Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas eBook
Bahá'u'lláh
Unveiled and unconcealed, this Wronged One hath, at
all times, proclaimed before the face of all the peoples
of the world that which will serve as the key for
unlocking the doors of sciences, of arts, of knowledge,
of well-being, of prosperity and wealth. Neither
have the wrongs inflicted by the oppressors succeeded
in silencing the shrill voice of the Most Exalted
Pen, nor have the doubts of the perverse or of the
seditious been able to hinder Him from revealing the
Most Sublime Word. I earnestly beseech God that
He may protect and purge the people of Baha from the
idle fancies and corrupt imaginings of the followers
of the former Faith.
O people of God! Righteous men of learning who
dedicate themselves to the guidance of others and
are freed and well guarded from the promptings of a
base and covetous nature are, in the sight of Him Who
is the Desire of the world, stars of the heaven of
true knowledge. It is essential to treat them
with deference. They are indeed fountains of soft-flowing
water, stars that shine resplendent, fruits of the
blessed Tree, exponents of celestial power, and oceans
of heavenly wisdom. Happy is he that followeth
them. Verily such a soul is numbered in the Book
of God, the Lord of the mighty Throne, among those
with whom it shall be well.
The glory which proceedeth from God, the Lord of the
Throne on High and of the earth below, rest upon you,
O people of Baha, O ye the companions of the Crimson
Ark, and upon such as have inclined their ears to your
sweet voices and have observed that whereunto they
are bidden in this mighty and wondrous Tablet.
ISHRAQAT (SPLENDOURS)
This is the Epistle of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting
He is God, exalted is He, the Lord of wisdom and utterance.
PRAISE be unto God, incomparable in majesty, power
and beauty, peerless in glory, might and grandeur;
too high is He for human imaginations to comprehend
Him or for any peer or equal to be ascribed unto Him.
He hath clearly set forth His straight Path in words
and utterances of highest eloquence. Verily He
is the All-Possessing, the Most Exalted. When
He purposed to call the new creation into being, He
sent forth the Manifest and Luminous Point from the
horizon of His Will; it passed through every sign
and manifested itself in every form until it reached
the zenith, as bidden by God, the Lord of all men.
This Point is the focal centre of the circle of Names
and marketh the culmination of the manifestations
of Letters in the world of creation. Through
it have appeared indications of the impenetrable Mystery,
the adorned Symbol, He Who standeth revealed in the
Most Great Name—a Name which is recorded
in the luminous Tablet and is inscribed in the holy,
the blessed, the snow-white Scroll. And when
the Point was joined to the second Letter(25) which
appeareth in the beginning of the Mathani,(26) it
