Concerning the questions of Manakji Limji Hataria 12 страница
and yet abandon the lord of lords?
307.
How miserable are the guardians you have adopted for yourselves instead of God!
308.
You shall be chastised by the divine wrath,
for he is, in truth, powerful in fixing blame and severe in inflicting punishment.
309.
Among the idolaters is one who was there,
and who was displeased that we gave to ourselves one of the names.
310.
Thus did he commit a wrong toward God, who created and fashioned him.
311.
The injustice committed by those who join partners with God is nothing but perdition.
312.
Say:
People, all the names refer to their kingdom,
which refers to my Cause, which was created by my word.
313.
All know this, who have believed in the Day of Reckoning.
314.
The sun has dawned from the horizon of the glory of its Lord,
the heavens of pride are sundered,
the earth of malice is furrowed with chasms,
and the mountain of stillness moves like the clouds.
314.
Thus have we informed you of every announcement,
that you may remember within yourself
and remind the people of that with which we have inspired you.
315.
Mayhap they will purify their souls from every malady, and recover their health.
Tablet of the Companions CHAPTER TWELVE
Divisions 316-3
THE COMPANIONS
316.
People of the earth,
strive for victory in these days,
and let not the numbers of the idolaters frighten you.
317.
Thus does the pen of grandeur counsel you on behalf of the Glorious, the Enticing One.
318.
Know that triumph can never be attained by unsheathing your swords,
yet rather depends on purifying your souls.
319.
Concourse of companions,
should anyone sever himself from all who are in the heavens and on earth,
and arise to fulfill the divine plan,
God will, through him, render victorious the sincere among his loved ones,
and will pull down the standards of the idolaters from all parties.
320.
By God, the true victory is your detachment from all else besides God and your steadfastness in my love in this day, when the feet of the eloquent have stumbled and a pack of jackals has issued from the thickets of hypocrisy.
321.
These persons disbelieved and turned away,
doubting that they could attain the presence of their Lord,
even after he manifested himself from the sacred horizon with scriptures and the book.
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322.
Say:
Concourse of holiness, unsheathe the swords of wisdom from the scabbards of utterance,
and thereby aid your Lord, the All-Merciful.
323.
Beware lest you wreak corruption in the land after its reformation,
and fear God, to whom all affairs return in the beginning and the end.
324.
Should the idolaters creep up on you,
drive them away with our word, not with your blades,
and do not contravene what you were commanded in the Book.
325.
Be steadfast, people, in following the path,
and allow fire and rapture to consume you in this Cause and on this foundation.
326.
If you fail to pursue this path with perseverance,
God will send another people that will be firm in his Cause
and will commemorate him with distraction, yearning, and ecstasy.
Nothing in the heavens or on earth will deter them.
327.
On these the angels and the Spirit will pronounce blessings,
as will the concourse of holiness,
and those who were within the pavilion of nearness behind the veil.
328.
Is there anything that does not mention their names and thereby draw near to God?
329.
Say:
By God, their names are tolled by the bell,
crowed by the cockerel of paradise, and sung by the rebec [bird].
Thus are the words of your Lord completed in veracity and justice.
330.
Nothing can alter the words of your Lord,
yet none can comprehend this truth save the souls endued with excellence and immortality.
Translation by J. R. I. Cole
Tablet of the Son CHAPTER ONE
Divisions 1-25
A letter of circa 1866, apparently about Jesus
THE SON
1.
In the name of the beloved, the one.
2.
The scent of sorrow has encompassed the beauty of the compassionate God,
and the door of joy and gladness has been slammed shut by the acts of oppression
committed by the wicked among the people of the Bayan.
3.
Shame on them!
It is accepted, clear, and established
that every preceding Manifestation of God has prophesied the appearance of his successor
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to the people in accordance with their stations and capabilities.
4.
Some employed signs and concealed allusions.
5.
As for my predecessor,
he strove to counsel and educate the people of the Bayan
to an extent that can be neither conceived nor perceived.
6.
Nevertheless, there occurred what followed.
7.
One word shall be spoken, and we ask the people of the Bayan to be fair.
8.
Is there any passage of the scriptures that instructs you to hesitate about his cause
when the succeeding Manifestation appears?
9.
Say:
Then produce it!
10.
No, by my lord, the all-knowing, the all-perceiving.
11.
Leaving this issue aside,
is there any place in the Bayan [or Quran] that instructs you to reject someone
who appears with revealed verses, or to arise to kill him?
12.
If anyone casts doubt on these verses,
it is precisely the same sort of doubt cast by the dwellers in hellfire
during the ministries of past Manifestations.
13.
I swear by the sun of meaning that if wondrous revealed verses are rejected, then no one will be able to establish the truth of the previous scriptures.
14.
Since the Point of the Bayan (the Bab) gazed upon these days,
and upon what the servants would perpetrate,
virtually the only things his exalted pen wrote were firm counsels, perfect advice,
and beautiful sermons in mention of this subsequent dispensation.
15.
The Book of Names was revealed.
16.
At long last,
give some thought to what his purpose was in entitling this work the Book of Names,
and in mentioning therein the divine names one after another,
as well as interpreting each.
17.
Then he commended the manifestations of the names to their creator.
18.
Heart of the world, do you have ears to hear what the dove of sorrow is cooing in this time,
when the cry of Satan has been raised behind the call of the All-Merciful?
19.
For, we have found the followers of the Bayan negligent and in extreme loss.
20.
By his beloved soul, no one has yet realized why the holy books of all sorts,
and especially the Book of Names, were revealed.
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Thus has the Omniscient, the All-Knowing informed you.
21.
Where are pure ears,
to hear the summons issuing from the precincts of divine unity at every moment?
22.
Where are sharp eyes, to perceive the divine rays of wisdom in radiant words?
23.
The Subsistent one (Qayyúm) has appeared in the recognized beauty.
24.
He is the beauty of the year “nine,” who was promised to all.
25.
Even so, the foul odors of jealousy and hatred have permeated creation
to the extent that it has altogether withdrawn
from the breaths of the All-Merciful and the divine fragrance.
Tablet of the Son CHAPTER TWO
Divisions 26-55
THE SON
26.
Say:
People, do not follow those who deserve torment
and on whose faces is imprinted the wrath of God,
the King, the Mighty, the Knowing, the Wise.
27.
It is hard to imagine what they would have done
if the highest pen had not revealed these counsels and this advice!
28.
No, by the one who allowed me to dispense with all the worlds through his grace,
more than what they have done or plotted would not have been possible.
29.
It is astonishing that they recite the divine verses.
30.
By God, the verses’ revealer curses them and they are oblivious.
31.
Despite his firm and perfect counsels,
the beloved of all creation prophesied what they would do,
just as it came to pass and will yet become obvious.
32.
They showed sincerity and even subservience
to anyone who disregarded the dignity of the cause of God, causing it untold harm.
33.
Behind the scenes, they call the people to themselves.
34.
That action is in secret, and this one is open.
35.
A little fairness is necessary.
36.
In the end, this youth has no quarrel with anyone.
37.
If he shows regard to someone, it will be for the sake of the cause of God,
to manifest its sovereignty and honor its word.
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38.
They treat with subservience, however, anyone who goes to extremes,
so that they harm the cause of God and rebel against it.
39.
No one among the divine friends has arisen, out of sincerity and for his sake,
to forbid the idolaters from committing these perfidious deeds.
40.
Does not a trace remain of the divine fire in the hearts of his creation?
41.
Have rays of the lamp of divine oneness not illuminated the hearts of creation?
42.
What has happened, such that the bodies of the people have not burst aflame at this fire,
and have not been illumined by these rays of light?
43.
Say,
[O] caravans that travel between the cities of mystical insight
on their way to the beauty of the All-Merciful:
44.
Know that the true dawn has broken above the horizon of the heavens of the divine will.
45.
Hurry, so that you might be enlisted among the troops of the near ones.
46.
Naturally, the lighter you tread, the better.
47.
Throw off the dead hand of false allusions and turn toward the precincts of divine unity.
48.
The pen of pre-existence says:
Do you not hear my wailing and lamentations,
or do you hear them but not understand them?
49.
If you are unable to soar in the joyous heavens of meaning,
at least take wing in the sky of words.
50.
If you do not comprehend the wondrous Arabic verses of this dispensation,
then think upon the Persian utterances that I revealed earlier
and on the Persian verses of this revelation.
51.
In this way might you find a path to the truth.
52.
I swear by the one, the fire of whose love ignited my heart
so that even a downpour of opposition from all the worlds cannot extinguish it:
53.
The Pointof the Bayan (the Bab) had no purpose other than this subsequent dispensation.
54.
May my spirit be a sacrifice to his soul.
55.
He did not fall short in communicating my Cause,
but the people have fallen short and transgressed.
Tablet of the Son CHAPTER THREE
Divisions 56-80
THE SON
56.
Anyone who for a single hour sanctifies himself from veils and allusions for the sake of God
and contemplates what has been revealed from the kingdom of God
in the Arabic and Persian languages
will, by God, detach himself from the worlds and lament for this wrongly imprisoned stranger.
57.
Impassive stones wail and weep at this divine word,
but humankind is sunk in profound negligence.
58.
For this reason, the previous scriptures say that rivers will flow from rocks,
but that from the hearts of the wicked nothing will appear.
59.
Truthfully has spoken God, the exalted, the mighty.
60.
You should know, questioner, that the divine word encompasses all meanings.
61.
That is, all divine meanings and mysteries are concealed within it.
62.
Blessed are they who attain it and extract the pearls hidden within it.
63.
Consider the radiance of the divine word to be like the shining of the sun.
64.
In the same way that once the sun rises, it shines on all,
so once the sun of the word dawns from the will of the lord, it sheds its illumination on all.
65.
Indeed, I take refuge in God even from this simile,
since the outward sun itself owes its existence to the comprehensive word.
66.
Think, so that you might attain knowledge.
67.
Still, the outward sun can be perceived with physical eyes,
whereas the rays of the sun of the word are seen with inner vision.
68.
By the one in whose hand is my soul!
If the hidden aid and power of the divine word
were withdrawn from the world and its people for a single instant,
all would be lost and annihilated.
69.
If souls gaze with divine sight,
they will see the radiance of its lights in everything.
70.
Likewise, if they listen with pure ears,
they will hear the primal call of God at every moment.
71.
The divine call is still being raised but ears are blocked,
and the lights of the luminary above the horizon are apparent, but eyes are covered.
72.
Wise friend, a physician is required
so that perhaps the ashes in their eyes can be removed by the elixir of the greatest name,
and so that the brass of existence can be transformed into gold.
73.
Would that the number of those who have gained insight into the beloved of the worlds,
which some have achieved, could be increased.
74.
Thus might he make apparent in detail, from the manifest letters,
the word underlying the infinite branches of knowledge.
75.
The people have been stricken with an illness,
and curing it is extremely difficult,
except for those who have been treated with the greatest antidote.
76.
This epidemic consists in people believing that they have attained mystical insight,
and then supposing that God is like them.
77.
Today, most are afflicted with this disease,
and for this reason they are deprived of the Eternal Truth and what is with it.
78.
Beseech God to render hearts pure and eyes sharp,
so that they might perhaps recognize themselves,
and distinguish between themselves and God.
79.
Thus might they discern God’s purpose in the revealed verses.
80.
If the peoples had understood the divine purpose,
they would not have remained veiled at the moment of revelation.
Tablet of the Son CHAPTER FOUR
Divisions 81-115
THE SON
81.
Even though they have for years recited the divine book,
they never attained to a single letter of the meanings that lie within it,
just as they remained altogether veiled from and oblivious of its purpose.
82.
Even though all these things are mentioned and delineated in the scriptures,
all have remained deprived.
83.
It is to the extent that some of those who consider themselves the educated elite
are ignorant of matters that even the common folk know.
84.
For instance, they assert that the Mahdi resides in a supernatural city,
and insist vehemently on this statement.
85.
If anyone asserts that the promised one, on the contrary,
will come into the world by being born, they sentence him to death.
86.
Note how distant and deprived the elite is.
87.
Then, in the year ’60, the veil was lifted,
and all that had been concealed was made visible,
as was the resurrection and everything connected with it.
88.
No one attained a droplet from the surging sea of these utterances
that were recovered in the divine book.
89.
Everyone mistook the mirage for water, as was apparent.
90.
Beyond these problems,
they also remained veiled from principle of mystical insight into the beloved of the worlds.
91.
The dust of misconceptions and the clay of illusions
prevented all humankind from attaining the panorama of divine unity,
until the greatest purifier arrived and washed the people with the most cleansed of celestial rivers,
calling them to the radiant countenance and informing them of the good news.
92.
Note that what appeared was virtues, of which all remained ignorant.
93.
It would be indisputable truth to say that all these virtues were hidden and concealed in scriptures,
and that in the dispensation of the Point of the Bayan (the Bab),
the veiled faces of meaning came out from behind the curtain in the chambers of the divine verses.
94.
And if it were said that what went before was a concise mention,
whereas thereafter came one who clarified and spoke in detail,
that would be the truth, in which there is not doubt.
95.
If it were said that what became manifest in the new revelation
had not been apparent in previous dispensations –-though all are wondrous and new—
this saying is also correct and complete.
96.
For if God speaks a word today that comes to be on the lips of all the people,
before and after, that word will be new, if you only think about it.
97.
Consider the word, “monotheism,”
about which all the manifestations of the Eternal Truth have spoken in each dispensation,
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