Editing Gleanings115/GPT5 2

Today the loved ones of God are as keys; God willing, they must with all their power, by the Most Great Name, open those doors. This is the succor of God which, in all the Scriptures and Tablets, has flowed from the Pen of Him Who cleaveth the morn. Likewise, they should move and conduct themselves with forbearance toward the people, and appear with the utmost sanctity and purity, truthfulness and fairness, in such wise that all people will reckon those souls to be the trustees of God among His servants. Now behold in what heaven the Bird of the commandments of God is in flight, and in what station those weak souls abide. Blessed are those who have flown with the wings of certitude in the air that hath streamed from the Pen of thy Lord, the All-Merciful.

O Dhabíḥ, look to the deeds of God and say: Exalted, exalted is His power that hath encompassed the worlds; exalted, exalted is His detachment that hath risen above all creation; exalted, exalted is His wrongedness whereby the hearts of the near ones have been consumed. Yet, though afflicted in the hands of enemies with countless tribulations, We conveyed to all the rulers of the earth, one after another, that which the will of God had decreed, that the nations might know that affliction doth not hinder the Pen of Eternity. It moveth by the leave of God, the Fashioner of decayed bones. Now, with this Most Great task, it befits the loved ones to gird up the loins of service and turn toward the victory of the Cause of God, not to occupy themselves with the perpetration of vile deeds. If thou wert to behold but a little of the outward acts and deeds of God, thou wouldst fall upon thy face to the dust and say: O Lord of Lords! I bear witness that Thou art the Lord of existence and the Educator of the unseen and the seen; and I bear witness that Thy power hath encompassed all created things. Neither do the hosts of those on earth frighten Thee, nor doth the might of those upon it prevent Thee. And I bear witness that Thou hast desired naught but the life of the world, the unity of its people, and the salvation of all therein.

Now reflect a little on the station in which the friends of God must move, and in what air they must fly. Ask God, thy Lord, the All-Merciful, at all times to grant them success in what He hath willed. Verily He is the Mighty, the Precious, the All-Knowing.

O Dhabíḥ, the harm to this Wronged One hath not been, nor is it, from imprisonment and pillage and captivity and martyrdom and outward abasement; rather, the harm is from deeds which the loved ones of God commit and ascribe unto God. This is My harm—and His Self is the Sovereign over the worlds. And the greater harm is that each day one of the people of the Bayán hath laid claim to some matter: some have clung to a branch from among the branches, and some have independently said what they have said and done what they do. O Dhabíḥ, the Tongue of Grandeur saith—and by Mine own Self, the truth: the manifestations have ended in this Most Great Manifestation, and whoso claimeth after Him, he is a lying slanderer. We ask God to grant him success in returning. If he repent, verily He is the Oft-Returning; and if he persist in what he hath said, He shall send against him one who will not have mercy on him. Verily He is the All-Powerful, the Omnipotent.

Behold that the people of the Bayán did not perceive that the Manifestation before Me and the Herald of My Beauty spoke whatever He spoke with regard to the Manifestation and His arising to the Cause; otherwise, by Mine own Self, the truth, they would not have uttered a single word of what He said. These ignorant ones have regarded the Cause of the Self-Sufficient, the Exalted, as a children’s game; each day they proceed on some fancy and wander in a wilderness. If the matter were as they say, how could the Cause of thy Lord be established upon the throne of stillness? Reflect, and be of the discerning; reflect, and be of those who perceive; reflect, and be of the steadfast; reflect, and be of the assured—such that if all mankind were to claim whatever they can, or beyond it, thou wouldst not turn toward them, but leave them behind thee, turning toward the Qiblih of the worlds. By My life! the Cause is great, great; and today is great, great. Blessed is he who hath cast the world behind him, turning toward the Face by whose light the heavens and the earths have been illumined.

O Dhabíḥ, keen sight is needed, and a firm heart, and feet of brass, lest one slip by the whisperings of the hosts of the self. This is a firm decree that, by the will of the Lord of Eternity, hath flowed down and been revealed from the Pen of the Most Great Name. Preserve it as thou wouldst preserve thine eye, and be of the thankful. In nights and days be occupied with the service of God and be severed from all beside Him. By My life, what thou seest today shall pass away, and thou shalt find thyself in the highest station, if thou remain steadfast in the command of thy Lord. Unto Him is thy return and thy abode.