sity and will lead them unto the living waters
of Thy heavenly reunion.

O Lord! Look not at the things they have wrought, rather look unto the
loftiness of Thy celestial bounty which hath preceded all created things,
visible and invisible. O Lord! Illumine their hearts with the effulgent
light of Thy knowledge and brighten their eyes with the shining splendour
of the day-star of Thy favours.

I entreat Thee, O Lord of Names and Creator of the heavens, by the blood
spilt in Thy Path, and by the heads carried aloft on spears for the sake
of Thy love, and by the souls that have melted in their separation from
Thy loved ones, and by the hearts broken for the exaltation of Thy Word,
to grant that the dwellers of Thy realm may unite together in their
allegiance to Thine incomparable Word so that they may all acknowledge Thy
unity and Thy oneness. There is no God but Thee, the Omnipotent, the Most
Exalted, the Knowing, the Wise.

I fain would hope that He Who is the All-Sufficing, the Inaccessible, may
heed the solicitation of this lowly servant, may attire the people of the
world with the raiment of goodly deeds and purge them from evil
inclinations. He is the Mighty, the Powerful, the All-Wise, the
All-Perceiving. He heareth and seeth; He is the All-Hearing, the
All-Seeing.

SURIY-I-VAFA(60) (TABLET TO VAFA)

He is the All-Knowing

O VAFA! Render thanks unto thy Lord for having aided thee to embrace His
Cause, enabled thee to recognize the Manifestation of His Own Self and
raised thee up to magnify Him Who is the Most Great Remembrance in this
glorious Announcement.

Blessed art thou O Vafa, inasmuch as thou hast been faithful to the
Covenant of God and His Testament at a time when all men have violated it
and have repudiated the One in Whom they had believed, and this
notwithstanding that He hath appeared invested with every testimony, and
hath dawned from the horizon of Revelation clothed with undoubted
sovereignty.

It behoveth thee, however, to exert thine utmost to attain the very
essence of fidelity. This implieth to be well assured in thy heart and to
testify with thy tongue to that whereunto God hath testified for His Own
exalted Self, proclaiming: 'Verily, self-subsisting am I within the Realm
of Glory.' Whoso is enabled in these days to solemnly affirm this truth,
hath attained unto all good, and the heavenly Spirit shall descend upon
him in the daytime and in the night seas