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30. Say: O people! Give ear unto My words! Then recognize the potential of these
days and hold fast unto the Cord of Hidden Knowledge. Be not inclined unto the
lower world and its adornments, neither let adversity sadden thee, nor be turned
away by the calamities which hath befallen thee by those who reject faith and join
partners with God, the Mighty, the Well Beloved. Those who alloweth not the
forbidding forbidder to impede them, nor allow the accusing accuser to veil them, or
the protesting protester to withhold them from approaching God are the best of
creatures, even if all who dwelleth upon the earth were leagued against them, did ye
but know. These are they who are not enticed by the outer appearance, nor shall
they pursue after any such thing in the whole dominion; even were they to come
across a city of gold, they would pass over it like the lightning; nor would they be
allured thereby, but rather, by reason of the surging waves of detachment, they
would glide smoothly across. These are they who, when the Signs of thy Lord are
recited unto them, the Fire of Oneness is produced within their hearts and the
members of their bodies quake from their yearning after God; then they fall
prostrate upon their faces as they humble themselves unto God, the King, the Help in
Peril, the Mighty, the Holy. These are the hallmarks of those who detach themselves
from all save God which We relate unto thee in truth, that haply ye may hasten unto
the Shore of divine Grace with thine noble essence.