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unto you. Naught else besides Him can ever profit you, no, not though ye
produce from first to last the testimonies of all those who were before
you."

And when after the lapse of a few years the heaven of Divine decree was
cleft asunder, and the Beauty of the Bab appeared in the clouds of the
names of God, arrayed in a new raiment, these same people maliciously rose
up against Him, Whose light embraceth all created things. They broke His
Covenant, rejected His truth, contended with Him, caviled at His signs,
treated His testimony as falsehood, and joined the company of the
infidels. Eventually, they determined to take away His life. Such is the
state of them who are in a far-gone error!

And when they realized their powerlessness to achieve their purpose, they
arose to plot against Him. Witness how every moment they devise a fresh
device to harm Him, that they may injure and dishonor the cause of God.
Say: Woe be to you! By God! Your schemings cover you with shame. Your
Lord, the God of mercy, can well dispense with all creatures. Nothing
whatever can either increase or diminish the things He doth possess. If ye
believe, to your own behoof will ye believe; and if ye believe not, ye
yourselves will suffer. At no time can the hand of the infidel profane the
hem of His Robe.

O My servant that believest in God! By the righteousness of the Almighty!
Were I to recount to thee the tale of the things that have befallen Me,
the souls and minds of men would be incapable of sustaining its weight.
God Himself beareth Me witness. Watch over thyself, and follow not the
footsteps of these people. Meditate diligently upon the Cause of thy Lord.
Strive to know Him through His own Self and not through others. For no one
else besides Him can ever profit thee. To this all created things will
testify, couldst thou but perceive it.

Emerge from behind the veil, by the leave of thy Lord, the All-Glorious,
the Most Powerful, and seize, before the eyes of those who are in the
heavens and those who are on the earth, the Chalice of Immortality, in the
name of thy Lord, the Inaccessible, the Most High, and quaff thy fill, and
be not of them that tarry. I swear by God! The moment thou touchest the
Cup with thy lips, the Concourse on high will acclaim thee saying, "Drink
with healthy relish, O man that hast truly believed in God!" and the
inhabitants of the Cities of Immortality will cry out, "Joy be to thee, O
thou that hast drained the Cup