Say:  O people, if ye judge fairly and equitably, ye will testify to the truth of whatsoever hath streamed forth from the Most Exalted Pen.  If ye be of the people of the Bayan, the Persian Bayan will guide you aright and will prove a sufficient testimony unto you; and if ye be of the people of the Qur’an, ponder ye upon the Revelation on Sinai and the Voice from the Bush which came unto the Son of ’Imran [Moses].

Gracious God!  It was intended that at the time of the manifestation of the One true God the faculty of recognizing Him would have been developed and matured and would have reached its culmination.  However, it is now clearly demonstrated that in the disbelievers this faculty hath remained undeveloped and hath, indeed, degenerated.

O ’Ali!  That which they accepted from the Bush they now refuse to accept from Him Who is the Tree of the world of existence.  Say, O people of the Bayan, speak not according to the dictates of passion and selfish desire.  Most of the peoples of the earth attest the truth of the blessed Word which hath come forth from the Bush.

By the righteousness of God!  But for the anthem of praise voiced by Him Who heralded the divine Revelation, this Wronged One would never have breathed a word which might have struck terror into the hearts of the ignorant and caused them to perish.  Dwelling on the glorification of Him Whom God shall make manifest—­exalted be His Manifestation—­the Bab in the beginning of the Bayan saith:  ’He is the One Who shall proclaim under all conditions, “Verily, verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the Lord of all created things.  In truth all others except Me are My creatures.  O, My creatures!  Me alone do ye worship."’ Likewise in another instance He, magnifying the Name of Him Who shall be made manifest, saith:  ’I would be the first to adore Him.’  Now it behoveth one to reflect upon the significance of the ‘Adorer’ and the ‘Adored One’, that perchance the people of the earth may partake of a dewdrop from the ocean of divine knowledge and may be enabled to perceive the greatness of this Revelation.  Verily, He hath appeared and hath unloosed His tongue to proclaim the Truth.  Well is it with him who doth acknowledge and recognize the truth, and woe betide the froward and the wayward.

O kindreds of the earth!  Incline your ears unto the Voice from the divine Lote-Tree which overshadoweth the world and be not of the people of tyranny on earth—­men who have repudiated the Manifestation of God and His invincible authority and have renounced His favours—­they in truth are reckoned with the contemptible in the Book of God, the Lord of all mankind.

The Glory which hath dawned above the horizon of My tender mercy rest upon thee and upon whosoever is with thee and giveth ear to thy words concerning the Cause of God, the Almighty, the All-Praised.

KALIMAT-I-FIRDAWSIYYIH (WORDS OF PARADISE)