things ye possess, and ascend to the heights from which ye can
discover the whole creation sheltered beneath the shadow of His
Revelation.

Say: There is no place of refuge for you, no asylum to which ye can flee,
no one to defend or to protect you in this Day from the fury of the wrath
of God and from His vehement power, unless and until ye seek the shadow of
His Revelation. This, indeed, is His Revelation which hath been manifested
unto you in the person of this Youth. Glorified, then, be God for so
effulgent, so precious, so wondrous a vision.

Detach yourselves from all else but Me, and turn your faces towards My
face, for better is this for you than the things ye possess. The Tongue of
God testifieth to the truth of My words, through Mine own Word that
speaketh the truth, and embraceth and comprehendeth all things.

Say: Think ye that your allegiance to His Cause can ever profit Him, or
your repudiation of its truth cause Him any loss? No, by My Self, the
All-Subduing, the Inaccessible, the Most High! Tear ye asunder the veils
of names and cleave ye their kingdom. By My Beauty! He Who is the Monarch
of all names is come, He at Whose bidding every single name hath, from the
beginning that hath no beginning, been created, He Who shall continue to
create them as He pleaseth. He, verily, is the All-Powerful, the All-Wise.

Beware that ye divest not yourselves of the raiment of Divine guidance.
Drink ye your fill from the Cup which the Youths of Heaven have raised
above your heads. Thus biddeth you He Who hath more mercy upon you than
your own selves, He Who asketh not any recompense or thanks from you. His
reward is from Him Who hath, through the power of truth, sent Him down
unto you, and singled Him out and proclaimed Him as His own Testimony unto
the whole of creation. He it is Who hath empowered Him to manifest all His
signs. Repeat the gaze, that ye may perceive the things whereunto the
Tongue of the Ancient of Days hath summoned you, that haply ye may be of
them that have apprehended the truth. Heard it ye ever reported by your
fathers of old, or by the generations that preceded them, even unto the
first Adam, that any one coming in the clouds of revelation, being
invested with manifest and transcendent sovereignty, having on his right
hand the Kingdom of God and on his left all the power and glory of His
everlasting dominion, any one preceded by the hosts of God, the Almighty,
the All-Compelling, the Most Pow