Law of God,
the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
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