The Book of the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf CHAPTER SIXTY TWO 28 страница
Said He,
"O handmaiden of God!
I see thou hath done what is truly not allowed.
55.
Why did you permit your hair, an adornment for thy beauty, to be cut off?"
Tablet of the City of Patient Endurance CHAPTER THREE
Divisions 56-85
THE CITY OF PATIENT ENDURANCE
56.
Said she,
"O Job!
The more I asked Thy people for a piece of bread for Thee, the more they refused,
until I entered the house of one of the maidservants of God.
57.
She also refused to give me bread until she had taken my hair,
and this is the bread I have brought before Thy face.
58.
In this manner hath she rebelled against God's law.
59.
She has truly waxed proud and the matter is finished between her and me.
60.
O Job,
forgive me and do not punish me for this transgression.
61.
I was reduced to an extreme condition because of my concern for Thee.
62.
Have mercy on me and forgive me,
for Thou art always generous and forgiving."
63.
What was decreed came to pass
and in this wise Job was so sorrowful that all the heavens would well nigh have cloven asunder
and the earth of patience would have been split
and the mountain of long suffering would have been reduced to pieces.
64.
So he placed his face on the dust and he said,
"O my Lord!
Suffering has encompassed me from all sides
and truly Thou art the One Whose mercy has preceded all things.
65.
In Thy generosity have compassion on me and be kind to me in Thy bountiful favor,
for Thou art compassionate unto Thy servants."
66.
And when We heard His call We caused there to flow under his right leg a clear sweet water
and We commanded Job to immerse himself in it and to drink therefrom.
67.
And when he drank therefrom he became purified of all ailments
and was manifest in the most beauteous form.
68.
We returned to him all We had taken from him and even more
such that We rained on him from the Dominion of wealth what enriched him
and made him independent of all earth.
69.
We solaced his eyes by the joy of his family
and we fulfilled what We had promised the patient ones in all the holy and preserved Tablets.
70.
We made good all his affairs and We confirmed him with mighty arm of Our revelation.
71.
Thus We raise the submissive ones
and thus We cause to perish those who wax proud, they who act wickedly in the land.
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72.
Thus We accomplish that which We purpose
and We fulfill the rewards of the long suffering
and We vouchsafe to them generously of Our holy treasures.
73.
O peoples of the earth!
Be patient and persevering in the path of God
and do not sorrow about that which will befall you in these "Days of the Spirit".
74.
Soon ye shall see the recompense of the patient ones in the transcendent and holy Garden Ridvan.
75.
In truth God has created a Paradise in the retreats of immortality
and has named it "Patience".
76.
Its name was treasured in the immaculate treasures of God up to the present Day.
77.
And in it was ordained what was not ordained in all other gardens
and We have at this moment unveiled it for you
and caused it to be remembered by you as a mercy on Our part to all the worlds.
78.
And in this paradise there are rivers of the providence of God
and God has forbidden it from any one except for them who have persevered in calamities
seeking thereby the good pleasure of God.
79.
None shall enter these gardens except such as have not perverted the bounty of God in their hearts
and [such as have] [flown] with the wings of might in the atmosphere of patience.
80.
These are they who have been long-suffering in all tribulations
and the more the tribulations increased their love for their Lord waxed greater
and with their entire being they turned to the exalted and holy [Lord].
81.
The ecstasies of desire grew intense in their hearts
and the breaths of enthusiasm became great in their being so much so
[that] they gave of their wealth
and [that] they gave all that was vouchsafed by God to them
and in all those states they were grateful to their Lord
and they did not seek help from any one
and God inscribed the names of the patient ones in His holy and irrevocable tablets.
82.
Truly blessed is the one who arrays himself with the garment of patience and equanimity
and who does not change in afflictions
and whose footsteps do not slip when the tempests of wrath blow
and remains acquiescent [to God] at all times, and relies on God at all times.
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83.
I swear by God! Soon will God cause him to be manifested within the canopy of grandeur
with a luminous garment which will scintillate
like the scintillation of light above the spiritual horizon
and eyes will be dazzled upon beholding him
84.
and above his head there will be a caller from God saying,
"This is verily the [man] who was long suffering for God in this vain and futile world
and [patient] in all that the unbelievers did unto him.
85.
The concourse on high will seek blessings from him
and the occupiers of God's pavilions will seek to meet him
as well as the holy maidens in the sacred and beautiful tabernacles."
Tablet of the City of Patient Endurance CHAPTER FOUR
Divisions 86-115
THE CITY OF PATIENT ENDURANCE
86.
So [therefore], O People of the Bayan!
Be patient in these passing days
and do not complain that your abject ornaments have been lost
and do not bemoan of the afflictive trials that have been ordained in the Mighty Scrolls of God.
[Book of Job, Book of Revelations]
87.
Further know ye that for all good deeds there is ordained a limited reward in the Book of God
with the exception of patience.
88.
This is the point that was made by God unto Muhammad, the Apostle of God, [when he said,]
"Those who patiently persevere will truly receive a reward without measure."
89.
Thus has the Faithful Spirit revealed unto the heart of Muhammad in the Arabian Tongue
and thus has it been revealed in all the mighty and new tablets
what has been ordained for the patient [saints].
90.
Further know ye that God has ordained patience to be the garment of all the Messengers
and no Prophet or Messenger has been sent
except [for the reason] that His temple has been ordained with the robe of patience.
91.
Thus has been taken God's Covenant with every Prophet sent by Him.
92.
It behoveth in the beginning for the patient person to persevere in his heart
so that he will withhold himself from all wickedness, evil, and desires,
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and from all that God has forbidden in His Book
and so will his name be inscribed in the Tablets as a patient one.
93.
And further he shall be persevering despite the afflictions
that shall descend on him in the path of his Fashioner
and that he be not shaken when the tempestuous winds of divine decree blow
and when the ocean of God's destiny billows in the dominion of His irrevocable Plan
and that he remain steadfast in the Faith of God.
94.
And further that he should be patient with what the friends of God bring upon him
and that he should be forbearing with the believers for the love of God
and the blessing of His Religion.
95.
Anticipate ye therefore the Day when the clouds of patience shall be uplifted
and the immortal Bird shall warble,
and the Peacock of holiness shall be made manifest
with the ornament of Revelation in the kingdom of His reunion,
and the stammering tongues shall be freed, singing the accents of the Nightingale,
and the Dove of paradise shall sing betwixt earth and heaven
96.
and the Trumpet shall be sounded and bodies of existence shall all be renewed,
and the Divine Fire shall be ignited,
and God in His transcendent and glorious Beauty shall come in the clouds of the Spirit.
97.
Then hasten ye to Him, O peoples of the earth!
And do not heed anything else of this world,
and let nothing impede you,
and do not let the affairs of learning hinder you and the matters of wisdom lock you out.
98.
Hasten to the holy and uplifted Precinct,
for if you had been of the patient [souls] from all eternity, [(on the planet Earth)]
yet ye tarry on that Day for less than a moment,
the quality of true patience shall not be yours.
99.
This has been revealed by the pen of the Omniscient [Lord].
100.
Say, O people of the world,
fear God in these Days and do not fabricate falsehoods against His Trusted [servants]
and speak not of what ye have no cognizance.
101.
For ye are of the weak ones on earth and of the poor ones in His land
so wax not proud in your hearts
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and hurry towards the accepted land of God's will.
102.
I swear by God! This nether world shall pass away and all that ye delight in it with it,
and the angels of His wrath shall assemble ye in the presence of the Mighty and Omnipotent King.
103.
And you shall be asked of what you have wrought in your days
for naught is left in the heavens or earth
except that it is written in the tablets of His Knowledge.
104.
Then no one will assist you and none will befriend you
and nothing will avail you excpet what you have planted in the field of your deeds.
105.
So be awakened O wicked ones,
and hearken unto the admonition of this kind Friend who admonishes you for the sake of God
and does not want from you either a recompense or thanks.
106.
His reward is with the One that has sent Him in truth
and has caused to descend on Him verses that the proof may be fulfilled unto all the world.
107.
How long will ye repose yourself on the seats of heedlessness
and how long shall ye follow them that are not but the abject ones moved by others.
108.
I swear by God! They whom you have taken to be lords beside the True God
do not have names or essences mentionable in the sight of God.
109.
Have mercy on yourself, and fear God your Fashioner.
110.
Return to Him that He may forgive your evil deeds,
and He is truly forgiving unto His servants.
111.
Say:
I swear by God! They to whom you attribute knowledge and have accepted as your divines
they are in the sight of God the worst of men,
nay, the quintessence of evil flees from them.
112.
Thus has the matter been inscribed in the scrolls of God's knowledge. [ ]
113.
We testify that they have not drunk from the fountains of knowledge
and they have not attained unto a word of Wisdom
and have not become aware of the mysteries of Revelation
and have been racing in the land of their selfish desires.
114.
Nothing of rejection and denial against a prophet or a successor of a prophet
has come to pass except after their permission.
115.
Thus has always been their injunction carried out on the Countenances of holiness.
Tablet of the City of Patient Endurance CHAPTER FIVE
Divisions 116-150
THE CITY OF PATIENT ENDURANCE
116.
Say to them:
O ignorant ones!
Did We not reveal in the past:
"A day that God shall come in the canopies of clouds."
117.
How is it that when He came down in the clouds of Revelation in the Temple of `Ali, [the Bab]
you turned away and rejected Him
and waxed haughty and brought about your own perdition?
118.
Was it not also revealed in your Book:
"the Day when thy Lord comes or certain of the signs of thy Lord."
119.
And when He did come with evident signs
wherefore did ye turn away from those signs and veiled yourselves with the veils of self?
120.
Say:
Verily God is sanctified from coming and descent,
for He is unaccompanied and transcendent,
and Whose knowledge encompasses all the heavens and the earth.
121.
For He never comes in His Essence
nor can He be seen in His Innermost Being
and cannot be recognized in His Divine deity
and He cannot be comprehended with all His attributes.
122.
Thus He that cometh is the Manifestation of His own Being,
and indeed He did come in the Name of `Ali, [the Bab]
and ye gathered around Him with the claws of hatred and passed sentence on Him,
O concourse of divines,
and were not ashamed in the face of Him Who created you and fashioned you.
123.
Thus have We taken account of your affairs in the preserved Tablets of Glory.
124.
O Ear of Immortal truth!
Hearken to what these unbelievers say,
God has sealed Prophethood with the coming of His Beloved Muhammad, the Apostle of God,
125.
and He shall not raise any one after Him
and He has made His own hands chained of disposing grace;
the embodiments of sanctity shall never appear after Him;
the Lights of grace shall never shine again;
126.
bounty is terminated;
power has ended;
loving-kindness has been finished;
the portals of grace are closed,
even though the breezes of divine grace are ever blowing from the Ridvan of might.
127.
Say:
May your own hands be chained and accursed are you in these sayings.
128.
Rather His hands are stretched out to give bounty to all the heavens and the earth.
129.
He will raise up with power whomever He wishes and He shall not be asked of his doings.
Verily He has power over all things.
130.
Say:
O People of the Qur'an!
Ponder ye in the Book that was revealed in truth unto Muhammad
in which he sealed Prophethood with the coming of His beloved Prophet
until the day of resurrection.
131.
Yet this day is the day of Resurrection
whereon God has risen in the Manifestation of His Being
yet you have become veiled from it
just as the peoples before have become veiled on the advent of Muhammad
and you have become drowned in the depths of an ocean of ignorance and denial.
132.
Say:
Were ye not promised "attaining the presence of God" in the "Days of God"?
133.
Yet when the Promise did come and the Beauty shone above the Horizon of Glory
you turned your gaze away and were resurrected blind in the Plain of resurrection.
134.
Say:
Was it not revealed in the Qur'an, and His word is the Truth,
"Thus have We made you a nation intermediate,
that ye may be witnesses over the nations,
and the Messenger a witness over yourselves."
135.
Yet you have interpreted this verse according to your desires
although at all times you admitted what was also revealed is truth:
136.
None knoweth the interpretation thereof except God
and they that are firmly grounded in knowledge.
137.
Although you are certain of this verse and although you were prevented,
yet you have interpreted and expounded the words of God.
138.
Yet you have risen to object to and to deny those "firmly grounded in knowledge."
139.
In fact you slay them as you slew them aforetime and are proud of what you perpetrate.
140.
Woe unto you and what your hands have wrought
and woe unto what you have vain imaginings in the Cause of God in Days that the lights of guidance are manifest at this dawn of knowledge.
141.
Ask them then as to how they interpret
that which has been revealed from the kingdom of glory unto the Arabian Prophet
and what do they say the meaning of Intermediate is.
142.
If Prophethood has been sealed with Him
how is the Prophet's nation said to be intermediate amongst the nations?
143.
In this wise ascertain the limit of their cognizance.
144.
It is as though they have never hearkened the melodies of the Divine Nightingale
or if they heard it they did not apprehend its purpose
and in this manner the testimony of their own Book is completed unto them.
145.
This is what the word of all the peoples when the dispensation of each of the Prophets comes.
146.
As oft as a Messenger came to them they told that Messenger,
"You have not been sent by God and Prophethood was sealed by the previous one."
147.
Thus does Satan embellish to their eyes their deeds and words
and in this they are far remote from the shores of truth.
148.
Tell them then the story of Muhammad when aforetime He came with clear sovereignty.
149.
Said He,
"These are the verses of God that have been revealed in truth."
150.
Do not have discord in the Cause of God
yet gather on around this glorious and transcendent shore.
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