d by God in this
Day. This is of the essence of His Faith, did ye but know it.

Will ye be content with that which is like the vapor in a plain, and be
willing to forgo the Ocean Whose waters refresh, by virtue of the Will of
God, the souls of men? Woe unto you, for having repaid the bounty of God
with so vain and contemptible a thing! Ye are, indeed, of them that have
rejected Me in My previous Revelation. Would that your hearts could
comprehend!

Arise, and, under the eyes of God, atone for your failures in duty towards
Him. This is My commandment unto you, were ye to incline your ears unto My
commandment. By Mine own Self! Neither the people of the Qur'an, nor the
followers of either the Torah or the Evangel, nor those of any other Book,
have committed that which your hands have wrought. I, Myself, have
dedicated My whole life to the vindication of the truth of this Faith. I,
Myself, have announced, in all My Tablets, the advent of His Revelation.
And yet, no sooner did He manifest Himself, in His subsequent Revelation,
clothed in the glory of Baha and arrayed in the robe of His grandeur, than
ye rebelled against Him Who is the supreme Protector, the Self-Subsisting.
Beware, O people! Be ye ashamed of that which hath befallen Me at your
hands in the path of God. Take heed that ye be not of them that have
rejected that which hath been sent down unto them from the Heaven of God's
transcendent glory.

Such, O Letter of the Living, are the words which thy Lord hath spoken,
and addressed unto thee from the realms above. Proclaim the words of thy
Lord unto His servants, that perchance they may shake off their slumber,
and ask pardon of God, Who hath formed and fashioned them, and sent down
unto them this most effulgent, this most holy, and manifest Revelation of
His Beauty.

CXXXVI: SAY: DELIVER YOUR SOULS, O PEOPLE, FROM...

Say: Deliver your souls, O people, from the bondage of self, and purify
them from all attachment to anything besides Me. Remembrance of Me
cleanseth all things from defilement, could ye but perceive it. Say: Were
all created things to be entirely divested of the veil of worldly vanity
and desire, the Hand of God would in this Day clothe them, one and all,
with the robe "He doeth whatsoever He willeth in the kingdom of creation,"
that thereby the sign of His sovereignty might be manifested in all
things. Exalted then be He, the Sovereign Lord of all, the Almighty, the
Supreme Protector,