ne True God or to discern clearly
the words of divine guidance, inasmuch as ye seek and tread a path other
than His. Whenever ye learn that a new Cause hath appeared, ye must seek
the presence of its author and must delve into his writings that haply ye
may not be debarred from attaining unto Him Whom God shall make manifest
at the hour of His manifestation. Wert thou to walk in the way of truth as
handed down by them that are endowed with the knowledge of the inmost
reality, God, thy Lord, will surely redeem thee on the Day of
Resurrection. Verily He is potent over all things.

In the Bayan God hath forbidden everyone to pronounce judgement against
any soul, lest he may pass sentence upon God, his Lord, while regarding
himself to be of the righteous, inasmuch as no one knoweth how the Cause
of God will begin or end.

O ye who are invested with the Bayan! Should ye be apprised of a person
laying claim to a Cause and revealing verses which to outward seeming are
unlikely to have been revealed by anyone else save God, the Help in Peril,
the Self-Subsisting, do not pass sentence against him, lest ye may
inadvertently pass sentence against Him Whom God shall make manifest. Say,
He Whom God shall make manifest is but one of you; He will make Himself
known unto you on the Day of Resurrection. Ye shall know God when the
Manifestation of His Own Self is made known unto you, that perchance ye
may not stray far from His Path.

Verily God will raise up Him Whom God shall make manifest, and after Him
Whomsoever He willeth, even as He hath raised up prophets before the Point
of the Bayan. He in truth hath power over all things. XVII, 4.

"Verily, on the First Day We flung open the gates of ..."

Verily, on the First Day We flung open the gates of Paradise unto all the
peoples of the world, and exclaimed: 'O all ye created things! Strive to
gain admittance into Paradise, since ye have, during all your lives, held
fast unto virtuous deeds in order to attain unto it.' Surely all men yearn
to enter therein, but alas, they are unable to do so by reason of that
which their hands have wrought. Shouldst thou, however, gain a true
understanding of God in thine heart of hearts, ere He hath manifested
Himself, thou wouldst be able to recognize Him, visible and resplendent,
when He unveileth Himself before the eyes of all men. XVII, 11.

"Say, by reason of your remembering Him Whom God ..."

Say, by reason of your remember