The Book of the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf CHAPTER SIXTY TWO 30 страница
251.
How many servants of God who worshipped God in the days of their life
and who would order the people to good and righteousness
252.
and would weep over the afflictions of the family of God
and who would cast their eyes down
when they would recite their prayers and their Tablets of Visitation,
all these to express their devotion and adoration to the Seat of Sanctity.
253.
Yet when the Truth came to them they turned away and disbelieved in Him
until they slew Him with their own hands and were happy in their deeds.
254.
Thus does God bring to naught the deeds of those who show pride
and will accept the deeds of those who turn solely unto Him,
and humble themselves before His visage and tread the path of His good pleasure.
255.
O people of Nayriz!
Recall the bounty of God wherewith He has graciously vouchsafed unto you
and whereby He has taught you what He has not taught the divines of the earth --
256.
divines who because of the great size of their turbans cannot even walk on earth
and when they move it is as if a mountain of hatred moves.
257.
I swear by God!
It behooves you, O friends of God,
that you sanctify yourselves from all that ye have been forbidden
258.
and thank God in all your days and your nights
because He chose you for a bounty from of which others did not have a portion.
259.
You must give account of your Lord, your Creator,
so that because of you the fragrances of God may be wafted and in this way you may be distinguished from those who have disbelieved and joined partners unto God.
260.
Thus does the Nightingale give counsel unto you and teach you the ways of knowledge
that you may become steadfast in the religion of God
and constant in that religion of love.
261.
Fear God,
and do not dissipate your deeds through negligence,
262.
and do not impress on God as a favor [unto God]
that they believe in God and the person of His Manifestation.
263.
Rather it is God that has conferred the favor on you
in that He has assisted you to recognize the Revelation
and has shown you the paths of dignity and righteousness
and has inspired you with His wondrous and treasured knowledge.
264.
Blessed are ye the people of Nayriz
in that you are patient in your suffering and afflictions in these times ordained by God
and in all you heard with your ears
265.
and as all you witnessed soon God will reward you with the best reward
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266.
and He shall give you what shall be pleasing to your souls
and what shall establish your names in his hidden and holy Book.
267.
Strive therefore that you do not waste your fortitude with complaints
and be ye acquiescent with what God has ordained unto you
and what He shalt ordain in the future.
268.
For this world and its ornaments and its treasures shall all vanish in less than a moment
for there is no permanence in it
and you shall attain the presence of the glorious Beloved.
269.
Great is your blessedness therefore
and those who sacrificed themselves in the days of God
270.
for they are of those who soared in the atmosphere of divine love
until they reached a place that was forbidden unto those other than them.
Tablet of the City of Patient Endurance CHAPTER TEN
Divisions 271-95
THE CITY OF PATIENT ENDURANCE
271.
O holy Pen!
Recount what came to pass upon Vahid from the enemies of the [Manifestation] of God
so that his affair may be mentioned amongst the Concourse on High in all truth.
272.
When he (Haji Zaynu'l-Abidin Khan, the governor of Nayriz) who disbelieved and waxed wicked,
and showed pride before God and rebelled against Him,
sent the armies of unbelief and commanded those armies
to kill those people who had no equal or compare in the depth of their belief in God,
273.
and when he commanded them to shed the blood of those people
whose blood has caused everything to be made pure,
he then ordered the multitude to perpetrate what was not revealed in the Book of God
for such was his [savage] custom and [low] degree.
274.
He then arranged that there be two chiefs for the hosts of the enemy,
chiefs who had disbelieved in God and in His verses,
275.
and had exchanged for their religion this world
and bought for themselves everlasting and permanent deprivation
and who were proceeding to face, as a result of their tyranny, the wrath of God.
276.
These two chieftains came with all their armies of disbelief
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and with all their hosts of wickedness
277.
and they surrounded the hosts of God and his loved ones
and they are already inscribed in the Mother Book by the Pen of revelation
as the most wicked of people.
278.
For they waged war against the companions of God,
they fought with them, and they disputed with them,
279.
they engaged in many battles with them,
and they did whatever they could to vanquish the hosts of the [great] true God,
yet in all these battles God made them to be defeated in the hands of the believers.
280.
When they were impotent to defeat the party of God and His loved ones,
they engaged in many deliberations and arranged a deception
and consulted on their plans until they decided to send to Vahid an envoy
with a tongue of falsehood and deception.
281.
This envoy of Satan entered the presence of Vahid and said,
"O Vahid,
you are a descendent of the Prophet Muhammed
and we admit that you have the dignity and honor above us
and we have not come to antagonize thee, yet we wish for a reconciliation,
282.
and we are prepared to hear what you have to tell us
and we shall follow what you say
and not dispute with that in the smallest way possible.
283.
Then Vahid's spiritual utterance started and the Holy Spirit spoke through his tongue and said,
284.
"O people!
If you accept my honor and dignity
and if you admit that I am a descendent of the Prophet of God,
285.
why have you attacked me with your armies,
why have you encircled our people
and why have you turned away from the cause of God and rebelled against him?
286.
O people!
Fear God. Do not perpetrate mischief in God's earth.
287.
Do not abandon the true religion of God behind your backs.
288.
Fear God who has created you and nourished you
and revealed to you these new and wondrous verses.
289.
O people!
The world will pass away,
your armies will disappear as will also the one who sent you with the intention of oppressing us.
290.
Consider what happened to the nations of the past and learn of those affairs that transpired.
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291.
O people,
I am nothing but a servant who has believed in God
and in the verses of God that have been revealed through the utterance of 'Ali in truth. (the Bab)
292.
If you are not pleased with me,
I shall travel away from you towards God as I do not seek anything here.
293.
Fear God, and do not shed the blood of His lovers;
do not take in vain the property of people;
294.
do not disbelieve after your claims of belief.
295.
These are my counsels unto you, follow my advice
and do not deprive yourselves of a revelation that has dawned from the horizon of the spirit.
Tablet of the City of Patient Endurance CHAPTER ELEVEN
Divisions 296-320
THE CITY OF PATIENT ENDURANCE
296.
O people,
will you kill someone who says my Lord is God
after he or she has brought verses whose comprehension is beyond the intelligence of all creation?
297.
Have mercy on yourselves and do not follow your selfish desires.
298.
You shall soon leave this evanescent world
and you shall soon find yourselves in the presence of Him who is omnipotent and self-subsistent.
299.
You shall be asked then of what you have done in this world
and you shall be requited with all your deeds in this perishing domain.
300.
All this has been decreed irrevocably in the Tablets of Glory."
301.
Following this there were many envoys and communications between them
until they introduced the Book of God, the Qur'an,
and pledged a solemn oath on it and sealed it and sent it to Vahid, the beauteous one.
302.
In this way they sought to accomplish a deception in the cause of God
by pledging by their tongue what was not in their heart
for their hatred was like a fire smoldering behind the smoke of deception.
303.
They implored Vahid to adorn their tents and assemblies with his coming
and they further emphasized all their pledges and covenants
although they were recumbent on the couch of vanity and desire.
304.
When the sealed Qur'an, the Book of God,
came in front of Vahid he rose and said to his friends,
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“O people,
the promised hour is come, the decrees of God will soon be accomplished,
306.
I shall go to them,
so that what is hidden behind the tabernacles of God's destiny will come to pass”
for indeed he was always reliant upon God.
307.
Vahid entered amongst the armies of tyranny and the hosts of Satan with a few souls.
308.
His enemies rose and welcomed him
and gave him honor in their walking and sitting
and he stayed with them a few days
309.
and in his name they composed a missive to the people of Nayriz
that they should separate
and that no trouble will await them
310.
until they made sure that they were all separated
and then the armies of unbelief entered their residence
and performed a great deception over them.
311.
When they were sure of what they had done
they then bespoke their covenant and testament
and turned away from the pledge sealed in the Book
and it is thus that their names are written in the Books of God as those who are cursed.
312.
They took Vahid, and they dishonored him,
they made his body naked and they perpetrated [violence] against that body
what causes the eyes of the People of Paradise to shed tears of blood.
313.
May God curse such people who cause such oppression
and to those who act tyrannically in these days
when the Son of Truth is still hidden behind the clouds of holiness.
314.
They were not happy in what they had done,
or how many they had slain,
or how many of their women they had enslaved,
or how much of their property they had plundered.
315.
In none of these they feared God who was their creator and their Lord,
316.
rather they used to vie with each other as to how much oppression they laid loose on the believers
in accord with what the evil one inspired them,
yet God is [ever] a witness of all deeds.
317.
Matters reached to this impass that they raised the decapitated heads on arrows and spears
and brought these heads to the land which God has honored above all lands
for the Merciful [Lord] sat on the throne of His great Name.
318.
And when they brought these to that city,
the inhabitants of the city gathered around them,
and some inflicted harm in their insults and some stoned them
319.
and in these circumstances the denizens of heaven raised the fingers of wonderment
and astonishment at what they perpetrated against these luminous beings.
320.
After they caused them to enter that city He only knows what befell them
for God is [He] who has taken account of everything in His gracious and glorious Book.
Tablet of the City of Patient Endurance CHAPTER TWELVE
Divisions 321-340
THE CITY OF PATIENT ENDURANCE
321.
O Thou beauty of the holy [Lord]!
This is not the first deed the unbelievers perpetrated,
for in the past they killed Husayn and His companions, and they enslaved His family,
and now they cry over him and lament His events every morning and eve.
322.
Say to them,
O Concourse of the ignorant,
did you not seek to establish the truth of Husayn and His companions
because they sacrificed themselves and their possessions?
323.
Is that not what you commemorate?
324.
Why is it then that you attribute unbelief to these holy martyrs
for they also sacrificed their possessions and their families in the path of God
and these believers also strove in that path until they were all slain in different ways
in such wise that no ear has heard and no eye has seen?
325.
When it is said to them
"Why did you kill those who believed in God and His verses?"
they replied, "Because we find them to be unbelievers."
326.
Say:
by God, your reply is exactly what proceeded from your mouth
against all the Prophets and Messengers
and you kill them all with the sword of hatred for God comprehends everything.
327.
Woe unto you for you disbelieved in all the Messengers of God for you rose to fight all of them and shed their blood unjustly and the Tablets which are concealed testify to your deeds.
328.
Tell them,
did not God ordain in his Book what distinguishes truth and falsehood with His words the Quran
(yearn for death if you speak the truth?)
329.
So why have you ascribed falsehood to those whom the Book of God testified to their truth,
a Book after which no falsehood comes as this has been sent down in the Tablet.
330.
Yet you are not conscious of this
and you have abandoned the Book of God behind you,
and you have slain those who yearn for martyrdom in the path of God,
and [to] this testifieth your own eyes, your tongue, [and] your heart,
and beyond all this God is a witness unto this.
331.
Fie on you,
for you have shed the blood of people whom the eyes of existence have not seen like them
and you have ascribed falsehood after the Book of God testified to their truth
and in all this you have followed those
who are not prepared to lose an atom of their prestige in the path of God.
332.
Their greatest endeavor in this world is to eat of the peoples' property
and to sit at the high place in the assemblies of people,
and in all of this is their sole glory upon the peoples of the world.
333.
By God! It is worthy that you [traitors] should indeed take these evildoers to be your friends
and that you should follow them
and as a result enter a fire that has been created for these unbelievers.
334.
Say to them,
By God, if only you could have any awareness in your hearts for a moment,
you would erase all your books that you have written without God's permission
and you would [smite] your heads [in regret],
and you would flee from your own homes and you would live in mountains,
and you would feed yourselves only the dust of the earth.
335.
Say unto them,
The destiny of those who have been martyred is fulfilled
and now they are flying in the atmosphere of God's nearness
and they are circumambulating His mighty throne
336.
and at all times the angels of God's bounty descends upon them
and gives them the glad tidings of a glorious station
and at every day God reveals to them his ornament
that if it should be disclosed to the peoples of the heavens and earth
they would all fall down and become stupefied.
337.
Say to them:
O Concourse of evildoers,
do not rejoice in your deeds for you shall soon return to God
and you shall face the resurrection in the mighty arena
on a day which will result in the quaking of the limbs of all creation.
338.
God will then adjudicate against you with his justice
because of what your hands have perpetrated against the believers in your worthless times.
339.
Nothing will be left of your deeds but it will all be presented to Him
and you shall be requited with what your hands have wrought
for nothing escapes God's knowledge and He comprehends all things.
340.
Soon will these wrongdoers say while sunk in the lowest grades of hellfire
“Would to God that we had not taken these divines to be friends for us.”
Tablet of the City of Patient Endurance CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Divisions 341-365
THE CITY OF PATIENT ENDURANCE
341.
O people of Nayriz!
Recall the bounty of God when you were on the edge of unbelief
yet God redeemed you with his loving kindness and guided you to His [servant] named, Vahid.
342.
Recall further when you were enemies that God brought harmony in your hearts
and united you and uplifted your names
and revealed to you verses from the tongue of glory of the well beloved.
343.
Recall further when We passed by you with the hosts of our angels
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