The Book of the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf CHAPTER TWENTY NINE
Divisions 856-920
EPISTLE TO THE SON OF THE WOLF
856.
By God! Our hearts were consumed, and Our bodies were crucified, and Our blood was spilt,
while Our eyes were fixed on the horizon of the loving-kindness of their Lord,
the Witness, the All-Seeing.
857.
The more grievous their woes, the greater waxed the love of the people of Bahá.
858.
Unto their sincerity hath borne witness what the All-Merciful hath sent down in the Qur’án.
859.
He saith: ‘Wish ye, then, for death, if ye are sincere.’
860.
Who is to be preferred, he that hath sheltered himself behind curtains,
or he that hath offered himself in the path of God?
861.
Judge thou fairly, and be not of them that rove distraught in the wilderness of falsehood.
862.
So carried away have they been by the living waters of the love of the Most Merciful,
that neither the arms of the world nor the swords of the nations have deterred them
from setting their faces towards the ocean of the bounty of their Lord, the Giver, the Generous.
863.
“By God! Troubles have failed to unnerve Me,
and the repudiation of the divines hath been powerless to weaken Me.
864.
I have spoken, and still speak forth before the face of men: ‘
865.
The door of grace hath been unlocked and He Who is the Dayspring of Justice is come with perspicuous signs and evident testimonies, from God, the Lord of strength and of might!’
866.
Present thyself before Me that thou mayest hear the mysteries which were heard by the Son of ‘Imrán (Moses) upon the Sinai of Wisdom.
867.
Thus commandeth thee He Who is the Dawning-Place of the Revelation of thy Lord,
the God of Mercy, from His great Prison.”
868.
Thereupon hath the cry and the lamentation of the true Faith been raised once again, saying:
“Verily, Sinai calleth aloud and saith:
869.
‘O people of the Bayán!
Fear ye the Merciful.
870.
Indeed have I attained unto Him Who conversed upon me,
and the ecstasies of my joy have seized the pebbles of the earth and the dust thereof.’
871.
And the Bush exclaimeth:
‘O people of the Bayán!
Judge ye fairly that which hath in truth been manifested.
872.
Verily the Fire which God revealed unto the One Who conversed with Him is now manifested.
873.
Unto this beareth witness every man of insight and understanding.’”
874.
We have made mention of certain martyrs of this Revelation, and have also cited some of the verses
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which were sent down concerning them from the kingdom of Our utterance.
875.
We fain would hope that, rid of all attachment to the world,
thou wilt ponder the things which We have mentioned.
876.
It behooveth thee now to reflect upon the state of Mírzá Hádí Dawlat-Ábádí and of Sád-i-Isfahání (Sadru’l-‘Ulamá), who reside in the Land of Tá (Tihrán).
877.
No sooner had the former heard that he had been called a Bábí than he became so perturbed that his poise and dignity forsook him.
878.
He ascended the pulpits and spoke words which ill befitted him.
879.
From time immemorial the clay clods of the world have, wholly by reason of their love of leadership,
perpetrated such acts as have caused men to err.
880.
Thou must not, however, imagine that all the faithful are such as these two.
881.
We have described unto thee the constancy, the firmness, the steadfastness, the certitude,
the imperturbability and the dignity of the martyrs of this Revelation,
that thou mayest be well-informed.
882.
My purpose in citing the passages from the Tablets to the kings and others hath been
that thou mayest know of a certainty that this Wronged One hath not concealed the Cause of God,
883.
yet hath proclaimed and delivered, in the most eloquent language, before the face of the world,
the things He had been commissioned to set forth.
883.
Certain faint-hearted ones, however, such as Hádí and others,
have tampered with the Cause of God and have, in their concern for this fleeting life,
said and done that which caused the eye of justice to weep and the Pen of Glory to groan,
885.
notwithstanding their ignorance of the essentials of this Cause;
whereas this Wronged One hath revealed it for the sake of God.
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