O people of Baha!  Ye are the dawning-places of the love of God and the daysprings of His loving-kindness.  Defile not your tongues with the cursing and reviling of any soul, and guard your eyes against that which is not seemly.  Set forth that which ye possess.  If it be favourably received, your end is attained; if not, to protest is vain.  Leave that soul to himself and turn unto the Lord, the Protector, the Self-Subsisting.  Be not the cause of grief, much less of discord and strife.  The hope is cherished that ye may obtain true education in the shelter of the tree of His tender mercies and act in accordance with that which God desireth.  Ye are all the leaves of one tree and the drops of one ocean.

The fourteenth Glad-Tidings

It is not necessary to undertake special journeys to visit the resting-places of the dead.  If people of substance and affluence offer the cost of such journeys to the House of Justice, it will be pleasing and acceptable in the presence of God.  Happy are they that observe His precepts.

The fifteenth Glad-Tidings

Although a republican form of government profiteth all the peoples of the world, yet the majesty of kingship is one of the signs of God.  We do not wish that the countries of the world should remain deprived thereof.  If the sagacious combine the two forms into one, great will be their reward in the presence of God.

In former religions such ordinances as holy war, destruction of books, the ban on association and companionship with other peoples or on reading certain books had been laid down and affirmed according to the exigencies of the time; however, in this mighty Revelation, in this momentous Announcement, the manifold bestowals and favours of God have overshadowed all men, and from the horizon of the Will of the Ever-Abiding Lord, His infallible decree hath prescribed that which We have set forth above.

We yield praise unto God—­hallowed and glorified be He—­for whatsoever He hath graciously revealed in this blessed, this glorious and incomparable Day.  Indeed if everyone on earth were endowed with a myriad tongues and were to continually praise God and magnify His Name to the end that knoweth no end, their thanksgiving would not prove adequate for even one of the gracious favours We have mentioned in this Tablet.  Unto this beareth witness every man of wisdom and discernment, of understanding and knowledge.

We earnestly beseech God—­exalted be His glory—­to aid the rulers and sovereigns, who are the exponents of power and the daysprings of glory, to enforce His laws and ordinances.  He is in truth the Omnipotent, the All-Powerful, He Who is wont to answer the call of men.

TARAZAT (ORNAMENTS)

In My Name, which standeth supreme above all names

Praise and glory beseem the Lord of Names and the Creator of the heavens, He, the waves of Whose ocean of Revelation surge before the eyes of the peoples of the world.  The Day-Star of His Cause shineth through every veil and His Word of affirmation standeth beyond the reach of negation.  Neither the ascendancy of the oppressor nor the tyranny of the wicked hath been able to thwart His Purpose.  How glorified is His sovereignty, how exalted His dominion!