Epistle to the Son of the Wolf eBook

Bahá'u'lláh
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 168 pages of information about Epistle to the Son of the Wolf.

Epistle to the Son of the Wolf eBook

Bahá'u'lláh
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 168 pages of information about Epistle to the Son of the Wolf.

“O heedless one!  Rely not on thy glory, and thy power.  Thou art even as the last trace of sunlight upon the mountain-top.  Soon will it fade away as decreed by God, the All-Possessing, the Most High.  Thy glory and the glory of such as are like thee have been taken away, and this verily is what hath been ordained by the One with Whom is the Mother Tablet.  Where is he to be found who contended with God, and whither is gone he that gainsaid His signs, and turned aside from His sovereignty?  Where are they who have slain His chosen ones and spilt the blood of His holy ones?  Reflect, that haply thou mayest perceive the breaths of thine acts, O foolish doubter!  Because of you the Apostle (Muhammad) lamented, and the Chaste One (Fatimih) cried out, and the countries were laid waste, and darkness fell upon all regions.  O concourse of divines!  Because of you the people were abased, and the banner of Islam was hauled down, and its mighty throne subverted.  Every time a man of discernment hath sought to hold fast unto that which would exalt Islam, ye raised a clamor, and thereby was he deterred from achieving his purpose, while the land remained fallen in clear ruin.

“O My Supreme Pen!  Call Thou to remembrance the She-Serpent (Imam-Jum’ih of Isfahan) whose cruelty hath caused all created things to groan, and the limbs of the holy ones to quake.  Thus biddeth Thee the Lord of all names, in this glorious station.  The Chaste One (Fatimih) hath cried out by reason of thine iniquity, and yet thou dost imagine thyself to be of the family of the Apostle of God!  Thus hath thy soul prompted thee, O thou who hast withdrawn thyself from God, the Lord of all that hath been and shall be.  Judge thou equitably, O She-Serpent!  For what crime didst thou sting the children of the Apostle of God (King of Martyrs and Beloved of Martyrs), and pillage their possessions?  Hast thou denied Him Who created thee by His command ‘be, and it was’?  Thou hast dealt with the children of the Apostle of God as neither ’Ad hath dealt with Hud, nor Thamud with Salih, nor the Jews with the Spirit of God (Jesus), the Lord of all being.  Gainsayest thou the signs of thy Lord which had no sooner been sent down from the heaven of His Cause than all the books of the world bowed down before them?  Meditate, that thou mayest be made aware of thine act, O heedless outcast!  Erelong will the breaths of chastisement seize thee, as they seized others before thee.  Wait, O thou who hast joined partners with God, the Lord of the visible and the invisible.  This is the day which God hath announced through the tongue of His Apostle.  Reflect, that thou mayest apprehend what the All-Merciful hath sent down in the Qur’an and in this inscribed Tablet.  This is the day whereon He Who is the Dayspring of Revelation hath come with clear tokens which none can number.  This is the day whereon every man endued with perception hath discovered the fragrance of the breeze of the All-Merciful in the world of creation,

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