Tablet to Jinab-i Khalil “the Friend” 7 страница
the doors of the garden have been opened to all beings,
and the hearts of those who believe in God,
the Mighty, the Powerful, the Munificent, have been enraptured.
89.
You are the word through which contingent things are distinguished from each other
- the blessed from the wicked, the light from the darkness,
and the believer from the unbeliever -
on this day until the day on which heaven is cleft
and God comes in clouds of the Cause surrounded by a company of the angels.
90.
At that time, the clouds are rent asunder and the divine visage appears from behind the veil,
with tens of thousands in great glory.
91.
Those who joined partners with God flee, in that moment,
from the right and the left, and a stupor takes hold of all in the heavens and on earth,
save a few letters of the countenance of your Lord, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.
92.
I testify that you were entrusted with the faith of your Lord, the All-Merciful,
and that you recognized the Beauty of the All-Praised before the creation of the universe
and attained the presence of God on a day when you alone had recognized Him.
93.
By means of this grace,
God favoured you, before He created the heavens and the earth.
94.
I testify that, through your remembrance,
the tongues of created things were inspired with the mention of their Lord,
the All-Knowing, the Wise,
and through your praising your Creator, all rose in celebration of Him.
95.
All existence, both seen and unseen, bears witness to this
and, beyond it, God is a witness and fully aware.
Tablet of Visitation CHAPTER FOUR
Divisions 96-130
for Mulláh Husayn
VISITATION OF MULLAH HUSAYN
96.
I testify that you championed the religion of God,
manifested His Cause and struggled in His path insofar as you were able.
97.
I moreover testify that, through your victory,
the proof of God and His testimony were revealed,
and likewise His power and ascendency, His grandeur and majesty,
and His sovereignty over all created things.
98.
Blessed be those who struggled with you
and waged war against the enemies of God at your command,
99.
who circled round you,
entered the stronghold of your guardianship,
and drank from the Kawthar of your love,
[and] who were martyred for turning toward your countenance
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and who rested in the court of your nearness.
100.
They are of those who repose in tranquility.
101.
I testify that they are the champions of God on His earth,
the bearers of His trust in His lands,
the kindred of God among His people,
the legions of God in the midst of His creation,
and the chosen of God between the heavens and earth.
102.
I testify that you fell victim to the most grievous tribulations and deplorable hardships
in the path of your Lord and that adversity encompassed you on all sides.
103.
Yet nothing could deter you from the path of your Creator.
104.
Alone you fought until you became a martyr in His Cause and gave up your spirit,
your soul and your body in your love for your Lord, the Eternal.
105.
I testify that all things between heaven and earth wept by reason of your suffering,
as did the eyes of the near ones behind the tabernacle of manifest majesty.
106.
The houris in their private rooms uncovered their heads
and struck them with wondrous and sanctified fingers.
107.
They fell down with their faces in the dust, sat upon the ashes,
and lamented at that time in their luminous red chambers.
108.
I testify that, due to your suffering, all things were clothed in a black robe of mourning,
the faces of the sincere paled, the limbs of such as had affirmed the divine unity trembled,
and the eye of majesty and grandeur wept in the realm of exalted holiness.
108.
I testify, O my master, here where I stand,
that you did not fail in the Cause of your Lord, nor did you hold back in the love of your God.
109.
You took His command to the east of the land and the west of it,
until you were sacrificed in His path and became a martyr.
110.
God curses the people who oppressed you, rose up against you, fought against you,
argued to your face, denied your testimony, left your side,
disdained being humble before you, and were among the idolaters.
111.
Therefore, do I beseech God by you and by those around
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you that He forgive me and pardon my sins,
that He cleanse me of earthly defilement and number me among the purified.
112.
I ask that He honor me with His presence
during these days when all have been heedless of Him
and are among those who have veiled themselves.
113.
I ask that He aid me in recognizing Him,
confessing His Cause,
believing in Him with all assurance,
affirming His verses,
entering into His shelter,
standing present in the court of His mercy,
bearing witness on His path,
and turning wholly unto Him, the Exalted, the Sublime.
114.
We beseech God by you
that He not cut us off from the shining lights of His visage in these days,
nor make us deprived of the wonders of His grace or debarred from His mercy,
which encompasses the worlds.
115.
We ask that He establish us securely in His love and stand us upright in His Cause,
so that our feet shall not slip on His path,
which has appeared in reality between the heavens and the earth.
116.
Mercy, praise and glory be upon you,
O chosen of God among His servants and trusted of God throughout His lands,
and upon your bodily forms, your celestial forms, and your spirits,
and upon your first, your last, your manifest and your concealed.
117.
And mercy, praise and glory be upon those who have dismounted at your precinct,
circled around you, come before the gate of your mercy,
stood before the manifest lights of your clemency, and entered the threshold of your nearness.
118.
These are they who have been brought near to God because of you,
who have sought mediation with God through you
and who have visited your sanctuary;
who were blessed by the dust of your graves,
119.
who have sought guidance through your teaching,
and who were among those who turned toward your visages,
pure, sanctified, effulgent and luminous.
120.
O Lord, my God!
I beseech You by him and by those who have rested in his vicinity,
to make us of those who have flown in the expanse of Your mercy,
drunk the wine of Your munificence and beneficence,
attained the summit of grace through Your bounty and abundance,
and tasted the sweetness of Your remembrance.
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121.
Make us of those who have ascended to the ladders of the remotest region
and the seats of the highest realm through Your grace and bestowals,
122.
who have cut themselves off from all sides,
who have hastened in the direction of Your favors
and who have been seized by the glorious breezes of Your compassion
and the holy fragrances of Your eternity.
123.
Indeed, You are the All-Powerful, the Mighty, the Wise.
124.
Our God and our Beloved!
Forgive us, our parents, our relations,
and those who have believed in You and in Your verses
and in him who has been made manifest in Your sovereignty.
125.
Grant, moreover, O my God,
that we be empowered by Your strength in this world,
and that we attain Your presence in the next.
126.
Do not decree us forbidden from that which you possess,
nor denied of such as is worthy of You.
127.
In truth, You are the Possessor of bounty and beneficence,
and of grace and benevolence.
128.
Indeed, You are our Lord, the All-Merciful,
and our God, Whom we supplicate and in Whom we place our trust.
129.
None other god is there beside You,
the Forgiving, the Munificent, the Merciful.
130.
Thus have We revealed this Súrah to you, O Leaf of Paradise,
that you may follow such as you are bidden
and be numbered among the pious in the tablets of luminous sanctity.
Based on the the translation by W. McCants
Tablet to Jinab-i Khalil “the Friend”
Tablet to Jináb-i-Mullá 'Alí-Akbar CHAPTER ONE
Divisions 1-35
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1.
He is the Ever-Abiding, the All-Knowing, the Omniscient.
2.
O Pen of the Most High!
Make mention of him who is immersed in the seas of doubt and passion,
that perchance thou mayest purify him through that which floweth from thee
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and purge him from the defilement of the superstitious.
3.
Say:
O servant who tarrieth in the land of bewilderment,
and droneth round the Fire, say:
4.
“In the name of God,
the Most Mighty, the Most Holy, the Most Glorious.”
5.
Then enter therein, and let the fear of no one dismay thee,
put thy trust in God, the Lord of might and power.
6.
Verily, He causes it to become a light for thee,
and a mercy upon thee, and a safety to the worlds.
7.
Beware, beware lest thou fearest the God Who created thee by virtue of His behest,
or hast a doubt about the Revealer of the Bayán and what is therein
8.
whereby they may recognize Him Who is the Compassionate, the All Merciful,
and God hath quickened all things that they may attain His presence.
9.
This is what We have revealed in all the Tablets, if thou art of them that apprehend.
10.
All things are in the grasp of His power, all faces submit to His sovereignty,
and all were created through the potency of His weighty and unerring Command.
11.
Hast thou any doubt concerning Him before Whose visage every luminary bows down,Koran 12:4
before Whose majesty, every man of glory is submissive,
before Whose sovereignty, every man of light humbles himself,
before Whose knowledge, every man of learning is ignorant,
12.
before Whose door, every man of wealth is poor,
before the manifestations of Whose might, every man of power is abject,
before the signs of Whose potency, every mighty one is powerless,
before Whose holiness, every essence is subjected to limitations,
13.
before the evidences of the lights of Whose eternity,
every man of the eternal realm is extinguished,
and before the brilliance of Whose sanctified and luminous Face,
every man of splendor is eclipsed?
14.
Dost thou hesitate in your acceptance of Him on Whom all books have descended,
to Whom all Scriptures have been revealed,
and through Whom all the most glorious and exalted Names have been created?
15.
Dost thou ask the shadow about the sun and its light?
16.
Open thine eyes,
then behold so that thou mayest find it in its zenith,
in its sovereignty, might and grandeur with the lights that have enveloped with their brightness the Concourse on high and the denizens of the oceans of names and all that was and is,
couldst thou but perceive it.
17.
And should the ophthalmia [eye disease] of vain imaginings prevent thine eyes
from beholding the lights of the Beauty of thy Lord, the Exalted, the Most High,
heal thou them, in My Name,
the Healing, the Sufficing, the Manifest, the Wondrous.
18.
Dost thou ask the drop that hath remained in the depths of the darkest abyss
about the ocean and its waves and sovereignty?
19.
I swear by God, this is an injustice from thee towards thee
and towards thy Lord, the Mighty, the All Knowing.
20.
Doth it beseem a man that hath eyes to perceive to ask about the sun in the sky after it has shone forth?
21.
No, by the Lord of the worlds.
22.
Beware, beware,
the Decree of thy Lord is not dependent upon the sanction of anything
except Him or the acceptance of any creature.
23.
Verily, all else besides Him have been created through His command
and have been fashioned through His will.
24.
And He hath created them as He hath created thee,
and there is no difference in this day between thee and all else except thee,
except him whom God hath assisted through His Cause
and acquainted with the manifestation of His Being.
25.
And verily he is the best among all creatures in the holy and preserved Tablets.
26.
Say:
Verily He hath been known from eternity through Himself,
and not by the testimony of anyone among His servants and their acceptance.
27.
He remaineth for eternity as He was,
and no one denieth this truth but all contumacious deniers.
28.
Therefore, O servant, be fair in thyself.
29.
Is God powerful over His Cause or canst thou fix His manifestation in a time of times?
30.
If thou recognizeth that He is powerful to exalt His transcendent sovereignty,
verily He manifesteth Himself as He wisheth and no one questions what He desireth.
31.
And if thou dost imagine that thou art powerful, adduce then thy proof and be not of the negligent.
32.
Beware lest thou deemest the Cause of God subject either to the limitations of thy self or to those of any of His people.
33.
Know thou, then, that all else besides Him is powerless to know His Being and the nature of His Manifestation, except they who know Him through a bounty on His part and a mercy from Him.
Verily, He is the Most Merciful of the Merciful.
34.
The whirlwinds of wrath and the tempests of rage were ready to blow from thy doubts upon all beings.
35.
Fear thou God, then beg thou forgiveness 70 times,
so that He may forgive thee by His grace.
And verily He is the Great Giver, the Bountiful.
Tablet to Jináb-i-Mullá 'Alí-Akbar CHAPTER TWO
Divisions 36-70
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36.
Purify thine heart from all allusions that are in thee
and from the [ ] words of the [ ] people of the Qur’án.
37.
Then, arise towards the atmosphere wherein the lights of the Face of thy Lord, the
Merciful, shine forth, that thou mayest perceive thyself independent from whatever thou hast heard and mayest find thyself freed from the worlds.
38.
O servant! I swear by God!
Verily, in this most great, most mighty Revelation, the testimony of God hath been fulfilled ere the revelation of a single letter of His Verses which the most learned of the learned are powerless to comprehend.
39.
After this Revelation, look thou with thine inward eyes upon the proof through which thy faith hath been previously confirmed.
40.
Beware lest thou question anyone about this.
41.
Content thyself with what is revealed on the part of thy Lord.
42.
Verily, He suffices thee above anything else but Him.
43.
Say:
Praised be God, the King of the Mighty Throne.
44.
Often in the time of the Revelation to those to whom the people turn for answers (lit. questioned persons) are wrapt in the dense veils of the self and are among the heedless.
45.
And whosoever questions such people as these is like unto one born blind who questions another born blind.
46.
Does this profit him in any way?
47.
No, by the Being of the Lord, the Most Exalted, the All-Wise.
48.
Beware lest thou art among them that have clung to the hem of their leaders in the time when God came upon the clouds of the Cause in His Name, the Most August, the Most Mighty,
49.
and have turned their back upon God in opposition,
and therefore the verdict of divine chastisement was pronounced against them
and they returned to their abode,
and wretched is the abode of them that have repudiated the Truth.
50.
Cast the veil of vain imaginings under thy feet.
51.
Then ascend towards the resplendent court of Sanctity and Majesty,
that thou mayest see all things under the shadow of the Word that was revealed by His Pen,
or even better under the shadow of His Self, the Exalted, the Incomparable.
52.
O servant!
Verily, We have perceived from thee the odor of the ancient allusions of them to whom the Qur’án was given, allusions about references to the vicegerency and others, wherefore I was saddened and the Manifestations of the Names in their Realms and the Revealers of His attributes in their dominions were grieved.
53.
For We have enjoined Our servants in the Bayán to sanctify themselves from all that pertaineth unto them, because all that pertaineth unto them does not make them wholly independent in the Day of Judgment and shuts them out from the presence of God and deprives them of His holy fragrance, as thou thyself didst behold and didst bear witness.
54.
Hast thou not heard that He liveth in the All-Glorious Horizon
and hath no need of a vicegerent after His Revelation?
55.
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