h, causing all created beings to be dumbfounded, save only those
who have been enraptured by the gentle breezes of My loving-kindness and
the sweet savours of My bounties which have pervaded the whole of
creation.

137 O people of the Bayan! Fear ye the Most Merciful and consider what He
hath revealed in another passage. He said: "The Qiblih is indeed He Whom
God will make manifest; whenever He moveth, it moveth, until He shall come
to rest." Thus was it set down by the Supreme Ordainer when He desired to
make mention of this Most Great Beauty. Meditate on this, O people, and be
not of them that wander distraught in the wilderness of error. If ye
reject Him at the bidding of your idle fancies, where then is the Qiblih
to which ye will turn, O assemblage of the heedless? Ponder ye this verse,
and judge equitably before God, that haply ye may glean the pearls of
mysteries from the ocean that surgeth in My Name, the All-Glorious, the
Most High.

138 Let none, in this Day, hold fast to aught save that which hath been
manifested in this Revelation. Such is the decree of God, aforetime and
hereafter--a decree wherewith the Scriptures of the Messengers of old have
been adorned. Such is the admonition of the Lord, aforetime and
hereafter--an admonition wherewith the preamble to the Book of Life hath
been embellished, did ye but perceive it. Such is the commandment of the
Lord, aforetime and hereafter; beware lest ye choose instead the part of
ignominy and abasement. Naught shall avail you in this Day but God, nor is
there any refuge to flee to save Him, the Omniscient, the All-Wise. Whoso
hath known Me hath known the Goal of all desire, and whoso hath turned
unto Me hath turned unto the Object of all adoration. Thus hath it been
set forth in the Book, and thus hath it been decreed by God, the Lord of
all worlds. To read but one of the verses of My Revelation is better than
to peruse the Scriptures of both the former and latter generations. This
is the Utterance of the All-Merciful, would that ye had ears to hear! Say:
This is the essence of knowledge, did ye but understand.

139 And now consider what hath been revealed in yet another passage, that
perchance ye may forsake your own concepts and set your faces towards God,
the Lord of being. He(4) hath said: "It is unlawful to enter into marriage
save with a believer in the Bayan. Should only one party to a marriage
embrace this Cause, his or her possessions will become unlawful