The All-Knowing Physician hath His finger on the pulse of mankind.  He perceiveth the disease, and prescribeth, in His unerring wisdom, the remedy.  Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.  The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require.  Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

We can well perceive how the whole human race is encompassed with great, with incalculable afflictions.  We see it languishing on its bed of sickness, sore-tried and disillusioned.  They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician.  Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices.  They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.  They have conceived the straight to be crooked, and have imagined their friend an enemy.

Incline your ears to the sweet melody of this Prisoner.  Arise, and lift up your voices, that haply they that are fast asleep may be awakened.  Say:  O ye who are as dead!  The Hand of Divine bounty proffereth unto you the Water of Life.  Hasten and drink your fill.  Whoso hath been re-born in this Day, shall never die; whoso remaineth dead, shall never live.

“O peoples of the earth!  God, the Eternal Truth, is My...”

O peoples of the earth!  God, the Eternal Truth, is My witness that streams of fresh and soft-flowing waters have gushed from the rocks, through the sweetness of the words uttered by your Lord, the Unconstrained; and still ye slumber.  Cast away that which ye possess, and, on the wings of detachment, soar beyond all created things.  Thus biddeth you the Lord of creation, the movement of Whose Pen hath revolutionized the soul of mankind.

Know ye from what heights your Lord, the All-Glorious is calling?  Think ye that ye have recognized the Pen wherewith your Lord, the Lord of all names, commandeth you?  Nay, by My life!  Did ye but know it, ye would renounce the world, and would hasten with your whole hearts to the presence of the Well-Beloved.  Your spirits would be so transported by His Word as to throw into commotion the Greater World—­how much more this small and petty one!  Thus have the showers of My bounty been poured down from the heaven of My loving-kindness, as a token of My grace; that ye may be of the thankful....

Beware lest the desires of the flesh and of a corrupt inclination provoke divisions among you.  Be ye as the fingers of one hand, the members of one body.  Thus counselleth you the Pen of Revelation, if ye be of them that believe.

Consider the mercy of God and His gifts.  He enjoineth upon you that which shall profit you, though He Himself can well dispense with all creatures.  Your evil doings can never harm Us, neither can your good works profit Us.  We summon you wholly for the sake of God.  To this every man of understanding and insight will testify.