O Lord! Look not at the things they have wrought,
rather look unto the loftiness of Thy celestial bounty
which hath preceded all created things, visible and
invisible. O Lord! Illumine their hearts
with the effulgent light of Thy knowledge and brighten
their eyes with the shining splendour of the day-star
of Thy favours.
I entreat Thee, O Lord of Names and Creator of the
heavens, by the blood spilt in Thy Path, and by the
heads carried aloft on spears for the sake of Thy
love, and by the souls that have melted in their separation
from Thy loved ones, and by the hearts broken for
the exaltation of Thy Word, to grant that the dwellers
of Thy realm may unite together in their allegiance
to Thine incomparable Word so that they may all acknowledge
Thy unity and Thy oneness. There is no God but
Thee, the Omnipotent, the Most Exalted, the Knowing,
the Wise.
I fain would hope that He Who is the All-Sufficing,
the Inaccessible, may heed the solicitation of this
lowly servant, may attire the people of the world
with the raiment of goodly deeds and purge them from
evil inclinations. He is the Mighty, the Powerful,
the All-Wise, the All-Perceiving. He heareth
and seeth; He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.
SURIY-I-VAFA(60)
(TABLET TO VAFA)
O VAFA! Render thanks unto thy Lord for having
aided thee to embrace His Cause, enabled thee to recognize
the Manifestation of His Own Self and raised thee
up to magnify Him Who is the Most Great Remembrance
in this glorious Announcement.
Blessed art thou O Vafa, inasmuch as thou hast been
faithful to the Covenant of God and His Testament
at a time when all men have violated it and have repudiated
the One in Whom they had believed, and this notwithstanding
that He hath appeared invested with every testimony,
and hath dawned from the horizon of Revelation clothed
with undoubted sovereignty.
It behoveth thee, however, to exert thine utmost to
attain the very essence of fidelity. This implieth
to be well assured in thy heart and to testify with
thy tongue to that whereunto God hath testified for
His Own exalted Self, proclaiming: ’Verily,
self-subsisting am I within the Realm of Glory.’
Whoso is enabled in these days to solemnly affirm this
truth, hath attained unto all good, and the heavenly
Spirit shall descend upon him in the daytime and in
the night season, shall graciously assist him to glorify
the Name of his Lord and suffer him to unloose his
tongue and uphold with his words the Cause of his
Lord, the Merciful, the Compassionate. And none
can ever achieve this except he who hath purged his
heart from whatsoever is created between heaven and
earth, and hath entirely detached himself from all
but God, the sovereign Lord, the Almighty, the Gracious.
