the tombs of their selfish desires, though the breeze of God hath blown
over all regions. They, truly, are wrapt in a dense and grievous veil. And
oft as the verses of God are rehearsed unto them, they persist in proud
disdain; it is as though they were devoid of all understanding, or had
never heard the Call of God, the Most Exalted, the All-Knowing.

95 Say: Alas for you! How can ye profess yourselves believers, when ye
deny the verses of God, the Almighty, the All-Wise? Say: O people! Turn
your faces unto your Lord, the All-Merciful. Beware lest ye be veiled by
aught that hath been revealed in the Bayan: It was, in truth, revealed for
no other purpose than to make mention of Me, the All-Powerful, the Most
High, and had no other object than My Beauty. The whole world hath been
filled with My testimony, if ye be of them that judge with fairness.

96 Had the Primal Point been someone else beside Me as ye claim, and had
attained My presence, verily He would have never allowed Himself to be
separated from Me, but rather We would have had mutual delights with each
other in My Days. He, in truth, wept sore in His remoteness from Me. He
preceded Me that He might summon the people unto My Kingdom, as it hath
been set forth in the Tablets, could ye but perceive it! O would that men
of hearing might be found who could hear the voice of His lamentation in
the Bayan bewailing that which hath befallen Me at the hands of these
heedless souls, bemoaning His separation from Me and giving utterance to
His longing to be united with Me, the Mighty, the Peerless. He, verily,
beholdeth at this very moment His Best-Beloved amidst those who were
created to attain His Day and to prostrate themselves before Him, and yet
who have inflicted in their tyranny such abasement upon Him as the pen
confesseth its inability to describe.

97 Say: O people! We, verily, summoned you, in Our former Revelation, unto
this Scene of transcendent glory, this Seat of stainless sanctity, and
announced unto you the advent of the Days of God. Yet, when the most great
veil was rent asunder, and the Ancient Beauty came unto you in the clouds
of God's decree, ye repudiated Him in Whom ye had believed aforetime. Woe
betide you, O company of infidels! Fear ye God, and nullify not the truth
with the things ye possess. When the luminary of divine verses dawneth
upon you from the horizon of the Pen of the King of all names and
attributes, fall ye prostrate upon your faces