Tablet to Jinab-i Khalil “the Friend” 5 страница
Bear witness, moreover, within Your Own being
that this is indeed the Beauty of God which has shone forth from the unseen realm,
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though none have recognized Him except He Himself,
and none shall ever know Him but He alone.
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He is, in truth, the All-Powerful, the Almighty, the one [best?] Beloved.
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Thru a single emanation from Him,
the suns of grandeur and divine majesty have dawned resplendent,
the hearts of those who dwell in the eternal Concourse were created,
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the inner realities of holiness hidden within the veils of divine mystery were brought into being,
and the secrets of all that is and has been were made manifest.
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O Pen!
Do not be dazed and swoon away,
for We have with sovereign might and power conferred on You Our protection,
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and have breathed into You such spirit that,
were an infinitesimal breeze of it to waft over the lifeless bodies of all contingent being,
they would assuredly, one and all, arise from their resting places,
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with their tongue proclaiming, their inner essence affirming,
and their inmost being testifying that there is no God but Me,
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the All-Powerful, the Majestic, the Most Exalted,
the Almighty, the Single, the Victorious, the Self-Subsistent.
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O Pen of Revelation!
Remain steadfast and true to Your essence,
and reveal unto all created beings a measure of that bounty which God bestowed upon You
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before the creation of letters and words,
before the existence of contingent beings,
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before the kingdom of names and attributes was established
and His mighty and guarded Tablets revealed.
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Say: These are, indeed, a mighty portent,
one unequalled from before the beginning until beyond the end of time,
if you would only comprehend, O Concourse of the spirit!
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And this is, indeed, a Beauty unequalled
since the beginning without beginning, if you only knew.
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Say: should it occur to any heart that it may compare to or become partners with this Pen,
that it has approached near to or understood what has been revealed through it,
let that heart know for certain that Satan is whispering within.
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Thus has it been revealed, could you but perceive it.
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Say: By God! None in all creation has ever surpassed Me,
nor shall any soul ever do so.
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Thus is it now written by the fingers of everlasting holiness.
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Say: At a single Word revealed through Me were created all contingent beings,
and the inner realities of all existence,
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and worlds which none can fathom but Myself, the Mighty, the Manifest.
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O Pen!
Hearken to that which those who join partners with God say of You.
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Say: O host of enmity!
Die in your envy, your rancor, your jealousy, and your blasphemy.
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By God, the True One!
This is, in truth, a Pen at whose behest were created the souls of the Concourse on High,
the inner realities of the people of Eternity,
and the inmost essence of all hearts and minds.
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With a single trace of this Pen the suns of might and grandeur were created,
and beyond them, the moons of purity and loftiness,
and the stars of grace and generosity.
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Thru it the gardens of Paradise and Ridván, and all that they contain,
have appeared, did you but know.
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Say: At a single stroke from Me was made manifest the knowledge of all that is and has been,
and beyond that, the creation of the former and the latter days.
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Open, then, your eyes that you may perceive it!
Tablet of the Pen CHAPTER TWO
Divisions 31-60
THE PEN
31.
O Pen!
Let what You have thus far cast over the world of contingent being
by way of Your sovereignty and power
to suffice, for the hearts of the malicious may well burst in their malice.
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Conceal, then, Your Cause and divulge it no further,
for Your words have caused the heavens of eternity to crack,
and the earth of holiness to split asunder,
and all those wrapped in veils of communion in the paradise of Grandeur to fall down dumbstruck!
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Hold your peace, for none who dwell on earth can ever witness Your sovereign might
nor hear your manifold revelations,
how much less those of Your Fashioner and Creator,
He who created You through a single utterance.
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Exalted is Your Lord above all that emanates from Him,
or that has been revealed through You before this.
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Exalted is He above that which those who are near unto God have thought,
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or that which the sincere ones conceive of Him.
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Beware, beware!
Allow what He has already revealed through You to suffice.
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By God, the True one!
Were all that is in the heavens and the earth, and whatsoever lies between the two
— the trees, fruits, leaves, twigs, branches, waters, seas and mountains —
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were all these brought face to face with but one letter that has been revealed through You,
they would indeed give voice within themselves to that which the burning bush spoke to Moses
upon Sinai, at the spot of revelation, in the blessed vale of sanctity.
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O Pen!
Refrain from mention of those wonders imparted to You by God
and detach Yourself from all that you possess.
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Yet inform the people of the glad tidings of the great announcement
enshrined in this most great Revelation,
that they may come to know their Creator, and detach themselves from all else but Him.
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Then inform the Concourse on High of these glad tidings and say:
O people of the Concourse of Grandeur in the pavilions of majesty!
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O people of the sanctified Realm of divine power,
concealed within the tabernacles of the All-Glorious!
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O people of the Realm of the seen and the unseen,
within the holy precincts, immersed in the waves of eternity!
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O manifestations of the kingdom of names in the veils of divine mystery!
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Rejoice within yourselves in this most great and joyous festival,
during which God Himself is pouring out the most pure wine
for those who stand before His face in well-pleasing humility.
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Adorn, then, your souls with the silk of certitude
and your bodies with the brocade of the All-Merciful,
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inasmuch as a light has appeared, flashed forth,
and shone radiantly from the dawning-place of his countenance.
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At its appearance all on heaven and earth have bowed down in adoration,
if only could you perceive.
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Say: By God, the True one!
Never has one like him appeared throughout all creation!
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Any soul who maintains otherwise has deviated from the testimony of God Himself,
and will be accounted in His mighty and guarded tablets
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among those who have joined partners with God.
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Say: Through this light, the realm of Divine Essence and its realities were brought into being,
and the outward forms and inner essences of the people of the realm of eternity were raised up.
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Through it, God has created worlds without beginning or end,
that none can fathom except those whom the Lord wills.
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Thus do We shower the divine mysteries upon You,
that you might reflect upon the works of God.
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Say: This is a light at Whose emanation every neck has bowed down in humility
and at whose appearance the souls of those near to God, and the hearts of the sanctified,
and the inner realities of those who truly praise God, and every honored servant have prostrated.
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O dwellers in the sacred precincts!
By God, this is, standing among you and before your very faces,
the Meccan sanctuary of God,
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and the hallowed precincts surrounding it,
and the plain of worship leading to it,
and the station of refuge on the inner and outer pilgrimage!
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Take heed that you do not deprive yourselves of the sanctuary of recognition.
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Rather, hasten to Him and be not of those who tarry along the way,
for this is the sanctuary around whom circumambulate the forms of divine oneness,
and beyond them the everlasting realities and ancient eternal essences.
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God has made His threshold sanctified from the defilement of every rejected blasphemer.
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The dark-eyed maids of Paradise, and the denizens of the upper chambers of heaven,
and beyond them, those who enjoy intimate communion within the confines of holiness,
kneel in constant service before Him, and yet most of the people fail to comprehend.
Tablet of the Pen CHAPTER THREE
Divisions 61-95
THE PEN
61.
O peoples of the heavens and the earth!
Abandon your resting places for the most great Pilgrimage
to the person of this most pure and radiant, this most beauteous Youth.
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God has, however, beholding your weakness, relieved you of this duty.
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And yet, you should hasten to Him with all your heart,
even though no one can ever attain thereto,
except those who regard all the heavens and the earth
as of no more worth than on the day when none shall be remembered. [in the hereafter]
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Such are they who drink from the hands of their Lord the holy and sealed wine.
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And whoso turns to face this most pure and radiant direction will be encircled by luminous orbs
over which no beginning or end has been appointed.
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The daystar of all suns, before whose light the sun of Names dims and darkens,
shall dawn from the horizon of such a heart, if you but knew.
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O Pen!
Raise the call among the Concourse of Eternity and say:
O people of the plains of eternity and the pavilions of grandeur!
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And O gems hidden from the sight of the people of creation!
Rise up from your couches and rejoice in jubilation,
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magnify the name of your Lord,
and drink deep from the glass of eternity proffered unto you
by the all-glorious [fingers] [words] of this [deathless] Youth on this day,
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whose like the eyes of the universe [or, world] have never seen,
and on which the eyes of grandeur, upon the praiseworthy seat of might, were solaced.
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O Bearers of the Throne!
Adorn the most great throne in finery on this day, for the hidden beauty has appeared,
He to whose presence the people of the highest Paradise and the sheltering garden have not attained.
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Say: By God! The hidden secret has been fully revealed
and the eyes of the seen and the unseen have been solaced by His beauty,
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and beyond them the eyes of all those who have purified their souls
with the sprinklings of the Kawthar of holiness
that flows forth from the sea of the name of their Lord, the Manifest.
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Say:This is the day on which God has made Himself known to all who are in the heavens and the earth
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and has raised Himself in His sovereignty above all who are in the realms of creation and command.
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How exalted is this bounty, how sanctified, blessed and beloved!
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In this day, the Ancient Beauty has appeared in such raiment
that the veils have been rent asunder and the secrets revealed.
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All things make mention of their Lord, the Unconstrained:
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the trees have borne fruit, and the heaven and the earth have brought forth all that they contain,
all that lay hid in the midst of the mountains and the depths of the seas,
though they had once been veiled in obscurity.
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This is a day whereon the idols of blasphemy and rebellious passion have been shattered,
and the Ancient Beauty is firmly established upon His most great Throne.
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On this day the Most Great Spirit from the concealment of eternity,
and the spirit of holiness from the Lote Tree beyond which there is no passing,
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and the spirit of Command from the most distant tree,
and the spirit of Might from the divine realm on high, all give voice to this:
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Blessed be the Merciful,
Who has appeared in the realms of creation with that which no eye has ever before perceived!
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Say: This is He Who, by a single movement of His fingers,
causes the very creation of heaven and earth to pass away,
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and with merely one word of His mouth brings all creatures back to life,
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and at a sign from His eye, makes all existence to turn toward God,
the Help in peril, the Mighty, the All-Loving.
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Say: O assemblage of Monks!
[Abandon] [Adorn] the churches in which you praise God,
for the One Who was borne up to heaven has come down with the truth,
and now circles round the Throne.
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By God, the True One!
On this day the bell [of _____] peals out in mention of Me
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and the horn and trumpet resound with My description and My name,
the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsistent.
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Do not deprive yourselves of the bounty of this day,
but hasten to the seat of the Throne,
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and renouncing all that you possess, grasp hold of the cord of God,
the Risen, the Visible, the Speaking, the Manifest.
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O denizens of the realms of the Seen and the Unseen!
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Sing out and melodiously celebrate this festival which God has brought forth,
for none has nor will attain the like of it,
whether in the past or in the future, if you but knew.
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God has raised the Pen on this day over all who are in the heavens and the earth.
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This is that which the decree of the Ancient of Days caused to rise above the dawning place of the Pen,
that you might rejoice within yourselves and be of those who experience true joy.
Tablet of the Pen CHAPTER FOUR
Divisions 96-130
THE PEN
96.
O Pen!
Inform the Maiden of Paradise and say unto Her:
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By God, the True One!
Today is Your day; reveal, therefore, what You will.
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Wear, as you please, the satin raiment of names and the brocades of pure white,
and then emerge from the chambers of eternity
same as the sun rising above the horizon of the visage of Bahá. (heavenly glory)
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Come down, then, from the retreats on high and,
standing between the heavens and the earth,
and cast aside the veil that conceals Your angelic face,
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that the most great veils may be rent asunder from the faces of all these,
and they may behold the most great vision of the Beauty of God,
the sanctified, the Almighty, the One Beloved.
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O Solace of the Ancient of Days!
I swear by God, those who join partners with God are drunk with vain imaginings
and will never be able to turn their gaze in this most pure direction.
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You have in truth safeguarded Me by Your sovereign might
within Your pristine sanctity, behind the veils of light,
and preserved My beauty from the view of Your enemies.
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Within Your hands, You hold the command, and through Your word,
“Be and it is,” You rule as You please.
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O Maiden of Bahá!
Emerge from the concealment of eternity,
Your immaculate vision purified from beholding the faces of mortal beings.
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By the One True God!
None will attain to You but those who receive their sight from this most great Vision.
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Leave behind the Kingdom of Names on your right and the Realm of Divine Attributes on your left,
to appear in radiant splendor, through My permission, from the horizon of My chastity,
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naked of all that has been created in the realm of Command,
and divested of all that exists in the realm of Creation,
that through you God’s own beauty may be revealed to all else but Him.
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Sing then in the most pleasing melodies between earth and heaven,
that the universe may become wholly detached and turn to the face of your Lord,
the Holy, the Mighty, the Beloved.
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Rise above the horizon of Ridván with the radiant beauty of the All-Merciful,
your sweet-scented tresses dangling down upon your breasts,
that the fragrances of your Lord, the Giving, may waft over all the worlds.
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Take care not to conceal the yielding hollows of Your bosom from the people of revelation,
or the curls of sanctity from intimate glances.
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Enter, then, before the throne,
Your hair dangling down, your face flush, your cheeks adorned,
your eyelids shadowed with face paint,
and take up in the palm of Your angelic hand the chalices of pure white in My Most Exalted Name.
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Pour out, then, for the Concourse of Eternity the sealed red wine of the Abhá Beauty,
that the people of revelation may be cleansed by this pure wine
from the veils of pride during this illustrious festival,
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and may emerge from the hidden clouds of glory through My mighty sovereignty,
the Powerful, the Help in peril, the Self-Subsisting.
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By the One True God!
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