Part I—From the Arabic
Preamble ("This is that which hath descended")
1 ("My first counsel is this")
2 ("The best beloved of all things")
3 ("Veiled in My immemorial being")
4 ("I loved thy creation")
5 ("Love Me, that I may love thee")
6 ("Thy Paradise is My love")
7 ("If thou lovest Me")
8 ("There is no peace for thee")
9 ("My love is My stronghold")
10 ("Thou art My stronghold")
11 ("Thou art My lamp")
12 ("With the hands of power")
13 ("I created thee rich")
14 ("Thou art My dominion")
15 ("Turn thy face unto Mine")
16 ("Forget all save Me")
17 ("Be thou content with Me ")
18 ("Ask not of Me")
19 ("I have breathed within thee")
20 ("My claim on thee is great")
21 ("Upon the tree of effulgent glory")
22 ("Noble have I created thee")
23 ("To the eternal I call thee")
24 ("Transgress not thy limits")
25 ("Vaunt not thyself over the poor")
26 ("How couldst thou forget thine own faults ")
27 ("Breathe not the sins of others ")
28 ("Know thou of a truth")
29 ("Ascribe not to any soul")
30 ("Deny not My servant should he ask")
31 ("Bring thyself to account each day")
32 ("I have made death a messenger of joy ")
33 ("With the joyful tidings of light")
34 ("The spirit of holiness beareth unto thee")
35 ("Sorrow not save that thou art far")
36 ("Rejoice in the gladness of thine heart")
37 ("Divest not thyself of My beauteous robe")
38 ("Walk in My statutes for love of Me")
39 ("Neglect not My commandments")
40 ("Wert thou to speed through the immensity")
41 ("Magnify My cause")
42 ("Humble thyself before Me")
43 ("Make mention of Me on My earth")
44 ("Thy hearing is My hearing")
45 ("Seek a martyr's death in My path")
46 ("Ponder and reflect. Is it thy wish to die")
47 ("By My beauty! To tinge thy hair")
48 ("For everything there is a sign")
49 ("The true lover yearneth for tribulation")
50 ("If adversity befall thee not in My path")
51 ("My calamity is My providence")
52 ("Should prosperity befall thee")
53 ("If poverty overtake thee, be not sad")
54 ("If thine heart be set upon this eternal")
55 ("Busy not thyself with this world")
56 ("Thou dost wish for gold")
57 ("Bestow My wealth upon My poor")
58 ("The temple of being is My throne")
59 ("Thy heart is My home; sanctify it")
60 ("Put thy hand into My bosom")
61 ("Ascend unto My heaven")
62 ("Many a day hath passed over thee")
63 ("The light hath shone on thee")
64 ("My eternity is My creation")
65 ("My majesty is My gift to thee")
66 ("Ye shall be hindered from loving Me")
67 ("By My spirit and by My favor!")
68 ("Know ye not why We created you")
69 ("Ye are My treasury")
70 ("Know thou, that I have wafted unto thee")
71 ("Write all that We have revealed unto thee")
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Part II—From the Persian
Preamble ("In the Name of the Lord")
1 ("The first call of the Beloved")
2 ("The bird seeketh its nest")
3 ("In the garden of thy heart")
4 ("Whither can a lover go")
5 ("Verily I say unto thee")
6 ("Know, verily, the heart wherein")
7 ("Thou art but one step away")
8 ("Be swift in the path of holiness")
9 ("Pass beyond the baser stages")
10 ("Give ear unto this")
11 ("Blind thine eyes")
12 ("Close one eye and open the other")
13 ("I fear lest, bereft of the melody")
14 ("Abandon not the everlasting beauty")
15 ("The time cometh, when the nightingale")
16 ("Myriads of mystic tongues find utterance")
17 ("The gates that open on the Placeless")
18 ("Proclaim unto the children of assurance")
19 ("Have ye forgotten that true and radiant")
20 ("Ages have passed and your precious lives")
21 ("I desire communion with thee")
22 ("The learned and the wise")
23 ("Mortal blasts have beset")
24 ("Wherefore do ye wear the guise")
25 ("Ye are like clear but bitter water")
26 ("Ponder awhile. Hast thou ever heard ")
27 ("All that is in heaven and earth")
28 ("At many a dawn have I turned")
29 ("Out of the wastes of nothingness")
30 ("Many a dawn hath the breeze")
31 ("Wouldst thou have Me")
32 ("The candle of thine heart")
33 ("Hearken to the delightsome words")
34 ("With the hands of loving-kindness")
35 ("Quench ye the lamp of error")
36 ("The wise are they that speak not")
37 ("Abandon not for that which perisheth")
38 ("Burst thy cage asunder")
39 ("Be not content with the ease")
40 ("Free thyself from the fetters")
41 ("Didst thou behold immortal sovereignty")
42 ("Purge thy heart from malice")
43 ("Walk ye in the ways of the good pleasure")
44 ("Hear no evil, and see no evil")
45 ("Even as the swiftness of lightning")
46 ("Wherefore have ye neglected")
47 ("Put away the garment of vainglory")
48 ("Be forbearing one with another")
49 ("Tell the rich of the midnight sighing")
50 ("Put away all covetousness")
51 ("Be not troubled in poverty")
52 ("Ye have suffered My enemy")
53 ("Know ye in thruth that wealth")
54 ("The poor in your midst are My trust")
55 ("Cleanse thyself from the defilement")
56 ("The company of the ungodly")
57 ("Beware! Walk not with the ungodly")
58 ("Wouldst thou seek the grace")
59 ("Think not the secrets of hearts")
60 ("Verily I say, whatsoever ye have concealed")
61 ("A dewdrop out of the fathomless ocean")
62 ("Turn not away thine eyes")
63 ("Know, verily, that an unforeseen calamity")
64 ("Withdraw your hands from tyranny")
65 ("My forbearance hath emboldened you")
66 ("The tongue I have designed")
67 ("Know, verily, that while the radiant dawn")
68 ("Wherefore have not these soiled hands")
69 ("Holy words and pure and goodly deeds")
70 ("Pleasant is the realm of being")
71 ("Call ye to mind that covenant")
72 ("Thou art even as a finely tempered sword")
73 ("Thou art the daystar of the heavens")
74 ("For a fleeting sovereignty ye have")
75 ("Set not your affections on mortal")
76 ("Guidance hath ever been given by words")
77 ("In the night-season the beauty of the ")
78 ("Quaff from the tongue of the merciful")
79 ("How long wilt thou soar in the realms")
80 ("Ye are the trees of My garden")
81 ("The basest of men are they that yield no")
82 ("The best of men are they that earn")
Conclusion ("The mystic and wondrous Bride")
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