Concerning the questions of Manakji Limji Hataria 10 страница
70.
This is a sanctified and luminous station.
71.
Nor can anything gain mention save by forgetting itself,
and becoming oblivious to all that is in the kingdom of the Cause and the world of creation,
how much more so to all that was created between the heavens and the earth.
72.
Say:
Have you not heard it said in the past, that `his evidence is his verses and his proof is his being.'?
73.
Then woe to you, concourse of the heedless.
74.
Were the veil to be drawn from the face of this Cause even to so small an extent that none of the mystic knowers could discern it,
the call of the concourse on high would be raised,
the people of the domains of immortality would cry out,
and the strains of the sacred melody would be heard from the sanctuary of grandeur.
75.
These would proclaim that this is nothing but a glad-tiding to the world of creation.
76.
Is this anything but the King, the Powerful, the Venerable, the Wondrous?
77.
Thus was the proof of God made perfect.
78.
Yet the people are in a drunken stupor induced by their negligence,
such that they will never even be able to distinguish left from right.
79.
After God's self-manifestation, can anything else in the heavens or on earth avail anyone?
80.
Nay, by the Lord of the Worlds!
Tablet of the Companions CHAPTER FOUR
Divisions 81-115
THE COMPANIONS
81.
O my beloved friend,
come and chant, lilt, drum and beat time in the realm of eternity,
and then in the kingdom of the Unknowable Essence,
paying no heed to anything save my radiant and resplendent Beauty.
82.
Thus have we bestowed on you something, a single letter of which could render wealthy all who are in the heavens and on the earth,
if they would but persevere in their love for their Lord, the Glorious, the Generous.
83.
May the Spirit be on you, and on all those endued with knowledge.
84.
Make mention of me to Javad,
even as the pen of the Cause at this very moment busies itself with my mention,
whereby the canopy of holiness was raised aloft,
and the sun came to rest on the throne of magnificent splendor.
85.
Give him to drink of the chalice we bestowed on you,
that thereby his heart will be soothed, and he may be among the grateful.
86.
Say:
We showed you in your sleep that whereby your soul and spirit will find repose,
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if you would but perform it.
87.
Interpret your vision as God interprets it,
then traverse the path even as a cloud passes overhead,
and pay no heed to those who join partners with God.
88.
Should you find one whose heart is devoid of love for me,
flee from him and eschew his company, keeping at a great distance from him.
89.
Should your soul contend with you in this matter,
then detach yourself from it and demonstrate an invincible certitude.
90.
Say:
By God, the balance is nothing other but love for me.
91.
This is a mercy on the near ones,
yet a vengeance and a scourge on those who join partners with God.
92.
Then remind Rahim of the glad-tidings of God, the Exalted, the Almighty, the All-Wise.
93.
Say:
You attained the Presence of God, but failed to recognize him, and were among the heedless.
94.
Therefore beseech God to aid you in knowing him and to apprise you of the one who manifests his essence, and to remove you from the midst of those deluded ones.
95.
O Rahim, avoid them and their like.
Do not associate with them, nor with any among the hateful.
96.
Turn toward the horizon of spirit with your heart,
and sever yourself from all attachment to this world.
97.
Thus do we teach you what shall enable you to dispense with all creatures.
98.
What you sent reached us, and we accepted it as a mercy from us on you,
that you might be among the thankful.
99.
Speak to Zaman of the verses of his Lord now being mentioned by the Spirit,
that he might rejoice in his soul and might be among the pious,
at a time when most of the people have departed from piety in such a way that they turn away from him in whom they believed.
100.
Thus does the spirit admonish them, [the opposite of praise]
lest they enter the ranks of his repudiators.
101.
Say:
Servant, read what we revealed to you in the past,
and inhale from its ink the fragrance of musk from the tresses of the divine Beloved,
the Help in Peril, the All-Glorious.
102.
Then act according to what is written therein.
103.
By God, thereby were solaced the eyes of the dwellers in paradise
and the inhabitants of the heaven of sanctity, did you but know.
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104.
Then remember us to `Ali-Akbar, and announce to him the good news
now being proclaimed by the spirit within this lofty, brilliant and lauded heart.
105.
Say:
Servant, what we sent to you earlier
was such that nothing created between the heavens and the earth equals in value even a letter of it.
106.
Commit it to memory,
and read it at those times you find yourself free from all who are on the earth,
that you might be attracted to the lustrous and resplendent seat of holiness.
107.
We received the letter you had previously dispatched,
and God shall give you as recompense the best of what is with him,
for in truth he is the Guardian of the beneficent.
108.
Know, then, that whatever he accepts from his servants is as a grace to his creatures,
and that he is Self-Sufficient above the worlds.
109.
Beware lest you associate with those in whose hearts you find hatred for this youth,
nay, keep clear of them and their like, and avoid their company.
110.
Suffice yourself with God, your Lord, and, in truth,
he shall render you able to dispense with all else besides him.
There is no God except Him.
111.
The worlds of creation and of command are his,
and all is with him on a Preserved Tablet.
112.
Tell `Ali in Qaf (Qazvin) that which the essence of pre-existence commands you,
at a time when all who subsist in the depths of eternity circle round him,
as does all that has been or will be, if you but knew.
113.
Say:
Servant, be steadfast in the Cause of God, and fear no one.
114.
Put your trust in my refulgent, sanctified, and luminous Beauty.
115.
If your very essence should oppose you in this,
then detach yourself therefrom without pause.
Tablet of the Companions CHAPTER FIVE
Divisions 116-150
THE COMPANIONS
116.
Give our regards to Hasan,
that he might be gladdened by the droplets sprinkled in his name from this shimmering Ink,
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which is perfumed, wondrous, indelible, unific, eternal, and everlasting.
117.
Say:
Servant, perform what you were commanded in the Guarded Tablet that we sent to you,
and be not of the listless.
118.
Ascend in your spirit to the heights of sanctity,
and let no man make you apprehensive;
rather, depend on God, the Mighty, the Powerful.
119.
Say:
By God, the Ascension has recurred in its entirety, if you did but see.
120.
Say to Ibn Nabil from us, if you find in his visage the radiance of grace:
121.
Servant, do not hesitate in this Cause, and follow no one in so doing.
122.
Then look with fresh eyes at the proofs of the messengers.
123.
By God, he who appeared in the year 60 is manifest once more.
124.
This is among his proofs that have filled the East and the West.
125.
Because your father hesitated in this Cause, he failed to attain what he desired.
126.
God severed him from all that was with him and returned him to dust with great sorrow solely in order to awaken you, but you failed to perceive it and remained heedless.
127.
God has now, however, forgiven him his offenses and has granted him remission of his misdeeds,
for he, in truth, pardons whoever he wills, and chastises whomever he pleases.
128.
The decree is his alone: He does whatsoever he wills and ordains whatsoever he desires.
129.
Say:
O servant,
have mercy on yourself; do not dispute the verses of God,
and be not among those who join [idolatrous] partners with God.
130.
Say:
By God, were we to draw aside the veil from the face of this Cause,
you would slash at your bodies with your own hands.
131.
However, we concealed the Cause with what was predestined in the tablets by the pen of God,
the Almighty, the All-Knowing.
132.
My beloved friend, if you fail to perceive in him the fragrance of love,
sever yourself from him and pay him no heed. [ ]
133.
Turn to the countenance of your Lord, the Glorious, the Wondrous.
134.
Then magnify before the face of Isma`il the one who murmurs from the fire on the heights,
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to whose flames are attracted the hearts of the believers in divine unity.
135.
Say:
Servant, strip yourself of all veils, then enter into the fire,
for it shall be as light and mercy to you, and to all the sincere.
136.
Then smash the idols of self and passion set up by those who disbelieved
and joined [false] partners with the Deity after having claimed within themselves faith in God,
the Powerful, the Mighty, the Compassionate.
137.
Say:
By God, your own tongues revile you
and your mortal frames declare themselves innocent of you,
concourse of the heedless!
138.
Servant, teach the Cause of your Lord and let nothing dismay you.
139.
Fare not on the paths of the deluded.
140.
Say:
O people of the Bayan,
`Ali (the Bab) has appeared in a new mantle.
141.
In truth, he was named Husayn in the realm of names, and Baha' in the kingdom of eternity,
and in the domain of the Unknowable Essence he was given this name,
which has taken the form of this youth.
142.
Blessed be God, the Best of Creators.
143.
Concourse of mankind, the manifestation of divine potency has appeared in the most great countenance, with an adornment that has dazzled the hearts of all endued with intelligence and insight.
144.
Say:
Concourse of idolaters, by what proof can you escape.
145.
By God, there is no refuge for anyone save in severing himself from all that he possesses and clinging to this glittering, most luminous Cord.
146.
Indeed, he is the most great sign and the beauty of God among you,
and he is the concealed mystery,
yet he is the wrath of God to those who attribute partners to him.
147.
In truth, his wrath is bitterer and more calamitous,
for by him God chastises those who have denied the divine verses and decree.
148.
Then flee to God, your Lord, and set not other gods up beside him.
In truth, with me is sanctuary.
149.
Say:
If we wished, we would bring into being another creation,
for we are over all things Mighty and Powerful.
150.
All things are in the grasp of our potency,
and this is recognized by the people of knowledge and thought.
Tablet of the Companions CHAPTER SIX
Divisions 151-175
THE COMPANIONS
151.
People, think on these verses.
152.
By virtue of what saying did you hitherto believe in `Ali (the Bab)?
153.
Then consider carefully, O concourse of asses! [?]
154.
Say:
In this day, nothing shall avail you but to believe in him in whom you believed aforetime, and in the Tablets and Scriptures that he revealed.
155.
Munib, report to that servant what this celebrated pen has related to you,
that he may be steadfast within himself in such a way that he will not be deterred by the aversion of those who turned away,
nor hindered by anyone who has committed a wrong toward God and disbelieved.
156.
Then mention on our behalf the friend who journeyed to God,
attained his Presence, heard his melodies, and was of the people of vision.
157.
Say:
Blessed are your eyes and ears!
It is incumbent on you to realize their full value, insofar as they have heard and seen
what the eyes of those who advanced toward God never witnessed.
158.
Then the latter turned their backs and turned away from him that dawned from the sacred horizon with this radiant, sanctified and most pure Beauty.
159.
O servant, be not distressed when the clamor of the idolaters grows raucous,
for if you allow yourself to be disturbed thereby you risk joining the people of hell.
160.
Say:
The most great trumpet has appeared, and has spoken forth with the truth,
sounding, and raising its voice to the utmost between the heavens and the earth, proclaiming,
`With me is sanctuary!'
161.
People, do not invent lies against God, your creator,
and do not deny him after he has lifted the veil and manifested himself.
162.
Beware lest you busy yourselves with this world
and allow anything to prevent you from attaining this fathomless and overflowing Ocean.
163.
In truth, those who believed in God and his verses ascended to God,
and they have inherited gardens and rivers,
yet those who disbelieved and set up other gods beside God,
they are consumed in the fires of the inferno.
164.
Beyond this, the wrath of God will take hold of them and make them like enclosed fields of chaff.
165.
Thus did God decree for them retribution for their sins.
166.
Woe to them, and to any who disbelieve and act with perfidy.
167.
And blessed is he who acquiesces to the good-pleasure of his Lord,
and who, when the divine verses are recited to him, believes and gives thanks.
168.
Then convey to `Abdu'r-Rahim the gist of this tablet,
so that perhaps he will draw near in his essence to the sacred Shore,
169.
and be of the thoughtful,
who contemplate the Cause of God and obey the ordinances and admonitions revealed by him.
170.
Say:
Servant, cast away whatever hinders you from arriving at the haven of grandeur.
171.
In truth, that is better for you than all that has been created and foreordained.
172.
Lift up your voice between the heavens and the earth,
that you may be among those who struggle in the way of God, and gain the victory.
173.
Say:
In truth, we have created the heavens and the earth for the sake of our Cause.
174.
By God, then, this is our Cause, which has appeared with the truth,
and which has been recognized only by those endowed with sagacity and the ability to reflect.
175.
Thus have we inspired you and informed you,
so that you might follow what you have been commanded in this tablet,
and be of the discerning.
Tablet of the Companions CHAPTER SEVEN
Divisions 176-200
THE COMPANIONS
176.
Finally, tell Ha', as the last of the names, what the dove of holiness says,
and perhaps he will be enraptured by her melodies.
177.
We have mentioned him last so that he might ascend to the lote-tree of the farthest limit
and seek its shade.
178.
Say:
The lote-tree has spread its branches over all who are in the heavens and on earth,
and blessed is the one who resides in its vicinity.
179.
The sun has risen over the sacred horizon,
and the concourse on high has been illumined by its radiance.
180.
The scent of musk has diffused from the hills of sanctity,
perfuming the temples of pre-existence.
Happy is he who adorns himself with these fragrances!
181.
The luminary of the Cause has risen in the midst of the sky,
and has taken the form of a full moon, brilliant in its whiteness.
182.
Concourse of the near ones, seek to be illumined by its splendor!
183.
Say:
The throne has been established behind the pavilion of majesty,
and about it circle chaste maidens of beauty bearing flagons brimming with the water of life.
184.
Blessed is the person who attains to sprinkled droplets thereof.
185.
Say:
The Maiden of Eternity has uncovered Beauty itself with a gut-wrenching gaze.
186.
Blessed is the one who is struck by her glance!
187.
Say:
The voice of God has been heard from the sanctuary of eternity,
and the hearts of the mystic knowers have been enthralled by its melodies.
188.
O my name, hearken to what is revealed to you from the Holy Land by the songs of your Lord, and stand in fear of no one,
rather, put your trust in God, who will preserve you from the evil ones and the harm they wreak.
189.
Take heed lest you forbid yourself the very thing for which you were created,
and be not among those who deny the verses of God after their revelation.
190.
In this day, nothing can be of any benefit to anyone until he attains my love,
and to this bear witness the people of the sacred canopy and the tongues of those who subsist beyond it.
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