37 Fear God, ye inhabitants of the City, and sow not the seeds of dissension amongst men.  Walk not in the paths of the Evil One.  Walk ye, during the few remaining days of your life, in the ways of the one true God.  Your days shall pass away as have the days of them who were before you.  To dust shall ye return, even as your fathers of old did return.

38 Know ye that I am afraid of none except God.  In none but Him have I placed My trust; to none will I cleave but Him, and wish for naught except the thing He hath wished for Me.  This, indeed, is My heart’s desire, did ye but know it.  I have offered up My soul and My body as a sacrifice for God, the Lord of all worlds.  Whoso hath known God shall know none but Him, and he that feareth God shall be afraid of no one except Him, though the powers of the whole earth rise up and be arrayed against him.  I speak naught except at His bidding, and follow naught, through the power of God and His might, except His truth.  He, verily, shall recompense the truthful.

39 Narrate, O Servant, the things Thou didst behold at the time of Thine arrival in the City, that Thy testimony may endure amongst men, and serve as a warning unto them that believe.  We found, upon Our arrival in the City, its governors and elders as children gathered about and disporting themselves with clay.  We perceived no one sufficiently mature to acquire from Us the truths which God hath taught Us, nor ripe for Our wondrous words of wisdom.  Our inner eye wept sore over them, and over their transgressions and their total disregard of the thing for which they were created.  This is what We observed in that city, and which We have chosen to note down in Our Book, that it may serve as a warning unto them, and unto the rest of mankind.

40 Say:  If ye be seekers after this life and the vanities thereof, ye should have sought them while ye were still enclosed in your mothers’ wombs, for at that time ye were continually approaching them, could ye but perceive it.  Ye have, on the other hand, ever since ye were born and attained maturity, been all the while receding from the world and drawing closer to dust.  Why, then, exhibit such greed in amassing the treasures of the earth, when your days are numbered and your chance is well-nigh lost?  Will ye not, then, O heedless ones, shake off your slumber?

41 Incline your ears to the counsels which this Servant giveth you for the sake of God.  He, verily, asketh no recompense from you and is resigned to what God hath ordained for Him, and is entirely submissive to God’s Will.

42 The days of your life are far spent, O people, and your end is fast approaching.  Put away, therefore, the things ye have devised and to which ye cleave, and take firm hold on the precepts of God, that haply ye may attain that which He hath purposed for you, and be of them that pursue a right course.  Delight not yourselves in the things of the world and its vain ornaments, neither set your hopes on them.  Let your reliance be on the remembrance of God, the Most Exalted, the Most Great.  He will, erelong, bring to naught all the things ye possess.  Let Him be your fear, and forget not His covenant with you, and be not of them that are shut out as by a veil from Him.