Tablet to Jinab-i Khalil “the Friend” 15 страница
"By God, I went up out of the Prison City (Adrianople)
at a time when Husayn [_____ ] was lying upon the ground,
while Disgrace knelt upon His breast and desired to behead Him.
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The spears were standing before His head, and He expected it to be raised aloft upon them.
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Such was the situation in inmost secrecy, if ye be of them that perceive.
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I then saw Him move His lips,
and gaze toward the heavens with a look such as would rend every heart,
and beyond them the heart of God, the Protector, the Mighty, the Self-Subsisting.
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I moved My head close to His lips, and heard that He was beneath the sword, saying,
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'O people!
By God, I have not spoken to you out of selfish desire!
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Nay, rather I have given voice to that which the Speaker on Sinai uttered
in My most pure and sanctified breast.
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The verses of God leave no doubt
as to what hath been foreordained in the realm of the divine Decree,
or as to that which is in this world and the next.
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O ye who have joined partners with God,
inhale the scent of these verses that have descended from the realm of the divine Essence,
from the King of names and attributes.
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Should ye perceive therein the fragrance of the coat of the beloved Joseph,
then show mercy toward Him,
and put Him not to death with the blades of malice,
if ye see with the eyes of justice and are equitable in yourselves.
Tablet of Blood CHAPTER THREE
Divisions 51-85
BLOOD
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"'O people!
I bolted up the gates of paradise for twenty years,
lest anything issue from My lips which might cause the fire of hatred to blaze forth in your breasts.
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To this beareth witness the Tongue of Grandeur,
then the Pen of Command upon the holy and guarded Tablets.
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O people,
I verily am 'Ali (the Bab), and this is but another Return after the first.
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I have demonstrated to ye at this time the greatest of the things I manifested aforetime.
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I have come from the fountainhead of grandeur and glory,
and the treasure hold of exaltation and majesty,
with verses of which not a single letter hath heretofore been revealed in this world.
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This Tablet is My proof among ye,
to ye, and against ye,
if ye be of them that comprehend.
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"'O people,
God is My witness that I remained silent in My house, and gave voice to no melody.
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However, the Spirit set my limbs quaking, and caused Me to speak forth with the Truth.
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Its features then appeared in My face, if ye descry My beauty.
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For lo, I barred the doors of utterance these many years,
yet the tongue of God hath loosened My tongue, did ye but know.
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Will ye slay Him by whose Command the heavens were raised aloft,
the seas surged forth,
the trees gave fruit,
the mysteries were revealed,
and the beauty of the Chosen One shone forth from behind the veil?
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Fear God, O people of the Bayan,
and be not of those who repudiate the verses of God.
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I shall never deny these verses,
even should ye slay Me and all the swords and spears rain down upon Me at every moment.
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I shall speak forth in the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and shall never fear anyone.
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This is My religion, if ye be of them that perceive.
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This is the religion of all the Messengers,
and is that which was revealed to 'Ali (the Bab) in every Tablet.
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I know not, however, to which religion ye adhere!'
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"When the melodies of that Holy One reached this point,
He suddenly fell silent by reason of the weakness which had overtaken Him.
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He remained in this state for some time,
and when He regained consciousness He opened His eyes
and turned in the sacred direction with a gaze of deep affection, saying,
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'Praise be to Thee, O Lord My God,
for the wondrous revelations of Thy inscrutable decree
and the woes and trials Thou hast destined for Me.
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At one time Thou didst deliver Me into the hands of Nimrod;
at another Thou hast allowed Pharaoh's rod to persecute Me.
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Thou alone canst estimate,
through Thine all-encompassing knowledge and the operation of Thy Will,
the incalculable afflictions I have suffered at their hands.
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Again Thou didst cast Me into the prison-cell of the ungodly,
for no reason except that I was moved to whisper
into the ears of the well-favored denizens of Thy Kingdom
an intimation of the vision with which Thou hadst, through Thy knowledge, inspired [for] Me,
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and revealed to Me its meaning through the potency of Thy might.
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And again Thou didst decree that I be beheaded by the sword of the infidel.
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Again I was crucified for having unveiled to men's eyes the hidden gems of Thy glorious unity,
for having revealed to them the wondrous signs of Thy sovereign and everlasting power.
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How bitter the humiliations heaped upon Me, in a subsequent age, on the plain of Karbila!
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How lonely did I feel amidst Thy people!
To what a state of helplessness was I reduced in that land!
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Unsatisfied with such indignities, My persecutors decapitated Me,
and, carrying aloft My head from land to land
paraded it before the gaze of the unbelieving multitude,
and deposited it on the seats of the perverse and faithless.
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In a later age, I was suspended,
and My breast was made a target to the darts of the malicious cruelty of My foes.
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My limbs were riddled with bullets, and My body was torn asunder.
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Finally, behold how, in this Day, My treacherous enemies have leagued themselves against Me,
and are continually plotting to instill the venom of hate and malice into the souls of Thy servants, and with all their might they are scheming to accomplish their purpose.
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"'It is Thou, My God and My adored One,
Who hast delivered Me into the hands of the infidels.
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Behold Me, then, in the dust, beneath the swords of thine enemies.
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Yet, however grievous be My plight, O God, My well-Beloved,
I render thanks unto Thee,
and My Spirit is grateful for whatsoever hath befallen Me in the path of Thy good-pleasure.
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I am well pleased with that which Thou didst ordain for Me,
and welcome, however calamitous, the pains and sorrows I am made to suffer.
Tablet of Blood CHAPTER FOUR
Divisions 86-120
BLOOD
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"'I plead with Thee, O My God, by Thy hidden names and Thy Beauty,
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Who, both manifest and concealed, lieth in the dust of degradation,
to inculcate Thy love in the hearts of Thy servants,
and to seat them upon the carpet of Thy mercy.
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Give them shade, O My God, beneath the tree of Thy sanctity,
and deny them not the breezes of Thy holiness,
which waft from the paradise of Thy beauty and from the direction of Thy favors.
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Thou art, verily, able to accomplish Thy will,
and Thou art the Help in Peril, the Independent.'"
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O Muhammad [_______],
estimate well the number of gem-like mysteries We have bestowed upon thee,
and think upon the wondrous knowledge We have taught thee,
knowledge which lay concealed behind veils of light.
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Thus mayest thou become aware of that which hath befallen Us,
and be of those well-acquainted with the mysteries of this Cause.
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Then say with the tongue of thy spirit in thine inmost soul,
"Is there any helper who will come to the aid of the Primal Beauty (the Bab) in His new guise,
or any supporter who will arise to serve the Ultimate Point (Quddus) in His Radiance,
the Glorious, the Most Glorious?"
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Mayhap thereby God will be persuaded to dispatch someone to succor this Youth in these days,
wherein the denizens of heaven and earth are drunk with heedlessness,
save those who have gazed from nigh upon this Beauty.
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Yet O Muhammad,
thou wilt encounter the opposition and haughtiness of the perverse,
and wilt find them engaged in acts of hatred against this Youth on all sides,
except those for whom it hath been decreed otherwise by thy Lord God,
the Mighty, the Independent.
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Give ear to that which thou art commanded by the Pen of the Most High in the kingdom of decree,
in these heavens that have been sanctified by God from the incarnations of rancor,
from the touch of the infidels and from the recognition of the malicious.
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Rend asunder the veils,
then rise up from the dawning-point of this Cause with manifest sovereignty.
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Call out to the people,
telling them of this resplendent, mighty and illumined Beauty.
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Go to the Name of Ha',
and deliver to him that which hath been bestowed upon thee by the Spirit of God,
the Powerful, the Mighty, the Generous.
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Perhaps he will feel admonished within himself,
will detach himself from all save his Lord and enter the ranks of them that are rightly guided.
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Say:
"O My servant,
We have revealed for thee Tablets and Writings which are known only to God,
and therein is that which would enable thee to dispense with all creation,
and all that is in the heavens and on the earth.
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However, we did not send them to thee,
because we failed to perceive from thee the fragrance of the exalted ones in this Arab Youth.
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By God, all that thou dost possess will pass away, and nothing will remain
save what is with thy Lord, behind the pavilions of the Powerful, the Inaccessible.
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Leave the world and its people,
and detach thyself from all that was created therein.
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Then turn thy face toward the Countenance of God, the Generous, the [Creator]
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Say:
"This is 'Ali (the Bab) in very truth,
Who hath appeared once more in this most pure, manifest and glorious Beauty.
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He doth speak forth with the truth in the realm of eternity, and the exalted kingdom,
if ye have ears to hear.
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O people of the Bayan,
the spirit of true understanding will never speak in your hearts
until after My love hath entered them.
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This is a fundamental principle of religion, if ye be of those with certitude."
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O people of the Quran,
the Eternal Truth is come unto ye,
and that whereby the religions shall be differentiated, and truth distinguished from falsehood.
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Fear God, and be not of those who oppose Him.
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O people of the Churches,
cease from ringing the bells, for the Most Great Bell hath appeared.
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It is, verily, this Trump that hath been sent down in the form of these holy verses
between the heavens and the earth.
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He crieth out in truth in this resplendent, manifest and brilliant Name.
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Say:
He it is by Whose command the verses were revealed,
and by Whose permission all the scriptures were brought into being.
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To this attesteth the fragrance that issueth from the Camphor Fountain
through this most Ancient and pre-existent Pen.
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He speaketh forth at all times, uttering verses beyond the comprehension of the minds of the wise,
the knowledge of the mystic knowers, and the hearts of them that have attained.
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This is what ye were promised in the Books of God, did ye but know,
and this is that whereby the truth was realized from all eternity and shall be realized to all eternity.
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O Muhammad,
avert thy gaze from all who are in heaven and on earth,
so that thou canst enter into the mighty fortress of thy Lord, the Bestower, the Almighty.
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Set the trees of existence ablaze with this Fire,
that all may speak forth as it did, in the form of light, upon the Sinai of Theophany.
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Thus doth the Ancient Beauty shower His bounty upon thee, and command thee in this Cause,
that thou mayest detach thyself from all things
and hold fast to the cord of the Omnipotent, the Unattainable.
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Spirit, praises and glory be upon thee,
and upon whosoever heareth thy tidings of this Great Announcement.
Translated by J. Cole
Tablet of the Sacrifice CHAPTER ONE
Divisions 1-30
Súratu'dh-Dhibh, 1872
SACRIFICE
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This is the Surah of the Sacrifice,
which hath been sent down from the heaven of Command
to him whom We named Dhabih in the kingdom of names,
that he might dedicate himself to God, the Lord of the Worlds.
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He is the Everlasting, the Wondrous.
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God hath proclaimed from the throne of grandeur and splendor,
"I, verily, am the Lord God,
and there is no other god beside Me, the Help in Peril, the Everlasting."
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He hath, at this time, affirmed from the realm of glory and majesty
that there is none other God but Him, the Protector, the Imperishable.
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The Essence of pre- existence hath avowed to the domain of power and exaltation,
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"I am, in truth, Almighty God, beside Whom there is no other God,
and I am the Powerful, the Omnipotent, the Beloved."
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God hath borne witness within His own substance,
to His substance and by His substance that He is God, saying,
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"There is no divinity save Me, the Manifest, the Visible.
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I testify within My essence, to My essence and by My essence that I am God"
and there is no God but He, the Effulgent, the Glorious, the Hidden.
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O Beauty of the Primeval,
sprinkle upon all created things droplets from the ocean of Thine overflowing grace,
that perchance they might be captivated by the holy fragrance
of the camphor fountain that hath appeared in the form of the Manifestation.
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From it floweth the river of paradise, which God hath distilled in the form of My Pen,
and He rendered it a sign of His Knowledge to all the world, but few of the people comprehend.
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O Sovereign of Eternity,
how shall I deliver to contingent beings the verses of thy mighty dominion,
after those who joined partners with God have encompassed Me on every side,
and have clasped the hands of rancor over these brilliant, glorious, and beloved lips?
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If I should speak among them of the wonders of Thy mention,
it would increase the loathing in the breasts of those godless ones.
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Thou knowest what hath befallen Thine own Being.
Thou art, verily, the Eternal Truth, the Omniscient, the Invisible.
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O Dhabih,
lift up thy head from thy slumber
and loosen thy tongue in utterance, in My Name, the Almighty, the Bestower.
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Fear no one, for thy Lord shall safeguard thee from Satan and his manifestations,
and shall protect thee with His mighty and evident sovereignty.
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If thou dost wish to enter into this station, to whose court have come in supplication
the realities of the worlds and the angels that circled about the Throne on high,
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it is incumbent upon thee to detach thyself from all who are in the heavens and upon the earth,
from all that was and shall be.
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