Lawh-i-Ayat-i-Nur/Page2/Crawford34

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.