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CIII: God hath, through His tongue that uttereth… |
By the righteousness of God! He, from the heights
of this sublime, this holy, this mighty, and transcendent
station, seeth all things, heareth all things, and
is, at this hour, proclaiming: Blessed art thou, O
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Javád, inasmuch as thou hast attained unto that
which no man before thee hath attained. I swear by
Him Who is the Eternal Truth! Through thee the
eyes of the inmates of the Exalted Paradise have been
gladdened. The people, however, are utterly heedless.
Were We to reveal thy station, the hearts of men
would be sorely agitated, their footsteps would slip,
the embodiments of vain-glory would be dumbfounded,
would fall down upon the ground, and
would thrust the fingers of heedlessness into their
ears, for fear of hearing.
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Grieve thou not over those that have busied themselves
with the things of this world, and have forgotten
the remembrance of God, the Most Great. By
Him Who is the Eternal Truth! The day is approaching
when the wrathful anger of the Almighty will
have taken hold of them. He, verily, is the Omnipotent,
the All-Subduing, the Most Powerful. He shall
cleanse the earth from the defilement of their corruption,
and shall give it for an heritage unto such
of His servants as are nigh unto Him.
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Say: O people! Dust fill your mouths, and ashes
blind your eyes, for having bartered away the Divine
Joseph for the most paltry of prices. Oh, the misery
that resteth upon you, ye that are far astray! Have
ye imagined in your hearts that ye possess the power
to outstrip Him and His Cause? Far from it! To this
He, Himself, the All-Powerful, the Most Exalted,
the Most Great, doth testify.
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Soon shall the blasts of His chastisement beat upon
you, and the dust of hell enshroud you. Those men
who, having amassed the vanities and ornaments of
the earth, have turned away disdainfully from God—these have lost both this world and the world to
come. Ere long, will God, with the Hand of Power,
strip them of their possessions, and divest them of the
robe of His bounty. To this they themselves shall
soon witness. Thou, too, shalt testify.
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Say: O people! Let not this life and its deceits deceive
you, for the world and all that is therein is held
firmly in the grasp of His Will. He bestoweth His
favor on whom He willeth, and from whom He
willeth He taketh it away. He doth whatsoever He
chooseth. Had the world been of any worth in His
sight, He surely would never have allowed His enemies
to possess it, even to the extent of a grain of
mustard seed. He hath, however, caused you to be
entangled with its affairs, in return for what your
hands have wrought in His Cause. This, indeed, is a
chastisement which ye, of your own will, have inflicted
upon yourselves, could ye but perceive it. Are
ye rejoicing in the things which, according to the
estimate of God, are contemptible and worthless,
things wherewith He proveth the hearts of the
doubtful?
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