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“SAY, God shall of a truth cause your hearts to be given to …” 148 |
That day whereon ye were, by God’s Will, initiated into
the Bayán, did any of you know who were the Letters of
the Living or the Witnesses or the Testimonies or what the
names of the believers? Likewise doth God wish you to
recognize Him Whom God shall make manifest on the
Day of Resurrection. Beware lest ye shut yourselves out as
by a veil from Him Who hath created you, by reason of
your regard for those who were called into being at the
bidding of the Point of the Bayán for the exaltation of His
Word. Did ye possess, ere the Point of the Bayán had called
you into existence, any trace of identity, how much less a
writ or authority? Disregard then your beginnings, perchance
ye may be saved on the day of your return. Indeed
had it not been for the exaltation of the name of the Primal
Point, God would not have ordained for you the Letters of
the Living, nor those who are the Testimonies of His
Truth, nor the Witnesses of His Justice; could ye but heed
a little. All this is to glorify the Cause of Him Whom God
shall make manifest at the time of His manifestation;
would that ye might ponder a while.
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Therefore it behooveth you to return unto God even as
ye were brought forth into existence, and to utter not such
words as why or nay, if ye wish your creation to yield
fruit at the time of your return. For none of you who have
been born in the Bayán shall gain the fruit of your beginning
unless ye return unto Him Whom God shall make
manifest. He it is Who caused your beginning to proceed
from God, and your return to be unto Him, did ye but
know. XVI, 15.
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