O Jalil!  Upon thee be My glory and My loving providence.  Verily We have enjoined the people to do what is meet and seemly and yet they have committed such things as have caused My heart and My Pen to lament.  Incline thine ear to that which is sent down from the heaven of My Will and the realm of My good-pleasure.  I sorrow not for My captivity, nor for the things that have befallen Me at the hand of Mine enemies.  Nay, My sorrows are occasioned by those who claim to be related to Me and yet commit that which causeth the voice of My lamentations to be lifted up and My tears to flow.  We have exhorted them at length in various Tablets and beseech God to graciously assist them, to enable them to draw nigh unto Him and to confirm them in that which would bring peace to the hearts and tranquillity to the souls and would stay their hands from whatsoever ill-beseemeth His days.

Say, O My loved ones in My lands!  Give ye ear unto the counsels of Him Who admonisheth you for the sake of God.  He hath in truth created you, hath revealed before your eyes that which exalteth you and promoteth your interests.  He hath made known unto you His straight Path and hath acquainted you with His Great Announcement.

O Jalil!  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 Most Sublime Paradise, standing on a pillar of light, and calling aloud saying:  ’O inmates of earth and heaven!  Behold ye My beauty, and My radiance, and My revelation, and My effulgence.  By God, the True One!  I am Trustworthiness and the revelation thereof, and the beauty thereof.  I will recompense whosoever will cleave unto Me, and recognize My rank and station, and hold fast unto My hem.  I am the most great ornament of the people of Baha, and the vesture of glory unto all who are in the kingdom of creation.  I am the supreme instrument for the prosperity of the world, and the horizon of assurance unto all beings.’  Thus have We sent down for thee that which will draw men nigh unto the Lord of creation.

The Pen of the Most High turneth from the eloquent language(43) to the luminous one(44) that thou, O Jalil, mayest appreciate the tender mercy of thy Lord, the Incomparable One and mayest be of them that are truly grateful.