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.
