These are verses We sent down previously, soon after Our arrival in the prison-city of Akka, and We have sent them unto thee, that thou mayest be acquainted with what their lying tongues have spoken, when Our Cause came unto them with might and sovereignty.  The foundations of idle fancies have trembled, and the heaven of vain imaginings hath been cleft asunder, and yet the people are in doubt and in contention with Him.  They have denied the testimony of God and His proof, after He came from the heaven of power with the kingdom of His signs.  They have cast away what had been prescribed, and perpetrated what had been forbidden them in the Book.  They have abandoned their God, and clung unto their desires.  They truly have strayed and are in error.  They read the verses and deny them.  They behold the clear tokens and turn aside.  They truly are lost in strange doubt.

We have admonished Our loved ones to fear God, a fear which is the fountain-head of all goodly deeds and virtues.  It is the commander of the hosts of justice in the city of Baha.  Happy the man that hath entered the shadow of its luminous standard, and laid fast hold thereon.  He, verily, is of the Companions of the Crimson Ark, which hath been mentioned in the Qayyum-i-Asma.

Say:  O people of God!  Adorn your temples with the adornment of trustworthiness and piety.  Help, then, your Lord with the hosts of goodly deeds and a praiseworthy character.  We have forbidden you dissension and conflict in My Books, and My Scriptures, and My Scrolls, and My Tablets, and have wished thereby naught else save your exaltation and advancement.  Unto this testify the heavens and the stars thereof, and the sun and the radiance thereof, and the trees and the leaves thereof, and the seas and the waves thereof, and the earth and the treasures thereof.  We pray God to assist His loved ones, and aid them in that which beseemeth them in this blest, this mighty, and wondrous station.

Further, in another Tablet, We have said:  “O thou who hast fixed thy gaze upon My countenance!  Admonish men to fear God.  By God!  This fear is the chief commander of the army of thy Lord.  Its hosts are a praiseworthy character and goodly deeds.  Through it have the cities of men’s hearts been opened throughout the ages and centuries, and the standards of ascendancy and triumph raised above all other standards.”

“We will now mention unto thee Trustworthiness and the station thereof in the estimation of God, thy Lord, the Lord of the Mighty Throne.  One day of days We repaired unto Our Green Island.  Upon Our arrival, We beheld its streams flowing, and its trees luxuriant, and the sunlight playing in their midst.  Turning Our face to the right, We beheld what the pen is powerless to describe; nor can it set forth that which the eye of the Lord of Mankind witnessed in that most sanctified, that most sublime, that blest, and most exalted Spot.  Turning, then, to the left We gazed on one of the Beauties of the