The Book of the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf CHAPTER THIRTY THREE
Divisions 976-1010
EPISTLE TO THE SON OF THE WOLF
976.
O concourse of the kindreds of the earth!
This is the day whereon nothing amongst all things, nor any name amongst all names,
can profit you save through this Name which God hath made the Manifestation of His Cause
and the Dayspring of His Most Excellent Titles unto all who are in the kingdom of creation.
977.
Blessed is that man that hath recognized the fragrance of the All-Merciful and been numbered with the steadfast.
978.
Your sciences shall not profit you in this day, nor your arts, nor your treasures, nor your glory.
979.
Cast them all behind your backs, and set your faces towards the Most Sublime Word through which the Scriptures and the Books and this lucid Tablet have been distinctly set forth.
980.
Cast away, O people,
the things ye have composed with the pen of your idle fancies and vain imaginings.
981.
By God! The Daystar of Knowledge hath shone forth above the horizon of certitude.
982.
“O thou who art gone astray!
If thou hast any doubt concerning Our conduct, know thou that We bear witness
unto that whereunto God hath Himself borne witness ere the creation of the heavens and of the earth,
that there is none other God but Him, the Almighty, the All-Bounteous.
983.
We testify that He is One in His Essence, One in His Attributes.
984.
He hath none to equal Him in the whole universe, nor any partner in all creation.
985.
He hath sent forth His Messengers, and sent down His Books,
that they may announce unto His creatures the Straight Path.
986.
“Hath the Sháh been informed, and chosen to close his eyes to thine acts?
987.
Or hath he been seized with fear at the howling of a pack of wolves who have cast the path of God behind their backs and followed in thy way without any clear proof or Book?
988.
We have heard that the provinces of Persia have been adorned with the adornment of justice.
989.
When We observed closely, however,
We found them to be the dawning-places of tyranny and the daysprings of injustice.
990.
We behold justice in the clutches of tyranny.
991.
We beseech God to set it free through the power of His might and His sovereignty.
He, verily, overshadoweth all that is in the heavens and on earth.
992.
To none is given the right to protest against any one concerning that which hath befallen the Cause of God.
993.
It behooveth whosoever hath set his face towards the Most Sublime Horizon to cleave tenaciously unto the cord of patience, and to put his reliance in God, the Help in Peril, the Unconstrained.
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994.
O ye loved ones of God!
Drink your fill from the wellspring of wisdom,
and soar ye in the atmosphere of wisdom,
and speak forth with wisdom and eloquence.
Thus biddeth you your Lord, the Almighty, the All-Knowing.
995.
“O heedless one!
Rely not on thy glory, and thy power.
996.
Thou art even as the last trace of sunlight upon the mountain-top.
Soon will it fade away as decreed by God, the All-Possessing, the Most High.
997.
Thy glory and the glory of such as are like thee have been taken away,
and this verily is what hath been ordained by the One with Whom is the Mother Tablet.
998.
Where is he to be found who contended with God,
and whither is gone he that gainsaid His signs, and turned aside from His sovereignty?
999.
Where are they who have slain His chosen ones and spilt the blood of His holy ones?
1000.
Reflect, that haply thou mayest perceive the breaths of thine acts, O foolish doubter!
1001.
Because of you the Apostle (Muhammad) lamented, and the Chaste One (Fátimih) cried out,
and the countries were laid waste, and darkness fell upon all regions.
1002.
O concourse of divines!
Because of you the people were abased, and the banner of Islám was hauled down,
and its mighty throne subverted.
1003.
Every time a man of discernment hath sought to hold fast unto that which would exalt Islám,
ye raised a clamor, and thereby was he deterred from achieving his purpose,
while the land remained fallen in clear ruin.
1004.
“O My Supreme Pen!
Call Thou to remembrance the She-Serpent (Imám-Jum’ih of Isfahán) whose cruelty hath caused all created things to groan, and the limbs of the holy ones to quake.
Thus biddeth Thee the Lord of all names, in this glorious station.
1005.
The Chaste One (Fátimih) hath cried out by reason of thine iniquity,
and yet thou dost imagine thyself to be of the family of the Apostle of God!
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1006.
Thus hath thy soul prompted thee,
O thou who hast withdrawn thyself from God, the Lord of all that hath been and shall be.
1007.
Judge thou equitably, O She-Serpent!
For what crime didst thou sting the children of the Apostle of God
(King of Martyrs and Beloved of Martyrs), and pillage their possessions?
1008.
Hast thou denied Him Who created thee by His command ‘be, and it was’?
1009.
Thou hast dealt with the children of the Apostle of God as neither ‘Ád hath dealt with Húd,
nor Thámúd with Sálih, nor the Jews with the Spirit of God (Jesus), the Lord of all being.
1010.
Gainsayest [challenge] thou the signs of thy Lord which had no sooner been sent down from the heaven of His Cause than all the books of the world bowed down before them?
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