The Book of the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf CHAPTER SIXTY TWO 15 страница
137.
This is by virtue of the Mighty, Praiseworthy Trusteeship.
138.
The [isolated, Isolated letter] "M" (mīm) is expressive of
the Muhammandan Actuality and the Aḥmadī Modality.
139.
And God addressed him [Muhammad] by means of these [isolated] letters
to the end that all might attain certitude for everything that He expounds is of importance,
is communicated through created languages,
is or made meaningful relative to the earthly originated domain.
140.
All of this appears in the Muhammadan garment
and thus doth the Dove warble forth on every level the melodies of the Spirit
perchance thou might comprehend something of what is communicated unto thee.
Tablet on the Isolated Letters [of the Light] CHAPTER FIVE
Divisions 141-165
THE ISOLATED LETTERS [OF THE LIGHT]
141.
By God!
If I desired to expound these three levels [of interpretation] relative to these three [isolated] letters [A-L-M], [numerous] scriptural Tablets would in no wise suffice [to register their sigificances];
insufficient ink would be available such that it would prove necessary
to select on every level something of what thou art capable of apprehending.
142.
This inasmuch as the moment for the Pen to write even a [single] letter
is beyond my grasp in the light of [the actions of] such as have disbelieved and added gods to God.
143.
And this since the shackling of this Youth seems something conspired within their breasts;
the Youth who reposes in the region of Iraq,
summons all unto progress, and orients himself towards the horizon of the Divine Singularity
by virtue of the splendours of the radiance of the [mystic] Horizons.
144.
These matters do We mention unto thee relating to the mysteries of the Cause
perchance thou might be attentive.
145.
Wherefore! By he in whose hand is the Logos-Persona of Ḥusayn! [ ]
146.
If it were not for the fact that the dangerous ways of the practitioners of dissimulation (= [proto-] Azali Bābis?) had inhibited me mention would have been made in the scriptural Tablet of that which would enable thee to be detached from all that is in the heavens and on the earth and enable thee to attain unto a station which no ear hath ever heard and no eye hath ever perceived.
147.
Such an ever-flowing bounty can never by surpassed,
even if it should flow out from the beginning which hath no beginning
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unto the end for which no end can be perceived.
148.
This, in that the Fountainhead of this Divine Watercourse,
this Ocean of the Divine Singularity,
is none other than the Reality of the Lordly Bounty,
the very Being of the knowledge of Perpetuity.
149.
In view of this how could it ever be that this delicious, ever-flowing Reality could be exhausted?
150.
Nay rather! By my Lord! it shall never cease; neither shall it pass away
for there shall be made manifest through it what shall give testimony unto Us
and in addition also the witness of the citizens of the Supreme Concourse.
151.
How can the Bounty of God ever be terminated?
Or the Divine Grace be cut off on His part?
152.
Nay! By the very Lord of the of the heavens and of the earth!
153.
His Mercy hath ever preceded all things and His Bounty hath forever circumambulated all existence!
154.
Say:
O People!
This is an expression of His Bounty which He sends down unto thee,
the rains of divine Wisdom from the clouds of knowledge.
155.
It's effect wafts over all realms of possible being to the end that they might be enabled
to enter the Riḍwān of Holiness and be clothed in garment of Eternal Subsistence.
156.
Ponder ye, therefore, upon the mysteries of this Divine Bounty.
157.
Say:
`O people!
You were asleep upon the bedclothes and failed to rise up from the couches of heedlessness
when there dawned forth the Sun of the Divine Love.
158.
When, that is, all mouldering bodies were resuscitated through its energizing effect you were as a frozen ice-mountain failing to melt down with the beaming radiance of this celestial [Sinaitic] Fire when all who dwelt within the lofty heights of Paradise were set ablaze thereby.
159.
Say:
O People!
Thou failed to hearken unto this servant possessed of certitude in God
for, through this Luminary didst thou become aware of the gradations of mystical love.
160.
How magnificently is he enkindled with the Fire of Love
and how fiercely does he at every moment burn up through the fire of His [Own] Logos-Persona!
161.
Wherefore, should thou be set ablaze through the wonders of the Remembrance.
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162.
So hearken thou [within thine own hearts]
and supplicate God within [regarding His mystery,] with a tongue dedicated unto Him.
163.
[Wherefore] say,
`O my God and my Master!
I supplicate Thee through Thy Luminary whom Thou didst make to be sanctified above the Lamp in that Thou raised me up in the assemblage of the lovers in a locale wherein
mention is made of the Name of God, the Mighty, Help in Peril, the One Promised.'
164.
The One that is, Who, in very truth, shall come upon a cloud-canopy of fire
and around whom circumambulate the angels of the sacred Cause.
165.
At this will the cloud[s] of holiness be upraised
and the Dove warble out accents
the like which of shall enrapture the inmost hearts of the cherubic beings who are near unto God.
Tablet on the Isolated Letters [of the Light] CHAPTER SIX
Divisions 166-190
THE ISOLATED LETTERS [OF THE LIGHT]
166.
Say:
O People!
Hearken unto My Speech!
167.
Realize the importance of these days and hold ye firm unto the brilliant, hidden Thread.
168.
Be not entrapped by this mortal world and its embellishments and do not allow thyself to be saddened by adversity or disoriented on account of what may harm thee through such as have disbelieved and turned away from God, the Mighty, the Beloved One.
169.
Be among the choicest of creatures who would not be held back by any hindrance of the hinderer, veiled by the baseness of the censurer or witheld by antagonisms of an antagonist;
even though, as thou wouldst realize, all who dwell on earth should oppose them.
170.
Such persons are among those who do not orient themselves in the direction of any single visage
and are unconcerned with anything in the created domain.
171.
And were such persons to chance upon cities of gold
they would assuredly, even as the lightening, flee therefrom.
172.
They would in no way be entangled therewith
yet render glory in the exuberance of their detachment.
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173.
These are such that when the verses of thy Lord are recited unto them,
the Fire of the Divine Singularity is generated within their hearts
and their limbs are made to quake with spiritual yearning.
174.
Their very countenances prostrate before God,
the King, the Help in Peril, the Mighty, the Most Holy.
175.
Everything aforementioned, regarding such as is evidenced in the inmost disposition of those who are truly detached, do We cast upon thee perchance thou might with thine own eyes speedily attain unto the shore of the Divine Bounty.
176.
Then know thou that on another level God intends by these [isolated] letters the mysteries indicative of the[chronological] fulfillment [of prophecy] by means of which He alludes unto the period of the concealment of the [expected eschatological] Beauty behind pavilions of Glory the like of which is evidenced in the recorded traces of the [twelver] Imams of the Criterion.
177.
[Thus, for example, the words]
Wherefore should thou, in like manner, observe and be informed
of such [chronological] mysteries in all the [isolated] letters until the moment when
there shall beam forth the [messianic] Lights of a sacred, beloved Dawn).
178.
Say:
`Thou, O Concourse of the Bayān!
Behold all of this [latter interpretation] is relevant to the levels of the creatures and of things originated; to manifestations of things computed and brought into being.
179.
It is otherwise with respect to those levels (`modes of interpretation') which God made
to be a locale for his sacred, theophanic manifestations of His being.
180.
Such [levels of significance] are totally beyond the merest allusion;
account thereof can never be intimated nor evidenced by means of any indication.
181.
They [the Letters] all lie within the Abode of Holiness
where they assuredly await Realization (fulfillment).
182.
Say:
`O Concourse of the Criterion!
The [isolated] letters have ascended unto their respective stations
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and the Words unto their seats of repose
yet thou [Muslims], up until this very moment, have failed to perceive anything at all!
183.
Hast thou not heard of
the [eschatological] "Day when the Crier [Herald] shall cry out"? Quran 50:41-40
184.
And hast thou not heard of
the [eschatological, devastating ] "Shout" with the very Truth? Quran 50:42-41, etc
185.
How is it that until this very moment thou hast remained lifeless in the veils of thine own selves?
186.
Rise up then! from the resting places of heedlessness, ignorance, and hostility,
then proceed unto the Remembrance of God,
for such is best for thee if thou desirest to return unto the precincts of the divine.
187.
And dost thou not consider bygone centuries with repect to what befell some [persons]
in view of the fact that they opposed the Messengers of God and rejected their verses (or `signs')?
188.
Consequent upon this God did not commission any Messenger
except He was sent down with a [conclusive] Proof
before which [even] the mature [citizens] were incapacitated [to reject].
189.
And He hath given tidings to every Messenger;
news of the sent Messenger who shall come after him.
190.
And all were assuredly promised about his [forthcoming] advent.
Tablet on the Isolated Letters [of the Light] CHAPTER SEVEN
Divisions 191-225
THE ISOLATED LETTERS [OF THE LIGHT]
191.
So observe such as were given the Torah aforetime!
192.
Unto them was Moses raised up and they were given good news from God,
the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsistent;
[good news, that is,] about a Prophet who would come after him. Deuteronomy 18:15,18
193.
Yet when Moses came unto them with the rod of the Command and the Paran of Love
they turned aside from him [Moses] and they said,
"This is naught but a crazed magician."
194.
And they disavowed him and debated with him;
they disputed with him until innumerable years passed by
and God lifted him up through His command
and enabled him to attain unto a station which was ordained for him.
195.
Thus were matters implemented through His wisdom and His Proof was established;
those who had disbelieved, added [false] gods to God
and without justification acted tyranically,
and were [consequently] were cut off.
196.
Just as thou, even today, uttereth supplications for Moses
and such as hath believed in him and curse Pharoah and his hosts.
197.
Thus do We narrate for thee something of the narrative of establisghed Reality
perchance thou might be mindful in the Days of God!
198.
Then Moses gave the people tidings of he who would appear after him.
199.
And when Jesus came unto them with manifest, sacred expositions
they waxed proud against him and said,
"Thou art not that [expected] one but naught except a man bewitched."
200.
Subsequently, Jesus gave glad-tidings of a prophet
who would come after him by means of mighty, laudable allusions.
201.
Thus, when Muhammad, the Messenger of God was sent unto them
they rejected him and disavowed him.
202.
They said,
`This is nothing except a man feeble against God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsistent.'
203.
And when he was lifted up unto God they gathered together in support of his Cause
just as thou dost witness today.
204.
And they all in the light of what had befallen him were made to weep and evinced humility,
then cursed such ones as had wronged him.
205.
And the moment he was raised up unto Sublime Intimacy (`Transcendent Partnership')
and had ascended unto the furthermost Lofty Heights
he promised the people the one who would come subsequently.
206.
All of the people of the Criterion (= Muslims) are affirmative of that.
207.
And the Cause was in motion and the appointed times transpired until there came about the advent of `Alī before Muhammad [= the Bāb] with brilliant signs ([verses]) and dazzling proofs;
with solid arguments and resplendent testimonies.
208.
Yet did all wax proud before God regarding his Cause [Bābism]
despite the fact that they were all promised the Meeting with Him (God; liqā'ihi).
209.
Unto this testifieth all that was inscribed in Preserved Tablets
just as thou dost recite in the Book.
210.
This in that when God sealed prophethood through His Beloved One
(= Muhammad, the "Seal of the prophets" Quran 33:40)
he gave the servants the glad-tidings of the Encounter with Him [God]
and thus was the matter definitively resolved.
211.
Then when God came [unto them] in the shadows of the clouds, Quran 2:210
breathed into the Trumpet of the Cause, Quran 18:99, etc
split the Heaven asunder, Quran 55:37, 69:16, 84:1
and crushed the mountains to dust, Quran 56:5, 69:14, etc
did all retreat back upon their heels Quran 3:144, 6:71
continuing to await the Encounter [Meeting] with Him [God].
212.
This just as the Jews and the Christians continue to await
that which they were promised aforetime;
from that day until this very moment they all remain in a state of [eschatological] expectation!
213.
How many Messengers hath God, in very truth, sent unto them after Moses
up until this moment?
214.
The Jews failed to perceive this
and have for all these years stated that `He [the Messiah] shall come in a subsequent year!'
215.
Know therefore their measure,
and the measure of such as are enshadowed within their own their own shadow.
216.
So observe those who join partners with God--
the nature of their past ways, and what they are still doing today.
217.
In this way do We graciously aid thee in distinguishing every particular [prophetic] announcement
and lay before thee what hath befallen the Messengers of God.
218.
This to the end that thou be informed about the mysteries of the Cause
and be numbered among such as are today reckoned among those
who have entered neath the shadow of the Face;
they whom be such as God hath elevated to a station which is known to His Own Logos-Persona
after which all people had reviled against Him.
219.
At this moment do We return unto what We had previously mentioned
and establish anew the garment of mystic meaning
upon the libraries of the words that are pristine, unprecedented, and multi-faceted.
220.
This that thou might become certain about the fact that the timing of the Cause is in the grasp of One Powerful, Awesome and One capable, should He so will, of initiating change [revolution].
221.
Thus, when His Cause came unto all who are in the created dominion,
there occurred revolution for all were overturned.
222.
Then know that were I to make mention of the [mystical] meaning of the [letter] "A"
which was revealed at the commencement of the Book Qurān 2:1
according to that which was ordained therein of the pearls of hidden knowledge,
it would assuredly cause the swooning away of all who inhabit the heavens and the earth;
except, that is, such as are immersed within the surging waves of the Ocean of the Divine Power
in the proximity of the divine Visage.
223.
These are such persons as are leagued against the dogs of the earth
which seize Us with the clutches of enmity
and reject the bounty which hath descended from a cloud raised up in the name of God
that quencheth the thirst of those who are consumed
in the Paran of Separation near the unto the raging Fire.
224.
Some of them would assuredly expire
and this to the extent that even if the spirit of life were breathed into them
they would not even come alive again. [literally `be able to crawl']
225.
Yet a very few of them would quaff from the Life-giving Spring which floweth in the shadows of these words and would glorify God their Creator in that He hath caused to shine upon them from the direction of `Iraq the Luminosity of the Horizons following the swooning away of the spirits and their subsequent recovery!
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