tures, and Thy Scrolls, and
Thy Tablets, concerning Him Who is the Day-Spring of Thy Revelation, and
hast appointed the Bayan to be the Herald of this Most Great and
all-glorious Manifestation, and this most resplendent and most sublime
Appearance.

And when the world's horizon was illumined, and He Who is the Most Great
Name was manifested, all disbelieved in Him and in His signs, except such
as have been carried away by the sweetness of Thy glorification and
praise. There befell Him what must remain inscrutable to everyone except
Thee, Whose knowledge transcendeth all who are in Thy heaven and all who
are on Thy earth.

Thou well knowest, O my God, that the Revealer of the Bayan (the Bab) hath
commanded all mankind concerning Thy Cause, and Thy Revelation, and Thy
Sovereignty. He hath said, and sweet is His speech: "Beware lest the Bayan
and its Letters keep you back from Him Who is the Most Merciful and from
His sovereignty." He, moreover, hath written: "Were He to produce no more
than one verse, ye must not deny Him. Haste ye towards Him, that haply He
may cause to descend upon you what He pleaseth, as a token of His grace
unto you. He truly is the Possessor of His servants, and the King of
creation."

Thou seest, then, O Thou Who art the Beloved of the world and the Revealer
of the Most Great Name, how He hath come down with the kingdom of His
signs, and in a manner that hath caused the atoms of the earth to testify
that the whole world hath been filled with these signs. And yet,
notwithstanding this most manifest and all-glorious Revelation, and these
signs which none can appraise except Thee, O Thou the King of names, Thou
beholdest how they have broken off from Him Who is the Day-Spring of Thine
Essence, and have caviled at the One Who is the Fountain-Head of Thy
wisdom and of Thine utterance. They were so seized with thirst for fame,
that they rejected Thy tokens, and Thy testimonies, and Thy signs, which
every man of insight perceiveth in whatsoever declareth Thy greatness, and
Thy sovereignty, and acknowledgeth Thy Revelation and Thy might. They have
so traduced Him as to cause the inmates of the all-glorious Tabernacle and
the Concourse on high to lament, and have uttered such calumnies against
Him that the souls of Thy chosen Ones and the hearts of them that are dear
to Thee have melted. They have erred so grievously that they cast away Thy
most resplendent signs, and clung to their idle fancies, O Thou W