Say:  O peoples of the earth!  By the righteousness of God!  Whatever ye have been promised in the Books of your Lord, the Ruler of the Day of Return, hath appeared and been made manifest.  Beware lest the changes and chances of the world hold you back from Him Who is the Sovereign Truth.  Ere long will everything visible perish and only that which hath been revealed by God, the Lord of lords, shall endure.

Say:  This is the Day of meritorious deeds, did ye but know it.  This is the Day of the glorification of God and of the exposition of His Word, could ye but perceive it.  Abandon the things current amongst men and hold fast unto that which God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, hath enjoined upon you.  The day is fast approaching when all the treasures of the earth shall be of no profit to you.  Unto this beareth witness the Lord of Names, He Who proclaimeth:  Verily, no God is there besides Him, the Sovereign Truth, the Knower of things unseen.

Well is it with thee, O My Afnan, inasmuch as thou wert honoured to receive My Holy Verses, hast inhaled the sweet savours of My Revelation and responded to My Call at a time when My servants and My creatures, casting the Mother Book behind their backs and, clinging to the dictates of the exponents of idle fancy and vain imaginings, have denounced Me.  Thus hath the Tongue of Grandeur spoken in the kingdom of utterance at the bidding of God, the Lord of Creation.

Persevere thou conscientiously in the service of the Cause and, through the power of the Name of thy Lord, the Possessor of all things visible and invisible, preserve the station conferred upon thee.  I swear by the righteousness of God!  Were anyone apprised of that which is veiled from the eyes of men, he would become so enraptured as to wing his flight unto God, the Lord of all that hath been and shall be.

May His glory rest upon thee and upon such as have drawn nigh unto Him and apprehended the meaning of that which the exalted Pen of God, the Almighty, the All-Loving, hath recorded in this Tablet.

          “ALL praise be to Thee, O my God, inasmuch as Thou...”

ALL praise be to Thee, O my God, inasmuch as Thou hast adorned the world with the splendour of the dawn following the night wherein was born the One Who heralded the Manifestation of Thy transcendent sovereignty, the Dayspring of Thy divine Essence and the Revelation of Thy supreme Lordship.  I beseech Thee, O Creator of the heavens and Fashioner of names, to graciously aid those who have sheltered beneath the shadow of Thine abounding mercy and have raised their voices amidst the peoples of the world for the glorification of Thy Name.