KITAB-I-ASMA (THE BOOK OF NAMES)

O ye that are invested with the Bayan! Denounce ye not one another, ere
the Day-Star of ancient eternity shineth forth above the horizon of His
sublimity. We have created you from one tree and have caused you to be as
the leaves and fruit of the same tree, that haply ye may become a source
of comfort to one another. Regard ye not others save as ye regard your own
selves, that no feeling of aversion may prevail amongst you so as to shut
you out from Him Whom God shall make manifest on the Day of Resurrection.
It behooveth you all to be one indivisible people; thus should ye return
unto Him Whom God shall make manifest.

Those who have deprived themselves of this Resurrection by reason of their
mutual hatreds or by regarding themselves to be in the right and others in
the wrong, were chastised on the Day of Resurrection by reason of such
hatreds evinced during their night.(70) Thus they deprived themselves of
beholding the countenance of God, and this for no other reason than mutual
denunciations.

O ye that are invested with the Bayan! Ye should perform such deeds as
would please God, your Lord, earning thereby the good-pleasure of Him Whom
God shall make manifest. Turn not your religion into a means of material
gain, spending your life on vanities, and inheriting thereby on the Day of
Resurrection that which would displease Him Whom God shall make manifest,
while ye deem that what ye do is right. If, however, ye observe piety in
your Faith, God will surely nourish you from the treasuries of His
heavenly grace.

Be ye sincere in your allegiance to Him Whom God shall make manifest, for
the sake of God, your Lord, that perchance ye may, through devotion to His
Faith, be redeemed on the Day of Resurrection. Beware lest ye suffer one
another to be wrapt in veils by reason of the disputes which may, during
your night, arise among you as a result of the problems ye encounter or in
consideration of such matters as your loftiness or lowliness, your
nearness or remoteness.

Thus have We firmly exhorted you--a befitting exhortation indeed--that haply
ye may cleave tenaciously unto it and attain thereby salvation on the Day
of Resurrection. The time is approaching when ye will be at peace with
yourselves in your homes, and lo, Him Whom God shall make manifest will
have appeared, and God wisheth you to return unto Him, even as God called
you into being through the Primal Point. However, all o