Tablet to Jinab-i Khalil “the Friend” 6 страница
I am that Maiden Who dwelt in the very center of the Ridván Paradise,
guarded in the seclusion of the All-Merciful and untouched by the eyes of contingent beings.
115.
Hidden from eternity behind veils of chastity within the pavilions of majesty,
I heard a most sweet voice emanating from the right hand of the throne of My Lord, the Exalted,
116.
and saw the Paradise of Ridván stirring within its borders,
and all that was created therein stirred by the longing to meet God, the Most Glorious.
117.
Thereupon another call was raised: By God, the Beloved of the worlds has appeared!
118.
Blessed the one who attains to His presence, receives the honor of meeting Him, and hears His melodies, the Mighty, the Sanctified, the one Beloved.
119.
The hearts of the Concourse on High and the people of the plains of eternity are enraptured by the call of God, and longing desire has drawn them toward a station in which, one and all, their souls quiver.
120.
They have turned in the direction of holiness,
toward a place of inviolable and momentous might.
121.
Though I desire to mention what I beheld in that state,
I never shall be able to do so, even were I to speak in every tongue.
122.
Despite this bounty which has encompassed all things,
and this longing that has seized all those immersed in the sea of names,
I saw that the People of the Bayán are heedless,
wrapped in veils, like corpses interred in the tombs of nothingness.
THE PEN
123.
O People of the Bayán!
Do you suppose, after you have turned away from this revelation,
that you are following in the paths of the spirit?
124.
No, by My beauty through which God has revealed His own beauty
to all that which has been and shall be!
125.
O Maiden of Holiness!
Refrain from mention of them, for their hearts are made of hardest stone.
126.
Nothing shall move them, except that which satisfies their selfish passions,
for they lack maturity in this Cause,
desiring to suckle the milk of ignorance from the breast of heedlessness.
127.
Leave them, then, to the dust,
and sing in the accents of My voice within the realm of divine eternity.
128.
Inform those who recline upon the couches of Paradise
of what has been revealed within the kingdom of creation,
that your melodies might attract them and they might hasten to a beauty promised and holy.
129.
Thus may they recognize this day on which
the form of all things has been adorned with the robe of names,
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and every poor one has attained to the exalted retreats of wealth,
and every banished wrong-doer has been forgiven.
130.
Seek in these days, O people,
to attain the bounty of God and His mercy which has encompassed all created beings
Tablet of Visitation CHAPTER ONE
Divisions 1-30
for Mulláh Husayn
VISITATION OF MULLAH HUSAYN
1.
This is the Súrah of Visitation
that has been sent down from the realm of grace for the name of God, the First,
that she who is the most pious of women may visit him,
as well as those who believe in God and His verses and are of those who have attained.
2.
He is the Almighty, the Omnipotent, the Exalted, the All-Glorious.
3.
This is a letter from a wronged One, who is known in the kingdom of eternity as Bahá, [-ullah]
in the dominion of exaltation as the Exalted, the Most High,
in the unseen realm as all God's beauteous names,
and in the contingent world as Husayn;
yet most of the people are under a veil and an immense delusion.
4.
No one can reckon what has befallen Him in every dispensation, save God,
the Sovereign, the Sublime.
5.
At one time, He was slain at the hands of Cain
and, oppressed, ascended unto God,
Who witnessed and knew full well what came to pass.
6.
At one time, He was cast into the fire at the hands of Nimrod,
but God made the flames a light and a mercy.
7.
Indeed, He protects such among His servants as have drawn near.
8.
At one time, He suffered such tribulations at the hands of Pharaoh
that the hearts of the sincere were set aflame.
9.
At one time, He was put on the cross,
and He was taken up unto God, the August, the Beauteous.
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10.
At one time, such things befell Him
at the hands of Abú Jahl and the hypocrites who, in sedition, arose against Him,
as no one can recount or befittingly describe or mention.
11.
The All-Merciful Himself knew all that afflicted Him and was a witness to it.
12.
At one time, He was wronged in the land of Taf and martyred
along with those whom God had caused to be related to his sanctified and luminous self.
13.
They cut of His head, imprisoned His family, and drove them throughout the lands.
14.
Thus did it come to pass by reason of the satanic legions.
15.
At one time, He was suspended in the air and martyred in the path of God,
the Help in Peril, the All-Powerful, the Omnipotent.
16.
At one time, I was imprisoned in the Land of Ta' for a span of four months.
17.
The pen of the worlds could not recount what befell Us there.
18.
Afterwards, I was driven out of prison
and My kindred and I were exiled from our homes.
19.
We traveled to Iraq and were among those who settled in that country.
20.
None can measure what befell Us in that land from those who had been created at My command.
21.
It was such that I was, at all times, pierced by the javelin of hypocrisy.
22.
In spite of this, I concealed the matter and was a herald among the people,
summoning all to God, the Cherished, the Beauteous.
23.
Then, with no respite, every community stood up against Me.
24.
Alone I rose up to face My adversaries,
and I served My Lord insofar as I was able,
until the Cause of God was vindicated by His words and the works of the idolaters proved futile.
25.
Consequently, the fire of hatred was ignited
in the hearts of those claiming faith in the Point of the Bayán,
and in this way did they deceive themselves.
26.
Thus did Satan make their deeds appear seemly to them,
while they were accounted among the heedless.
27.
By God!
They heaped on Me such abuse as no one else had ever endured.
28.
The eyes of the maidens in their chambers wept over Me,
the hearts of the sincere cried out,
and beyond them wept the eye of God,
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the Sovereign, the All-Praised, the 3 Omnipotent, the Exalted, the All-Wise.
29.
Anyone whose ears God has opened would hear the wailing of all things
and their lamentation during these days
because of what has befallen Me at the hands of those who had recognized God in His former Manifestation
but denied Him after He had come in another beauty, with manifest sovereignty.
30.
We were among them, and those deniers from past communities,
until the sun of tribulation rose from the horizon of destiny and the decree of exile was laid down,
as was written in tablets of inviolable holiness.
Tablet of Visitation CHAPTER TWO
Divisions 31-60
for Mulláh Husayn
VISITATION OF MULLAH HUSAYN
31.
By the One True God!
I rose up to face My adversaries during days when the hearts of the mystics were troubled,
the limbs of every soul shook,
and all those around Us who affirmed the divine unity trembled in fear,
until the hosts of salvation descended from the realm of God,
the Help in Peril, the Mighty, the Sublime.
32.
In truth, He protected Me and the angels of the heavens and earth championed Me
as did the exalted hosts, which were concealed until then.
33.
We left the city with an adornment that awed and bewildered
the minds of the learned and the hearts of the mystics.
34.
In every city the Ancient Beauty [Baha-ullah] passed,
the necks of the haughty were brought low by His appearance,
and in every place He stayed,
both the faithful and idolaters were abased before Him.
35.
Eventually, We came to this prison
and God is well aware of what befell Me here because of those who harbor hatred for [me].
36.
They are as those who see through the eyes of malice.
37.
Not one second has elapsed
where I have not been pierced with the dart of hypocrisy by the forces of the malicious.
38.
By God, in each moment have I been slain by the swords of hatred.
39.
The tongue of God, the Exalted, the Most High,
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bears witness to this, and yet the people are heedless and in grievous dissension.
40.
If the people were to clear their ears, they would hear what their Lord, the All-Glorious,
is calling aloud in the loftiest heaven and would be of those who listen.
41.
Yet they shut themselves out
from what the Tongue of Eternity proclaims in the realm of the Almighty
and are among the heedless.
42.
They have proceeded to pronounce the sentence of death against Me
without any proof from God or noble book.
43.
Time and again have the hosts of salvation descended,
and through them has God protected Me.
44.
He has enabled Me to proclaim His mention,
to reveal Myself in His sovereignty,
to be effulgent with the holy light of His majesty,
and to celebrate the praise of His own persona, the Exalted, the Sublime.
45.
Thus was it ordained for Us,
and we have recounted it in truth, that the people might understand.
46.
O Leaf of Paradise!
When you receive this luminous, effulgent tablet,
rise up from your place and take hold of it with the hand of humility.
47.
Inhale from it the fragrance of God, your Lord and the Lord of the worlds.
48.
Commemorate My sufferings, which it relates,
so that you may be counted among those who have remembered in the tablets of God,
the Overshadowing, the Mighty, the Powerful.
49.
Teach the Cause of God to those around you
and to those who have been guided by the Spirit’s counsel and are among the assured.
50.
Blessed are you, O Leaf of Paradise,
for you have been carried away by the breezes of the Spirit
and taken to the Egypt of the Divine Presence
- the place of the recognition of your Lord, the Sublime, the Wondrous.
51.
You have drunk from the cups of your Lord's mercy
and attained to that which no other in all the worlds has attained.
52.
Thank your Lord.
Humble yourself and bow before Him.
53.
Take hold of the book of God with such strength as is borne of Him,
for it is indeed a sublime book.
How blessed you are in that God has related you to His name.
54.
Through him, the ensigns of salvation were manifested,
the sun of grace dawned, the moon of bounty rose,
and the Ancient Beauty was established on the throne of His name, the Exalted, the Sublime.
55.
By him, the kingdom of names was exalted,
the forms of the divine attributes were adorned,
and the Temple of Holiness was revealed in the garment of His name, the Ancient of Days.
56.
By him, the supremacy of the Cause encompassed all contingent things
and the sun of bounty shone its light on all creation.
57.
By him, the two mighty rivers flowed through the two exalted names.
58.
None have drunk from them except those whom God has singled out for His Cause,
favoured among His servants and chosen out of His peoples.
59.
He has made them manifestations of His most excellent names
and embodiments of His most exalted attributes,
and enabled them to be among them who have entered His transcendent, sublime, and wondrous presence.
60.
O Leaf of Paradise,
visit him on My behalf with what is now being revealed from the realm of God,
the Sanctified, the Lofty, the Wise, the All-Knowing.
Tablet of Visitation CHAPTER THREE
Divisions 61-95
for Mulláh Husayn
VISITATION OF MULLAH HUSAYN
61.
When you wish to begin your visitation
with him who is the dawning place and wellspring of God's names,
and the orient and treasury of His attributes,
arise and set your face toward Paradise, the place where the First Name is buried,
which God has made the resting place of his holy, majestic, and luminous temple.
62.
Stand and magnify God your Lord, nineteen times.
63.
As you recite each prayer of praise,
God will open one of the doors of Riḍván before your face,
and the fragrant breeze of the All-Praised will waft over you from the garden.
64.
Thus has it been ordained by One Who is almighty and wise.
65.
Then glorify God nine times with certitude in His Cause,
affirming His sovereignty, proclaiming His majesty,
recognizing His Manifestation, and turning toward
His sanctified, effulgent, manifest, dazzling, scintillating, resplendent and luminous countenance.
66.
Then say:
I testify by my soul, my essence, my being, my tongue, my heart and the limbs of my body
that there is none other god beside Him,
67.
and that the Point of the Bayan [the Bab] is His manifestation, His advent,
His majesty, His honor, and His grandeur
before those in the celestial concourse,
and His sublimity, His power and His might between heaven and earth.
68.
He who the One True God has made manifest
is His appointed sovereign to all in the heavens and on earth,
and His effulgence to each and every one in the kingdom of command and creation.
69.
Say:
The first spirit manifested from the realm of grandeur
and the first mercy revealed from the heaven of holiness at the right of the throne,
where our Lord, the Exalted, the Most High is seated
70.
– may they rest upon you,
O secret of the divine decree, temple of the realization,
most perfect word in the realm of eternity,
and most great name in the kingdom of creation.
71.
I testify by my essence, my soul, and my tongue that by you
the beauty of the All-Praised was established upon the throne of His name, the All-Merciful,
that in you the Primal Will was made manifest to the people of existence,
72.
that through you the melody of Paradise was revealed from the heaven of grace
on the part of your Lord, the Almighty, the Beneficent,
and that because of you the Cause of God,
the Omnipresent, the Omnipotent, the Mighty, the Powerful, was made manifest.
73.
I testify that you are the first light to dawn from the beauty of God's unity
and the first sun to rise
from the horizon of divinity.
74.
Were it not for you,
the beauty of the Essence would have remained concealed
and the mysteries of eternity would not have been revealed.
75.
I testify that, because of you, the birds of the souls of those consumed with longing flew
through the expanse of nearness and reunion,
76.
and the hearts of those overcome with yearning tasted the sweet savour of beauty and communion, at the dawning of the sun of the visage of your Lord,
the Possessor of majesty and glory.
77.
Were it not for you, no one would have recognized the Being of God and His beauty,
no one would have reached the shore of His nearness and presence,
78.
contingent beings would not have drunk from the waters of His magnanimity and abundance,
and created things would not have partaken of the wine of His bounty and munificence.
79.
Because of you the veils of existent things have been torn away.
80.
Because of you the kingdom of names and attributes has been manifested.
81.
Because of you every soul has been guided to the shore of a sublime sanctity.
82.
Because of you the dove warbled upon the branches of eternity
and the songbird of the throne sang its melodies upon the boughs of the lote tree of glory.
83.
Because of you the Beauty of the Unseen has been manifested in His Name,
the Exalted, the Most High.
84.
Because of you all good has been sent down
from the realm of the unseen unto the kingdom of creation,
and every grace has been inscribed by the fingers of God upon the tablets of destiny.
85.
And because of you contingent beings have been embraced by the mercy of God,
the Omnipotent, the All-Knowing, the Sublime, the Majestic.
86.
Were it not for you, neither would heaven have been raised above,
nor would the earth have beenspread below,
nor would the oceans have been revealed.
87.
Were it not for you, neither would the trees have borne fruit,
nor would the leaves have appeared in their green verdure,
nor would the orb of divine grace have shone from a horizon of effulgent sanctity.
88.
Because of you, the breezes of forgiveness have wafted over all in the heavens and on earth,
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