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82.
“I would be the first to adore Him.”
83.
Now it behooveth one to reflect upon the significance of the “Adorer” and the “Adored One,”
that perchance the people of the earth may partake of a drop from the ocean of divine knowledge
and may be enabled to perceive the greatness of this Revelation.
84.
Verily, He hath appeared and hath unloosed His tongue to proclaim the Truth.
85.
Well is it with him who doth acknowledge and recognize the truth,
and woe betide the froward and the wayward.
86.
O kindreds of the earth!
Incline your ears unto the Voice from the divine Lote-Tree which overshadoweth the world,
87.
and be not of the people of tyranny on earth
88.
—men who have repudiated the Manifestation of God and His invincible authority
and have renounced His favors—
89.
they in truth are reckoned with the contemptible in the Book of God, the Lord of all mankind.
90.
The Glory which hath dawned above the horizon of My tender mercy rest upon thee
and upon whosoever is with thee
and giveth ear to thy words concerning the Cause of God, the Almighty, the All-Praised.
Tablet of the Manifestation CHAPTER ONE
Divisions 1-25
Date uncertain, from the latter Akka years 1868-1892
MANIFESTATION
1.
In the Name of God!
The Most Holy, the All-Knowing! The Mighty!
2.
O thou who art gazing toward the direction of God
and submerged in His Nearness and Good-pleasure!
3.
Know thou that, verily,
the "Manifestation" is not composed of the four elements (earth, water, fire,air)
nay, rather, He is the Mystery of Oneness, of the Ancient Identity,
the Eternal Essence and the Unknowable Reality,
and that, verily, He can never be known by any other save Himself.
4.
Therefore, one can never realize that He hath appeared from any of the four elements,
or from any of the substances mentioned by the tongues of philosophers,
or from any of the four expressions of nature, such as heat, cold, dry and wet,
5.
inasmuch as all these are created by His Command and Will,
which has never been nor shall ever be separate from all else;
6.
even as He is now, in truth, on the throne of excellence and in revealed verses unto thee,
which are creative in kindling the fire of Love within they heart.
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7.
Is there anything endowed with utterance in the world that may be able to speak with Him?
8.
Or any revealer to arise with Him in His Cause?
Or any existing thing to claim existence for itself?
9.
No, by the Lord, the Clement!
All are evanescent and as nothingness!
10.
Were one to be known by any beside Him,
it would never be proven to have its essence sanctified from any similitude,
its identity purified from likeness and its singleness from any created appearance.
11.
He is the Sea upon which no one can sail,
inasmuch as all that thou mayest see in heaven and earth is created by His Word.
12.
By Myself, the True One! Were His servants to know Him as He is to be known,
they would all sever themselves from everything,
and would make themselves subject to Him, their King,
13.
and the sultans would abandon their crowns
and hasten toward His direction in the path of His good pleasure;
14.
but since He is hidden from them, they have fixed their gaze upon others beside,
and are flying with the wings of eagles, in the sky of their superstitions and vain imaginings.
15.
Testify thou with thine own essence, then with thyself, and then with the tongue,
that, verily, there is no God but He!
16.
No other save Himself can know Him, and no one can ever approach Him!
17.
Verily, He is not a Manifestation in Himself,
but rather He is a Manifestation in His Identity,
and this is what We have mentioned to thee in the Divine Mystery, and in the Eternal Essence.
18.
As to the bodies, verily, they are as thrones for His Manifestation,
of which no one is informed save Himself!
19.
These bodies although they have appeared in the world of creation,
in the Temple in which ye have been informed of (Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, etc.)
yet were ye to gaze upon them with the eye of reality and innate consciousness,
20.
ye would testify that although they are created from the elements,
[yet] they are sanctified from them to such an extent that there is no similitude between them.
21.
Consider the diamond -- can the stone be compared to it?
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22.
Thus hath appeared in El-Bayan, from the presence of thy Lord,
the Mighty, the Powerful, the Potentate!
23.
Were they not to be their Temples,
the bodies of His servants would not have been created.
24.
Wert thou minutely to consider, thou wouldst find that, verily,
all in heaven and earth are created from Their Outward Temples,
25.
and that all the worlds of [ [creation] ] they Lord seek help from the Manifestation of God,
the Protector, the Self-Subsistent!
Tablet of the Manifestation CHAPTER TWO
Divisions 26-50
MANIFESTATION
26.
In every world, He appears according to the capacity of that world.
27.
For example, in the world of spirits He manifests Himself to them
and appears unto them with the signs of the Spirit.
28.
So, likewise, in bodies in the world of names and attributes;
and in the worlds which are not known to any save God.
29.
All of these worlds have their position from this Manifestation.
30.
He appears unto them in His Form, so that He, their Lord,
may direct them, and draw them nearer to the seat of His Command,
and cause them to attain to that which was ordained for them.
31.
As His Reality is not known,
so likewise all that is related to Him is not known, except to a certain degree.
32.
Think over thine own identity.
33.
Would it not consist in the expansion and order of the five senses?
34.
Otherwise the limbs would become inactive;
the eye would never see, the ear would never hear,
the tongue would never speak,
35.
the hand would never grasp and the form would never move,
-- although He sways and rules over all,
for God has made the use of all dependent upon Him.
36.
Yet He sees through the eye, hears through the ear, and speaks by the tongue.
37.
Wert thou to reflect upon this, thou wouldst find even this to be His Guidance
in such manner that His dignity is not defective through these attachments and instruments.
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38.
Consider a goldsmith;
verily, he makes a ring, and although he is the maker, yet he adorns his finger with it.
39.
Likewise God the Exalted, appears in the clothing of His creatures.
40.
This is through His favor, so that His servants may not flee from Him,
but that they may approach Him and rest in His Presence,
41.
hear His wonderful melodies and be benefitted by that which proceeds from His mouth,
and by that which He reveals unto them from the Heaven of His Will.
42.
There is wisdom in this. Wert thou to reflect upon it with the duration of God,
thou wouldst discover at every moment that which thou hadst not found before.
43.
Verily, were God the Exalted to appear in His (proper) grade and form,
and in a manner befitting His Station,
no one could ever approach Him or endure to be near Him.
44.
For example, consider the throne, the seat and the chair.
45.
All of these are made by certain of His creatures,
through the confirmation which descends upon them
from the heavens of His grace and clouds of His Bounty.
46.
He establishes Himself upon them.
47.
Before He is seated no one knows them, or consides them important,
for they find them simply articles made by their own hands;
48.
yet when He is established upon them, every relation is cut from them
49.
and they become the Throne of the Merciful God,
and the realities of all things that are created in heaven revolve around them.
50.
Then only the most discerning, the most perceiving of the percieving, can realize their value.
Tablet of the Manifestation CHAPTER THREE
Divisions 51-80
THE MANIFESTATION
51.
Every one who is endowed with a clear insight will behold that They (the Manifestations)
were created before the creation of heaven and earth,
and that this has ever been the Throne of the Merciful, and will forever be as it was;
52.
that there is no relation, connection, similarity or reference between that Throne and all else save it,
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53.
and that all things testify with their inmost tongue;
"Verily, these (bodies) are the Thrones of the Merciful One."
54.
They have no like in creation, nor any equal in the world of emanation.
55.
From their elements all have appeared in such wise that thou wilt find that, verily,
from their Fire fire hath appeared in the universe and hath spoken in the Blessed Branch of Unity,
in the lofty Sinai of Moses the Interlocutor,
and that from their Waters thou findest every soul living and immortal.
56.
So, likewise, after this manner, consider its other elements;
but with manifest certainty.
57.
This was the mention of the place whereon He was established.
58.
How much above this, then, will be the station of His Chair,
and that upon which He stands? (The Prophets.)
59.
All that which We have revealed and mentioned unto thee in this Tablet
is according to the language of the people of creation;
otherwise, by the One in the grasp of Whose Power are all things,
60.
verily, We have utterances concerning this station such as are not befitting to mention in these days,
during which the people have differed, and have cast the Lord of Lords behind them,
61.
and have made an idol by the hands of lust,
and have circled around it and become of those who are attached to it.
62.
Blessed art thou for that which God hath desired for thee,
because thou hast walked in the path of His good-pleasure
until thou hast presented thyself before His Face, the shining, the radiant!
63.
His Manifestation for His creatures has ever been through His creatures,
64.
just as He manifested Himself unto thee in truth,
and delivered thee from the depths of the suggestions
of those who have denied God and have striven with Himself,
65.
and at every moment have taken for themselves other gods than God,
and are of the people of oppression and error in the Manifest Book of Might.
66.
Wert thou to be submerged in the sea of power and might thou wouldst surely know,
verily, God, who is wonderful to make even one of these things made by Him,
to be the maker of all that which He desires.
67.
There is no God but He, the Powerful, the Mighty!
68.
Every power is in this, wert thou to reflect!
69.
Every grace is in it, wert thou of those who percieve!
70.
I beg of God to manifest His Cause in all countries,
and that the servants may attain such a position that He may explain to them that which He desires, without veiling and concealment;
71.
that He may teach them the wonders of His knowledge
and provide them with the fruits of the tree of His grace and beneficence,
72.
and that all may become affluent through His affluence,
and that all may become powerful through His power, the impregnable, the high and inaccesible!
73.
By the One, through whose command all are moved,
had I found the people as We created them,
I would have opened a door of doors of mercy and inner significances,
74.
so that they would behold all mysteries with their eyes,
and subdue all lands through the names of their Lord.
75.
But thou beholdest the creatures, and hearest that which proceeds from their mouths;
therefore the bounty is restrained, except so many of its drops as thou hast discovered.
76.
Verily, thy Lord witnesseth and is well informed thereof.
77.
Were We to manifest Ourselves more than that which we have manifested,
dogs and deniers would surround Us.
78.
Thus hath the cock crowed and the dove cooed.
79.
Beware, be thou of the thankful.
80.
Praise be unto God, the Lord of the creatures!
Source and translator unknown
Tablet on Understanding the Cause of Opposition CHAPTER ONE
to the Manifestations of God Divisions 1-25
Concerning themes found in the Book of Certitude. Ends with a prayer in eloquent language to encourage readers to appreciate what they are missing by not seeing with their eyes.
UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSE OF OPPOSITION
1.
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate!
2.
This Wronged One wishes to impart to you, wholly for the sake of God,
that which is the cause of eternal life and everlasting remembrance.
3.
There can be no doubt that the purpose of creation is the recognition of God, exalted be His glory.
4.
It is necessary for humankind, in order to achieve this purpose, to reflect sincerely on that which has been the cause of souls turning toward the Dawning Places of revelation and the Daysprings of inspiration during the ages and centuries and what has been the reason for turning away.
5.
If you attain to the understanding (ʿirfān)[1] of this theme, you will have attained to all good and not be deprived of the waves of the ocean of the recognition of God.
6.
You will behold all besides God as non-existent and nothing.
7.
When an individual reaches the stage of maturity, he should investigate things
and, trusting in God and free from both love and hate,
reflect on that to which the people adhere.
8.
With his own ears and eyes he should listen and see, because if he sees through the vision of another, he will never be able to witness the lights of the Luminary of divine knowledge.
9.
Different parties exist in the world, and each considers itself to possess the truth, as indicated by the words "Each party rejoices in what it possesses." [Qurʾān 30:32]
10.
Consider the Seal of the Prophets (may all besides him be his sacrifice).
11.
When, through the will of God, that Light of reality dawned above the horizon of the Ḥijāz,
various factions opposed him and rose up to shed his most pure blood.
12.
There then befell him what caused the eyes of the Concourse on High to weep
and the hearts of the sincere and the near ones to burn with grief.
13.
It is necessary to think about the cause and reason for this opposition.
14.
God, exalted be His glory, states:
"No messenger comes to them but they have mocked and derided him." Qurān 36:30
15.
There is no doubt that if the Exponents of divine commands and the Sources of heavenly laws
appeared in a way that agreed with, and conformed to, the references, traditions and texts
current among the people concerning the Manifestation,
not a single soul would oppose them.
16.
Rather, all would attain to that for which they stepped from non-existence into the realm of being.
17.
Therefore, each soul should ponder and reflect with equity and fairness on the Cause of God.
18.
The Shīah divines believe that when the promised Qāʾim appears in the House of God [Mekka],
he will utter a word that will cause even his chosen disciples to turn away from him and flee.
19.
This is a statement that the Shīʿīs admit to and acknowledge.
20.
Now, reflect on the heedlessness of certain ones.
21.
They assert and attest to the opposition of the chosen disciples,
who, according to their own doctrines, are the noblest people after the Imāms,
22.
yet it does not occur to them that their own opposition might be equally unworthy and incorrect. 1
23.
In short, hear the call of this Wronged One
and listen to his words with the ear of fairness.
24.
The truth will be made manifest to you and His straight path.
25.
Would that they might consider for a moment that perhaps that which has become manifest (in this day) is the truth, and that this opposition and these denunciations may have arisen from ignorance and heedlessness!
Tablet on Understanding the Cause of Opposition CHAPTER TWO
Divisions 26-55
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