wealth of the rich, nor even
the ascendancy of the ungodly will endure. All will perish, at a word from
Him. He, verily, is the All-Powerful, the All-Compelling, the Almighty.
What advantage is there in the earthly things which men possess? That
which shall profit them, they have utterly neglected. Erelong, they will
awake from their slumber, and find themselves unable to obtain that which
hath escaped them in the days of their Lord, the Almighty, the
All-Praised. Did they but know it, they would renounce their all, that
their names may be mentioned before His throne. They, verily, are
accounted among the dead.

LXXII: LET NOT YOUR HEARTS BE PERTURBED, O PEOPLE,...

Let not your hearts be perturbed, O people, when the glory of My Presence
is withdrawn, and the ocean of My utterance is stilled. In My presence
amongst you there is a wisdom, and in My absence there is yet another,
inscrutable to all but God, the Incomparable, the All-Knowing. Verily, We
behold you from Our realm of glory, and shall aid whosoever will arise for
the triumph of Our Cause with the hosts of the Concourse on high and a
company of Our favored angels.

O peoples of the earth! God, the Eternal Truth, is My witness that streams
of fresh and soft-flowing waters have gushed from the rocks, through the
sweetness of the words uttered by your Lord, the Unconstrained; and still
ye slumber. Cast away that which ye possess, and, on the wings of
detachment, soar beyond all created things. Thus biddeth you the Lord of
creation, the movement of Whose Pen hath revolutionized the soul of
mankind.

Know ye from what heights your Lord, the All-Glorious is calling? Think ye
that ye have recognized the Pen wherewith your Lord, the Lord of all
names, commandeth you? Nay, by My life! Did ye but know it, ye would
renounce the world, and would hasten with your whole hearts to the
presence of the Well-Beloved. Your spirits would be so transported by His
Word as to throw into commotion the Greater World--how much more this small
and petty one! Thus have the showers of My bounty been poured down from
the heaven of My loving-kindness, as a token of My grace; that ye may be
of the thankful....

Beware lest the desires of the flesh and of a corrupt inclination provoke
divisions among you. Be ye as the fingers of one hand, the members of one
body. Thus counselleth you the Pen of Revelation, if ye be of them that
believe.

Consider the mercy of God and His gift