all created things to sigh, and yet the
people are, for the most part, sunk in manifest ignorance! We pray God to
assist them to return unto Him, and to repent before the door of His
mercy. Potent is He over all things.

At this moment the shrill voice of the Most Sublime Pen hath been raised,
and hath addressed Me saying: "Admonish the _Sh_ay_kh_ even as Thou hast
admonished one of Thy Branches (sons), that haply the breezes of Thine
utterance may attract and draw him nigh unto God, the Lord of the worlds."

"Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the
trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face.
Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer to the
cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge. Be fair in
thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be unjust to no man, and show all
meekness to all men. Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy
to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an
upholder and defender of the victim of oppression. Let integrity and
uprightness distinguish all thine acts. Be a home for the stranger, a balm
to the suffering, a tower of strength for the fugitive. Be eyes to the
blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be an ornament to
the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fidelity, a pillar of the
temple of righteousness, a breath of life to the body of mankind, an
ensign of the hosts of justice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a
dew to the soil of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a
sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining
light in the firmament of thy generation, a fruit upon the tree of
humility. We pray God to protect thee from the heat of jealousy and the
cold of hatred. He verily is nigh, ready to answer." Thus hath My tongue
spoken unto one of My Branches (sons), and We have mentioned it unto such
of Our loved ones as have cast away their idle fancies, and clung unto
that which hath been prescribed unto them in the day whereon the Daystar
of Certitude hath shone forth above the horizon of the will of God, the
Lord of the worlds. This is the day on which the Bird of Utterance hath
warbled its melody upon the branches, in the name of its Lord, the God of
Mercy. Blessed is the man that hath, on the wings of longing, soared
towards God, the Lord of the Judgment Day.

The one true God well know