Kitab-i-Badi/English445

And I did not realize an evening except that in it, what you prevented the breezes of your mercy from the possible and closed the doors of your grace on the faces of beings has come to me. By Your glory, my beloved, I became perplexed in my case, and then you watch me like a whale curled up in the dust and hear the cry of my heart, O you who hold the might of the verses in your hand. And all of this came to me after I called them to share your talents and kindnesses, introduced them to the methods of your order and your pleasure, and commanded them to submit to the door of your mercy and roses to the yard of your individual glory. And whenever I called them, O [235] my God, with what You inspired me of the beauties of Your words and the jewels of Your verses, they turned away from a matter that no one can count. And you counted it with your authority and knowledge.