have called you forth by virtue of that Name which is the source of all steadfastness, and by the grace of each one of Our most excellent Names as revealed unto all who are in heaven and on earth.  Erelong shall We bring into being through you other feet, firm and steadfast, which shall walk unwaveringly in Our path, even should they be assailed by hosts as formidable as the combined forces of the former and latter generations.  In truth, We hold all grace in the hollow of Our hand, and bestow it as We please upon Our favoured servants.  Time and again have We vouchsafed unto you Our favours, that ye may offer such thanks unto your Lord as to cause the tongues of all created things to speak forth in praise of Me, the All-Merciful, the Most Compassionate.

62 O Living Temple!  Arise to serve this Cause through a might and a power born of Us.  Disclose, then, unto the servants of God all that the Spirit of God, the sovereign Lord, the Incomparable, the All-Glorious, the All-Wise, hath imparted unto Thee.  Say:  O people!  Will ye turn away from Him Who is the Eternal Truth, and choose instead him whom We have created out of a mere handful of clay?  To do so is to inflict a grievous injustice upon yourselves, if ye be of them that reflect upon the verses of your Lord.  Say:  O people!  Cleanse your hearts and your eyes, that ye may recognize your Maker in this holy and luminous attire.  Say:  The celestial Youth hath ascended the Throne of glory, made manifest His independent sovereignty, and now voiceth, in the most sweet and wondrous accents, this call betwixt earth and heaven:  “O peoples of the earth!  Wherefore have ye disbelieved in your Lord, the All-Merciful, and turned aside from Him Who is the Beauty of the All-Glorious?  By the righteousness of God!  This is His Hidden Secret, Who hath risen from the dayspring of creation; and this is His cherished Beauty, Who hath shone forth above the horizon of this exalted Station, invested with the sovereignty of God, the Help in Peril, the All-Glorious, the All-Subduing, the Almighty.”

63 O Temple of Holiness!  We, verily, have cleansed Thy breast from the whisperings of the people and sanctified it from earthly allusions, that the light of My beauty may appear therein and be reflected in the mirrors of all the worlds.  Thus have We singled Thee out above all that hath been created in the heavens and the earth, and above all that hath been decreed in the realms of revelation and creation, and chosen Thee for Our own Self.  This is but an evidence of the bounty which God hath vouchsafed unto Thee, a bounty which shall last until the Day that hath no end in this contingent world.  It shall endure so long as God, the Supreme King, the Help in Peril, the Mighty, the Wise, shall endure.  For the Day of God is none other but His own Self, Who hath appeared with the power of truth.  This is the Day that shall not be followed by night, nor shall it be bounded by any praise, would that ye might understand!