11 In this Day the Concourse on high beholdeth you in your evil doings and shunneth your company, and yet ye perceive it not.  They ask of one another:  “What words do these fools utter, and in what valley are they wont to graze?  Do they deny that whereunto their very souls testify, and shut their eyes to that which they plainly behold?” I swear by God, O people!  They that inhabit the Cities of the Names of God are bewildered at your actions, while ye roam, aimless and unconscious, in a parched and barren land.

12 O Pen of the Most High!  Hearken unto the Call of Thy Lord, raised from the Divine Lote-Tree in the holy and luminous Spot, that the sweet accents of Thy Lord, the All-Merciful, may fill Thy soul with joy and fervour, and that the breezes that waft from My name, the Ever-Forgiving, may dispel Thy cares and sorrows.  Raise up, then, from this Temple, the temples of the Oneness of God, that they may tell out, in the kingdom of creation, the tidings of their Lord, the Most Exalted, the All-Glorious, and be of them that are illumined by His light.

13 We, verily, have ordained this Temple to be the source of all existence in the new creation, that all may know of a certainty My power to accomplish that which I have purposed through My word “Be”, and it is!  Beneath the shadow of every letter of this Temple We shall raise up a people whose number none can reckon save God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.  Erelong shall God bring forth from His Temple such souls as will remain unswayed by the insinuations of the rebellious, and who will quaff at all times of the cup that is life indeed.  These, truly, are of the blissful.

14 These are servants who abide beneath the shelter of the tender mercy of their Lord, and who remain undeterred by those who seek to obstruct their path.  Upon their faces may be seen the brightness of the light of the All-Merciful, and from their hearts may be heard the remembrance of Mine all-glorious and inaccessible Name.  Were they to unloose their tongues to extol their Lord, the denizens of earth and heaven would join in their anthems of praise—­yet how few are they who hear!  And were they to glorify their Lord, all created things would join in their hymns of glory.  Thus hath God exalted them above the rest of His creation, and yet the people remain unaware!

15 These are they who circle round the Cause of God even as the shadow doth revolve around the sun.  Open, then, your eyes, O people of the Bayan, that haply ye may behold them!  It is by virtue of their movement that all things are set in motion, and by reason of their stillness all things are brought to rest, would that ye might be assured thereof!  Through them the believers in the Divine Unity have turned towards Him Who is the Object of the adoration of the entire creation, and by them the hearts of the righteous have found rest and composure, could ye but know it!  Through them the earth hath been established, the clouds have rained down their bounty, and the bread of knowledge hath descended from the heaven of grace, could ye but perceive it!