toward "Him-whom God-shall-Manifest."
He is the "Dawning-place of Divinity" and the "Manifestation of Deity." He
is the "Ultimate Goal," the "Adored One" of all and the "Worshipped One"
of all. Otherwise, whatever flashes through the mind is not that Essence
of essences and the Reality of realities; nay, rather it is pure
imagination(223) woven by man and is surrounded, not the surrounding.
Consequently, it returns finally to the realm of suppositions and
conjectures.

"O God! O thou Attracted of the hearts of the favored..."

O God! O thou Attracted of the hearts of the favored ones toward the
Manifest Horizon!

Verily, Thou art witnessing that the fire is ablaze in the breasts, the
tears are streaming from the eyes and the period of patience and silence
hath come to an end. The eyes of the beloved ones, O my God, are swimming
in tears; the hearts of the yearning ones, O my Beloved, are wandering in
the wilderness of Thy mercifulness; and the souls of the attracted ones, O
my Desires, are afflicted with anguish on account of Thy separation!

Verily, they have heard Thy universal proclamation, O my God, and what
Thou has revealed in the Koran: "Say! travel ye on earth, so that ye may
behold the signs of the mercy of God." thereupon, after Thy ascension, the
people of faithfulness have arisen, traveling to distant lands and
hastening to far and remote regions of the world, in order to cry out Thy
Name, to remind the souls of the arrival of Thy days, to lead the minds to
the fountain of Thy signs, to demonstrate to all the inhabitants of the
world Thy proof and Thy religion, to guide the truth seekers to the right
path and to indicate the straight highway to the strivers. From among them
is Thy servant ... who is firm in the Ancient Covenant, fleeing from the
people of darkness, drinking from the water of eternal life and
intoxicated with the wine which is overflowing from the divine cup.
Verily, he hath left his native abode, waved the hand of farewell to his
relatives, forsaken ease and comfort, hastened to strange and unknown
kingdoms and accepted hardship and adversities while heralding Thy Name,
commemorating Thy glorification, attracted to Thy beauty, stirred by the
fragrances of Thy holiness, speaking Thy praises, voicing Thy Cause,
guiding others to Thee, proving Thy religion, demonstrating Thy
irrefutable truth, becoming an answerer to every questioning one and a
guide to every one held in error!

O