y, verily God hath caused all created things to enter beneath the shade
of the tree of affirmation, except those who are endowed with the faculty
of understanding. Theirs is the choice either to believe in God their
Lord, and put their whole trust in Him, or to shut themselves out from Him
and refuse to believe with certitude in His signs. These two groups sail
upon two seas: the sea of affirmation and the sea of negation.

They that truly believe in God and in His signs, and who in every
Dispensation faithfully obey that which hath been revealed in the
Book--such are indeed the ones whom God hath created from the fruits of the
Paradise of His good-pleasure, and who are of the blissful. But they who
turn away from God and His signs in each Dispensation, those are the ones
who sail upon the sea of negation.

God hath, through the potency of His behest, ordained for Himself the task
of ensuring the ascendancy of the sea of affirmation and of bringing to
naught the sea of negation through the power of His might. He is in truth
potent over all things.

Verily it is incumbent upon you to recognize your Lord at the time of His
manifestation, that haply ye may not enter into negation, and that, ere a
prophet is raised by God, ye may find yourselves securely established upon
the sea of affirmation. For if a prophet cometh to you from God and ye
fail to walk in His Way, God will, thereupon, transform your light into
fire. Take heed then that perchance ye may, through the grace of God and
His signs, be enabled to redeem your souls. XVIII, 13.

"Say, God shall of a truth cause your hearts to be given to ..."

Say, God shall of a truth cause your hearts to be given to perversity if
ye fail to recognize Him Whom God shall make manifest; but if ye do
recognize Him God shall banish perversity from your hearts...

That day whereon ye were, by God's Will, initiated into the Bayan, did any
of you know who were the Letters of the Living or the Witnesses or the
Testimonies or what the names of the believers? Likewise doth God wish you
to recognize Him Whom God shall make manifest on the Day of Resurrection.
Beware lest ye shut yourselves out as by a veil from Him Who hath created
you, by reason of your regard for those who were called into being at the
bidding of the Point of the Bayan for the exaltation of His Word. Did ye
possess, ere the Point of the Bayan had called you into existence, any
trace of identity, how much less a