The Book of the Most Holy CHAPTER TWENTY

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The Book of the Most Holy CHAPTER TWENTY

Division 601-625

THE MOST HOLY

601.

O people of the Bayá n!

Fear ye the Most Merciful and consider what He hath revealed in another passage.

602.

He said:

" The Qiblih is indeed He Whom God will make manifest;

whenever He moveth, it moveth, until He shall come to rest. "

603.

Thus was it set down by the Supreme Ordainer when He desired to make mention of this Most Great Beauty.

604.

Meditate on this, O people, and be not of them that wander distraught in the wilderness of error.

605.

If ye reject Him at the bidding of your idle fancies,

where then is the Qiblih to which ye will turn, O assemblage of the heedless?

606.

Ponder ye this verse, and judge equitably before God,

that haply ye may glean the pearls of mysteries from the ocean that surgeth in My Name,

the All-Glorious, the Most High.

607.

Let none, in this Day, hold fast to aught save that which hath been manifested in this Revelation.

608.

Such is the decree of God, aforetime and hereafter --

609.

a decree wherewith the Scriptures of the Messengers of old have been adorned.

610.

Such is the admonition of the Lord, aforetime and hereafter --

611.

an admonition wherewith the preamble to the Book of Life hath been embellished, did ye but perceive it.

612.

Such is the commandment of the Lord, aforetime and hereafter;

beware lest ye choose instead the part of ignominy and abasement.

613.

Naught shall avail you in this Day but God,

nor is there any refuge to flee to save Him, the Omniscient, the All-Wise.

614.

Whoso hath known Me hath known the Goal of all desire,

and whoso hath turned unto Me hath turned unto the Object of all adoration.

615.

Thus hath it been set forth in the Book,

and thus hath it been decreed by God, the Lord of all worlds.

616.

To read but one of the verses of My Revelation is better than to peruse the Scriptures of both the former and latter generations.

617.

This is the Utterance of the All-Merciful, would that ye had ears to hear!

618.

Say:

This is the essence of knowledge, did ye but understand.

619.

And now consider what hath been revealed in yet another passage,

that perchance ye may forsake your own concepts and set your faces towards God,

the Lord of being.

620.

He hath said: (the Bá b)

" It is unlawful to enter into marriage save with a believer in the Bayá n.

621.

Should only one party to a marriage embrace this Cause, his or her possessions will become unlawful to the other, until such time as the latter hath converted.

622.

This law, however, will only take effect after the exaltation of the Cause of Him Whom We shall manifest in truth, or of that which hath already been made manifest in justice.

623.

Ere this, ye are at liberty to enter into wedlock as ye wish,

that haply by this means ye may exalt the Cause of God. "

624.

Thus hath the Nightingale sung with sweet melody upon the celestial bough,

in praise of its Lord, the All-Merciful.

625.

Well is it with them that hearken.

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