Render thou thanks unto the Beloved of the world for having graciously aided thee to attain confirmation in this glorious Cause.  Entreat Him moreover to make His loved ones steadfast therein, for the inflammatory writings of the mischief-makers are widespread and the clamour of the foreboders of evil is raised high.  Happy are they that have cast behind their backs all else save God and have held fast unto that which the Lord of strength and power hath enjoined upon them.

His Glory be upon thee and upon such as have been enabled to recognize and embrace this mighty Cause.

       “THIS is a Tablet which the Lord of all being hath sent...”

THIS is a Tablet which the Lord of all being hath sent down from His glorious station in honour of him who hath believed in God, the Almighty, the All-Loving.

Blessed is the wayfarer who hath recognized the Desired One, and the seeker who hath heeded the Call of Him Who is the intended Aim of all mankind, and the learned one who hath believed in God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

How vast the number of the learned who have turned aside from the way of God and how numerous the men devoid of learning who have apprehended the truth and hastened unto Him, saying, ’Praised be Thou, O Lord of all things, visible and invisible.’

By the righteousness of God!  The world’s horizon is resplendent with the light of the Most Great Luminary, yet the generality of mankind perceive it not.  Verily He Who is the Sovereign Truth moveth before the eyes of all men.  Unto this beareth witness the One Who is proclaiming in the midmost heart of the world, ’In truth no God is there but Me, Omnipotent over all things, whether of the past or of the future.’

Great is the blessedness of the believer who hath directed himself towards Him and hath gained admittance into His presence, and woe betide every disbeliever who hath turned away from God and followed the wayward and the outcast.

         “O FRIEND!  In the Bayan We directed everyone in this...”

O FRIEND!  In the Bayan We directed everyone in this Most Great Revelation to see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears.  However when the horizon of the world was illumined with the resplendent light of this Revelation, many people forgot this divine commandment, lost sight of this heavenly exhortation and immersed themselves in the vain imaginings which their minds had devised.  Indeed the face of the sun of justice and fairness is hidden behind the clouds of idle fancy which the foolish ones have conceived.  Therefore it is not to be wondered at that the movements of the birds of darkness attract attention.  Through the potency of the Name of the Best-Beloved, invite thou the receptive souls unto God’s holy court, that perchance they may not remain deprived of the heavenly Fountain of living water.  He is in truth the Gracious, the Forgiving.

The gaze of the loving-kindness of God—­exalted and glorified is He—­hath everlastingly been directed towards His beloved friends; verily He is the One Who knoweth and remembereth.