Kitáb-i-Íqán | 92 |
And now, We beseech the people of the Bayan,
all the learned, the sages, the divines, and witnesses
amongst them, not to forget the wishes and admonitions
revealed in their Book. Let them, at all
times, fix their gaze upon the essentials of His
Cause, lest when He, Who is the Quintessence of
truth, the inmost Reality of all things, the Source
of all light, is made manifest, they cling unto certain
passages of the Book, and inflict upon Him
that which was inflicted in the Dispensation of the
Qur'án. For, verily, powerful is He, the King of
divine might, to extinguish with one letter of His
wondrous words, the breath of life in the whole of
the Bayan and the people thereof, and with one
letter bestow upon them a new and everlasting life,
and cause them to arise and speed out of the
sepulchres of their vain and selfish desires. Take
heed, and be watchful; and remember that all
things have their consummation in belief in Him,
in attainment unto His day, and in the realization
of His divine presence. "There is no piety in turning
your faces toward the east or toward the west,