to reveal the
hidden secrets of that Day, all they that dwell on earth and in the
heavens would swoon away and die, except such as will be preserved by God,
the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
Such is the inebriating effect of the words of God upon Him Who is the
Revealer of His undoubted proofs, that His Pen can move no longer. With
these words He concludeth His Tablet: "No God is there but Me, the Most
Exalted, the Most Powerful, the Most Excellent, the All-Knowing."
XV: THE PEN OF REVELATION EXCLAIMETH: "ON THIS...
The Pen of Revelation exclaimeth: "On this Day the Kingdom is God's!" The
Tongue of Power is calling: "On this Day all sovereignty is, in very deed,
with God!" The Phoenix of the realms above crieth out from the immortal
Branch: "The glory of all greatness belongeth to God, the Incomparable,
the All-Compelling!" The Mystic Dove proclaimeth from its blissful bower,
in the everlasting Paradise: "The source of all bounty is derived, in this
Day, from God, the One, the Forgiving!" The Bird of the Throne warbleth
its melody in its retreats of holiness: "Supreme ascendancy is to be
attributed, this Day, to none except God, Him Who hath no peer nor equal,
Who is the Most Powerful, the All-Subduing!" The inmost essence of all
things voiceth in all things the testimony: "All forgiveness floweth, in
this Day, from God, Him to Whom none can compare, with Whom no partners
can be joined, the Sovereign Protector of all men, and the Concealer of
their sins!" The Quintessence of Glory hath lifted up its voice above My
head, and crieth from such heights as neither pen nor tongue can in any
degree describe: "God is my witness! He, the Ancient of everlasting days
is come, girded with majesty and power. There is none other God but Him,
the All-Glorious, the Almighty, the All-Highest, the All-Wise, the
All-Pervading, the All-Seeing, the All-Informed, the Sovereign Protector,
the Source of eternal light!"
O My servant, who hast sought the good-pleasure of God and clung to His
love on the Day when all except a few who were endued with insight have
broken away from Him! May God, through His grace, recompense thee with a
generous, an incorruptible and everlasting reward, inasmuch as thou hast
sought Him on the Day when eyes were blinded. Know thou that if We reveal
to thee but a sprinkling of the showers which, through God's decree, and
at the hands of the envious and the malicious, have rained upon Us, t
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