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Alas, alas for what hath befallen Him at their hands!
59.
Then did all beings whether in the mortal realm or in the kingdom of heaven,
fall distraught upon the earth at what had overtaken that Beauty,
Who was seated upon the throne of nearness to God.
60.
Woe unto them and what their hands wrought at morn and eve!"
Tablet of Sorrows CHAPTER THREE
Divisions 61-85
SORROWS
61.
Behold, the Ancient Beauty crieth:
O Pen of the Most High, change the subject of Thy discourse from this mournful theme
that hath saddened all contingent beings and everything that can be said to exist.
62.
Make mention of aught else, and show mercy to the people of the Concourse on High.
63.
[By] God, the Eternal Truth,
the Throne in all its grandeur hath well nigh collapsed, as hath the Seat in its loftiness.
64.
When We heard this call, We ceased our recounting of sorrows
and returned to Our previous theme, that thou mightest be informed thereof.
65.
O `Ali, be not dejected at the misfortunes that rained down upon Our former Manifestation,
and then upon Our latter one, which We have recited for thee.
66.
Gird up thy loins to aid the Cause of God,
and arise for this purpose with an invincible power and rectitude.
67.
Look, then, upon the state of those persons, and what issueth from their lips in these days,
wherein the sun hath dawned forth with all its rays
and every trustworthy seeker hath been illumined thereby.
68.
By God, thou hearest from them what no one hath ever heard from anyone,
for they seek to establish their cause by appealing to verses which We Ourselves revealed to Him Whom We sent with the truth,
Whom We made a mercy to all who abide in this mortal realm.
69.
Yet when verses greater than any they heard aforetime are recited for them,
they oppose them and flee away.
70.
If they find the power within themselves, they then slay whoever relateth these verses to them.
71.
Know well their station, that thou mightest gain insight into that which is with them.
72.
Say:
O people, He in Whom ye have seen the power, dominion, epiphany and grandeur of God,
and in Whom lie wondrous might and strength that ye have not discerned
--He hath revealed from the heavens of His grace
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the equivalent of all that was sent down in the Bayan.
73.
Fear God, O people, and strive for piety in this Cause.
74.
Do ye idly dispute with Him, by virtue of Whom the suns shone forth,
the moons were illumined, the stars were embellished,
the rivers flowed, the oceans billowed forth,
the sky was raised aloft, the earth of holiness was laid out, and the trees brought forth their fruit?
75.
Woe be unto you, and to him who commanded you to deny God and to join partners with the Beauty of Him Who ascended the Throne with a sovereignty that encompassed the worlds.
76.
By God, O thou who gazest toward God!
There hath befallen Me at their hands that which ears have not heard, nor eyes witnessed.
77.
Behold, the eyes of all contingent beings weep for Me,
all the tribes in the kingdom of names and attributes lament for the harm that hath overtaken Me,
and tears flow from the eyes of grandeur behind the veils of the All-Glorious, the Inaccessible.
78.
When he who fleeth from foxes and hideth his face behind earthen jugs in fear for his wellbeing
perceived that We had raised aloft the Cause of God with the authority of Power and Might,
and that the Names of God had become renowned in the East and the West,
he then repented of having lain in concealment.
79.
He emerged from behind the veil with a burning hatred
and consulted one among My servants about accomplishing My murder.
80.
He desired to spill this blood, which,
were but a droplet thereof to be sprinkled upon the contingent beings, all of them would repeat,
81.
"Verily, I am God; there is no God but He."
82.
Thus did he conspire within his mind,
after We raised him and instructed him morning and evening.
83.
When the hosts of God's revelation descended upon Us
and safeguarded Us from his evil and his plotting,
he then arose to implement another scheme,
such as perplexed the inhabitants of the realm of names, and the Concourse on High.
84.
God standeth witness to what I say.
85.
He attributed things to Me which, shouldst thou merely hear them from a man of insight,
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would amply inform thee of what hath befallen this Wronged [soul]
at the hands of those who arose against him with a tryanny,
the magnitude of which all the Tablets attest.
Tablet of Sorrows CHAPTER FOUR
Divisions 86-120
SORROWS
86.
O Pen of the Most High, make mention to Thy beloved
of that which one of Satan's party cried out in the land of Iraq, saying
87.
"O People of Baha!
Why do ye teach the Cause of God, your Lord,
and call the people to God, who created all things by His command?
88.
For the utmost rank the servants can attain is that of Azal.
89.
Since he steppeth down from his station and faileth to seize what he hath been given,
how will your teaching and recitation profit God's servants?"
90.
Thus did his carnal mind deceive him,
and he spoke words that roused the fury and wrath of God against him
and against all those who speak as he doth,
thus depriving themselves of attaining to the shore of mystical insight.
91.
Say:
"Woe be to thee, thou joiner of partners with God,
because of what thou hast imagined in regard to the Name of Azal.
92.
Verily, We created him, as We created all the names, that they might point to their Creator and Fashioner, and persevere in the Cause of their Lord. For God, all Names are equal.
93.
He giveth and taketh, and is not asked concerning what He willeth.
94.
He knoweth all things with wisdom.
95.
Any excellence ye may have discovered in any soul resideth in his faith in God,
his acceptance of His Manifestation and his turning in that direction,
which was beloved from all eternity.
96.
Explain, O thou wretch, how it is that Dayyan could become abased, if no one else could?
97.
O thou of the one eye, consider thine own personage.
98.
Dost thou perceive the faults of others while remaining heedless of what is in thine own self?
99.
Woe unto thee, inasmuch as thou hast been taught by Satan, who disbelieved in God,
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and whose manifestation We have made an object lesson for all creatures."
100.
Say:
"O denier of God,
would that thou hadst seen and known him whom thou hast taken as a lord apart from God.
101.
By God, the Eternal Truth, hadst thou set eyes on him and recognized him,
thou wouldst have fled a thousand miles or more away from him!
God well knoweth this.
102.
Say:
O thou ignorant man!
We preserved him and trained him up, praised him and admonished him,
to which thou art a witness.
103.
Yet he hath warred with Me and rejected My verses.
104.
It behooveth thee, then, to oppose him,
rather than rising up against the One Who created thee and him from base water.
105.
Ask him by what proof he believed in the Primal Point,
and, before Him, the Messenger of God,
and by what proof he denied Him Who became manifest with all the signs,
and plotted His murder, and mightily shunned Him.
106.
"Apart from all that, O thou idolater,
it hath ever remained Our wont to take and to give.
107.
Hast thou not seen the stone about which We commanded Our servants to circumambulate,
how We divested its form of the robe of acceptance,
and bestowed this grace upon another Spot?
108.
Would that ye did merely know it.
109.
Therefore, be fair in thy mind, although We well know that thou art never equitable,
and with Us is a knowledge of the heavens and the earth.
110.
We know what thy father taught thee night and day,
what he whispered in thy breast and the spirit he breathed into thee,
whereby all men are transformed into fools.
111.
Then ask from the one whom thou hast taken as thy lord, apart from Me, saying:
`O thou who hath turned away!
Be just within thyself.
112.
Hast thou heard of any Manifestation in the world of creation
greater than [Him] Who hath become manifest
and Who speaketh at this moment from the center of eternity?
113.
He saith,
`Verily, I am your Lord, the Exalted, the Most High, upon this sanctified and glorious horizon.
114.
"Hast thou seen any words greater than these,
revealed in truth from the realm of immortality by this Youth,
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who giveth utterance in these vast heavens?
115.
Nay, by My beauty that hath dawned forth upon and illumined the worlds!
116.
Nevertheless, thou hast followed him who was created by the motion of My Pen,
and who conspired against My life after We safeguarded him throughout the months and years.
117.
O thou who art sighted and yet blind,
in such wise that thou seest thyself but shalt never witness thy Lord,
by Whose command the names and their kingdom, and the attributes and their realm,
and all created things were brought into being!
118.
Hast thou ever looked into mirrors that turn away from the sun shining upon their faces,
that turn away from light, illumination and reflection?
Nay, by My Being, the All-Merciful, wert thou among the insightful!
119.
Likewise, gaze into the mirrors of the names. [of God]
It is incumbent upon them to enter into the shadow of their Lord,
to receive the splendors that emanate from the sun of immortality,
and to become illumined with its lights and radiance.
120.
Otherwise, they shall be deprived,
and shall remain bereft of the brilliance that shone forth by virtue of the Eternal Truth.
Tablet of Sorrows CHAPTER FIVE
Divisions 121-155
SORROWS
121.
"Didst thou not witness in My former manifestation,
how the divines who flourished in this world and mounted the stages of mystical insight, worshipping God night and day,
were declared idolaters and unbelievers,
and had the cloak of faith torn from about their shoulders?
122.
Yet house-cleaners who were anonymous to all
were invested by God with the mantle of guardianship and prophecy.
123.
Therefore, behold the power of thy Lord, and be not an overbearing wrongdoer.
124.
Did it behoove those on the earth to raise objections against God, asking
125.
"If they who built up the religion of God,
who worshipped, prostrated themselves, and obeyed His Command,
becoming great scholars in the land,
were consigned to hellfire,
then how shall we ever attain an exalted station?"
126.
Say:
"O thou who joinest partners with God!
Thou speakest as the idolaters spoke aforetime, in the dispensation of each Manifestation.
127.
Thou wilt never realize what thou sayest.
128.
Rather, the angels of retribution will be dispatched by the Almighty, the All-Powerful,
to smight thee upon thy mouth.
129.
Then know that at the time of the Manifestation, all names subsist in a single region.
130.
Whoso ascendeth unto God meriteth the attribution to him of all Our most beautiful names,
and whoso halteth upon the path shall never be mentioned in God's presence.
131.
Thus have We revealed this matter in all the Tablets, wert thou but informed thereof.
132.
Should We desire to take a handful of clay, to breathe into it the spirit of life,
and to render it a manifestation of all the names and attributes,
We would be able to do so, nor is this a difficult matter for God.
133.
It would remain in this station as long as it clove to the shadow of its Lord.
134.
The moment it departed therefrom, however,
all that was bestowed upon it would be withdrawn
and it would be returned to the dust in mighty affliction.
135.
"O thou foolish man!
Thou has failed to inform thyself of the essence of the matter.
136.
Shouldst thou encounter that which thou graspest not,
ask Him from Whose Pen flow the oceans of knowledge and meaning,
that He might elucidate for thee the wonders of knowledge of which thou wert heedless,
that thou mightest persevere in the Cause of thy Lord."
137.
Nay, by My Life, O `Ali!
They had no desire to discover what was veiled from them.
138.
Verily, thou seest them ambling along like sheep who know not their shepherd.
139.
Or rather, if thou discernest them with the eye of thine innate nature,
thou wilt find that they are wolves who wish to scatter God's flocks and to lap up their blood.
140.
Thus have We reckoned their cause in this Tablet,
which hath descended from the exalted realm of glory.
141.
Thou shouldst protect thyself from them,
then speak forth with the melodies of everlasting life between the earth and the heavens.
142.
Make mention of this Most Great Name,
whereby the heaven of names was cloven in two.
143.
Fear no one and put thy trust in God,
and He shall preserve thee from every cast-out idolater.
144.
He will confirm thee in His Cause, the spirit will speak in thy breast,
and the gales of paradise blowing from the abode of they Lord, the All-Merciful,
will cause thee to tremble.
145.
He doth, verily, call thee to account.
146.
Beware not to grow despondent over any matter, [heartsick and hopeless]
For We have not forgotten thee, and yearn to see thee.
147.
We beseech God to bring us together in truth.
Verily, He answereth those who call upon Him.
148.
Would that thou wert with Us in prison,
and that thou didst know what hath befallen this Wronged [soul]
at the hands of those who shall never be able to speak a word in My presence,
whose very essences were brought into being by the will of My Pen.
149.
Thus wouldst thou witness what is now concealed from thee.
150.
Hearken to that which the Pen of the Most High enjoineth upon thee,
and sit not in thy home, nor rest within thyself.
151.
Enter into the abode of the idolaters among the people of the Bayan
with the Announcement of God and His Cause.
152.
Say:
O people, I have come unto you in truth with a mighty proof.
153.
If ye possess a greater one, produce it,
and if ye have witnessed with your own eyes anything more awesome
than the power and sovereignty of God that we have beheld,
set it forth without a moment's delay.
154.
If, however, ye perceive yourselves to be incapable of meeting this challenge, then fear God
and refrain from idly disputing with Him through Whom the Cause of God was raised aloft,
and your names were exalted,
and that Proof appeared to which ye yourselves appeal in vindicating the truth of your cause.
155.
Fear God, and be not sinful unbelievers in this mortal realm.
Tablet of Sorrows CHAPTER SIX
Divisions 156-180
SORROWS
156.
O thou who swimmest in the sea of meaning,
at this time the ocean of grandeur hath billowed forth in My name, the All-Glorious,
and casteth up for all contingent beings the pearls of the mention of thy Lord,
the Exalted, the Most High.
157.
By God, the eye of creation hath never seen their like,
nor hath the vision of God's handiwork witnessed their peer.
158.
Would that We could find a trustworthy soul into whose keeping We could give them,
or a man of keen sight, to whom We could show them,
or an expert to whom We could describe how they sparkle and gleam with splendors.
159.
Behold, when We ascended into the heaven of the divine decree, We saw no one,
and we remained perplexed and sorely grieved within ourselves.
160.
Be thou joyous at the droplets of this sea that have been sprinkled upon thee.
161.
For thereby wast thou purified from the odors of those in whose faces thou wilt discern naught except the soot of hellfire, who disbelieved in God in every age and time,
and who were deprived of the breezes of the All-Merciful.
162.
Say:
These rivers run to the sea of pre-existence, just as they branched out from it.
163.
Blessed is he who hath quaffed from them
and thereby been enabled to dispense with all who dwell upon the earth.
164.
Verily, the sea of pre-existence along with what issueth from it and what mergeth with it,
is merely one wave of the Ocean of Grandeur,
which was created by My Name, the Most Glorious.
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