6 While engulfed in tribulations I heard a most wondrous, a most sweet voice, calling above My head.  Turning My face, I beheld a Maiden—­the embodiment of the remembrance of the name of My Lord—­suspended in the air before Me.  So rejoiced was she in her very soul that her countenance shone with the ornament of the good pleasure of God, and her cheeks glowed with the brightness of the All-Merciful.  Betwixt earth and heaven she was raising a call which captivated the hearts and minds of men.  She was imparting to both My inward and outer being tidings which rejoiced My soul, and the souls of God’s honoured servants.

7 Pointing with her finger unto My head, she addressed all who are in heaven and all who are on earth, saying:  By God!  This is the Best-Beloved of the worlds, and yet ye comprehend not.  This is the Beauty of God amongst you, and the power of His sovereignty within you, could ye but understand.  This is the Mystery of God and His Treasure, the Cause of God and His glory unto all who are in the kingdoms of Revelation and of creation, if ye be of them that perceive.  This is He Whose Presence is the ardent desire of the denizens of the Realm of eternity, and of them that dwell within the Tabernacle of glory, and yet from His Beauty do ye turn aside.

8 O people of the Bayan!  If ye aid Him not, God will assuredly assist Him with the powers of earth and heaven, and sustain Him with the hosts of the unseen through His command “Be”, and it is!  The day is approaching when God will have, by an act of His Will, raised up a race of men the nature of which is inscrutable to all save God, the All-Powerful, the Self-Subsisting.  He shall purify them from the defilement of idle fancies and corrupt desires, shall lift them up to the heights of holiness, and shall cause them to manifest the signs of His sovereignty and might upon earth.  Thus hath it been ordained by God, the All-Glorious, the All-Loving.

9 O people of the Bayan!  Would ye deny Him Whose presence is the very object of your creation, while ye rejoice idly upon your couches?  Would ye laugh to scorn and contend with Him, a single hair of Whose head excelleth, in the sight of God, all that are in the heavens and all that are on the earth?  O people of the Bayan!  Produce, then, that which ye possess, that I may know by what proof ye believed aforetime in the Manifestations of His Cause, and by what reason ye now wax so disdainful!

10 I swear by Him Who hath fashioned Me from the light of His own Beauty!  None have I ever seen that surpasseth you in heedlessness or exceedeth you in ignorance.  Ye seek to prove your faith in God through such holy Tablets as ye possess, yet when the verses of God were revealed and His Lamp was lighted, ye disbelieved in Him Whose very Pen hath fixed the destinies of all things in the Preserved Tablet.  Ye recite the sacred verses and yet repudiate Him Who is their Source and Revealer.  Thus hath God blinded your eyes in requital for your deeds, would ye but understand.  Day and night ye transcribe the verses of God, and yet ye remain shut out, as by a veil, from Him Who hath revealed them.