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that ye are doers of good. If ye perceive the degree of your deprivation
of God, ye will wish to have perished from the face of the earth and to
have sunk into oblivion. The day will come when ye will earnestly desire
to know that which would meet with the good-pleasure of God but, alas, ye
shall find no path unto Him. Ye, even as camels that wander aimlessly,
will not find a pasture wherein ye may gather and unite upon a Cause in
which ye can assuredly believe. At that time God shall cause the Sun of
Truth to shine forth and the oceans of His bounty and grace to surge,
while ye will have chosen droplets of water as the object of your desire,
and will have deprived yourselves of the plenteous waters in His oceans.

If ye entertain any doubts in this matter consider the people unto whom
the Gospel was given. Having no access to the apostles of Jesus, they
sought the pleasure of the Lord in their churches, hoping to learn that
which would be acceptable unto God, but they found therein no path unto
Him. Then when God manifested Muhammad as His Messenger and as the
Repository of His good-pleasure, they neglected to quicken their souls
from the Fountain of living waters which streamed forth from the presence
of their Lord and continued to rove distraught upon the earth seeking a
mere droplet of water and believing that they were doing righteous deeds.
They behaved as the people unto whom the Qur'an was given are now
behaving.

O ye who are invested with the Bayan! Ye can act similarly. Take ye heed,
therefore, lest ye deprive yourselves of attaining the presence of Him Who
is the Manifestation of God, notwithstanding that ye have been day and
night praying to behold His countenance; and be ye careful lest ye be
deterred from attaining unto the ocean of His good-pleasure, when
perplexed and to no avail ye roam the earth in search of a drop of water.

Say, the testimony of God hath been fulfilled in the Bayan, and through
its revelation the grace of God hath attained its highest consummation for
all mankind. Let no one among you say that God hath withheld the
outpouring of His bounty unto you, for assuredly God's mercy unto those to
whom the Bayan is given hath been fulfilled and completed until the Day of
Resurrection. Would that ye might believe in the signs of God. XVI, 13.

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