and hell hath been made to blaze with the fire of the impious.  Say:  ’The light hath shone forth from the horizon of Revelation, and the whole earth hath been illumined at the coming of Him Who is the Lord of the Day of the Covenant!’ The doubters have perished, whilst he that turned, guided by the light of assurance, unto the Dayspring of Certitude hath prospered.  Blessed art thou, who hast fixed thy gaze upon Me, for this Tablet which hath been sent down for thee—­a Tablet which causeth the souls of men to soar.  Commit it to memory, and recite it.  By My life!  It is a door to the mercy of thy Lord.  Well is it with him that reciteth it at eventide and at dawn.  We, verily, heard thy praise of this Cause, through which the mountain of knowledge was crushed, and men’s feet have slipped.  My glory be upon thee and upon whomsoever hath turned unto the Almighty, the All-Bounteous.  The Tablet is ended, but the theme is unexhausted.  Be patient, for thy Lord is patient.

These are verses We sent down previously, and We have sent them unto thee, that thou mayest be acquainted with what their lying tongues have spoken, when God 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 fountainhead 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.  Moreover We beseech Him to graciously enable those who surround Me to observe that which My Pen of Glory hath enjoined upon them.