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moment's separation from it would to them be unthinkable.
They will hearken unto infallible proofs
from the Hyacinth of that assembly, and receive
the surest testimonies from the beauty of its Rose
and the melody of its Nightingale. Once in about
a thousand years shall this City be renewed and
re-adorned.
Wherefore, O my friend, it behooveth Us to
exert the highest endeavour to attain unto that
City, and, by the grace of God and His loving-kindness,
rend asunder the "veils of glory"; so
that, with inflexible steadfastness, we may sacrifice
our drooping souls in the path of the New
Beloved. We should with tearful eyes, fervently
and repeatedly, implore Him to grant us the favour
of that grace. That city is none other than
the Word of God revealed in every age and dispensation.
In the days of Moses it was the Pentateuch;
in the days of Jesus the Gospel; in the days
of Muhammad the Messenger of God the Qur'án;
in this day the Bayan; and in the dispensation of
Him Whom God will make manifest His own
Book--the Book unto which all the Books of former
Dispensations must needs be referred, the
Book which standeth amongst them all transcendent
