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83 Say: O concourse of mirrors! Ye are but a creation of My will and have
come to exist by virtue of My command. Beware lest ye deny the verses of
My Lord, and be of them who have wrought injustice and are numbered with
the lost. Beware lest ye cling unto that which ye possess, or take pride
in your fame and renown. That which behoveth you is to wholly detach
yourselves from all that is in the heavens and on the earth. Thus hath it
been ordained by Him Who is the All-Powerful, the Almighty.

84 O Temple of My Cause! Say: Should I wish to transform, in a single
moment, all things into mirrors of My Names, this undoubtedly is in My
power, how much more in the power of My Lord, Who hath called Me into
being through His all-compelling and inscrutable command. And should I
choose to revolutionize the entire creation in the twinkling of an eye,
this assuredly is possible unto Me, how much more unto that sovereign
Purpose enshrined in the Will of God, My Lord and the Lord of all the
worlds.

85 Say: O ye manifestations of My Names! Should ye offer up all that ye
possess, nay your very lives, in the path of God, and invoke Him to the
number of the grains of sand, the drops of rain, and the waves of the sea,
and yet oppose the Manifestation of His Cause at the time of His
appearance, your works shall in no wise be mentioned before God. Should
ye, however, neglect all righteous works and yet choose to believe in Him
in these days, God perchance will put away your sins. He, verily, is the
All-Glorious, the Most Bountiful. Thus doth the Lord inform you of His
purpose, that haply ye may not wax proud before the One through Whom
whatsoever hath been revealed from all eternity hath been confirmed. Happy
is he who approacheth this Most Sublime Vision, and woe to them that turn
aside!

86 How numerous those who expend all their wealth in the path of God, and
whom We find, at the hour of His Revelation, to be of the rebellious and
the froward! How many those who keep the fast in the daytime, only to
protest against the One by Whose very command the ordinance of the fast
was first established! Such men are, in truth, of the ignorant. And how
many those who subsist on the coarsest bread, who take for their only seat
the grass of the field, and who undergo every manner of hardship, merely
to maintain their superiority in the eyes of men! Thus do We expose their
deeds, that this may serve as a warning unto others. These are the ones