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moment with a fresh torment. They idly imagine that tribulations can
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frustrate Our Purpose. Vain indeed is that which they have imagined.
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Verily, thy Lord is the One Who ordaineth whatsoever He pleaseth.
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I never passed a tree but Mine heart addressed it saying: âO would that
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thou wert cut down in My name, and My body crucified upon thee.â We
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revealed this passage in the Epistle to the Sháh that it might serve as a
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warning to the followers of religions. Verily, thy Lord is the
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All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
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Let not the things they have perpetrated grieve thee. Truly they are even
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as dead, and not living. Leave them unto the dead, then turn thy face
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towards Him Who is the Life-Giver of the world. Beware lest the sayings of
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the heedless sadden thee. Be thou steadfast in the Cause, and teach the
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people with consummate wisdom. Thus enjoineth thee the Ruler of earth and
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heaven. He is in truth the Almighty, the Most Generous. Ere long will God
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exalt thy remembrance and will inscribe with the Pen of Glory that which
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thou didst utter for the sake of His love. He is in truth the Protector of
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the doers of good.
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Give My remembrance to the one named Murád and say: âBlessed art thou, O
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Murád, inasmuch as thou didst cast away the promptings of thine own desire
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and hast followed Him Who is the Desire of all mankind.â
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Say: Blessed the slumberer who is awakened by My Breeze. Blessed the
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lifeless one who is quickened through My reviving breaths. Blessed the eye
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that is solaced by gazing at My beauty. Blessed the wayfarer who directeth
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his steps towards the Tabernacle of My glory and majesty. Blessed the
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distressed one who seeketh refuge beneath the shadow of My canopy. Blessed
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the sore athirst who hasteneth to the soft-flowing waters of My
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loving-kindness. Blessed the insatiate soul who casteth away his selfish
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desires for love of Me and taketh his place at the banquet table which I
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have sent down from the heaven of divine bounty for My chosen ones.
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Blessed the abased one who layeth fast hold on the cord of My glory; and
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the needy one who entereth beneath the shadow of the Tabernacle of My
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wealth. Blessed the ignorant one who seeketh the fountain of My knowledge;
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and the heedless one who cleaveth to the cord of My remembrance. Blessed
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the soul that hath been raised to life through My quickening breath and
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hath gained admittance into My heavenly Kingdom. Blessed the man whom the
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sweet savours of reunion with Me have stirred and caused to draw nigh unto
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the Dayspring of My Revelation. Blessed the ear that hath heard and the
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tongue that hath borne witness and the eye that hath seen and recognized
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the Lord Himself, in His great glory and majesty, invested with grandeur
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and dominion. Blessed are they that have attained His presence. Blessed
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the man who hath sought enlightenment from the Day-Star of My Word.
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Blessed he who hath attired his head with the diadem of My love. Blessed
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is he who hath heard of My grief and hath arisen to aid Me among My
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people. Blessed is he who hath laid down his life in My path and hath
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borne manifold hardships for the sake of My Name. Blessed the man who,
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assured of My Word, hath arisen from among the dead to celebrate My
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praise. Blessed is he that hath been enraptured by My wondrous melodies
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and hath rent the veils asunder through the potency of My might. Blessed
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is he who hath remained faithful to My Covenant, and whom the things of
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the world have not kept back from attaining My Court of holiness. Blessed
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is the man who hath detached himself from all else but Me, hath soared in
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the atmosphere of My love, hath gained admittance into My Kingdom, gazed
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upon My realms of glory, quaffed the living waters of My bounty, hath
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drunk his fill from the heavenly river of My loving providence, acquainted
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himself with My Cause, apprehended that which I concealed within the
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treasury of My Words, and hath shone forth from the horizon of divine
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knowledge engaged in My praise and glorification. Verily, he is of Me.
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Upon him rest My mercy, My loving-kindness, My bounty and My glory.
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BISHÃRÃT (GLAD-TIDINGS)
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This is the Call of the All-Glorious which is proclaimed from the Supreme
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Horizon in the Prison of Akká
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He is the Expounder, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed.
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GOD, the True One, testifieth and the Revealers of His names and
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attributes bear witness that Our sole purpose in raising the Call and in
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proclaiming His sublime Word is that the ear of the entire creation may,
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through the living waters of divine utterance, be purged from lying tales
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and become attuned to the holy, the glorious and exalted Word which hath
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issued forth from the repository of the knowledge of the Maker of the
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Heavens and the Creator of Names. Happy are they that judge with fairness.
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O people of the earth!
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The first Glad-Tidings which the Mother Book hath, in this Most Great
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Revelation, imparted unto all the peoples of the world is that the law of
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holy war hath been blotted out from the Book. Glorified be the
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All-Merciful, the Lord of grace abounding, through Whom the door of
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heavenly bounty hath been flung open in the face of all that are in heaven
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and on earth.
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The second Glad-Tidings
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It is permitted that the peoples and kindreds of the world associate with
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one another with joy and radiance. O people! Consort with the followers of
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all religions in a spirit of friendliness and fellowship. Thus hath the
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day-star of His sanction and authority shone forth above the horizon of
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the decree of God, the Lord of the worlds.
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