Concerning the questions of Manakji Limji Hataria
MIRZA ABUL-FADL
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"The All-Knowing Physician hath His finger on the pulse of mankind.
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He perceiveth the disease, and prescribeth, in His unerring wisdom, the remedy.
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Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.
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The remedy the world needeth in its present- day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require.
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Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements."
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Every equitable person will bear witness that these words must be reckoned as mirrors of divine knowledge, and that therein may be found reflected with perfect clarity all that pertaineth to the question that was asked.
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Blessed is the one endued with insight by God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
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Another question of that peerless gentleman:
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"There are four groups in the world.
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One says that all the visible realms, from the atom to the sun, are identical with the Absolute Truth, and nothing can be seen save the Truth.
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Another asserts that the essence of the Necessarily Existent is the Absolute Truth, and prophets are mediators between God and the creation who serve to guide the people to the Eternal Truth.
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Yet another faction says that the spheres of creation are themselves the Necessarily Existent, and that all other things are their effects and fruits, which become apparent and flow, rather like a pool that becomes full, such that rushes come and go along its banks.
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Finally, one sect holds that the Necessarily Existent has created Nature such that by its effect and bounties everything from the atom to the sun go and come, having neither a beginning nor an end, just as the rain falls and nourishes the grass and vanishes.
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All things are obedient to those messengers and rulers who legislate laws and ordinances for the sake of organizing the realm and administering the cities.
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Prophets have behaved in one way, rulers in another.
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The prophet says that God has commanded the people to submit and be obedient. Rulers deal with the people by means of cannon and sword.
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Which of these four groups is acceptable in the sight of the Eternal Truth?"
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All these passages are, by the Life of God, contained in and encompassed by the utterance to which the tongue of the All-Merciful gave voice aforetime.
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For it said, "Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements."
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In this Day, the King of Manifestation hath appeared, and the Speaker on Sinai is speaking forth.
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Whatever He saith consituteth a firm foundation for the edifices of the cities of knowledge and wisdom among the people of the world.
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Whoever hath clung to Him is accounted among the people of insight before the supreme Countenance.
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This most exalted word was revealed by the exalted Pen:
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"This Day is the day of seeing, for the visage of God is manifest and luminous above the horizon of appearance; and this Day is the day of hearing, for the divine call hath gone out.
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All must in this day cling to and speak forth in accordance with what hath been revealed in the day-spring of the scriptures and the dawning-place of revelation.
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It is therefore clear that the answer to the question hath been given in the kingdom of utterance by the source of divine knowledge.
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Blessed are they that know."
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Of the four positions that were mentioned, it is obvious that the second stance was and is the closest to piety.
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For the prophets and messengers do serve as intermediaries for the divine emanation, and whatever reacheth the creatures from the Eternal Truth is by means of these temples of sanctity and essences of abstraction, these mines of knowledge and manifestations of the divine command.
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The other positions can also be argued, for in one station all things were and are manifestations of the divine names and attributes.
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As for what was stated about the kings, in reality they are manifestations of God's name, "the Mighty," and are dawning-places of His name "the Powerful."
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The robe that is appropriate to those august temples is justice.
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If they attain to adornment by it, the people of the world shall enjoy the greatest ease and bounties.
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Any soul who hath quaffed the wine of divine knowledge can elucidate such questions by means of clear proofs in regard to the outer world and by obvious, apparent signs in regard to the soul.
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Nevertheless, today a new Cause hath appeared, and a different discourse is appropriate.
Tablet to Mirza Abu'l-Fadl CHAPTER THREE
Divisions 71-100
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