The Book of the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf CHAPTER FORTY FIVE
Divisions 1356-1390
EPISTLE TO THE SON OF THE WOLF
1356.
They that have gone astray have said:
‘When were the heavens cleft asunder?’
1357.
Say:
‘While ye lay in the graves of waywardness and error.’
1358.
Among the heedless is he who rubbeth his eyes, and looketh to the right and to the left.
1359.
Say:
‘Blinded art thou.
No refuge hast thou to flee to.’
1360.
And among them is he who saith:
‘Have men been gathered together?’
1361.
Say:
‘Yea, by my Lord!, whilst thou didst lie in the cradle of idle fancies.’
1362.
And among them is he who saith:
‘Hath the Book been sent down through the power of the true Faith?’
1363.
Say:
‘The true Faith itself is astounded.
1364.
Fear ye, O ye men of understanding heart!’
1365.
And among them is he who saith:
‘Have I been assembled with others, blind?’
1366.
Say:
‘Yea, by Him that rideth upon the clouds!’
1367.
Paradise is decked with mystic roses, and hell hath been made to blaze with the fire of the impious.
1368.
Say:
‘The light hath shone forth from the horizon of Revelation, and the whole earth hath been illumined at the coming of Him Who is the Lord of the Day of the Covenant!’
1369.
The doubters have perished, whilst he that turned, guided by the light of assurance, unto the Dayspring of Certitude hath prospered.
1370.
Blessed art thou, who hast fixed thy gaze upon Me, for this Tablet which hath been sent down for thee
—a Tablet which causeth the souls of men to soar.
1371.
Commit it to memory, and recite it.
1372.
By My life! It is a door to the mercy of thy Lord.
1373.
Well is it with him that reciteth it at eventide and at dawn.
1374.
We, verily, hear thy praise of this Cause, through which the mountain of knowledge was crushed, and men’s feet have slipped.
1375.
My glory be upon thee and upon whomsoever hath turned unto the Almighty, the All-Bounteous.
1376.
The Tablet is ended, but the theme is unexhausted.
1377.
Be patient, for thy Lord is patient.”
1378.
These are verses We sent down previously, soon after Our arrival in the prison-city of ‘Akká,
and We have sent them unto thee, that thou mayest be acquainted with what their lying tongues have spoken, when Our Cause came unto them with might and sovereignty.
1379.
The foundations of idle fancies have trembled, and the heaven of vain imaginings hath been cleft asunder, and yet the people are in doubt and in contention with Him.
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1380.
They have denied the testimony of God and His proof,
after He came from the heaven of power with the kingdom of His signs.
1381.
They have cast away what had been prescribed,
and perpetrated what had been forbidden them in the Book.
1382.
They have abandoned their God, and clung unto their desires.
1383.
They truly have strayed and are in error.
1384.
They read the verses and deny them.
1385.
They behold the clear tokens and turn aside.
1386.
They truly are lost in strange doubt.
1387.
We have admonished Our loved ones to fear God, a fear which is the fountain-head of all goodly deeds and virtues.
1388.
It is the commander of the hosts of justice in the city of Bahá.
1389.
Happy the man that hath entered the shadow of its luminous standard, and laid fast hold thereon.
1390.
He, verily, is of the Companions of the Crimson Ark,
which hath been mentioned in the Qayyúm-i-Asmá.
The Book of the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf CHAPTER FORTY SIX
Divisions 1391-1415
EPISTLE TO THE SON OF THE WOLF
1391.
Say:
O people of God!
Adorn your temples with the adornment of trustworthiness and piety.
1392.
Help, then, your Lord with the hosts of goodly deeds and a praiseworthy character.
1393.
We have forbidden you dissension and conflict in My Books,
and My Scriptures, and My Scrolls, and My Tablets,
1394.
and have wished thereby naught else save your exaltation and advancement.
1395.
Unto this testify the heavens and the stars thereof, and the sun and the radiance thereof,
and the trees and the leaves thereof,
and the seas and the waves thereof, and the earth and the treasures thereof.
1396.
We pray God to assist His loved ones,
and aid them in that which beseemeth them in this blest, this mighty, and wondrous station.
1397.
Further, in another Tablet, We have said:
1398.
“O thou who hast fixed thy gaze upon My visage!
1399.
Admonish men to fear God.
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1400.
By God! This fear is the chief commander of the army of thy Lord.
Its hosts are a praiseworthy character and goodly deeds.
1401.
Through it have the cities of men’s hearts been opened throughout the ages and centuries,
and the standards of ascendancy and triumph raised above all other standards.”
1402.
“We will now mention unto thee Trustworthiness and the station thereof
in the estimation of God, thy Lord, the Lord of the Mighty Throne.
1403.
One day of days We repaired unto Our Green Island.
1404.
Upon Our arrival, We beheld its streams flowing, and its trees luxuriant,
and the sunlight playing in their midst.
1405.
Turning Our face to the right, We beheld what the pen is powerless to describe;
nor can it set forth that which the eye of the Lord of Mankind witnessed in that most sanctified,
that most sublime, that blest, and most exalted Spot.
1406.
Turning, then, to the left We gazed on one of the Beauties of the Most Sublime Paradise,
standing on a pillar of light, and calling aloud saying:
1407.
‘O inmates of earth and heaven!
Behold ye My beauty, and My radiance, and My revelation, and My effulgence.
1408.
By God, the True One! I am Trustworthiness and the revelation thereof, and the beauty thereof.
1409.
I will recompense whosoever will cleave unto Me,
and recognize My rank and station, and hold fast unto My hem.
1410.
I am the most great ornament of the people of Bahá,
and the vesture of glory unto all who are in the kingdom of creation.
1411.
I am the supreme instrument for the prosperity of the world,
and the horizon of assurance unto all beings.’
1412.
Thus have We sent down for thee that which will draw men nigh unto the Lord of creation.”
1413.
This Wronged One hath, at all times, summoned the peoples of the world
unto that which will exalt them, and draw them nigh unto God.
1414.
From the Most Sublime Horizon there hath shone forth
that which leaveth no room unto any one for vacillation, repudiation or denial.
1415.
The wayward, however, have failed to profit therefrom;
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nay, it shall only increase their loss.
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