Who is the Father! He, verily, is come unto the
nations in His most great majesty. Turn your faces towards Him, O
concourse of the righteous!

113 O followers of all religions! We behold you wandering distraught in
the wilderness of error. Ye are the fish of this Ocean; wherefore do ye
withhold yourselves from that which sustaineth you? Lo, it surgeth before
your faces. Hasten unto it from every clime. This is the day whereon the
Rock(12) crieth out and shouteth, and celebrateth the praise of its Lord,
the All-Possessing, the Most High, saying: "Lo! The Father is come, and
that which ye were promised in the Kingdom is fulfilled!" This is the Word
which was preserved behind the veils of grandeur, and which, when the
Promise came to pass, shed its radiance from the horizon of the Divine
Will with clear tokens.

114 My body hath borne imprisonment that your souls may be released from
bondage, and We have consented to be abased that ye may be exalted. Follow
the Lord of glory and dominion, and not every ungodly oppressor. My body
longeth for the cross, and Mine head awaiteth the thrust of the spear, in
the path of the All-Merciful, that the world may be purged from its
transgressions. Thus hath the Daystar of divine authority shone forth from
the horizon of the Revelation of Him Who is the Possessor of all names and
attributes.

115 The people of the Qur'an have risen against Us, and tormented Us with
such a torment that the Holy Spirit lamented, and the thunder roared out,
and the clouds wept over Us. Among the faithless is he who hath imagined
that calamities can deter Baha from fulfilling that which God, the Creator
of all things, hath purposed. Say: Nay, by Him Who causeth the rain to
fall! Nothing whatsoever can withhold Him from the remembrance of His
Lord.

116 By the righteousness of God! Should they cast Him into a fire kindled
on the continent, He will assuredly rear His head in the midmost heart of
the ocean and proclaim: "He is the Lord of all that are in heaven and all
that are on earth!" And if they cast Him into a darksome pit, they will
find Him seated on earth's loftiest heights calling aloud to all mankind:
"Lo, the Desire of the World is come in His majesty, His sovereignty, His
transcendent dominion!" And if He be buried beneath the depths of the
earth, His Spirit soaring to the apex of heaven shall peal the summons:
"Behold ye the coming of the Glory; witness ye the Kingdom of God, the
Most Holy, th