The Hidden Words

Wheel of Heaven Translation

Bahá'u'lláh's Arabic and Persian aphorisms — the Bahá'í pilot of the Translation Program

Planned Wheel of Heaven Translation of Bahá'u'lláh's Hidden Words (Kalimát-i-Maknúnih, c. 1858) from the Arabic and Persian originals. Part I: 71 Arabic aphorisms; Part II: 82 Persian aphorisms. Dual-language pilot — the pipeline's first Persian work. Independent of and unaffiliated with the authorised Bahá'í World Centre translations.

Part 1

The Arabic Hidden Words

He is the Glorious, the Most Glorious. This is that which was sent down from the omnipotent realm of glory, by the tongue of power and might, upon the prophets of old. And We have taken the gems of its meaning and clothed them in the garment of brevity, as a favour unto the learned, that they may fulfil the covenant of God and render up His trusts within their own souls, and that, through the essence of piety, they may be numbered in the realm of the spirit among them that have attained.

﴿ huwa هُوَ l-bahiyyu البَهِيُّ l-abhā الأَبْهى — ﴾ hāḏā هَذَا mā مَا nuzzila نُزِّلَ min مِنْ jabarūti جَبَرُوتِ l-ʿizzati العِزَّةِ bi-lisāni بِلِسانِ l-qudrati القُدْرَةِ wa-l-quwwati وَالْقُوَّةِ ʿalā عَلَى n-nabiyyīna النَّبِيِّينَ min مِنْ qablu. قَبْلُ. wa-innā وَإِنَّا aḵaḏnā أَخَذْنَا jawāhirahu جَوَاهِرَهُ wa-aqmaṣnāhu وَأَقْمَصْنَاهُ qamīṣa قَمِيصَ l-iḵtiṣāri الاخْتِصارِ faḍlan فَضْلاً ʿalā عَلَى l-aḥbāri الأَحْبَارِ li-yūfū لِيُوفُوا bi-ʿahdi بِعَهْدِ llāhi اللهِ wa-yuʾaddū وَيُؤَدُّوا amānātihi أَمانَاتِهِ fī فِي anfusihim أَنْفُسِهِمْ wa-li-yakūnunna وَلِيَكُونُنَّ bi-jawhari بِجَوْهَرِ t-tuqā التُّقَى fī فِي arḍi أَرْضِ r-rūḥi الرُّوحِ mina مِنَ l-fāʾizīn. الفائِزِينَ.

O Son of the Spirit! First of all sayings: possess a heart that is good, comely, and luminous, that thou mayest possess a dominion enduring, everlasting, from all eternity, ancient.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ r-rūḥ, الرُّوْحِ fī ﴾ awwali فِي l-qawli أَوَّلِ mlik القَوْلِ qalban امْلِكْ jayyidan قَلْبًا ḥasanan جَيِّدًا munīran حَسَنًا li-tamlika مُنيرًا mulkan لِتَمْلِكَ dāʾiman مُلْكًا bāqiyan دائِمًا azalan باقِيًا qadīman. أَزَلًا قَدِيمًا.

O Son of the Spirit! The best-beloved of all things in My sight is equity. Turn not away from it if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not, that I may confide in thee. By it thou shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and know by thine own knowledge and not through the knowledge of any in the lands. Ponder this in thy heart: how it behoveth thee to be. Verily, equity is of My gift to thee and of My loving care for thee; keep it, then, before thine eyes.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ r-rūḥ, الرُّوحِ aḥabbu ﴾ l-ašyāʾi أَحَبُّ ʿindiya الأَشْيَاءِ l-inṣāf. عِنْدِي lā الإنْصافُ. tarġab لَا ʿanhu تَرْغَبْ in عَنْهُ takun إِنْ ilayya تَكُنْ rāġiban إِلَيَّ wa-lā راغِبًا taġfal وَلَا minhu تَغْفَلْ li-takūna مِنْهُ lī لِتَكُونَ amīnan, لِي wa-anta أَمِينًا tuwaffaqu وَأَنْتَ bi-ḏālika تُوَفَّقُ an بِذلِكَ tušāhida أَنْ l-ašyāʾa تُشَاهِدَ bi-ʿaynika الأَشْياءَ lā بِعَيْنِكَ bi-ʿayni لا l-ʿibādi بِعَيْنِ wa-taʿrifahā العِبادِ bi-maʿrifatika وَتَعْرِفَها lā بِمَعْرِفَتِكَ bi-maʿrifati لا aḥadin بِمَعْرِفَةِ fi أَحَدٍ l-bilād. فِي fakkir البِلادِ. fī فَكِّرْ ḏālika فِي kayfa ذلِكَ yanbaġī كَيْفَ an يَنْبَغِي takūn. أَنْ ḏālika تَكُونَ. min ذلِكَ ʿaṭiyyatī مِنْ ʿalayka عَطِيَّتِي wa-ʿināyatī عَلَيْكَ laka وَعِنايَتي fa-jʿalhu لَكَ amāma فَاجْعَلْهُ ʿaynayk. أَمامَ عَيْنَيْكَ.

O Son of Man! In the eternity of My essence and the everlastingness of My being I knew My love for thee; therefore I created thee. Upon thee I have cast My image, and to thee I have revealed My beauty.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ kuntu ﴾ fī كُنْتُ qidami فِي ḏātī قِدَمِ wa-azaliyyati ذاتِي kaynūnatī; وَأَزَلِيَّةِ ʿaraftu كَيْنُونَتِي؛ ḥubbī عَرَفْتُ fīka حُبّي ḵalaqtuka, فِيكَ wa-alqaytu خَلَقْتُكَ، ʿalayka وَأَلْقَيْتُ miṯālī عَلَيْكَ wa-aẓhartu مِثالِي laka وَأَظْهَرْتُ jamālī. لَكَ جَمَالي.

O Son of Man! I loved thy creation, therefore I created thee. Love Me, then, that I may make mention of thee, and in the spirit of life establish thee.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ aḥbabtu ﴾ ḵalqaka أَحْبَبْتُ fa-ḵalaqtuka, خَلْقَكَ fa-aḥbibnī فَخَلَقْتُكَ، kay فَأَحْبِبْني aḏkuraka, كَيْ wa-fī أَذْكُرَكَ، rūḥi وَفِي l-ḥayāti رُوحِ uṯabbituka. الْحَياةِ أُثَبِّتُكَ.

O Son of Being! Love Me, that I may love thee. If thou lovest Me not, I shall never love thee. Know this, O servant.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ aḥbibnī ﴾ li-uḥibbaka. أَحْبِبْنِي in لِأُحِبَّكَ. lam إِنْ tuḥibbanī لَمْ lan تُحِبَّنِي uḥibbaka لَنْ abadan, أُحِبَّكَ fa-ʿrif أَبَدًا yā فَاعْرِفْ ʿabd. يا عَبْدُ.

O Son of Being! Thy paradise is My love, and thy heaven is reunion with Me. Enter therein and tarry not. This is what hath been ordained for thee in Our most exalted kingdom and Our most sublime realm of omnipotence.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجودِ riḍwānuka ﴾ ḥubbī رِضْوانُكَ wa-jannatuka حُبِّي waṣlī وَجَنَّتُكَ fa-dḵul وَصْلِي fīhā فَادْخُلْ wa-lā فِيها taṣbir. وَلا hāḏā تَصْبِرْ. mā هذَا quddira ما laka قُدِّرَ fī لَكَ malakūtinā فِي l-aʿlā مَلَكُوتِنا wa-jabarūtinā الأَعْلَى l-asnā. وَجَبَرُوتِنَا الأَسْنى.

O Son of Mortal Man! If thou lovest My self, turn away from thine own; and if thou seekest My good pleasure, close thine eyes to thine own. Thus wilt thou be effaced in Me, and I everlasting in thee.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-bašar, البَشَرِ in ﴾ tuḥibba إِنْ nafsī تُحِبَّ fa-aʿriḍ نَفْسي ʿan فَأَعْرِضْ nafsika, عَنْ wa-in نَفْسِكَ، turid وَإِنْ riḍāʾī تُرِدْ fa-aġmiḍ رِضائِي ʿan فَأَغْمِضْ riḍāʾika, عَنْ li-takūna رِضائِكَ، fiyya لِتَكُونَ fāniyan فِيَّ wa-akūna فانِيًا fīka وَأَكُونَ bāqiyan. فِيْكَ باقِيًا.

O Son of the Spirit! No rest is ordained for thee save by renouncing thyself and turning unto Me; for it behoveth thee that thy glorying be in My name and not thine own, and that thy reliance be upon My face and not upon thine; for I alone desire to be loved above all things.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ r-rūḥ, الرُّوحِ mā ﴾ quddira ما laka قُدِّرَ r-rāḥatu لَكَ illā الرَّاحَةُ bi-iʿrāḍika إِلاَّ ʿan بِإِعْراضِكَ nafsika عَنْ wa-iqbālika نَفْسِكَ bi-nafsī, وَإِقْبالِكَ li-annahu بِنَفْسي، yanbaġī لأَنَّهُ an يَنْبَغي yakūna أَنْ ftiḵāruka يَكُونَ bi-smī افْتِخارُكَ lā بِاسْمِي bi-smika, لَا wa-ttikāluka بِاسْمِكَ، ʿalā وَاتِّكالُكَ wajhī عَلى lā وَجْهِي ʿalā لا wajhika, عَلَى li-annī وَجْهِكَ waḥdī لأَنِّي uḥibbu وَحْدِي an أُحِبُّ akūna أَنْ maḥbūban أَكُونَ fawqa مَحْبوباً kulli فَوْقَ šayʾ. كُلِّ شَيْءٍ.

O Son of Being! My love is My fortress; he that entereth therein is saved and secure, and he that turneth away goeth astray and perisheth.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ ḥubbī ﴾ ḥiṣnī, حُبِّي man حِصْني daḵala مَنْ fīhi دَخَلَ najā فِيهِ wa-amina, نَجا wa-man وَأَمِنَ aʿraḍa وَمَنْ ġawā أَعْرَضَ wa-halaka. غَوَى وَهَلَكَ.

O Son of Utterance! Thou art My fortress; enter therein, that thou mayest abide in safety. My love is within thee; know it from thine own self, that thou mayest find Me near.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-bayān, الْبَيَانِ ḥiṣnī ﴾ anta حِصْنِي fa-dḵul أَنْتَ fīhi فَادْخُلْ li-takūna فِيهِ sāliman. لِتَكُونَ ḥubbī سالِمًا. fīka حُبّي fa-ʿrifhu فِيْكَ minka فَاعْرِفْهُ li-tajidanī مِنْكَ qarīban. لِتَجِدَني قَريبًا.

O Son of Being! Thou art My lamp-niche, and My lamp is within thee. Draw thy light from it and seek none other than Me; for I have created thee rich and made My bounty upon thee abundant.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ miškātī ﴾ anta مِشْكاتِي wa-miṣbāḥī أَنْتَ fīka; وَمِصْباحِي fa-stanir فِيْكَ؛ bihi فَاسْتَنِرْ wa-lā بِهِ tafḥaṣ وَلا ʿan تَفْحَصْ ġayrī, عَنْ li-annī غَيْري، ḵalaqtuka لأَنِّي ġaniyyan خَلَقْتُكَ wa-jaʿaltu غَنِيَّاً n-niʿmata وَجَعَلْتُ ʿalayka النِّعْمَةَ bāliġatan. عَلَيْكَ بالِغَةً.

O Son of Being! I made thee with the hands of might and created thee with the fingers of power, and within thee I laid the essence of My light. Be content with it, above all things; for My work is perfect and My decree is inexorable. Doubt it not, nor be of them that waver concerning it.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ ṣanaʿtuka ﴾ bi-ayādi صَنَعْتُكَ l-quwwati بِأَيادِي wa-ḵalaqtuka الْقُوَّةِ bi-anāmili وَخَلَقْتُكَ l-qudrati, بِأَنامِلِ wa-awdaʿtu الْقُدْرَةِ، fīka وَأَوْدَعْتُ jawhara فِيْكَ nūrī جَوْهَرَ fa-staġni نُوري bihi فَاسْتَغْنِ ʿan بِهِ kulli عَنْ šayʾin, كُلِّ li-anna شَيءٍ، ṣunʿī لأَنَّ kāmilun صُنْعي wa-ḥukmī كامِلٌ nāfiḏun وَحُكْمي lā نافِذٌ tašukka لا fīhi تَشُكَّ wa-lā فِيهِ takun وَلَا fīhi تَكُنْ murīban. فِيهِ مُرِيبًا.

O Son of the Spirit! I created thee rich — how is it thou makest thyself poor? I fashioned thee mighty — how is it thou abasest thyself? Out of the essence of knowledge I brought thee forth — why seekest thou knowledge of any beside Me? Out of the clay of love I kneaded thee — how is it thou busiest thyself with another? Turn thy gaze upon thyself, that thou mayest find Me within thee, standing, mighty, all-powerful, self-subsisting.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ r-rūḥ, الرُّوحِ ḵalaqtuka ﴾ ġaniyyan خَلَقْتُكَ kayfa غَنِيًّا taftaqiru, كَيْفَ wa-ṣanaʿtuka تَفْتَقِرُ، ʿazīzan وَصَنَعْتُكَ bima عَزِيزًا tastaḏillu, بِمَ wa-min تَسْتَذِلُّ، jawhari وَمِنْ l-ʿilmi جَوْهَرِ aẓhartuka العِلْمِ lima أَظْهَرْتُكَ tastaʿlimu لِمَ ʿan تَسْتَعْلِمُ dūnī, عَنْ wa-min دُونِي، ṭīni وَمِنْ l-ḥubbi طينِ ʿajantuka الْحُبِّ kayfa عَجَنْتُكَ taštaġilu كَيْفَ bi-ġayrī; تَشْتَغِلُ fa-arjiʿi بِغَيْري؛ l-baṣara فَأَرْجِعِ ilayka الْبَصَرَ li-tajidanī إِلَيْكَ fīka لِتَجِدَني qāʾiman فِيكَ qādiran قائِمًا muqtadiran قادِرًا qayyūman. مُقْتَدِرًا قَيُّومًا.

O Son of Man! Thou art My dominion, and My dominion perisheth not — why dreadest thou thy perishing? Thou art My light, and My light is not quenched — why art thou troubled at thine extinction? Thou art My glory, and My glory fadeth not; thou art My robe, and My robe weareth not away. Abide, then, in thy love for Me, that thou mayest find Me in the highest horizon.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ anta ﴾ mulkī أَنْتَ wa-mulkī مُلْكِي lā وَمُلْكِي yafnā لا kayfa يَفْنى taḵāfu كَيْفَ min تَخافُ fanāʾika, مِنْ wa-anta فَنائِكَ، nūrī وَأَنْتَ wa-nūrī نُوري lā وَنُوري yuṭfā لا kayfa يُطْفى taḍṭaribu كَيْفَ min تَضْطَرِبُ iṭfāʾika, مِنْ wa-anta إِطْفائِكَ، bahāʾī وَأَنْتَ wa-bahāʾī بَهائِي lā وَبَهائِي yuġšā, لا wa-anta يُغْشى، qamīṣī وَأَنْتَ wa-qamīṣī قَمِيصي lā وَقَميصِي yablā, لَا fa-stariḥ يَبْلَى، fī فَاسْتَرِح ḥubbika فِي iyyāya حُبِّكَ li-kay إِيَّايَ tajidanī لِكَيْ fi تَجِدَنِي l-ufuqi فِي l-aʿlā. الأُفُقِ الأَعْلى.

O Son of Utterance! Turn thy face toward My face and turn away from all besides Me; for My sovereignty endureth and passeth never away, and My dominion abideth and is never overthrown. Shouldst thou seek any other than Me, thou wouldst not find him, though thou shouldst search through all being, everlastingly, eternally.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-bayān, البَيان wajjih ﴾ bi-wajhī وَجِّهْ wa-aʿriḍ بِوَجْهِي ʿan وَأَعْرِضْ ġayrī, عَنْ li-anna غَيْرِي، sulṭānī لأَنَّ bāqin سُلْطانِي lā باقٍ yazūlu لا abadan يَزُولُ wa-mulkī أَبَدًا dāʾimun وَمُلكِي lā دائِمٌ yaḥūlu لا abadan. يَحُولُ wa-in أَبَدًا. taṭlub وَإِنْ siwāʾī تَطْلُبْ lan سِوائِي tajida لَنْ law تَجِدَ tafḥaṣu لَوْ fi تَفْحَصُ l-wujūdi فِي sarmadan الوُجُودِ azalan. سَرْمَدًا أَزَلاً.

O Son of Light! Forget all save Me, and take intimacy with My spirit. This is of the essence of My Cause; turn, then, unto it.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ n-nūr, النُّورِ insa ﴾ dūnī انْسَ wa-ānis دُونِي bi-rūḥī, وَآنِسْ hāḏā بِرُوحِي، min هذا jawhari مِنْ amrī جَوْهَرِ fa-aqbil أَمْري ilayhi. فَأَقْبِلْ إِلَيْهِ.

O Son of Man! Let Me suffice thee in place of all else, and seek no helper besides Me; for naught but Me shall ever suffice thee.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ ikfi ﴾ bi-nafsī اكْفِ ʿan بِنَفْسِي dūnī عَنْ wa-lā دُونِي taṭlub وَلَا muʿīnan تَطْلُبْ siwāʾī, مُعِينًا li-anna سِوائِي، mā لأَنَّ dūnī ما lan دُونِي yakfiyaka لَنْ abadan. يَكْفِيَكَ أَبَدًا.

O Son of the Spirit! Ask not of Me that which We desire not for thee; then be content with what We have decreed for thy countenance; for that is what profiteth thee, if therewith thou be content.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ r-rūḥ, الرُّوحِ lā ﴾ taṭlub لَا minnī تَطْلُبْ mā مِنِّي lā مَا nuḥibbuhu لَا li-nafsika, نُحِبُّهُ ṯumma لِنَفْسِكَ، rḍa ثُمَّ bimā ارْضَ qaḍaynā بِما li-wajhika, قَضَيْنَا li-anna لِوَجْهِكَ، mā لِأَنَّ yanfaʿuka مَا hāḏā يَنْفَعُكَ in هَذَا takun إِنْ bihi تَكُنْ rāḍiyan. بِهِ راضِيًا.

O Son of the Supreme Vision! I deposited within thee a spirit from Me, that thou mightest be a lover unto Me. Why hast thou forsaken Me and sought a beloved other than Me?

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-manẓari المَنْظَرِ l-aʿlā, الأَعْلى awdaʿtu ﴾ fīka أَوْدَعْتُ rūḥan فِيكَ minnī رُوحًا li-takūna مِنِّي ḥabīban لِتَكُونَ lī; حَبِيبًا lima لِي؛ taraktanī لِمَ wa-ṭalabta تَرَكْتَنِي maḥbūban وَطَلَبْتَ siwāʾī. مَحْبُوبًا سِوائِي.

O Son of the Spirit! My right over thee is great and not to be forgotten; My grace toward thee is abundant and not to be veiled; My love within thee is present and not to be concealed; My light unto thee is manifest and not to be hidden.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ r-rūḥ, الرُّوحِ ḥaqqī ﴾ ʿalayka حَقِّي kabīrun عَلَيْكَ lā كَبِيرٌ yunsā, لا wa-faḍlī يُنْسَى، bika وَفَضْلِي ʿaẓīmun بِكَ lā عَظيمٌ yuġšā, لا wa-ḥubbī يُغْشى، fīka وَحُبِّي mawjūdun فِيكَ lā مَوْجُودٌ yuġaṭṭā, لا wa-nūrī يُغَطَّى، laka وَنُوري mašhūdun لَكَ lā مَشْهُودٌ yaḵfā. لا يَخْفى.

O Son of Mortal Man! From the tree of most-glorious splendour I have ordained for thee the purest of fruits. How is it thou hast turned away from it and contented thyself with that which is baser? Return, then, unto that which is better for thee in the highest horizon.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-bašar, البَشَرِ qaddartu ﴾ laka قَدَّرْتُ mina لَكَ š-šajari مِنَ l-abhā الشَّجَرِ l-fawākiha الأَبْهَى l-aṣfā, الْفَواكِهَ kayfa الأَصْفى، aʿraḍta كَيْفَ ʿanhu أَعْرَضْتَ wa-raḍīta عَنْهُ bi-llaḏī وَرَضِيتَ huwa بِالَّذِي adnā, هُوَ fa-rjiʿ أَدْنَى، ilā فارْجِعْ mā إِلَى huwa مَا ḵayrun هُوَ laka خَيْرٌ fi لَكَ l-ufuqi فِي l-aʿlā. الأُفُقِ الأَعْلَى.

O Son of the Spirit! I created thee lofty, yet thou hast made thyself lowly. Ascend, then, unto that for which thou wast created.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ r-rūḥ, الرُّوحِ ḵalaqtuka ﴾ ʿāliyan, خَلَقْتُكَ jaʿalta عَالِيًا، nafsaka جَعَلْتَ dāniyatan; نَفْسَكَ fa-ṣʿad دانِيَةً؛ ilā فَاصْعَدْ mā إِلى ḵuliqta ما lahu. خُلِقْتَ لَهُ.

O Son of the Cloud! I summon thee unto abidingness, yet thou seekest evanescence. Wherefore hast thou turned from what We love and inclined unto what thou lovest?

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-ʿamāʾ, العَماءِ adʿūka ﴾ ilā أَدْعُوكَ l-baqāʾi إِلَى wa-anta الْبَقَاءِ tabtaġi وَأَنْتَ l-fanāʾa, تَبْتَغِي bima الْفَنَاءَ، aʿraḍta بِمَ ʿammā أَعْرَضْتَ nuḥibbu عَمَّا wa-aqbalta نُحِبُّ ilā وَأَقْبَلْتَ mā إِلَى tuḥibbu. مَا تُحِبُّ.

O Son of Man! Overstep not thy bounds, and lay not claim to that which beseemeth thee not. Prostrate thyself before the countenance of thy Lord, the Lord of might and power.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ lā ﴾ tataʿadda لَا ʿan تَتَعَدَّ ḥaddika عَنْ wa-lā حَدِّكَ taddaʿi وَلا mā تَدَّعِ lā مَا yanbaġī لَا li-nafsika, يَنْبَغِي sjud لِنَفْسِكَ، li-ṭalʿati اسْجُدْ rabbika لِطَلْعَةِ ḏi رَبِّكَ l-qudrati ذِي wa-l-iqtidāri. الْقُدْرَةِ وَالإِقْتِدَارِ.

O Son of the Spirit! Vaunt not thyself over the poor by the pride of thyself; for I walk before him, and I behold thee in thine evil plight, and I condemn thee for evermore.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ r-rūḥ, الرُّوحِ lā ﴾ taftaḵir لَا ʿalā تَفْتَخِرْ l-miskīni عَلَى bi-ftiḵāri الْمِسْكِينِ nafsika, بِافْتِخَارِ li-annī نَفْسِكَ، amšī لِأَنِّي quddāmahu أَمْشِي wa-arāka قُدَّامَهُ fī وَأَرَاكَ sūʾi فِي ḥālika سُوءِ wa-alʿanu حَالِكَ ʿalayka وَأَلْعَنُ ilā عَلَيْكَ l-abadi. إِلَى الأَبَدِ.

O Son of Being! How is it thou hast forgotten thine own faults and busied thyself with the faults of My servants? Whoso doeth so, upon him is a curse from Me.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ kayfa ﴾ nasīta كَيْفَ ʿuyūba نَسِيتَ nafsika عُيوبَ wa-štaġalta نَفْسِكَ bi-ʿuyūbi وَاشْتَغَلْتَ ʿibādī. بِعُيُوبِ man عِبادِي. kāna مَنْ ʿalā كانَ ḏālika عَلى fa-ʿalayhi ذلِكَ laʿnatun فَعَلَيْهِ minnī. لَعْنَةٌ مِنِّي.

O Son of Man! Breathe not the sin of any so long as thou art thyself a sinner. Shouldst thou do otherwise, accursed art thou, and to this I bear witness.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ lā ﴾ tanaffas لَا bi-ḵaṭaʾi تَنَفَّسْ aḥadin بِخَطَأِ mā أَحَدٍ dumta مَا ḵāṭiʾan, دُمْتَ wa-in خاطِئًا، tafʿal وَإِنْ bi-ġayri تَفْعَلْ ḏālika بِغَيْرِ malʿūnun ذَلِكَ anta, مَلْعُونٌ wa-anā أَنْتَ، šāhidun وَأَنَا bi-ḏālika. شاهِدٌ بِذَلِكَ.

O Son of the Spirit! Know for a certainty that he who biddeth men be just yet himself committeth iniquity is not of Me, even though he bear My name.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ r-rūḥ, الرُّوحِ ayqin ﴾ bi-anna أَيْقِنْ llaḏī بِأَنَّ yaʾmuru الَّذي n-nāsa يَأْمُرُ bi-l-ʿadli النَّاسَ wa-yartakibu بِالْعَدْلِ l-faḥšāʾa وَيَرْتَكِبُ fī الْفَحْشَاءَ nafsihi, فِي innahu نَفْسِهِ، laysa إِنَّهُ minnī لَيْسَ wa-law مِنِّي kāna وَلَوْ ʿalā كَانَ smī. عَلَى اسْمِي.

O Son of Being! Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which thou doest not. This is My command unto thee; act upon it.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ lā ﴾ tansib لَا ilā تَنْسِبْ nafsin إِلَى mā نَفْسٍ lā مَا tuḥibbuhu لَا li-nafsika, تُحِبُّهُ wa-lā لِنَفْسِكَ، taqul وَلَا mā تَقُلْ lā مَا tafʿal. لَا hāḏā تَفْعَل. amrī هَذَا ʿalayka أَمْرِي fa-ʿmal عَلَيْكَ bihi. فَاعْمَلْ بِهِ.

O Son of Man! Deny not My servant should he ask aught of thee, for his face is My face; be then abashed before Me.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ lā ﴾ taḥrim لَا wajha تَحْرِمْ ʿabdī وَجْهَ iḏā عَبْدِي saʾalaka إِذَا fī سَأَلَكَ šayʾin; فِي li-anna شَيْءٍ؛ wajhahu لأَنَّ wajhī وَجْهَهُ fa-ḵjal وَجْهِي minnī. فَاخْجَلْ مِنِّي.

O Son of Being! Bring thyself to account each day, ere thou art brought to account; for death shall come upon thee unawares, and thou shalt be called to reckon for thine own self.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ ḥāsib ﴾ nafsaka حاسِبْ fī نَفْسَكَ kulli فِي yawmin كُلِّ min يَوْمٍ qabli مِنْ an قَبْلِ tuḥāsaba, أَنْ li-anna تُحَاسَبَ، l-mawta لأَنَّ yaʾtīka الْمَوْتَ baġtatan يَأْتِيكَ wa-taqūmu بَغْتَةً ʿalā وَتَقُومُ l-ḥisābi عَلَى fī الْحِسابِ nafsika. فِي نَفْسِكَ.

O Son of the Cloud! I made death for thee a herald of joy — why grievest thou at it? I made the light for thee a radiance — why veilest thou thyself from it?

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-ʿamāʾ, العَماءِ jaʿaltu ﴾ laka جَعَلْتُ l-mawta لَكَ bišāratan, الْمَوْتَ kayfa بِشَارَةً، taḥzanu كَيْفَ minhu. تَحْزَنُ wa-jaʿaltu مِنْهُ. n-nūra وَجَعَلْتُ laka النُّورَ ḍiyāʾan, لَكَ kayfa ضِياءً، taḥtajibu كَيْفَ ʿanhu. تَحْتَجِبُ عَنْهُ.

O Son of the Spirit! With the glad-tidings of light I give thee joy: rejoice, then, therein. And unto the abode of holiness I summon thee: take refuge therein, that thou mayest find rest for ever and ever.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ r-rūḥ, الرُّوحِ bi-bišārati ﴾ n-nūri بِبِشارَةِ ubašširuka النُّورِ fa-stabšir أُبَشِّرُكَ bihi, فَاسْتَبْشِرْ wa-ilā بِهِ، maqarri وَإِلى l-qudsi مَقَرِّ adʿūka القُدْسِ taḥaṣṣan أَدْعُوكَ fīhi, تَحَصَّنْ li-tastarīḥa فِيهِ، ilā لِتَسْتَريحَ abadi إِلَى l-abadi. أَبَدِ الأَبَدِ.

O Son of the Spirit! The Spirit of holiness bringeth thee tidings of intimacy — why grievest thou? The spirit of the Cause strengtheneth thee in the Cause — why veilest thou thyself? The light of the countenance goeth before thee — how canst thou go astray?

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ r-rūḥ, الرُّوحِ rūḥu ﴾ l-qudsi رُوحُ yubašširuka القُدْسِ bi-l-unsi, يُبَشِّرُكَ kayfa بِالأُنْسِ، taḥzanu. كَيْفَ wa-rūḥu تَحْزَنُ. l-amri وَرُوحُ yuʾayyiduka الأَمْرِ ʿalā يُؤَيِّدُكَ l-amri, عَلَى kayfa الأَمْرِ، taḥtajibu. كَيْفَ wa-nūru تَحْتَجِبُ. l-wajhi وَنُورُ yamšī الوَجْهِ quddāmaka, يَمْشِي kayfa قُدَّامَكَ، taḍillu. كَيْفَ تَضِلُّ.

O Son of Man! Grieve not save in thy remoteness from Us, and rejoice not save in thy nearness unto Us and thy return unto Us.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ lā ﴾ taḥzan لَا illā تَحْزَنْ fī إِلاّ buʿdika فِي ʿannā, بُعْدِكَ wa-lā عَنَّا، tafraḥ وَلا illā تَفْرَحْ fī إِلاّ qurbika فِي binā قُرْبِكَ wa-r-rujūʿi بِنا ilaynā. وَالرُّجُوعِ إِلَيْنا.

O Son of Man! Rejoice in the gladness of thy heart, that thou mayest be worthy to meet Me and a mirror unto My beauty.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ ifraḥ ﴾ bi-surūri افْرَحْ qalbika, بِسُرُورِ li-takūna قَلْبِكَ، qābilan لِتَكُونَ li-liqāʾī قابِلاً wa-mirʾātan لِلِقائِي li-jamālī. وَمِرآةً لِجَمالِي.

O Son of Man! Divest not thyself of the fair robe of My grace, and deprive not thyself of thy portion from the wondrous fountains of Mine, lest thirst seize thee in the everlastingness of My essence.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ lā ﴾ tuʿarri لَا nafsaka تُعَرِّ ʿan نَفْسَكَ jamīli عَنْ ridāʾī جَميلِ wa-lā رِدائِي taḥrim وَلَا naṣībaka تَحْرِمْ min نَصِيبَكَ badīʿi مِنْ ḥiyāḍī; بَدِيعِ li-allā حِياضِي؛ yaʾḵuḏaka لِئَلَّا ẓ-ẓamaʾu يَأْخُذَكَ fī الظَّمَأُ sarmadiyyati فِي ḏātī. سَرْمَدِيَّةِ ذاتِي.

O Son of Being! Observe My statutes out of love for Me, then restrain thy soul from what it craveth, in seeking My good pleasure.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ iʿmal ﴾ ḥudūdī اعْمَلْ ḥubban حُدُودِي lī, حُبًّا ṯumma لِي، nhi ثُمَّ nafsaka انْهِ ʿammā نَفْسَكَ tahwā عَمّا ṭalaban تَهْوى li-riḍāʾī. طَلَبًا لِرِضائِي.

O Son of Man! Forsake not My commandments out of love for My beauty, and forget not My counsels in thy longing for My good pleasure.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ lā ﴾ tatruk لا awāmirī تَتْرُكْ ḥubban أَوامِرِي li-jamālī, حُبًّا wa-lā لِجَمَالِي، tansa وَلا waṣāyāya تَنْسَ btiġāʾan وَصَايَايَ li-riḍāʾī. ابْتِغاءً لِرِضائِي.

O Son of Man! Race across the wilderness of the Cloud, then speed into the field of heaven. Thou shalt find no rest save in submission to Our Cause and lowliness before Our countenance.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ irkuḍ ﴾ fī ارْكُضْ barri فِي l-ʿamāʾi بَرِّ ṯumma الْعَماءِ asriʿ ثُمَّ fī أَسْرِعْ maydāni فِي s-samāʾi. مَيْدانِ lan السَّمآءِ. tajida لَنْ r-rāḥata تَجِدَ illā الرَّاحَةَ bi-l-ḵuḍūʿi إِلاَّ li-amrinā بِالخُضُوعِ wa-t-tawāḍuʿi لأَمْرِنا li-wajhinā. وَالتَّواضُعِ لِوَجْهِنا.

O Son of Man! Magnify My Cause, that I may unveil to thee the mysteries of grandeur and shine upon thee with the lights of eternity.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ ʿaẓẓim ﴾ amrī عَظِّمْ li-uẓhira أَمْرِي ʿalayka لأُظْهِرَ min عَلَيْكَ asrāri مِنْ l-ʿiẓami, أَسْرارِ wa-ušriqa العِظَمِ، ʿalayka وَأُشْرِقَ bi-anwāri عَلَيْكَ l-qidami. بِأَنْوارِ الْقِدَمِ.

O Son of Man! Be humble before Me, that I may be gracious unto thee; and be a helper of My Cause, that thou mayest be made victorious in the dominion.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ kun ﴾ lī كُنْ ḵāḍiʿan لِي li-akūna خاضِعًا laka لأَكُونَ mutawāḍiʿan, لَكَ wa-kun مُتَواضِعًا، li-amrī وَكُنْ nāṣiran لأَمْري li-takūna ناصِرًا fi لِتَكُونَ l-mulki فِي manṣūran. المُلْكِ مَنْصُورًا.

O Son of Being! Remember Me upon My earth, that I may remember thee in My heaven, that thine eye may be solaced thereby and Mine eye be solaced thereby.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ uḏkurnī ﴾ fī اذْكُرْنِي arḍī فِي li-aḏkuraka أَرْضِي fī لأَذْكُرَكَ samāʾī; فِي li-taqarra سَمائِي؛ bihi لِتَقَرَّ ʿaynuka بِهِ wa-taqarra عَيْنُكَ bihi وَتَقَرَّ ʿaynī. بِهِ عَيْنِي.

O Son of the Throne! Thy hearing is My hearing; hear thou therewith. Thy sight is My sight; see thou therewith, that in thine inmost being thou mayest bear witness unto an exalted sanctity of Me, and I may bear witness for thee, within Mine own self, unto a lofty station.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-ʿarš, العَرْشِ samʿuka ﴾ samʿī سَمْعُكَ fa-smaʿ سَمْعِي bihi, فَاسْمَعْ wa-baṣaruka بِهِ، baṣarī وَبَصَرُكَ fa-abṣir بَصَرِي bihi; فَأَبْصِرْ li-tašhada بِهِ؛ fī لِتَشْهَدَ sirrika فِي lī سِرِّكَ taqdīsan لِي ʿaliyyan, تَقْدِيسًا li-ašhada عَلِيًّا، laka لأَشْهَدَ fī لَكَ nafsī فِي maqāman نَفْسي rafīʿan. مَقامًا رَفِيعًا.

O Son of Being! Seek martyrdom in My path, well-pleased with Me and thankful for My decree, that thou mayest rest with Me beneath the canopies of majesty behind the pavilion of glory.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ istašhid ﴾ fī اسْتَشْهِدْ sabīlī فِي rāḍiyan سَبِيلي ʿannī رَاضِيًا wa-šākiran عَنّي li-qaḍāʾī, وَشاكِرًا li-tastarīḥa لِقَضائِي، maʿī لِتَسْتَريحَ fī مَعِي qibābi فِي l-ʿaẓamati قِبابِ ḵalfa العَظَمَةِ surādiqi خَلْفَ l-ʿizzati. سُرادِقِ الْعِزَّةِ.

O Son of Man! Ponder thy state and reflect upon thy deeds. Desirest thou to die upon thy bed, or to be martyred in My path upon the dust, and to become the dawning-place of My Cause and the manifestation of My light in the highest Paradise? Be just, then, O servant.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ fakkir ﴾ fī فَكِّرْ amrika فِي wa-tadabbar أَمْرِكَ fī وَتَدَبَّرْ fiʿlika. فِي a-tuḥibbu فِعْلِكَ. an أَتُحِبُّ tamūta أَنْ ʿalā تَمُوتَ l-firāši عَلَى aw الْفِراشِ tustašhada أَوْ fī تُسْتَشْهَدَ sabīlī فِي ʿalā سَبِيلِي t-turābi, عَلَى wa-takūna التُّرابِ، maṭliʿa وَتَكُونَ amrī مَطْلِعَ wa-maẓhara أَمْرِي nūrī وَمَظْهَرَ fī نُوري aʿlā فِي l-firdawsi, أَعْلَى fa-anṣif الْفِرْدَوْسِ، yā فَأَنْصِفْ ʿabd. يا عَبْدُ.

O Son of Man! By My beauty! To dye thy hair with thy blood were greater in My sight than the creation of the two worlds and the radiance of the two weighty ones. Strive, then, to attain it, O servant.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ wa-jamālī ﴾ taḵaḍḍubu وَجَمالِي šaʿrika تَخَضُّبُ min شَعْرِكَ damika مِنْ la-kāna دَمِكَ akbara لَكانَ ʿindī أَكْبَرَ ʿan عِنْدي ḵalqi عَنْ l-kawnayni خَلْقِ wa-ḍiyāʾi الكَوْنَيْنِ ṯ-ṯaqalayni, وَضِياءِ fa-jhad الثَّقَلَيْنِ، fīhi فَاجْهَد yā فِيهِ ʿabd. يا عَبْدُ.

O Son of Man! For everything there is a sign; and the sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patient endurance under My trials.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ li-kulli ﴾ šayʾin لِكُلِّ ʿalāmatun; شَيْءٍ wa-ʿalāmatu عَلامَةٌ؛ l-ḥubbi وَعَلامَةُ ṣ-ṣabru الْحُبِّ fī الصَّبْرُ qaḍāʾī فِي wa-l-iṣṭibāru قَضَائِي fī وَالاصْطِبارُ balāʾī. فِي بَلائِي.

O Son of Man! The true lover yearneth for tribulation as the rebel yearneth for forgiveness and the sinner for mercy.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ al-muḥibbu ﴾ ṣ-ṣādiqu الْمُحِبُّ yarjū الصَّادِقُ l-balāʾa يَرْجُو ka-rajāʾi الْبَلاءَ l-ʿāṣī كَرَجاءِ ilā الْعاصِي l-maġfirati إِلَى wa-l-muḏnibi الْمَغْفِرَةِ ilā وَالمُذْنِبِ r-raḥmati. إِلَى الرَّحْمَةِ.

O Son of Man! If tribulation befall thee not in My path, how shalt thou tread the ways of them that are content in My good pleasure? And if hardship touch thee not in thy longing to meet Me, how shall the light reach thee in thy love for My beauty?

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسَانِ in ﴾ lā إِنْ yuṣībuka لَا l-balāʾu يُصيبُكَ fī البَلاءُ sabīlī فِي kayfa سَبِيْلِي tasluku كَيْفَ subula تَسْلُكُ r-rāḍīna سُبُلَ fī الرَّاضِينَ riḍāʾī, فِي wa-in رِضائِي، lā وَإِنْ tamassuka لَا l-mašaqqatu تَمَسُّكَ šawqan المَشَقَّةُ li-liqāʾī شَوْقًا kayfa لِلِقائِي yuṣībuka كَيْفَ n-nūru يُصِيبُكَ ḥubban النُّورُ li-jamālī. حُبّاً لِجَمالِي.

O Son of Man! My tribulation is My providence: outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten unto it, that thou mayest become an eternal light and an everlasting spirit. This is My command; know it.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسَانِ balāʾī ﴾ ʿināyatī, بَلاَئِي ẓāhiruhu عِنايَتي، nārun ظاهِرُهُ wa-niqmatun نارٌ wa-bāṭinuhu وَنِقْمَةٌ nūrun وَباطِنُهُ wa-raḥmatun. نُورٌ fa-stabiq وَرَحْمَةٌ. ilayhi فاسْتَبِقْ li-takūna إِلَيْهِ nūran لِتَكُونَ azaliyyan نُورًا wa-rūḥan أَزَلِيًّا qidamiyyan, وَرُوحًا wa-huwa قِدَمِيًّا، amrī وَهُوَ fa-ʿrifhu. أَمْري فَاعْرِفْهُ.

O Son of Mortal Man! If blessing befall thee, rejoice not in it; and if abasement touch thee, grieve not at it; for both shall pass away in their time and vanish in their hour.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-bašar, البَشَرِ in ﴾ aṣābatka إِنْ niʿmatun أَصَابَتْكَ lā نِعْمَةٌ tafraḥ لَا bihā, تَفْرَحْ wa-in بِها، tamassaka وَإِنْ ḏillatun تَمَسَّكَ lā ذِلَّةٌ taḥzan لا minhā, تَحْزَنْ li-anna مِنْهَا، kiltayhimā لأَنَّ tazūlāni كِلْتَيْهِما fī تَزُولانِ ḥīnin فِي wa-tabīdāni حِين fī وَتَبِيدانِ waqtin. فِي وَقْتٍ.

O Son of Being! Should poverty overtake thee, grieve not; for in the fullness of days the sovereign of wealth shall descend upon thee. And fear not abasement, for glory shall alight upon thee in the fullness of time.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ in ﴾ yamassaka إِنْ l-faqru يَمَسَّكَ lā الفَقْرُ taḥzan, لَا li-anna تَحْزَنْ، sulṭāna لأَنَّ l-ġinā سُلْطانَ yanzilu الغِنى ʿalayka يَنْزِلُ fī عَلَيْكَ madā فِي l-ayyāmi. مَدَى wa-mina الأَيَّامِ. ḏ-ḏillati وَمِنَ lā الذِّلَّةِ taḵaf, لَا li-anna تَخَفْ، l-ʿizzata لِأَنَّ tuṣībuka الْعِزَّةَ fī تُصِيبُكَ madā فِي z-zamāni. مَدَى الزَّمانِ.

O Son of Being! If thou lovest this abiding, everlasting dominion and this ancient, eternal life, then forsake this fleeting, perishing dominion.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ in ﴾ tuḥibba إِنْ hāḏihi تُحِبَّ d-dawlata هَذِهِ l-bāqiyata الدَّوْلَةَ l-abadiyyata الباقِيَةَ wa-hāḏihi الأَبَدِيَّةَ l-ḥayāta وَهذِهِ l-qidamiyyata الْحَياةَ l-azaliyyata, الْقِدَمِيَّةَ fa-truk الأَزَلِيَّةَ، hāḏihi فَاتْرُكْ d-dawlata هذِهِ l-fāniyata الدَّوْلَةَ z-zāʾilata. الْفانِيَةَ الزَّائِلَةَ.

O Son of Being! Busy not thyself with the world; for with fire We test the gold, and with gold We test Our servants.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ lā ﴾ taštaġil لَا bi-d-dunyā; تَشْتَغِل li-anna بِالدُّنْيا؛ bi-n-nāri لِأَنَّ namtaḥinu بِالنَّارِ ḏ-ḏahaba, نَمْتَحِنُ wa-bi-ḏ-ḏahabi الذَّهَبَ، namtaḥinu وَبِالذَّهَبِ l-ʿibāda. نَمْتَحِنُ العِبادَ.

O Son of Man! Thou desirest gold, and I desire thy detachment from it. Thou hast deemed thy wealth to lie in possessing it, and I have known thy wealth to lie in thy sanctification from it. By My life! This is My knowledge, and that is thy fancy; how can My way accord with thine?

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ anta ﴾ turīdu أَنْتَ ḏ-ḏahaba تُريدُ wa-anā الذَّهَبَ urīdu وَأَنا tanzīhaka أُريدُ ʿanhu, تَنْزيهَكَ wa-anta عَنْهُ، ʿarafta وَأَنْتَ ġanāʾa عَرَفْتَ nafsika غَنَاءَ fīhi, نَفْسِكَ wa-anā فِيهِ، ʿaraftu وَأَنَا l-ġanāʾa عَرَفْتُ fī الْغَناءَ taqdīsika فِي ʿanhu. تَقْدِيسِكَ wa-ʿamrī عَنْهُ. hāḏā وَعَمْري ʿilmī هَذا wa-ḏālika عِلْمِي ẓannuka; وَذلِكَ kayfa ظَنُّكَ؛ yajtamiʿu كَيْفَ amrī يَجْتَمِعُ maʿa أَمْرِي amrika. مَعَ أَمْرِكَ.

O Son of Man! Bestow My wealth upon My poor, that in heaven thou mayest draw from treasures of imperishable glory and stores of unfading splendour. Yet, by My life! To offer up thy spirit is fairer still, couldst thou but behold with Mine eye.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ anfiq ﴾ mālī أَنْفِقْ ʿalā مالِي fuqarāʾī عَلى li-tunfiqa فُقَرائِي fi لِتُنْفِقَ s-samāʾi فِي min السَّمآءِ kunūzi مِنْ ʿizzin كُنُوزِ lā عِزِّ tafnā لا wa-ḵazāʾini تَفْنى majdin وَخَزائِنِ lā مَجْدٍ tablā; لا wa-lākin تَبْلى؛ wa-ʿamrī وَلكِنْ infāqu وَعَمْري r-rūḥi إِنْفاقَ ajmalu الرُّوحِ law أَجْمَلُ tušāhid لَوْ bi-ʿaynī. تُشاهِدْ بِعَيْني.

O Son of Mortal Man! The temple of being is My throne; cleanse it of all things, that I may be established therein and take My rest upon it.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-bašar, البَشَرِ haykalu ﴾ l-wujūdi هَيْكَلُ ʿaršī, الْوُجُودِ naẓẓifhu عَرْشي، ʿan نَظِّفْهُ kulli عَنْ šayʾin كُلِّ li-stiwāʾī شَيْءٍ bihi لاِسْتِوائِي wa-stiqrārī بِهِ ʿalayhi. وَاسْتِقْرارِي عَلَيْهِ.

O Son of Being! Thy heart is My dwelling; sanctify it for My descent. Thy spirit is My vista; purify it for My manifestation.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-wujūd, الوُجُودِ fuʾāduka ﴾ manzilī فُؤادُكَ qaddishu مَنْزِلِي li-nuzūlī, قَدِّسْهُ wa-rūḥuka لِنُزُولِي، manẓarī وَرُوحُكَ ṭahhirhā مَنْظَرِي li-ẓuhūrī. طَهِّرْها لِظُهُوري.

O Son of Man! Put thy hand into My bosom, that I may rise above thy bosom, resplendent and luminous.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ adḵil ﴾ yadaka أَدْخِلْ fī يَدَكَ jaybī فِي li-arfaʿa جَيْبِي raʾsī لأَرْفَعَ ʿan رَأْسي jaybika عَنْ mušriqan جَيْبِكَ muḍīʾan. مُشْرِقًا مُضِيئًا.

O Son of Man! Ascend unto My heaven, that thou mayest behold reunion with Me and drink of the pure wine that hath no like, and from the cups of glory that shall never pass away.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسَانِ iṣʿad ﴾ ilā اصْعَدْ samāʾī إِلى li-kay سَمائِي tarā لِكَيْ wiṣālī; تَرى li-tašraba وِصالِي؛ min لِتَشْرَبَ zulāli مِنْ ḵamrin زُلالِ lā خَمْرٍ miṯāla لا wa-kuʾūbi مِثالَ majdin وَكُؤُبِ lā مَجْدٍ zawāla. لا زَوالَ.

O Son of Man! Many a day hath passed over thee wherein thou hast busied thyself with the fancies and vain imaginings of thine own desire. How long wilt thou lie slumbering upon thy couch? Lift up thy head from sleep, for the sun hath risen to the zenith; haply it may shine upon thee with the lights of beauty.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسَانِ qad ﴾ maḍā قَدْ ʿalayka مَضى ayyāmun, عَلَيْكَ wa-štaġalta أَيَّامٌ، fīhā وَاشْتَغَلْتَ bimā فِيها tahwā بِمَا bihi تَهْوى nafsuka بِهِ mina نَفْسُكَ ẓ-ẓunūni مِنَ wa-l-awhāmi. الظُّنُونِ ilā وَالأَوْهَامِ. matā إِلَى takūnu مَتَى rāqidan تَكُونُ ʿalā راقِدًا bisāṭika. عَلَى irfaʿ بِساطِكَ. raʾsaka ارْفَعْ ʿani رَأْسَكَ n-nawmi; عَنِ inna النَّوْمِ؛ š-šamsa إِنَّ rtafaʿat الشَّمْسَ fī ارْتَفَعَتْ wasaṭi فِي z-zawāli, وَسَطِ laʿalla الزَّوالِ، tušriqu لَعَلَّ ʿalayka تُشْرِقُ bi-anwāri عَلَيْكَ l-jamāli. بِأَنْوارِ الْجَمالِ.

O Son of Man! I caused the light to dawn upon thee from the horizon of the Mount, and breathed the spirit of splendour into the Sinai of thy heart. Empty thyself, then, of the veils and vain imaginings, and enter upon the carpet, that thou mayest be worthy of abidingness and fit for the meeting, that neither death nor toil nor weariness may overtake thee.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسَانِ ašraqtu ﴾ ʿalayka أَشْرَقْتُ n-nūra عَلَيْكَ min النُّورَ ufuqi مِنْ ṭ-ṭūri, أُفُقِ wa-nafaḵtu الطُّورِ، rūḥa وَنَفَخْتَ s-sanāʾi رُوحَ fī السَّناءِ sīnāʾi في qalbika; سِيناءِ fa-afriġ قَلْبِكَ؛ nafsaka فَأَفْرِغْ ʿani نَفْسَكَ l-ḥujubāti عَنِ wa-ẓ-ẓunūnāti, الحُجُباتِ ṯumma وَالظُّنُوناتِ، dḵul ثُمَّ ʿalā ادْخُلْ l-bisāṭi عَلَى li-takūna البِساطِ qābilan لِتَكُونَ li-l-baqāʾi قابِلاً wa-lāʾiqan لِلْبَقاءِ li-l-liqāʾi, وَلائِقًا kay لِلِّقاءِ، lā كَيْ yaʾḵuḏaka لا mawtun يَأْخُذَكَ wa-lā مَوْتٌ naṣbun وَلا wa-lā نَصْبٌ laġūbun. وَلا لَغُوبٌ.

O Son of Man! My eternity is My creation; I have created it for thee — make it, then, a robe for thy temple. My oneness is My handiwork; I have fashioned it for thy sake — make it, then, the garment of thy self, that thou mayest be, unto all eternity, the dawning-place of My self-subsistence.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسَانِ azaliyyatī ﴾ ibdāʿī أَزَلِيَّتي abdaʿtuhā إِبْداعِي laka, أَبْدَعْتُها fa-jʿalhā لَكَ، ridāʾan فَاجْعَلْها li-haykalika. رِداءً wa-aḥadiyyatī لِهَيْكَلِكَ. iḥdāṯī وَأَحَدِيَّتي iḵtaraʿtuhā إِحْداثي li-ajlika, اخْتَرَعْتُها fa-jʿalhā لأَجْلِكَ، qamīṣa فَاجْعَلْها nafsika قَمِيصَ li-takūna نَفْسِكَ mašriqa لِتَكُونَ qayyūmiyyatī مَشْرِقَ ilā قَيُّومِيَّتِي l-abadi. إِلى الأَبَدِ.

O Son of Man! My grandeur is My gift unto thee, and My majesty is My mercy upon thee. That which beseemeth My self none can grasp, nor can any soul encompass it. I have treasured it up in the storehouses of My mystery and the coffers of My Cause, as a tenderness unto My servants and a mercy unto My creatures.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ ʿaẓamatī ﴾ ʿaṭiyyatī عَظَمَتِي ilayka, عَطِيَّتِي wa-kibriyāʾī إِلَيْكَ، raḥmatī وَكِبْرِيائِي ʿalayka, رَحْمَتِي wa-mā عَلَيْكَ، yanbaġī وَما li-nafsī يَنْبَغِي lā لِنَفْسِي yudrikuhu لا aḥadun يُدْرِكُهُ wa-lan أَحَدٌ tuḥṣiyahu وَلَنْ nafsun; تُحْصِيَهُ qad نَفْسٌ؛ aḵzantuhu قَدْ fī أَخْزَنْتُهُ ḵazāʾini فِي sirrī خَزائِنِ wa-kanāʾizi سِرِّي amrī وَكَنائِزِ talaṭṭufan أَمْرِي li-ʿibādī تَلَطُّفًا wa-taraḥḥuman لِعِبادِي li-ḵalqī. وَتَرَحُّمًا لِخَلْقِي.

O Sons of the Divine Essence in the unseen! Ye shall be barred from My love, and souls shall be troubled at the mention of Me; for minds cannot withstand Me and hearts cannot contain Me.

﴿ yā يَا abnāʾa أَبْناءَ l-huwiyyati الْهُوِيَّةِ fi فِي l-ġaybi, الْغَيْبِ satumnaʿūna ﴾ ʿan سَتُمْنَعُونَ ḥubbī عَنْ wa-taḍṭaribu حُبِّي n-nufūsu وَتَضْطَرِبُ min النُّفُوسُ ḏikrī; مِنْ li-anna ذِكْرِي؛ l-ʿuqūla لأَنَّ lan الْعُقُولَ taṭīqanī لَنْ wa-l-qulūba تَطيقَنِي lan وَالْقُلُوبَ tasaʿanī. لَنْ تَسَعَني.

O Son of Beauty! By My spirit and My providence, by My mercy and My beauty! All that I have sent down upon thee by the tongue of power and inscribed with the pen of might, We have sent down according to thy capacity and thy measure, and not according to My station and My mode.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-jamāl, الْجَمَالِ wa-rūḥī ﴾ wa-ʿināyatī وَرُوحِي ṯumma وَعِنايَتِي raḥmatī ثُمَّ wa-jamālī, رَحْمَتِي kullu وَجَمالِي، mā كُلُّ nazzaltu ما ʿalayka نَزَّلْتُ min عَلَيْكَ lisāni مِنْ l-qudrati لِسانِ wa-katabtuhu الْقُدْرَةِ bi-qalami وَكَتَبْتُهُ l-quwwati بِقَلَمِ qad القُوَّةِ nazzalnāhu قَدْ ʿalā نَزَّلْناهُ qadrika عَلى wa-laḥnika قَدْرِكَ lā وَلَحْنِكَ ʿalā لَا šaʾnī عَلَى wa-laḥnī. شَأْنِي وَلَحْنِي.

O Sons of Men! Know ye wherefore We created you all from one same dust? That none should exalt himself above another. Ponder at all times how ye were created. Since We created you from one same substance, it behoveth you to be as one soul — to walk with one foot, to eat from one mouth, and to dwell in one land — that from your inmost beings and your works and your deeds the signs of oneness and the essences of detachment may be made manifest. This is My counsel unto you, O concourse of light: heed it, that ye may gather the fruits of holiness from the tree of impregnable glory.

﴿ yā يَا abnāʾa أَبْناءَ l-insāni, الإِنْسانِ﴾ hal هَلْ ʿaraftum عَرَفْتُمْ lima لِمَ ḵalaqnākum خَلَقْناكُمْ min مِنْ turābin تُرابٍ wāḥidin; واحِدٍ؛ li-allā لِئَلاَّ yaftaḵira يَفْتَخِرَ aḥadun أَحَدٌ ʿalā عَلى aḥadin. أَحَدٍ. wa-tafakkarū وَتَفَكَّرُوا fī فِي kulli كُلِّ ḥīnin حِينٍ fī فِي ḵalqi خَلْقِ anfusikum; أَنْفُسِكُم؛ iḏan إِذاً yanbaġī يَنْبَغِي kamā كَما ḵalaqnākum خَلَقْناكُم min مِنْ šayʾin شَيْءٍ wāḥidin واحِدٍ an أَنْ takūnū تَكُونُوا ka-nafsin كَنَفْسٍ wāḥidatin, واحِدَةٍ، bi-ḥayṯu بِحَيْثُ tamšūna تَمْشُونَ ʿalā عَلى rijlin رِجْلٍ wāḥidatin, واحِدَةٍ، wa-taʾkulūna وَتَأْكُلُونَ min مِنْ famin فَمٍ wāḥidin, واحِدٍ، wa-taskunūna وَتَسْكُنُونَ fī فِي arḍin أَرْضٍ wāḥidatin; واحِدَةٍ؛ ḥattā حَتَّى taẓhara تَظْهَرَ min مِنْ kaynūnātikum كَيْنُوناتِكُمْ wa-aʿmālikum وَأَعْمالِكُمْ wa-afʿālikum وَأَفْعالِكُمْ āyātu آياتُ t-tawḥīdi التَّوْحِيدِ wa-jawāhiru وَجَواهِرُ t-tajrīdi. التَّجْرِيدِ. hāḏā هذا nuṣḥī نُصْحِي ʿalaykum عَلَيْكُم yā يا malaʾa مَلأَ l-anwāri, الأَنْوارِ، fa-ntaṣiḥū فَانْتَصِحُوا minhu مِنْهُ li-tajidū لِتَجِدُوا ṯamarāti ثَمَراتِ l-qudsi القُدْسِ min مِنْ šajari شَجَرِ ʿizzin عِزٍّ manīʿin. مَنيعٍ.

O Sons of the Spirit! Ye are My treasuries, for within you I have stored the pearls of My mysteries and the gems of My knowledge. Guard them, lest the strangers among My servants and the wicked among My creatures uncover them.

﴿ yā يَا abnāʾa أَبْناءَ r-rūḥi, الرُّوحِ antum ﴾ ḵazāʾinī, أَنْتُمْ li-anna خَزائِني، fīkum لأَنَّ kanaztu فِيكُم laʾāliʾa كَنَزْتُ asrārī لآلِئَ wa-jawāhira أَسْرارِي ʿilmī, وَجَوَاهِرَ fa-ḥfaẓūhā عِلْمِي، li-allā فَاحْفَظُوها yaṭṭaliʿa لِئَلاَّ ʿalayhā يَطَّلِعَ aġyāru عَلَيْهَا ʿibādī أَغْيارُ wa-ašrāru عِبادِي ḵalqī. وَأَشْرارُ خَلْقِي.

O Son of Him who arose in the kingdom of His own self! Know that I have wafted unto thee all the fragrances of holiness, have fully proclaimed unto thee My word, perfected through thee My bounty, and desired for thee that which I have desired for Mine own self. Be, then, well-pleased with Me, and render thanks unto Me.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ man مَنْ qāma قامَ fī فِي malakūti مَلَكُوتِ nafsihi, نَفْسِهِ iʿlam ﴾ bi-annī اعْلَمْ qad بِأَنِّي arsaltu قَدْ ilayka أَرْسَلْتُ rawāʾiḥa إِلَيْكَ l-qudsi رَوائِحَ kullahā, الْقُدْسِ wa-atmamtu كُلَّهَا، l-qawla وَأَتْمَمْتُ ʿalayka الْقَوْلَ wa-akmaltu عَلَيْكَ n-niʿmata وَأَكْمَلْتُ bika النِّعْمَةَ wa-raḍītu بِكَ laka وَرَضِيتُ mā لَكَ raḍītu مَا li-nafsī, رَضِيتُ fa-rḍa لِنَفْسِي، ʿannī فَارْضَ ṯumma عَنِّي škur ثُمَّ lī. اشْكُرْ لِي.

O Son of Man! Write all that We have imparted unto thee with the ink of light upon the tablet of thy spirit. Shouldst thou be unable to do so, then make thine ink of the essence of thy heart. And if thou canst not even this, then write with the crimson ink that hath been shed in My path; for sweeter is it in My sight than all else, that its light may endure for ever.

﴿ yā يَا bna ابْنَ l-insān, الإِنْسانِ uktub ﴾ kulla اكتُبْ mā كُلَّ alqaynāka مَا min أَلْقَيْنَاكَ midādi مِنْ n-nūri مِدَادِ ʿalā النُّورِ lawḥi عَلَى r-rūḥi. لَوْحِ wa-in الرُّوحِ. lan وَإِنْ taqdira لَنْ ʿalā تَقْدِرَ ḏālika عَلَى fa-jʿali ذلِكَ l-midāda فاجْعَلِ min المِدَادَ jawhari مِنْ l-fuʾādi, جَوْهَرِ wa-in الفُؤادِ، lan وَإِنْ tastaṭīʿa لَنْ fa-ktub تَسْتَطِيعَ mina فَاكْتُبْ l-midādi مِنَ l-aḥmari المِدَادِ llaḏī الأَحْمَرِ sufika الَّذِي fī سُفِكَ sabīlī; فِي innahu سَبيلي؛ aḥlā إِنَّهُ ʿindī أَحْلَى min عِنْدِي kulli مِنْ šayʾin, كُلِّ li-yaṯbuta شَيْءٍ، nūruhu لِيَثْبُتَ ilā نُورُهُ l-abadi. إِلَى الأَبَدِ.

Part 2

The Persian Hidden Words

In the name of the Almighty Speaker.

﴿ ba-nām-i بنام gūyanda-yi گوينده tavānā. توانا ﴾

O ye that possess wit and ear! The first tiding of the Friend is this: O spiritual nightingale, take not thine abode save in the rose-bower of inner meanings; and O hoopoe of the Solomon of love, seek no homeland save in the Sheba of the Beloved; and O phoenix of eternity, choose no dwelling-place save upon the Qáf of faithfulness. This is thy station. Wouldst thou wing thy flight with the soul unto the Placeless, then soar, and set thy course toward thine own station freely.

﴿ ay ای ṣāḥibān-i صاحبان hūsh هوش u و gūsh! گوش avval-i ﴾ surūsh-i اوّل dūst سروش īnast: دوست ay اينست bulbul-i ای maʿnavī, بلبل juz معنوی dar جز gulbun-i در maʿānī گلبن jāy معانی magzīn; جای va مگزين ay و hudhud-i ای sulaymān-i هدهد ʿishq, سليمان juz عشق dar جز sabā-yi در jānān سبای vaṭan جانان magīr; وطن va مگير ay و ʿanqā-yi ای baqā, عنقای juz بقا dar جز qāf-i در vafā قاف maḥall وفا mapaẕīr. محلّ īnast مپذير makān-i * tu; اينست agar مکان bi-lā-makān تو bi-parī اگر jān بلامکان bar-parī بپر va جان āhang-i برپری maqām-i و khud آهنگ rāyagān مقام namāʾī. خود رايگان نمائی *

O Son of the Spirit! Every bird hath its gaze upon its nest, and every nightingale its aim in the beauty of the rose — save the birds of the hearts of [My] servants, who, content with perishable dust, have strayed far from the abiding nest, and, having turned toward the mires of remoteness, have been deprived of the roses of nearness. What wonder and regret, what sorrow and pity, that for a single ewer[-full] they have passed by the waves of the ocean of the All-Highest Companion, and remained far from the Most Glorious Horizon.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر rūḥ! روح har ﴾ ṭayrī هر rā طيری naẓar را bar نظر āshiyān بر ast آشيان va است har و bulbulī هر rā بلبلی maqṣūd را jamāl-i مقصود gul; جمال magar گل ṭuyūr-i مگر afʾida-yi طيور ʿibād افئده ki عباد bi-turāb-i که fānī بتراب qāniʿ فانی shuda قانع az شده āshiyān-i از bāqī آشيان dūr باقی mānda-and دور va مانده‌اند bi-gil-hā-yi و buʿd بگِلهای tavajjuh بعد namūda توجّه az نموده gul-hā-yi از qurb گُلهای maḥrūm قرب gashta-and. محروم zih-i گشته‌اند ḥayrat * u زهی ḥasrat حيرت u و afsūs حسرت u و darīgh افسوس ki و bi-ibrīqī دريغ az که amvāj-i بابريقی baḥr-i از rafīq-i امواج aʿlā بحر guẕashta-and رفيق va اعلی az گذشته‌اند ufuq-i و abhā از dūr افق mānda-and. ابهی دور مانده‌اند *

O Friend! In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love, and from the nightingale of affection and longing loose not thy hold. Prize the companionship of the righteous, and from fellowship with the wicked withdraw both hand and heart.

﴿ ay ای dūst! دوست﴾ dar در rawḍa-yi روضه qalb قلب juz جز gul-i گل ʿishq عشق makār مکار va و az از ẕayl-i ذيل bulbul-i بلبل ḥubb حبّ u و shawq شوق dast دست madār. مدار muṣāḥabat-i * abrār مصاحبت rā ابرار ghanīmat را dān غنيمت va دان az و murāfaqat-i از ashrār مرافقت dast اشرار u دست dil و har دل du هر bardār. دو بردار *

O Son of Equity! What lover is there who would take his abode anywhere save in the homeland of the beloved, and what seeker who would seek rest without the sought-for? To the true lover, life lieth in reunion and death in separation. Their breasts are void of patience and their hearts hallowed above forbearance; they pass beyond a hundred thousand lives and hasten to the quarter of the Beloved.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر inṣāf! انصاف kudām ﴾ ʿāshiq کدام ki عاشق juz كه dar جز vaṭan-i در maʿshūq وطن maḥall معشوق gīrad محلّ va گيرد kudām و ṭālib کدام ki طالب bī که maṭlūb بی rāḥat مطلوب jūyad? راحت ʿāshiq-i جويد ṣādiq ؟ rā عاشق ḥayāt صادق dar را viṣāl حيات ast در va وصال mawt است dar و firāq. موت ṣadr-ishān در az فراق ṣabr * khālī صدرشان va از qulūb-ishān صبر az خالی iṣṭibār و muqaddas; قلوبشان az از ṣad اصطبار hazār مقدّس jān از dar-guẕarand صد va هزار bi-kūy-i جان jānān درگذرند shitāband. و بکوی جانان شتابند *

O Son of Dust! Verily I say: the most heedless of servants is he that wrangleth in words and seeketh to exalt himself above his brother. Say: O brethren! Adorn yourselves with deeds, not with words.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر khāk! خاک bi-rāstī ﴾ mī-gūyam: براستی ghāfil-tarīn-i ميگويم ʿibād غافلترين kasī عباد ast کسی ki است dar که qawl در mujādala قول namāyad مجادله va نمايد bar و birādar-i بر khud برادر tafavvuq خود jūyad. تفوّق bi-gū: جويد ay * birādarān! بگو bi-aʿmāl ای khud برادران rā باعمال biyārāʾīd, خود na را bi-aqvāl. بيارائيد نه باقوال *

O Sons of Earth! Know ye truly: a heart wherein there yet lingereth the least trace of envy shall never enter My everlasting realm of omnipotence, nor breathe the fragrances of holiness from the kingdom of My sanctity.

﴿ ay ای pisarān-i پسران arḍ! ارض bi-rāstī ﴾ bidānīd: براستی qalbī بدانيد ki قلبی dar که ān در shāʾiba-yi آن ḥasad شائبه bāqī حسد bāshad, باقی al-batta باشد bi-jabarūt-i البتّه bāqī-yi بجبروت man باقی dar-nayāyad من va در az نيايد malakūt-i و taqdīs-i از man ملکوت ravāʾiḥ-i تقديس quds من nashnavad. روائح قدس نشنود *

O Son of Love! Between thee and the inaccessible height of nearness and the Lote-Tree of the loftiness of love there lieth but a single step. Take the first step, and with the other tread upon the realm of pre-eternity, and enter the pavilion of everlastingness. Hearken, then, unto that which hath descended from the Pen of glory.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر ḥubb! حبّ az ﴾ tu از tā تو rafraf-i تا imtināʿ-i رفرف qurb امتناع va قرب sidra-yi و irtifāʿ-i سدره ʿishq ارتفاع qadamī عشق fāṣila. قدمی qadam-i فاصله avval قدم bardār اوّل va بردار qadam-i و dīgar قدم bar ديگر ʿālam-i بر qidam عالم guẕār قدم va گذار dar و sarādiq-i در khuld سرادق vārid خلد shaw. وارد pas شو bishnaw * ānchi پس az بشنو qalam-i آنچه ʿizz از nuzūl قلم yāft. عزّ نزول يافت *

O Son of Glory! Be swift in the path of holiness, and set foot upon the heavens of fellowship. Cleanse thy heart with the burnish of the spirit, and set thy course toward the court of "but for thee."

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر ʿizz! عزّ dar ﴾ sabīl-i در quds سبيل chālāk قدس shaw چالاک va شو bar و aflāk-i بر uns افلاک qadam انس guẕār; قدم qalb گذار rā قلب bi-ṣayqal-i را rūḥ بصيقل pāk روح kun پاک va کن āhang-i و sāḥat-i آهنگ lawlāk ساحت namā. لولاک نما *

O Fleeting Shadow! Pass beyond the low stages of the abasement of vain fancy, and enter the lofty ascents of the glory of certitude. Open the eye of truth, that thou mayest behold the manifest Beauty and cry: "Blessed be God, the most excellent of Creators!"

﴿ ay ای sāya-yi سايه nābūd! نابود az ﴾ madārij-i از ẕull-i مدارج vahm ذلّ biguẕar وهم va بگذر bi-maʿārij-i و ʿizz-i بمعارج yaqīn عزّ andar-ā. يقين chashm-i اندرا ḥaqq * bigushā چشم tā حق jamāl-i بگشا mubīn تا bīnī جمال va مبين tabāraka بينی llāhu و aḥsanu تبارک l-khāliqīn اللّه gūʾī. أحسن الخالقين گوئی*

O Son of Passion! Hearken truly: the perishing eye can never know the abiding Beauty, nor can the dead heart busy itself with aught but the withered rose; for every like seeketh its like and taketh intimacy with its own kind.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر havā! هوی bi-rāstī ﴾ bishnaw: براستی chashm-i بشنو fānī چشم jamāl-i فانی bāqī جمال nashnāsad باقی va نشناسد dil-i و murda دل juz مرده bi-gul-i جز pazhmurda بگُل mashghūl پژمرده nashavad, مشغول zīrā نشود ki زيرا har که qarīnī هر qarīn-i قرينی khud قرين rā خود jūyad را va جويد bi-jins-i و khud بجنس uns خود gīrad. انس گيرد *

O Son of Dust! Be blind, that thou mayest behold My beauty; be deaf, that thou mayest hear My sweet melody and voice; be ignorant, that thou mayest partake of My knowledge; be poor, that thou mayest draw an unfailing portion from the ocean of My everlasting riches. Be blind — that is, to the beholding of any beauty save Mine; be deaf — that is, to the hearing of any word save Mine; be ignorant — that is, of all knowledge save Mine; that with pure eye and goodly heart and refined ear thou mayest enter the court of My holiness.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر turāb! تراب kūr ﴾ shaw کور tā شو jamālam تا bīnī جمالم va بينی kar و shaw کر tā شو laḥn تا u لحن ṣawt-i و malīḥam صوت rā مليحم shanavī را va شنوی jāhil و shaw جاهل tā شو az تا ʿilmam از naṣīb علمم barī نصيب va بری faqīr و shaw فقير tā شو az تا baḥr-i از ghanā-yi بحر lā-yazālam غنای qismat-i لا bī-zavāl يزالم bardārī. قسمت kūr بيزوال shaw برداری yaʿnī * az کور mushāhada-yi شو ghayr-i يعنی jamāl-i از man, مشاهده va غير kar جمال shaw من yaʿnī و az کر istimāʿ-i شو kalām-i يعنی ghayr-i از man, استماع va کلام jāhil غير shaw من yaʿnī و az جاهل sivā-yi شو ʿilm-i يعنی man, از tā سوای bā علم chashm-i من pāk تا u با dil-i چشم ṭayyib پاک u و gūsh-i دل laṭīf طيّب bi-sāḥat-i و qudsam گوش dar-āʾī. لطيف بساحت قدسم درآئی *

O Possessor of Two Eyes! Close the one eye and open the other. Close the one — that is, to the world and to them that dwell therein; and open the other — to the hallowed beauty of the Beloved.

﴿ ay ای ṣāḥib-i صاحب du دو chashm! چشم chashmī ﴾ bar-band چشمی va بربند chashmī و bar-gushā. چشمی bar-band برگشا yaʿnī * az بربند ʿālam يعنی u از ʿālamiyān, عالم bar-gushā و yaʿnī عالميان bi-jamāl-i برگشا quds-i يعنی jānān. بجمال قدس جانان *

O My Sons! I fear lest, having gained no grace from the song of the dove, ye return unto the abode of annihilation; and lest, never having beheld the beauty of the rose, ye go back unto water and clay.

﴿ ay ای pisarān-i پسران man! من tarsam ﴾ ki ترسم az که naghma-yi از varqāʾ نغمه fayḍ ورقاء nabarda فيض bi-diyār-i نبرده fanā بديار rājiʿ فنا shavīd راجع va شويد jamāl-i و gul جمال nadīda گُل bi-āb نديده u بآب gil و bāz گِل gardīd. باز گرديد *

O Friends! Forsake not the abiding Beauty for a beauty that must perish, and set not your hearts upon this earthen heap of dust.

﴿ ay ای dūstān! دوستان bi-jamāl-i ﴾ fānī بجمال az فانی jamāl-i از bāqī جمال maguẕarīd باقی va مگذريد bi-khākdān-i و turābī بخاکدان dil ترابی mabandīd. دل مبنديد *

O Son of the Spirit! A time will come when the nightingale of holiness and inner meaning shall be forbidden to divulge the mysteries of meaning, and all shall be barred from the merciful melody and the glorious call.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر rūḥ! روح vaqtī ﴾ āyad وقتی ki آيد bulbul-i که quds-i بلبل maʿnavī قدس az معنوی bayān-i از asrār-i بيان maʿānī اسرار mamnūʿ معانی shavad ممنوع va شود jamīʿ و az جميع naghma-yi از raḥmānī نغمه va رحمانی nidā-yi و subḥānī ندای mamnūʿ سبحانی gardīd. ممنوع گرديد*

O Essence of Heedlessness! Alas, a hundred thousand tongues of inner meaning speak in a single tongue, and a hundred thousand hidden meanings are made manifest in a single strain; yet there is no ear to hear, nor heart to grasp a single word.

﴿ ay ای jawhar-i جوهر ghaflat! غفلت darīgh ﴾ ki دريغ ṣad که hazār صد lisān-i هزار maʿnavī لسان dar معنوی lisānī در nāṭiq لسانی va ناطق ṣad و hazār صد maʿānī-yi هزار ghaybī معانی dar غيبی laḥnī در ẓāhir, لحنی va ظاهر lākin و gūshī لکن na گوشی tā نه bishnavad تا va بشنود qalbī و na قلبی tā نه ḥarfī تا biyābad. حرفی بيابد *

O Comrades! The gates that open upon the Placeless are flung wide, and the country of the Beloved is adorned with the breath of lovers; yet all, save a few, have remained shut out from this spiritual city, and of that few, none was seen with pure heart and sanctified soul save the fewest of the few.

﴿ ay ای hamganān! همگنان abvāb-i ﴾ lā-makān ابواب bāz لامکان gashta باز va گشته diyār-i و jānān ديار az جانان dam-i از ʿāshiqān دم zīnat عاشقان yāfta, زينت va يافته jamīʿ و az جميع īn از shahr-i اين rūḥānī شهر maḥrūm روحانی mānda-and محروم illā مانده‌اند qalīlī, الّا va قليلی az و ān از qalīl آن ham قليل bā هم qalb-i با ṭāhir قلب u طاهر nafs-i و muqaddas نفس mashhūd مقدّس nagasht مشهود illā نگشت aqall-i الّا qalīlī. اقلّ قليلی*

O ye that dwell in the highest Paradise! Announce unto them that are assured: In the hallowed space of the nearness of Riḍván a new garden hath appeared, round which circle all the dwellers of the realms on high and the temples of the sublime paradise of eternity. Strive, then, to attain that station, and to seek out the realities of the mysteries of love from its anemones, and to gather all the consummate wisdoms of the Divine Oneness from its abiding fruits. Solaced are the eyes of them that have entered therein and abide in security.

﴿ ay ای ahl-i اهل firdaws-i فردوس barīn! برين ahl-i ﴾ yaqīn اهل rā يقين akhbār را namāʾīd اخبار ki نمائيد dar که faḍā-yi در quds-i فضای qurb-i قدس riḍvān قرب rawḍa-yi رضوان jadīdī روضه ẓāhir جديدی gashta ظاهر va گشته jamīʿ-i و ahl-i جميع ʿālīn اهل u عالين hayākil-i و khuld-i هياکل barīn خلد ṭāʾif برين ḥawl-i طائف ān حول gashta-and. آن pas گشته‌اند jahdī * namāʾīd پس tā جهدی bi-ān نمائيد maqām تا dar-āʾīd بآن va مقام ḥaqāʾiq-i درآئيد asrār-i و ʿishq حقائق rā اسرار az عشق shaqāʾiqash را jūyīd از va شقايقش jamīʿ-i جوئيد ḥikmat-hā-yi و bāligha-yi جميع aḥadiyya حکمتهای rā بالغه az احديّه athmār-i را bāqiya-ash از biyābīd. اثمار qurrat باقيه‌اش abṣār بيابيد alladhīna * hum قرّت dakhalū أبصار fīhi الّذين āminīn. هم دخلوا فيه آمنين *

O My Friends! Have ye forgotten that true and radiant morn when, in the shade of the tree of companionship planted in the most great paradise, ye were all gathered before Me in that blessed and hallowed space? Three goodly words I spoke, and ye heard them all and were struck senseless; and those words were these: O Friends! Prefer not your own good-pleasure to My good-pleasure, and desire never that which I have not desired for you, and approach Me not with dead hearts defiled with hopes and cravings. Would ye but sanctify your breasts, ye would now call to mind that desert and that space, and My utterance would be made plain unto you all. (In the eighth line of the lines of holiness that are in the fifth Tablet of Paradise, He saith:)

﴿ ay ای dūstān-i دوستان man! من āyā ﴾ farāmūsh آيا karda-īd فراموش ān کرده‌ايد ṣubḥ-i آن ṣādiq-i صبح rawshanī صادق rā روشنی ki را dar که ẓill-i در shajara-yi ظلّ anīsā شجره ki انيسا dar که firdaws-i در aʿẓam فردوس ghars اعظم shuda غرس jamīʿ شده dar جميع ān در faḍā-yi آن quds-i فضای mubārak قدس nazd-i مبارک man نزد ḥāḍir من būdīd? حاضر va بوديد bi-si ؟ kalima-yi و ṭayyiba بسه takallum کلمه farmūdam طيّبه va تکلّم jamīʿ-i فرمودم ān و kalimāt جميع rā آن shanīda کلماترا va شنيده madhūsh و gashtīd, مدهوش va گشتيد ān و kalimāt آن īn کلمات būd: اين ay بود dūstān! * riḍā-yi ای khud دوستان rā رضای bar خود riḍā-yi را man بر ikhtiyār رضای makunīd من va اختيار ānchi مکنيد barā-yi و shumā آنچه nakhvāham برای hargiz شما makhvāhīd نخواهم va هرگز bā مخواهيد dil-hā-yi و murda با ki دلهای bi-āmāl مرده u که ārzū بآمال ālūda و shuda آرزو nazd-i آلوده man شده mayāʾīd. نزد agar من ṣadr ميائيد rā * muqaddas اگر kunīd, صدر ḥāl را ān مقدّس ṣaḥrā کنيد va حال ān آن faḍā صحرا rā و bi-naẓar آن dar-ārīd فضا va را bayān-i بنظر man در bar آريد hama-yi و shumā بيان maʿlūm من shavad. بر (dar همه saṭr-i شما hashtum معلوم az شود asṭur-i * quds (در ki سطر dar هشتم lawḥ-i از panjum اسطر az قدس firdaws که ast در mī-farmāyad.) لوح پنجم از فردوس است ميفرمايد)

O ye that lie as dead upon the couch of heedlessness! Ages have passed, and ye have brought your precious lives unto their end, yet not one pure breath hath ascended from you unto Our holy court. Ye are sunk in the seas of idolatry, yet ye let the word of the Divine Unity run upon your tongues. Ye have deemed My detested one your beloved, and have taken My enemy for your friend; and upon My earth ye walk in all gladness and joy, heedless that My earth is weary of you and that all things thereon flee from you. Wert thou but to open thine eye a little, thou wouldst reckon a hundred thousand sorrows sweeter than this joy, and wouldst count annihilation better than this life.

﴿ ay ای murdagān-i مردگان firāsh-i فراش ghaflat! غفلت qarn-hā ﴾ guẕasht قرنها va گذشت ʿumr-i و girānmāya عمر rā گرانمايه bi-intihā را rasānda-īd بانتها va رسانده‌ايد nafas-i و pākī نَفَس az پاکی shumā از bi-sāḥat-i شما quds-i بساحت mā قدس nayāmad. ما dar نيامد abḥur-i * shirk در mustaghraqīd ابحر va شرک kalima-yi مستغرقيد tawḥīd و bar کلمه zabān توحيد mī-rānīd. بر mabghūḍ-i زبان marā ميرانيد maḥbūb-i * khud مبغوض dānista-īd مرا va محبوب dushman-i خود marā دانسته‌ايد dūst-i و khud دشمن girifta-īd مرا va دوست dar خود arḍ-i گرفته‌ايد man و bi-kamāl-i در khurramī ارض u من surūr بکمال mashī خرمی mī-namāʾīd, و va سرور ghāfil مشی az مينمائيد ānki و zamīn-i غافل man از az آنکه tu زمين bīzār من ast از va تو ashyā-yi بيزار arḍ است az و tu اشيای dar ارض gurīz. از agar تو fi در l-jumla گريز baṣar * bigushāʾī, اگر ṣad فی hazār الجمله ḥuzn بصر rā بگشائی az صد īn هزار surūr حزن khushtar را dānī از va اين fanā سرور rā خوشتر az دانی īn و ḥayāt فنا nīkūtar را shumarī. از اين حيات نيکوتر شمری *

O Quickened Dust! I am intimate with thee, yet thou art despairing of Me. The sword of rebellion hath hewn down the tree of thy hope. At all times am I near unto thee, yet thou at all times art far from Me. Imperishable glory have I chosen for thee, yet boundless abasement hast thou chosen for thyself. Turn back, then, while yet there is time remaining, and let not the opportunity slip.

﴿ ay ای khāk-i خاک mutaḥarrik! متحرّک man ﴾ bi-tu من maʾnūsam بتو va مأنوسم tu و az تو man از maʾyūs. من sayf-i مأيوس ʿiṣyān * shajara-yi سيف umīd-i عصيان turā شجره burīda. اميد va ترا dar بريده jamīʿ-i * ḥāl و bi-tu در nazdīkam جميع va حال tu بتو dar نزديکم jamīʿ-i و aḥvāl تو az در man جميع dūr. احوال va از man من ʿizzat-i دور bī-zavāl * barā-yi و tu من ikhtiyār عزّت namūdam بيزوال va برای tu تو ẕillat-i اختيار bī-muntahā نمودم barā-yi و khud تو pasandīdī. ذلّت ākhir بی tā منتهی vaqt برای bāqī خود mānda پسنديدی rujūʿ * kun آخر va تا furṣat وقت rā باقی maguẕār. مانده رجوع کن و فرصت را مگذار *

O Son of Passion! The people of knowledge and insight have striven for years, yet attained not unto reunion with the Lord of Majesty; lifetimes have they run, yet reached not the presence of the Lord of Beauty. Yet thou, without running, hast reached the abode, and without seeking, hast attained the object of thy quest. And after all this rank and station, thou hast remained so veiled by the veil of thine own self that thine eye fell not upon the beauty of the Friend, nor did thy hand reach the hem of the Beloved. Marvel, then, at this, O ye endued with sight!

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر havā! هوی ahl-i ﴾ dānish اهل u دانش bīnish و sāl-hā بينش kūshīdand سالها va کوشيدند bi-viṣāl-i و ẕi بوصال l-jalāl ذی fāʾiz الجلال nagashtand فائز va نگشتند ʿumr-hā و davīdand عمرها va دويدند bi-liqā-yi و ẕi بلقای l-jamāl ذی narasīdand. الجمال va نرسيدند tu * nā-davīda و bi-manzil تو rasīda نادويده va بمنزل nā-ṭalabīda رسيده bi-maṭlab و vāṣil ناطلبيده shudī. بمطلب va واصل baʿd شدی az * jamīʿ-i و īn بعد maqām از u جميع rutba اين bi-ḥijāb-i مقام nafs-i و khud رتبه chunān بحجاب muḥtajib نفس māndī خود ki چنان chashmat محتجب bi-jamāl-i ماندی dūst که nayaftād چشمت va بجمال dastat دوست bi-dāman-i نيفتاد yār و narasīd. دستت fa-taʿajjabū بدامن min يار ẕālika نرسيد yā * ulī فتعجّبوا l-abṣār. من ذلک يا اولی الأبصار *

O ye that dwell in the city of love! The everlasting candle is encompassed by the winds of mortality, and the beauty of the celestial Youth lieth hidden in murky, tenebrous dust. The King of the kings of love is oppressed at the hands of the subjects of tyranny, and the dove of holiness is held captive in the talons of owls. All that dwell in the Most Glorious Pavilion and the Concourse on high lament and mourn, while ye repose in utter ease upon the earth of heedlessness, and reckon yourselves among the sincere friends. Vain is that which ye imagine!

﴿ ay ای ahl-i اهل diyār-i ديار ʿishq! عشق shamʿ-i ﴾ bāqī شمع rā باقی aryāḥ-i را fānī ارياح iḥāṭa فانی namūda احاطه va نموده jamāl-i و ghulām-i جمال rūḥānī غلام dar روحانی ghubār-i در tīra-yi غبار ẓulmānī تيره mastūr ظلمانی mānda. مستور sulṭān-i مانده salāṭīn-i * ʿishq سلطان dar سلاطين dast-i عشق raʿāyā-yi در ẓulm دست maẓlūm رعايای va ظلم ḥamāma-yi مظلوم qudsī و dar حمامه dast-i قدسی jughdān در giriftār. دست jamīʿ-i جغدان ahl-i گرفتار sarādiq-i * abhā جميع va اهل malaʾ-i سرادق aʿlā ابهی nawḥa و u ملأ nudba اعلی mī-namāyand نوحه va و shumā ندبه dar مينمايند kamāl-i و rāḥat شما dar در arḍ-i کمال ghaflat راحت iqāmat در namūda-īd ارض va غفلت khud اقامت rā نموده‌ايد ham و az خود dūstān-i را khāliṣ هم maḥsūb از dāshta-īd. دوستان fa-bāṭil خالص mā محسوب antum داشته‌ايد taẓunnūn. * فباطل ما أنتم تظنّون *

O ye ignorant ones renowned for learning! Wherefore do ye, in outward seeming, lay claim to shepherding, while inwardly ye have become wolves unto My flock? Ye are like the star before the dawn, which in outward seeming is bright and shining, yet inwardly is the cause of the straying and perdition of the caravans of My city and My land.

﴿ ay ای juhalā-yi جهلای maʿrūf معروف bi-ʿilm! بعلم chirā ﴾ dar چرا ẓāhir در daʿvā-yi ظاهر shabānī دعوی kunīd شبانی va کنيد dar و bāṭin در ẕiʾb-i باطن aghnām-i ذئب man اغنام shuda-īd? من mathal-i شده‌ايد shumā * mithl-i مَثَل sitāra-yi شما qabl مثل az ستاره ṣubḥ قبل ast از ki صبح dar است ẓāhir که durrī در u ظاهر rawshan درّيّ ast و va روشن dar است bāṭin و sabab-i در iḍlāl باطن u سبب halākat-i اضلال kārvān-hā-yi و madīna هلاکت u کاروانهای diyār-i مدينه man و ast. ديار من است *

O thou that art outwardly adorned but inwardly diminished! Thou art like a bitter water, clear to the eye, from which the utmost delicacy and purity appear in outward seeming; yet, should it fall into the hand of the Assayer of the taste of oneness, He would accept not a single drop thereof. Yea, the effulgence of the sun shineth alike upon the dust and the mirror, yet know the difference between them to be as great as from the Two Guardian-stars unto the earth — nay, an infinite difference lieth between.

﴿ ay ای bi-ẓāhir بظاهر ārāsta آراسته va و bi-bāṭin بباطن kāsta! کاسته mathal-i ﴾ shumā مَثَلِ mithl-i شما āb-i مثل talkh-i آب ṣāfī تلخ ast صافی ki است kamāl-i که laṭāfat کمال u لطافت ṣafā و az صفا ān از dar آن ẓāhir در mashhūd ظاهر shavad; مشهود chūn شود bi-dast-i چون ṣarrāf-i بدست ẕāʾiqa-yi صرّاف aḥadiyya ذائقه uftad احديّه qaṭra-ī افتد az قطره ān ای rā از qabūl آن nafarmāyad. را balī, قبول tajallī-yi نفرمايد āftāb * dar بلی turāb تجلّی u آفتاب mirʾāt در har تراب du و mawjūd, مرآت va هر lākin دو az موجود farqadān ولکن tā از arḍ فَرْقَدان farq تا dān, ارض balki فرق farq-i دان bī-muntahā بلکه dar فرق miyān. بی منتهی در ميان *

O My Friend in Word! Ponder a while. Hast thou ever heard that friend and stranger could be contained within one heart? Drive out, then, the stranger, that the Beloved may enter His own abode.

﴿ ay ای dūst-i دوست lisānī-yi لسانی man! من qadrī ﴾ taʾammul قدری ikhtiyār تأمّل kun. اختيار hargiz کن shanīda-ī هرگز ki شنيده yār ای u که aghyār يار dar و qalbī اغيار bigunjad? در pas قلبی aghyār بگنجد؟ rā پس birān اغيار tā را jānān بران bi-manzil-i تا khud جانان dar-āyad. بمنزل خود در آيد *

O Son of Dust! All that is in the heavens and the earth have I ordained for thee, save the human heart, which I have made the seat of the descent of the effulgence of My beauty and glory; yet thou didst yield My home and dwelling unto another than Me, so that, whensoever the manifestation of My holiness sought its own abode, it found a stranger there, and, beholding the alien, it hastened, placeless, unto the sanctuary of the Beloved. Yet, notwithstanding, I veiled thy state and disclosed not the secret, and consented not unto thy shame.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر khāk! خاک jamīʿ-i ﴾ ānchi جميع dar آنچه āsmān-hā در u آسمانها zamīn و ast زمين barā-yi است tu برای muqarrar تو dāshtam, مقرّر magar داشتم qulūb مگر rā قلوب ki را maḥall-i که nuzūl-i محلّ tajallī-yi نزول jamāl تجلّی u جمال ijlāl-i و khud اجلال muʿayyan خود farmūdam. معيّن va فرمودم tu * manzil و u تو maḥall-i منزل marā و bi-ghayr-i محلّ man مرا guẕāshtī, بغير chunānchi من dar گذاشتی har چنانچه zamān در ki هر ẓuhūr-i زمان quds-i که man ظهور āhang-i قدس makān-i من khud آهنگ namūd مکان ghayr-i خود khud نمود rā غير yāft, خود aghyār را dīd يافت va اغيار lā-makān ديد bi-ḥaram-i و jānān لا shitāft. مکان va بحرم maʿa جانان ẕālik شتافت satr * namūdam و va مع sirr ذلک nagushūdam ستر va نمودم khijlat-i و turā سرّ napasandīdam. نگشودم و خجلت ترا نپسنديدم *

O Essence of Passion! Many a dawn have I come from the dayspring of the Placeless unto thine abode, and found thee upon the couch of ease occupied with another than Me; whereupon, like a flash of spiritual lightning, I returned unto the clouds of the glory of sovereignty, and made it not manifest, there in the hidden retreats of My nearness, unto the hosts of holiness.

﴿ ay ای jawhar-i جوهر havā! هوی basā ﴾ saḥargāhān بسا ki سحرگاهان az که mashriq-i از lā-makān مشرق bi-makān-i لا tu مکان āmadam بمکان va تو turā آمدم dar و bistar-i ترا rāḥat در bi-ghayr-i بستر khud راحت mashghūl بغير yāftam, خود va مشغول chūn يافتم barq-i و rūḥānī چون bi-ghamām-i برق ʿizz-i روحانی sulṭānī بغمام rujūʿ عزّ namūdam سلطانی va رجوع dar نمودم makāmin-i و qurb-i در khud مکامن nazd-i قرب junūd-i خود quds نزد iẓhār جنود nadāshtam. قدس اظهار نداشتم *

O Son of Bounty! Out of the wastes of nothingness, with the clay of My command, I brought thee forth into the world of dominion, and appointed for thy training every atom of existence and the realities of all created things. Thus, ere thou camest forth from thy mother's womb, I ordained for thee two founts of gleaming milk, appointed eyes to watch over thee, and instilled the love of thee into [men's] hearts. Out of sheer bounty I nurtured thee beneath the shadow of My mercy, and guarded thee by the essence of My grace and lovingkindness. And My purpose in all this was that thou mightest enter Our everlasting realm of omnipotence and become worthy of Our unseen gifts. Yet thou, heedless, when thou didst come to ripeness, didst neglect all My bounties and busy thyself with thine own vain fancy, so that thou didst utterly forget, and, turning from the door of the Friend, didst find thy seat and take up thine abode within the palace of the enemy.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر jūd! جود dar ﴾ bādiya-hā-yi در ʿadam باديه būdī های va عدم turā بودی bi-madad-i و turāb-i ترا amr بمدد dar تراب ʿālam-i امر mulk در ẓāhir عالم namūdam ملک va ظاهر jamīʿ-i نمودم ẕarrāt-i و mumkināt جميع u ذرّات ḥaqāʾiq-i ممکنات kāʾināt و rā حقائق bar کائنات tarbiyat-i را tu بر gumāshtam, تربيت chunānchi تو qabl گماشتم az چنانچه khurūj قبل az از baṭn-i خروج umm از du بطن chashma-yi امّ shīr-i دو munīr چشمه barā-yi شير tu منير muqarrar برای dāshtam تو va مقرّر chashm-hā داشتم barā-yi و ḥifẓ-i چشمها tu برای gumāshtam حفظ va تو ḥubb-i گماشتم turā و dar حبّ qulūb ترا ilqā در namūdam قلوب va القا bi-ṣirf-i نمودم jūd و turā بصرف dar جود ẓill-i ترا raḥmatam در parvardam ظلّ va رحمتم az پروردم jawhar-i و faḍl از u جوهر raḥmat فضل turā و ḥifẓ رحمت farmūdam. ترا va حفظ maqṣūd فرمودم az * jamīʿ-i و īn مقصود marātib از ān جميع būd اين ki مراتب bi-jabarūt-i آن bāqī-yi بود mā که dar-āʾī بجبروت va باقی qābil-i ما bakhshish-hā-yi درآئی ghaybī-yi و mā قابل shavī. بخششهای va غيبی tu ما ghāfil شوی chūn * bi-thamar و āmadī تو az غافل tamāmī-yi چون naʿīmam بثمر ghaflat آمدی namūdī از va تمامی bi-gumān-i نعيمم bāṭil-i غفلت khud نمودی pardākhtī, و bi-qismī بگمان ki باطل bi-l-marra خود farāmūsh پرداختی namūdī بقسمی va که az بالمرّه bāb-i فراموش dūst نمودی bi-aivān-i و dushman از maqarr باب yāftī دوست va بايوان maskan دشمن namūdī. مقرّ يافتی و مسکن نمودی*

O Bondslave of the World! Many a dawn hath the breeze of My lovingkindness passed over thee and found thee slumbering upon the couch of heedlessness; whereupon it wept over thy plight and returned.

﴿ ay ای banda-yi بنده dunyā! دنيا dar ﴾ saḥargāhān در nasīm-i سحرگاهان ʿināyat-i نسيم man عنايت bar من tu بر murūr تو namūd مرور va نمود turā و dar ترا firāsh-i در ghaflat فراش khufta غفلت yāft خفته va يافت bar و ḥāl-i بر tu حال girīst تو va گريست bāz و gasht. باز گشت *

O Son of Earth! Wouldst thou have Me, seek none but Me; and wouldst thou behold My beauty, close thine eyes to the world; for My will and the will of another can no more be contained within one heart than can water and fire.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر arḍ! ارض agar ﴾ marā اگر khvāhī مرا juz خواهی marā جز makhvāh, مرا va مخواه agar و irāda-yi اگر jamālam اراده dārī جمالم chashm داری az چشم ʿālamiyān از bardār, عالميان zīrā بردار ki زيرا irāda-yi که man اراده u من ghayr-i و man غير chūn من āb چون u آب ātish و dar آتش yak در dil يک u دل qalb و naganjad. قلب نگنجد *

O thou that art estranged from the One! The candle of thy heart is kindled by the hand of My power; quench it not with the contrary winds of self and passion. The healer of all thine ills is the remembrance of Me; forget it not. Make My love thy treasure, and cherish it as thy very sight and life.

﴿ ay ای bīgāna-yi بيگانهء bā با yagāna! يگانه shamʿ-i ﴾ dilat شمع barafrūkhta دلت dast-i برافروخته qudrat-i دست manast; قدرت ān منست rā آن bi-bād-hā-yi را mukhālif-i ببادهای nafs مخالف u نفس havā و khāmūsh هوی makun, خاموش va مکن ṭabīb-i و jamīʿ-i طبيب ʿillat-hā-yi جميع tu علّتهای ẕikr-i تو manast, ذکر farāmūshash منست manamā. فراموشش ḥubb-i منما marā * sarmāya-yi حبّ khud مرا kun سرمايه va خود chūn کن baṣar و u چون jān بصر ʿazīzash و dār. جان عزيزش دار*

O My Brother! Hearken to the delightsome words of My honeyed tongue, and quaff the stream of holiness and inner meaning from My sweet lips. That is: sow the seeds of My divinely-given wisdom in the pure soil of the heart, and water them with the water of certitude, that the hyacinths of My knowledge and wisdom may spring up verdant from the goodly city [of thy heart].

﴿ ay ای birādar-i برادر man! من az ﴾ lisān-i از shakarīnam لسان kalimāt-i شکرينم nāzanīnam کلمات shinaw نازنينم va شنو az و lab-i از namakīnam لب salsabīl-i نمکينم quds-i سلسبيل maʿnavī قدس biyāshām. معنوی yaʿnī بياشام tukhm-hā-yi * ḥikmat-i يعنی ladunnīyam تخمهای rā حکمت dar لدنّيم arḍ-i را ṭāhir-i در qalb ارض bīfshān طاهر va قلب bi-āb-i بيفشان yaqīn و ābash بآب dih يقين tā آبش sunbulāt-i ده ʿilm تا u سنبلات ḥikmat-i علم man و sar-sabz حکمت az من balda-yi سر ṭayyiba سبز inbāt از namāyad. بلده طيّبه انبات نمايد *

O ye that dwell in My Paradise! With the hand of loving-kindness I have planted in the holy garden of Riḍván the young tree of your love and friendship, and watered it with the gentle showers of My tender mercy; now that it hath drawn near to its fruit-bearing, strive that it may be preserved, and be not consumed in the fire of craving and lust.

﴿ ay ای ahl-i اهل riḍvān-i رضوان man! من nihāl-i ﴾ maḥabbat نهال u محبّت dūstī-yi و shumā دوستی rā شما dar را rawḍa-yi در quds-i روضه riḍvān قدس bi-yad-i رضوان mulāṭafat بيد ghars ملاطفت namūdam غرس va نمودم bi-nīsān-i و marḥamat بنيسان ābash مرحمت dādam; آبش ḥāl دادم nazdīk حال bi-thamar نزديک rasīda, بثمر jahdī رسيده namāʾīd جهدی tā نمائيد maḥfūẓ تا mānad محفوظ va ماند bi-nār-i و amal بنار u امل shahvat و nasūzad. شهوت نسوزد *

O My Friends! Put out the lamp of error, and kindle within your hearts the abiding torches of divine guidance; for erelong the assayers of mankind shall, in the sacred presence of the Adored One, accept naught but purest piety, and receive nothing but the deed unsullied.

﴿ ay ای dūstān-i دوستان man! من sirāj-i ﴾ ḍalālat سراج rā ضلالت khāmūsh را kunīd خاموش va کنيد mashāʿil-i و bāqiya-yi مشاعل hidāyat باقيهء dar هدايت qalb در u قلب dil و barafrūzīd, دل ki برافروزيد ʿan-qarīb که ṣarrāfān-i عنقريب vujūd صرّافان dar وجود pīshgāh-i در ḥuḍūr-i پيشگاه maʿbūd حضور juz معبود taqvā-yi جز khāliṣ تقوای napaẕīrand خالص va نپذيرند ghayr-i و ʿamal-i غير pāk عمل qabūl پاک nanamāyand. قبول ننمايند *

O Son of Dust! The wise are they that speak not until they gain a hearing, even as the cup-bearer proffereth not the cup until he seeth a seeker, and the lover crieth not out from the depths of his soul until he beholdeth the beauty of the beloved. Sow ye, then, the grains of wisdom and knowledge in the goodly soil of the heart, and keep them hidden, that the hyacinths of divine wisdom may spring forth from the heart and not from the mire. (This standeth written and recorded in the first line of the aforementioned Tablet, and lieth hidden within the pavilion of the safekeeping of God.)

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر turāb! تراب ḥukamā-yi ﴾ ʿibād حکمای ānanand عباد ki آنانند tā که samʿ تا nayāband سمع lab نيابند nagushāyand, لب chunānchi نگشايند sāqī چنانچه tā ساقی ṭalab تا nabīnad طلب sāghar نبيند nabakhshad ساغر va نبخشد ʿāshiq و tā عاشق bi-jamāl-i تا maʿshūq بجمال fāʾiz معشوق nashavad فائز az نشود jān از nakhurūshad. جان pas نخروشد bāyad * ḥabba-hā-yi پس ḥikmat بايد u حبّه ʿilm های rā حکمت dar و arḍ-i علم ṭayyiba-yi را qalb در mabẕūl ارض dārīd طيّبه va قلب mastūr مبذول namāʾīd داريد tā و sunbulāt-i مستور ḥikmat-i نمائيد ilāhī تا az سنبلات dil حکمت bar-āyad الهی na از az دِل gil. (dar برآيد saṭr-i نه avval-i از lawḥ-i گِل maẕkūr * (در u سطر masṭūrast اوّل va لوح dar مذکور sarādiq-i و ḥifẓ-i مسطورست allāh و mastūr.) در سرادق حفظ اللّه مستور)

O My Servant! Let not the imperishable dominion go from thy hand for a fleeting shower [of gain], and cast not away the sovereignty of Paradise for a lust. This is the Kawthar of life that hath flowed from the wellspring of the Pen of the All-Merciful. Blessed are they that drink!

﴿ ay ای banda-yi بنده man! من mulk-i ﴾ bī-zavāl ملک rā بی bi-inzālī زوال az را dast بانزالی maneh از va دست shāhanshahī-yi منه firdaws و rā شاهنشهی bi-shahvatī فردوس az را dast بشهوتی madih. از īnast دست kawthar-i مده ḥayavān * ki اينست az کوثر maʿīn-i حيوان qalam-i که raḥmān از sārī معين gashta; قلم ṭūbā رحمن li-sh-shāribīn. ساری گشته طوبی للشّاربين *

O Son of the Spirit! Burst thy cage, and, like the Humá-bird of love, soar into the air of holiness. Renounce self, and, with the breath of the All-Merciful, repose in the divine expanse of holiness.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر rūḥ! روح qafas ﴾ bishkan قفس va بشکن chūn و humā-yi چون ʿishq همای bi-havā-yi عشق quds بهوای parvāz قدس kun پرواز va کن az و nafs از biguẕar نَفْس va بگذر bā و nafas-i با raḥmānī نَفَس dar رحمانی faḍā-yi در quds-i فضای rabbānī قدس biyārām. ربّانی بيارام *

O Son of Ashes! Be not content with the ease of a day, and forgo not the imperishable rest that abideth. Barter not the everlasting rose-garden of eternal delight for the perishing ash-pit of dust. Rise from thy prison unto the fair meadows of the soul, and from the cage of contingency wing thy flight to the heart-ravishing Riḍván of the Placeless.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر ramād! رماد bi-rāḥat-i ﴾ yawmī براحت qāniʿ يومی mashaw قانع va مشو az و rāḥat-i از bī-zavāl-i راحت bāqiya بيزوال maguẕar باقيه va مگذر gulshan-i و bāqī-yi گلشن ʿaysh-i باقی jāvidān عيش rā جاودان bi-gulkhan-i را fānī-yi بگلخن turābī فانی tabdīl ترابی manamā. تبديل az منما zindān * bi-ṣaḥrā-hā-yi از khush-i زندان jān بصحراهای ʿurūj خوش kun جان va عروج az کن qafas-i و imkān از bi-riḍvān-i قفس dilkash-i امکان lā-makān برضوان bikhrām. دلکش لامکان بخرام *

O My Servant! Free thyself from the fetters of [worldly] dominion, and release thy soul from the prison of self. Seize thy chance, for it will come to thee no more: this very time thou shalt not see again, this moment thou shalt never find anew.

﴿ ay ای banda-yi بنده man! من az ﴾ band-i از mulk بند khud ملک rā خود rahāʾī را bakhsh رهائی va بخش az و ḥabs-i از nafs حبس khud نفس rā خود āzād را kun; آزاد vaqt کن rā وقت ghanīmat را shumar, غنيمت zīrā شمر ki زيرا īn که vaqt اين rā وقت dīgar را nabīnī ديگر va نبينی īn و zamān اين rā زمان hargiz را nayābī. هرگز نيابی *

O Son of My Handmaid! Couldst thou but behold the everlasting sovereignty, thou wouldst surely, with all thy might, pass beyond this fleeting dominion. Yet in the veiling of the one lie manifold wisdoms, and in the unveiling of the other manifold mysteries, which none but the pure of heart can comprehend.

﴿ ay ای farzand-i فرزند kanīz-i کنيز man! من agar ﴾ salṭanat-i اگر bāqī سلطنت bīnī باقی al-batta بينی bi-kamāl-i البتّه jidd بکمال az جدّ mulk-i از fānī ملک dar-guẕarī, فانی va درگذری lākin و satr-i لکن ānrā ستر ḥikmat-hāst آنرا va حکمتهاست jilva-yi و īnrā جلوه rumūz; اين juz را afʾida-yi رمزها pāk جز idrāk افئده nanamāyad. پاک ادراک ننمايد *

O My Servant! Cleanse thy heart of rancour, and, void of envy, stride into the sacred court of the One.

﴿ ay ای banda-yi بنده man! من dil ﴾ rā دل az را ghill از pāk غلّ kun پاک va کن bī و ḥasad بی bi-bisāṭ-i حسد quds-i ببساط aḥad قدس bikhrām. احد بخرام *

O My Friends! Walk ye in the path of the Friend's good-pleasure, and know that His good-pleasure lieth in the good-pleasure of His creatures. That is: no friend shall enter the house of his friend save with his friend's consent, nor lay hands upon his goods, nor prefer his own will to his friend's, nor in any matter account himself above him. Reflect ye upon this, O ye endued with thought!

﴿ ay ای dūstān-i دوستان man! من dar ﴾ sabīl-i در riḍā-yi سبيل dūst رضای mashī دوست namāʾīd, مشی va نمائيد riḍā-yi و ū رضای dar او khalq-i در ū خلق būda او va بوده khvāhad و būd. خواهد yaʿnī بود dūst * bī يعنی riḍā-yi دوست dūst-i بی khud رضای dar دوست bayt-i خود ū در vārid بيت nashavad او va وارد dar نشود amvāl-i و ū در taṣarruf اموال nanamāyad او va تصرّف riḍā-yi ننمايد khud و rā رضای bar خود riḍā-yi را ū بر tarjīḥ رضای nadihad او va ترجيح khud ندهد rā و dar خود hīch را amrī در muqaddam هيچ nashumārad. امری fa-tafakkarū مقدّم fī نشمارد ẕālika * yā فتفکّروا ulī فی l-afkār. ذلک يا اولی الافکار*

O Companion of the Throne! Hear no evil, and see no evil; abase not thyself, neither wail and lament. That is: speak no evil, that thou mayest hear none; and magnify not the faults of others, that thine own faults may not appear great; and desire not the abasement of any soul, that thine own abasement be not laid bare. Live, then, with a pure heart, a stainless mind, a sanctified breast, and an unsullied thought, throughout the days of thy life — which are reckoned less than a fleeting moment — that, freed from this mortal frame, thou mayest wing thy way unto the paradise of inner meanings and take thine abode in the everlasting kingdom.

﴿ ay ای rafīq-i رفيق ʿarshī! عرشی bad ﴾ mashnaw بد va مشنو bad و mabīn بد va مبين khud و rā خود ẕalīl را makun ذليل va مکن ʿavīl و barmayār. عويل yaʿnī برميار bad * magū يعنی tā بد nashnavī مگو va تا ʿayb-i نشنوی mardum و rā عيب buzurg مردم madān را tā بزرگ ʿayb-i مدان tu تا buzurg عيب nanamāyad تو va بزرگ ẕillat-i ننمايد nafsī و mapasand ذلّت tā نفسی ẕillat-i مپسند tu تا chihra ذلّت nagushāyad. تو pas چهره bā نگشايد dil-i * pāk پس u با qalb-i دل ṭāhir پاک u و ṣadr-i قلب muqaddas طاهر u و khāṭir-i صدر munazzah مقدّس dar و ayyām-i خاطر ʿumr-i منزّه khud در ki ايّام aqall عمر az خود ānī که maḥsūbast اقلّ fārigh از bāsh, آنی tā محسوبست bi-farāghat فارغ az باش īn تا jasad-i بفراغت fānī از bi-firdaws-i اين maʿānī جسد rājiʿ فانی shavī بفردوس va معانی dar راجع malakūt-i شوی bāqī و maqarr در yābī. ملکوت باقی مقرّ يابی *

Woe, woe, O ye lovers of carnal desire! Like lightning ye have passed the spiritual Beloved by, and have set your hearts fast upon a satanic fancy. Ye bow down before an idol of imagination and have named it Truth; ye gaze upon a thorn and have called it a rose. Not one free breath hath risen from you, nor hath the breeze of detachment blown from the gardens of your hearts. The loving counsels of the Well-Beloved ye have flung to the winds and effaced from the tablet of your hearts; and, like the beasts of the field, ye graze and take your fill in the meadow of lust and craving.

﴿ vāy وای vāy, وای ay ای ʿāshiqān-i عاشقان havā-yi هوای nafsānī! نفسانی az ﴾ maʿshūq-i از rūḥānī معشوق chūn روحانی barq چون guẕashta-īd برق va گذشته‌ايد bi-khayāl-i و shayṭānī بخيال dil شيطانی muḥkam دل basta-īd. محکم sājid-i بسته‌ايد khayālīd * va ساجد ism-i خياليد ān و rā اسم ḥaqq آن guẕāshta-īd را va حقّ nāẓir-i گذاشته‌ايد khārīd و va ناظر nām-i خاريد ān و rā نام gul آن guẕārda-īd. را na گل nafas-i گذارده‌ايد fārighī * az نه shumā نَفَس bar-āmad فارغی va از na شما nasīm-i برآمد inqiṭāʿī و az نه riyāḍ-i نسيم qulūbatān انقطاعی vazīd. از naṣāʾiḥ-i رياض mushfiqa-yi قلوبتان maḥbūb وزيد rā * bi-bād نصايح dāda-īd مشفقه va محبوبرا az بباد ṣafḥa-yi داده‌ايد dil و maḥv از namūda-īd صفحه va دل chūn محو bahāʾim نموده‌ايد dar و sabza-zār-i چون shahvat بهآئم u در amal سبزه taʿayyush زار mī-namāʾīd. شهوت و امل تعيّش مينمائيد*

O Brethren of the Path! Wherefore have ye grown heedless of the remembrance of the Loved One, and remained afar from His presence? The very Essence of Beauty is seated upon the throne of majesty within the peerless pavilion, while ye are busied with your own vain contentions. The fragrances of holiness are wafting, and the breezes of bounty are blowing, yet ye are all stricken as with a rheum and remain shut out from them all. Alas for you, and for them that walk in your footsteps and tread in the traces of your feet!

﴿ ay ای birādarān-i برادران ṭarīq! طريق chirā ﴾ az چرا ẕikr-i از nigār ذکر ghāfil نگار gashta-īd غافل va گشته‌ايد az و qurb-i از ḥaḍrat-i قرب yār حضرت dūr يار mānda-īd? دور ṣirf-i مانده‌ايد jamāl ؟ dar صِرْف sarādiq-i جمال bī-mithāl در bar سرادق ʿarsh-i بيمثال jalāl بر mustavī عرش va جلال shumā مستوی bi-havā-yi و khud شما bi-jadāl بهوای mashghūl خود gashta-īd. بجدال ravāʾiḥ-i مشغول quds گشته‌ايد mī-vazad * va روايح nasāʾim-i قدس jūd ميوزد dar و hubūb, نسائم va جود kull در bi-zukām هبوب mubtalī و shuda-īd کلّ va بزکام az مبتلی jamīʿ شده‌ايد maḥrūm و mānda-īd. از zih-i جميع ḥasrat محروم bar مانده‌ايد shumā * va زهی ʿalā حسرت lladhīna بر hum شما yamshūna و ʿalā علی aʿqābikum الّذين va هم ʿalā يمشون athar-i علی aqdāmikum أعقابکم hum و yamurrūn. علی أثر أقدامکم هم يمرّون *

O Sons of Vain Desire! Strip off the garment of vainglory, and cast away the raiment of pride. (In the third line of the lines of holiness that is inscribed by the hidden Pen upon the ruby Tablet, this is [what is set down]:)

﴿ ay ای pisarān-i پسران āmāl! آمال jāma-yi ﴾ ghurūr جامه rā غرور az را tan از bar-ārīd تن va بر thawb-i آريد takabbur و az ثوب badan تکبّر bīndāzīd. (dar از saṭr-i بدن siyyum بيندازيد az * (در asṭur-i سطر quds سيّم ki از dar اسطر lawḥ-i قدس yāqūtī که az در qalam-i لوح khafī ياقوتی thabt از shuda قلم īn خفی ast.) ثبت شده اين است )

O Brethren! Be forbearing one with another, and set not your hearts on the things of this world. Glory not in honour, and be not ashamed of abasement. By My beauty! I have created all from dust, and unto dust will I surely cause them to return.

﴿ ay ای birādarān! برادران bā ﴾ yak-dīgar با mudārā يکديگر namāʾīd مدارا va نمائيد az و dunyā از dil دنيا bardārīd; دل bi-ʿizzat برداريد iftikhār بعزّت manamāʾīd افتخار va منمائيد az و ẕillat از nang ذلّت madārīd. ننگ qasam مداريد bi-jamālam * ki قسم kull بجمالم rā که az کلّ turāb را khalq از namūdam تراب va خلق al-batta نمودم bi-khāk و rājiʿ البتّه farmāyam. بخاک راجع فرمايم *

O Sons of Dust! Tell the rich of the midnight sighing of the poor, lest heedlessness lead them into perdition and deprive them of the Tree of wealth. Bounty and generosity are of My attributes; well is it with him that adorneth himself with My virtues.

﴿ ay ای pisarān-i پسران turāb! تراب aghniyā ﴾ rā اغنيا az را nāla-yi از saḥargāhī-yi ناله fuqarā سحرگاهی akhbār فقرا kunīd اخبار ki کنيد mabādā که az مبادا ghaflat از bi-halākat غفلت uftand بهلاکت va افتند az و sidra-yi از dawlat سدره bī دولت naṣīb بی mānand. نصيب al-karamu مانند wa-l-jūdu * min الکرم khiṣālī, و fa-hanīʾan الجود li-man من tazayyana خصالی bi-khiṣālī. فهنيئا لمن تزيّن بخصالی *

O thou Simpleton of Passion! Greed must be forsaken, and one must rest content with contentment; for ever hath the greedy been deprived, and the contented beloved and approved.

﴿ ay ای sāẕij-i ساذج havā! هوی ḥirṣ ﴾ rā حرص bāyad را guẕāsht بايد va گذاشت bi-qanāʿat و qāniʿ بقناعت shud, قانع zīrā شد ki * lā-zāl زيرا ḥarīṣ که maḥrūm لازال būda حريص va محروم qāniʿ بوده maḥbūb و u قانع maqbūl. محبوب و مقبول *

O Son of My Handmaid! In poverty there should be no disquiet, and in wealth no repose. Every poverty is followed by wealth, and every wealth is followed by ruin; yet poverty in all save God is a mighty bounty — deem it not mean, for at its uttermost the wealth that is in God shall unveil its face. And in this station lieth hidden [the word] "ye are the poor," and the blessed word "and God is the All-Possessing" shall, like the true dawn, break forth resplendent, radiant, evident, and manifest from the horizon of the lover's heart, and shall be established upon the throne of wealth and there abide.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر kanīz-i کنيز man! من dar ﴾ faqr در iḍṭirāb فقر nashāyad اضطراب va نشايد dar و ghinā در iṭmīnān غنا nabāyad. اطمينان har نبايد faqrī * rā هر ghinā فقری dar را pay غنا va در har پی ghinā و rā هر fanā غنا az را ʿaqab, فنا va از lākin عقب faqr و az لکن mā-sivā فقر llāh از niʿmatī ماسوی ast اللّه buzurg, نعمتی ḥaqīr است mashumārīd, بزرگ zīrā حقير ki مشماريد dar زيرا ghāyat-i که ān در ghinā-yi غايت bi-llāh آن rukh غنای bigushāyad. باللّه va رخ dar بگشايد īn * maqām و (antumu در l-fuqarāʾ) اين mastūr مقام va ( kalima-yi أنتم mubāraka الفقرآء (wa-llāhu ) huwa مستور l-ghaniyy) و chūn کلمه ṣubḥ-i مبارکه ṣādiq ( az و ufuq-i اللّه qalb-i هو ʿāshiq الغنيّ ẓāhir ) u چون bāhir صبح u صادق huvaydā از u افق āshkār قلب shavad عاشق va ظاهر bar و ʿarsh-i باهر ghinā و mutamakkin هويدا gardad و va آشکار maqarr شود yābad. و بر عرش غنا متمکّن گردد و مقرّ يابد *

O Sons of Heedlessness and Passion! Ye have let My enemy into My house and driven My friend from you, for ye have lodged the love of another than Me within your hearts. Hearken to the words of the Friend, and turn toward His paradise. Friends in the world's eyes love one another for their own advantage; but the true Friend hath loved and doth love you for your own sakes — nay, for the sake of your guidance He hath borne afflictions beyond all reckoning. Be not faithless to such a Friend; hasten, rather, unto His street. This is the sun of the word of truth and faithfulness, that hath dawned from the horizon of the finger of the Lord of Names. Open your ears to hearken unto the word of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

﴿ ay ای pisarān-i پسران ghaflat غفلت u و havā! هوی dushman-i ﴾ marā دشمن dar مرا khāna-yi در man خانه rāh من dāda-īd راه va داده‌ايد dūst-i و marā دوست az مرا khud از rānda-īd, خود chunānchi رانده‌ايد ḥubb-i چنانچه ghayr-i حبّ marā غير dar مرا dil در manzil دل dāda-īd. منزل bishnavīd داده‌ايد bayān-i * dūst بشنويد rā بيان va دوست bi-riḍvānash را iqbāl و namāʾīd. برضوانش dūstān-i اقبال ẓāhir نمائيد naẓar * bi-maṣlaḥat-i دوستان khud ظاهر yak-dīgar نظر rā بمصلحت dūst خود dāshta يکديگر va را dārand, دوست va داشته lākin و dūst-i دارند maʿnavī و shumā لکن rā دوست li-ajl-i معنوی shumā شما dūst را dāshta لاجل va شما dārad, دوست balki داشته makhṣūṣ-i و hidāyat-i دارد shumā بلکه balāyā-yi مخصوص lā هدايت tuḥṣā شما qabūl بلايای farmūda. لا bi-chunīn تحصی dūst قبول jafā فرموده makunīd * va بچنين bi-kūyash دوست bishitābīd. جفا īnast مکنيد shams-i و kalima-yi بکويش ṣidq بشتابيد u * vafā اينست ki شمس az کلمه ufuq-i صدق iṣbaʿ-i و mālik-i وفا asmāʾ که ishrāq از farmūda. افق iftaḥū اصبع āẕānakum مالک li-iṣghāʾi اسماء kalimati اشراق llāhi فرموده l-muhaymini * l-qayyūm. افتحوا آذانکم لاصغاء کلمة اللّه المهيمن القيّوم *

O ye that pride yourselves on perishable riches! Know that wealth is a mighty barrier between the seeker and the sought, between the lover and the beloved. Never shall the rich attain the seat of nearness, nor enter the city of contentment and submission — save a few. Well is it, then, with that rich one whom his riches hinder not from the eternal kingdom, nor deprive of the everlasting dominion. By the Most Great Name! The splendour of such a rich one shall give light to the dwellers of heaven, even as the sun giveth light to the people of the earth.

﴿ ay ای maghrūrān مغروران bi-amvāl-i باموال fāniya! فانيه bidānīd ﴾ ki بدانيد ghinā که saddī-st غنا muḥkam سدّيست miyān-i محکم ṭālib ميان u طالب maṭlūb و u مطلوب ʿāshiq و u عاشق maʿshūq. و hargiz معشوق ghanī * bar هرگز maqarr-i غنی qurb بر vārid مقرّ nashavad قرب va وارد bi-madīna-yi نشود riḍā و u بمدينه taslīm رضا dar-nayāyad و magar تسليم qalīlī. در pas نيايد nīkūst مگر ḥāl-i قليلی ān * ghanī پس ki نيکوست ghinā حال az آن malakūt-i غنی jāvidānī که manʿash غنا nanamāyad از va ملکوت az جاودانی dawlat-i منعش abadī ننمايد maḥrūmash و nagardānad. از qasam دولت bi-ism-i ابدی aʿẓam محرومش ki نگرداند nūr-i * ān قسم ghanī باسم ahl-i اعظم āsmān که rā نور rawshanī آن bakhshad غنی chunānchi اهل shams آسمان ahl-i را zamīn روشنی rā. بخشد چنانچه شمس اهل زمين را *

O Ye Rich Ones of the Earth! The poor are My trust among you; guard, then, My trust well, and be not wholly occupied with your own ease.

﴿ ay ای aghniyā-yi اغنيای arḍ! ارض fuqarā ﴾ amānat-i فقرا manand امانت dar منند miyān-i در shumā. ميان pas شما amānat-i * marā پس durust امانت ḥifẓ مرا namāʾīd درست va حفظ bi-rāḥat-i نمائيد nafs-i و khud براحت tamām نفس napardāzīd. خود تمام نپردازيد *

O Son of Passion! Cleanse thyself from the defilement of riches, and with perfect serenity set foot within the heavens of poverty, that from the wellspring of annihilation thou mayest quaff the wine of everlastingness.

﴿ ay ای farzand-i فرزند havā! هوی az ﴾ ālāyish-i از ghinā آلايش pāk غنا shaw پاک va شو bā و kamāl-i با āsāyish کمال dar آسايش aflāk-i در faqr افلاک qadam فقر guẕār قدم tā گذار khamr-i تا baqā خمر az بقا ʿayn-i از fanā عين biyāshāmī. فنا بياشامی *

O My Son! The company of the wicked increaseth grief, while fellowship with the righteous scoureth the rust from the heart. Whoso would commune with God, let him commune with His loved ones; and whoso would hearken to the word of God, let him hearken to the words of His chosen ones.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر man! من ṣuḥbat-i ﴾ ashrār صحبت gham اشرار bīfzāyad غم va بيفزايد muṣāḥabat-i و abrār مصاحبت zang-i ابرار dil زنگ bizdāyad. دل man بزدايد arāda * an من yaʾnisa أراد maʿa ان llāhi يأنس fa-l-yaʾnis مع maʿa اللّه aḥibbāʾihi, فليأنس va مع man احبّائه arāda و an من yasmaʿa أراد kalāma ان llāhi يسمع fa-l-yasmaʿ کلام kalimāti اللّه aṣfiyāʾihi. فليسمع کلمات اصفيائه *

Beware, O Son of Dust! Consort not with the wicked, and seek not their fellowship; for the company of the wicked turneth the light of the soul into the fire of perdition.

﴿ zīnhār زينهار ay ای pisar-i پسر khāk! خاک bā ﴾ ashrār با ulfat اشرار magīr الفت va مگير muʾānasat و majū, مؤانست ki مجو mujālasat-i که ashrār مجالست nūr-i اشرار jān نور rā جان bi-nār-i را ḥusbān بنار tabdīl حسبان namāyad. تبديل نمايد *

O Son of My Handmaid! Wouldst thou seek the grace of the Holy Spirit, enter into fellowship with the righteous; for they have drunk the everlasting cup from the hand of the immortal Cup-Bearer, and, like the true dawn, they quicken, illumine, and make radiant the hearts of the dead.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر kanīz-i کنيز man! من agar ﴾ fayḍ-i اگر rūḥu فيض l-qudus روح ṭalabī القدس bā طلبی aḥrār با muṣāḥib احرار shaw, مصاحب zīrā شو ki * abrār زيرا jām-i که bāqī ابرار az جام kaff-i باقی sāqī-yi از khuld کف nūshīda-and ساقی va خلد qalb-i نوشيده‌اند murdagān و rā قلب chūn مردگان ṣubḥ-i را ṣādiq چون zinda صبح u صادق munīr زنده u و rawshan منير namāyand. و روشن نمايند *

O ye Heedless Ones! Think not that the secrets of hearts are hidden; nay, know ye of a certainty that they are inscribed in plain characters and lie open before the [divine] Presence.

﴿ ay ای ghāfilān! غافلان gumān ﴾ mabarīd گمان ki مبريد asrār-i که qulūb اسرار mastūr قلوب ast, مستور balki است bi-yaqīn بلکه bidānīd بيقين ki بدانيد bi-khaṭṭ-i که jalī بخطّ masṭūr جلی gashta مسطور va گشته dar و pīshgāh-i در ḥuḍūr پيشگاه mashhūd. حضور مشهود *

O Friends! Verily I say, whatsoever ye have hidden within your hearts is unto Us open and manifest as the day; yet the veiling thereof is by reason of Our bounty and grace, and not through any merit of yours.

﴿ ay ای dūstān! دوستان bi-rāstī ﴾ mī-gūyam براستی ki ميگويم jamīʿ-i که ānchi جميع dar آنچه qulūb در mastūr قلوب namūda-īd مستور nazd-i نموده‌ايد mā نزد chūn ما rūz چون vāḍiḥ روز u واضح ẓāhir و u ظاهر huvaydāst, و va هويداست lākin و satr-i لکن ānrā ستر sabab-i آنرا jūd سبب u جود faḍl-i و māst فضل na ماست istiḥqāq-i نه shumā. استحقاق شما *

O Son of Man! A dewdrop from the fathomless ocean of My mercy I shed upon the peoples of the world, yet found none turning thereunto; for every one hath turned away from the choice, celestial wine of the Divine Unity unto the foul water of dregs, and, contenting himself with the perishing cup, hath cast away the chalice of abiding beauty. Vile is that wherewith they are content!

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر insān! انسان shabnamī ﴾ az شبنمی zharf-i از daryā-yi ژرف raḥmat-i دريای khud رحمت bar خود ʿālamiyān بر mabẕūl عالميان dāshtam مبذول va داشتم aḥadī و rā احدی muqbil را nayāftam, مقبل zīrā نيافتم ki * kull زيرا az که khamr-i کلّ bāqī-yi از laṭīf-i خمر tawḥīd باقی bi-māʾ-i لطيف kathīf-i توحيد nabīdh بماء iqbāl کثيف namūda-and نبيد va اقبال az نموده‌اند kaʾs-i و jamāl-i از bāqī کأس bi-jām-i جمال fānī باقی qāniʿ بجام shuda-and. فانی fa-biʾsa قانع mā شده‌اند hum * bihi فبئس yaqnaʿūn. ما هُم به يقنعون *

O Son of Dust! Close not thine eyes to the matchless wine of the everlasting Beloved, and open them not unto the turbid and perishing wine. Take from the hand of the Cup-Bearer of oneness the cups of abiding life, that thou mayest become all awareness, and mayest hearken to the mystic voice of the hidden Realm of inner meaning. Say: O ye base of nature! Wherefore have ye turned from My holy and abiding wine unto perishing water?

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر khāk! خاک az ﴾ khamr-i از bī-mithāl-i خمر maḥbūb-i بی lā-yazāl مثال chashm محبوب mapūsh لا va يزال bi-khamr-i چشم kadira-yi مپوش fāniya و chashm بخمر magushā. کدره az فانيه dast-i چشم sāqī-yi مگشا aḥadiyya * kaʾūs-i از bāqiya دست bar-gīr ساقی tā احديّه hama کأوس hūsh باقيه shavī برگير va تا az همه surūsh-i هوش ghayb-i شوی maʿnavī و shanavī. از bi-gū: سروش ay غيب past-fiṭratān! معنوی az شنوی sharāb-i * bāqī-yi بگو qudsam ای chirā پست bi-āb-i فطرتان fānī از rujūʿ شراب namūdīd? باقی قدسم چرا بآب فانی رجوع نموديد *

Say: O ye People of the Earth! Know of a certainty that a sudden calamity followeth in your wake, and that a grievous chastisement pursueth you from behind. Deem not that what ye have committed hath been blotted from My sight. By My beauty! All your deeds hath My clear Pen inscribed upon tablets of chrysolite.

﴿ bi-gū: بگو ay ای ahl-i اهل arḍ! ارض bi-rāstī ﴾ bidānīd براستی ki بدانيد balā-yi که nāgahānī بلای shumā ناگهانی rā شما dar را pay در ast پی va است ʿiqāb-i و ʿaẓīmī عقاب az عظيمی ʿaqab. از gumān عقب mabarīd * ki گمان ānchi مبريد rā که murtakib آنچه shudīd را az مرتکب naẓar شديد maḥv از shuda. نظر qasam محو bi-jamālam شده ki * dar قسم alvāḥ-i بجمالم zabarjadī که az در qalam-i الواح jalī زبرجدی jamīʿ-i از aʿmāl-i قلم shumā جلی thabt جميع gashta. اعمال شما ثبت گشته *

O ye Oppressors of the Earth! Withdraw your hands from tyranny, for I have vowed not to overlook the injustice of any man. This is My covenant, which I have irrevocably decreed in the Preserved Tablet and sealed with the seal of glory.

﴿ ay ای ẓālimān-i ظالمان arḍ! ارض az ﴾ ẓulm از dast-i ظلم khud دست rā خود kūtāh را namāʾīd, کوتاه ki نمائيد qasam که yād قسم namūda-am ياد az نموده‌ام ẓulm-i از aḥadī ظلم naguẕaram; احدی va نگذرم īn و ʿahdī اين ast عهدی ki است dar که lawḥ-i در maḥfūẓ لوح maḥtūm محفوظ dāshtam محتوم va داشتم bi-khātam-i و ʿizz بخاتم makhtūm. عزّ مختوم *

O ye Transgressors! My long-suffering hath emboldened you, and My patience hath made you heedless, so that ye urge on, in the perilous and deadly ways, the steeds of the fire of self, all recklessly — as though ye had reckoned Me heedless, or accounted Me unaware.

﴿ ay ای ʿāṣiyān! عاصيان burdbārī-yi ﴾ man بردباری shumā من rā شما jarī را namūd جری va نمود ṣabr-i و man صبر shumā من rā شما bi-ghaflat را āvard, بغفلت ki آورد dar که sabīl-hā-yi در muhlik-i سبيلهای khaṭarnāk مهلک bar خطرناک marākib-i بر nār-i مراکب nafs نار bī-bāk نفس mī-rānīd; بی gūyā باک marā ميرانيد ghāfil گويا shumarda-īd مرا va غافل yā شمرده‌ايد bī-khabar و angāshta-īd. يا بی خبر انگاشته‌ايد *

O ye Emigrants! The tongue is set apart for My remembrance; defile it not with backbiting. Should the fiery self prevail over you, busy yourselves with the mention of your own faults, and not with the backbiting of My servants; for each of you knoweth his own self better and more truly than the selves of My servants.

﴿ ay ای muhājirān! مهاجران lisān ﴾ makhṣūṣ-i لسان ẕikr-i مخصوص manast, ذکر bi-ghībat منست mayālāʾīd; بغيبت va ميالائيد agar و nafs-i اگر nārī نفس ghalaba ناری namāyad, غلبه bi-ẕikr-i نمايد ʿuyūb-i بذکر khud عيوب mashghūl خود shavīd مشغول na شويد bi-ghībat-i نه khalq-i بغيبت man, خلق zīrā من ki * har زيرا kudām که az هر shumā کدام bi-nafs-i از khud شما abṣar بنفس u خود aʿrafīd اَبصَر az و nufūs-i اعرفيد ʿibād-i از man. نفوس عباد من *

O Sons of Fancy! Know that when the luminous morn breaketh from the horizon of everlasting holiness, then surely shall the satanic secrets and deeds, wrought in the darkness of night, be laid bare and made manifest before the peoples of the world.

﴿ ay ای pisarān-i پسران vahm! وهم bidānīd ﴾ chūn بدانيد ṣubḥ-i چون nūrānī صبح az نورانی ufuq-i از quds-i افق ṣamadānī قدس bar-damad, صمدانی al-batta بردمد asrār البتّه u اسرار aʿmāl-i و shayṭānī اعمال ki شيطانی dar که layl-i در ẓulmānī ليل maʿmūl ظلمانی shuda معمول ẓāhir شده shavad ظاهر va شود bar و ʿālamiyān بر huvaydā عالميان gardad. هويدا گردد *

O Herb of the Earth! How is it that thou, who wouldst not touch thy garment with a hand made sticky with sugar, dost yet seek My fellowship with a heart defiled by the filth of lust and passion, and dost desire to enter My hallowed realms? Far, far from that which ye desire!

﴿ ay ای giyāh-i گياه khāk! خاک chigūna ﴾ ast چگونه ki است bā که dast-i با ālūda دست bi-shakar آلوده mubāsharat-i بشکر jāma-yi مباشرت khud جامه nanamāʾī خود va ننمائی bā و dil-i با ālūda دل bi-kathāfat-i آلوده shahvat بکثافت u شهوت havā و muʿāsharatam هوی rā معاشرتم jūʾī را va جوئی bi-mamālik-i و qudsam بممالک rāh قدسم khvāhī? راه hayhāt خواهی hayhāt ؟ ʿammā هيهات antum هيهات turīdūn. عمّا أنتم تريدون *

O Sons of Adam! Goodly words and pure and holy deeds ascend unto the heaven of the glory of the Divine Oneness. Strive that your deeds may be cleansed from the dust of hypocrisy and the murkiness of self and passion, and may find favour at the court of glory; for erelong the assayers of mankind shall, in the sacred presence of the Adored One, accept naught but purest piety and receive nothing but the deed unsullied. This is the sun of wisdom and inner meaning that hath shone from the horizon of the mouth of the divine Will. Blessed are they that turn thereunto!

﴿ ay ای pisarān-i پسران ādam! آدم kalima-yi ﴾ ṭayyiba کلمه va طيّبه aʿmāl-i و ṭāhira-yi اعمال muqaddasa طاهره bi-samāʾ-i مقدّسه ʿizz-i بسمآء aḥadiyya عزّ ṣuʿūd احديّه namāyad. صعود jahd نمايد kunīd * tā جهد aʿmāl کنيد az تا ghubār-i اعمال riyāʾ از u غبار kudūrat-i ريا nafs و u کدورت havā نفس pāk و shavad هوی va پاک bi-sāḥat-i شود ʿizz-i و qabūl بساحت dar-āyad. عزّ chi قبول ki درآيد ʿan-qarīb * ṣarrāfān-i چه vujūd که dar عنقريب pīshgāh-i صرّافان ḥuḍūr-i وجود maʿbūd در juz پيشگاه taqvā-yi حضور khāliṣ معبود napaẕīrand جز va تقوای ghayr-i خالص ʿamal-i نپذيرند pāk و qabūl غير nanamāyand. عمل īnast پاک āftāb-i قبول ḥikmat ننمايند u * maʿānī اينست ki آفتاب az حکمت ufuq-i و fam-i معانی mashiyyat-i که rabbānī از ishrāq افق farmūd; فم ṭūbā مشيّت li-l-muqbilīn. ربّانی اشراق فرمود طوبی للمقبلين *

O Son of Joy! How fair is the realm of being, if thou wouldst but enter it! And how goodly is the carpet of everlastingness, if thou wouldst but stride beyond the perishing dominion! And how sweet is the rapture of ecstasy, if thou wouldst but drink the goblet of inner meaning from the hand of the celestial Youth! Shouldst thou attain these stations, thou wouldst be freed from nothingness and annihilation, from tribulation and error.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر ʿaysh! عيش khush ﴾ sāḥatī-st خوش sāḥat-i ساحتی hastī است agar ساحت andar-āyī, هستی va اگر nīkū اندر bisāṭī-st آئی bisāṭ-i و bāqī نيکو agar بساطی az است mulk-i بساط fānī باقی bartar اگر khirāmī, از va ملک malīḥ فانی ast برتر nishāṭ-i خرامی mastī و agar مليح sāghar-i است maʿānī نشاط az مستی yad-i اگر ghulām-i ساغر ilāhī معانی biyāshāmī. از agar يد bi-īn غلام marātib الهی fāʾiz بياشامی shavī * az اگر nīstī باين u مراتب fanā فائز u شوی miḥnat از u نيستی khaṭā و fārigh فنا gardī. و محنت و خطا فارغ گردی *

O My Friends! Call ye to mind that covenant ye entered into with Me upon Mount Párán, situate within the blessed precinct of Time, wherein I took to witness the Concourse on high and the companions of the Midian of eternity; yet now I find none faithful unto that covenant. Verily, pride and rebellion have so effaced it from your hearts that no trace thereof remaineth. Yet, knowing this, I have been patient and disclosed it not.

﴿ ay ای dūstān-i دوستان man! من yād ﴾ āvarīd ياد ān آوريد ʿahdī آن rā عهدی ki را dar که jabal-i در fārān جبل ki فاران dar که buqʿa-yi در mubāraka-yi بقعه zamān مبارکه vāqiʿ زمان shuda واقع bā شده man با namūda-īd, من va نموده‌ايد malaʾ-i و aʿlā ملأ va اعلی aṣḥāb-i و madyan-i اصحاب baqā مدين rā بقا bar را ān بر ʿahd آن gavāh عهد giriftam, گواه va گرفتم ḥāl و aḥadī حال rā احديرا bar بر ān آن ʿahd عهد qāʾim قائم namī-bīnam. نمی al-batta بينم ghurūr البتّه u غرور nā-farmānī و ān نافرمانی rā آن az را qulūb از maḥv قلوب namūda, محو bi-qismī نموده ki بقسميکه atharī اثری az از ān آن bāqī باقی namānda; نمانده va و man من dānista دانسته ṣabr صبر namūdam نمودم va و iẓhār اظهار nadāshtam. نداشتم *

O My Servant! Thou art even as a finely tempered sword concealed in a darksome sheath, whereby its worth is hidden from the knowledge of jewellers. Come forth, then, from the sheath of self and passion, that thy worth may be made resplendent and manifest unto all the world.

﴿ ay ای banda-yi بنده man! من mithl-i ﴾ tu مثل mithl-i تو sayf-i مثل pur-jawharī سيف ast پر ki جوهری dar است ghilāf-i که tīra در pinhān غلاف bāshad تيره va پنهان bi-īn باشد sabab و qadr-i باين ān سبب bar قدر jawhariyān آن mastūr بر mānad. جوهريان pas مستور az ماند ghilāf-i * nafs پس u از havā غلاف bīrūn نفس āy و tā هوی jawhar-i بيرون tu آی bar تا ʿālamiyān جوهر huvaydā تو u بر rawshan عالميان āyad. هويدا و روشن آيد *

O My Friend! Thou art the sun of the heaven of My holiness; let not the eclipse of the world darken thee. Rend asunder the veil of heedlessness, that from behind the clouds thou mayest come forth unveiled and unconcealed, and mayest adorn all created things with the robe of being.

﴿ ay ای dūst-i دوست man! من tu ﴾ shams-i تو samāʾ-i شمس quds-i سمآء manī, قدس khud منی rā خود bi-kusūf-i را dunyā بکسوف mayālāy. دنيا ḥijāb-i ميالای ghaflat * rā حجاب khirq غفلت kun را tā خرق bī کن parda تا u بی ḥijāb پرده az و khalf-i حجاب saḥāb از badar خلف āyī سحاب va بدر jamīʿ-i آئی mawjūdāt و rā جميع bi-khilʿat-i موجودات hastī را biyārāyī. بخلعت هستی بيارائی *

O Sons of Vainglory! For a fleeting sovereignty of a few days ye have forsaken My imperishable realm of omnipotence, and deck yourselves out in trappings of yellow and red, and thereat ye glory. By My beauty! I shall gather all beneath the one-hued tent of dust, and shall wipe out all these diverse hues from among them — save those who take on My own hue, and that is sanctification from all hues.

﴿ ay ای abnāʾ-i ابنآء ghurūr! غرور bi-salṭanat-i ﴾ fāniya-yi بسلطنت ayyāmī فانيه az ايّامی jabarūt-i از bāqī-yi جبروت man باقی guẕashta من va گذشته khud و rā خود bi-asbāb-i را zard باسباب u زرد surkh و mī-ārāʾīd سرخ va می bi-dīn آرائيد sabab و iftikhār بدين mī-namāʾīd. سبب qasam افتخار bi-jamālam مينمائيد ki * jamīʿ قسم rā بجمالم dar که khayma-yi جميع yak-rang-i را turāb در dar-āvaram خيمه va يکرنگ hama-yi تراب īn درآورم rang-hā-yi و mukhtalifa همه rā اين az رنگهای miyān مختلفه bardāram, را magar از kasānī ميان ki بردارم bi-rang-i مگر man کسانيکه dar-āyand, برنگ va من ān درآيند taqdīs و az آن hama-yi تقديس rang-hāst. از همهء رنگها است *

O Sons of Heedlessness! Set not your hearts on a fleeting kingship, nor rejoice therein. Ye are like the heedless bird that singeth in fullest security upon a garden bough, till of a sudden the fowler Death casteth it to the dust, and no more remaineth any trace of its song, its form, or its hue. Take heed, then, O bondslaves of passion!

﴿ ay ای abnāʾ-i ابنآء ghaflat! غفلت bi-pādishāhī-yi ﴾ fānī بپادشاهی dil فانی mabandīd دل va مبنديد masrūr و mashavīd. مسرور mithl-i مشويد shumā * mithl-i مثل ṭayr-i شما ghāfilī مثل ast طير ki غافلی bar است shākha-yi که bāghī بر dar شاخه kamāl-i باغی iṭmīnān در bisarāyad کمال va اطمينان baghtatan بسرايد ṣayyād-i و ajal بغتةً ū صيّاد rā اجل bi-khāk او andāzad; را dīgar بخاک az اندازد naghma ديگر u از haykal نغمه u و rang-i هيکل ū و atharī رنگ bāqī او namānad. اثری pas باقی pand نماند gīrīd * ay پس bandagān-i پند havā. گيريد ای بندگان هوی *

O Son of My Handmaid! Guidance hath ever been given by words, but now it is given by deeds. That is: all holy deeds must appear from the temple of man; for in words all have their share, but pure and holy deeds are the peculiar treasure of Our loved ones. Strive, then, with heart and soul, to be distinguished, by your deeds, from all mankind. Thus do We counsel you in a holy and shining Tablet.

﴿ ay ای farzand-i فرزند kanīz-i کنيز man! من lā-zāl ﴾ hidāyat لا bi-aqvāl زال būda هدايت va باقوال īn بوده zamān و bi-afʿāl اين gashta. زمان yaʿnī بافعال bāyad گشته jamīʿ-i * afʿāl-i يعنی qudsī بايد az جميع haykal-i افعال insānī قدسی ẓāhir از shavad, هيکل chi انسانی ki ظاهر dar شود aqvāl چه kull که sharīkand در va اقوال lākin کلّ afʿāl-i شريکند pāk و u لکن muqaddas افعال makhṣūṣ-i پاک dūstān-i و māst. مقدّس pas مخصوص bi-jān دوستان saʿī ماست namāʾīd * tā پس bi-afʿāl بجان az سعی jamīʿ-i نمائيد nās تا mumtāz بافعال shavīd. از kaẕālika جميع naṣaḥnākum ناس fī ممتاز lawḥ-i شويد quds-i * munīr. کذلک نصحناکم فی لوح قدس منير *

O Son of Equity! In the night season the Beauty of the immortal Being repaired from the emerald height of faithfulness unto the Lote-Tree of the Utmost Boundary, and wept with such a weeping that all the Concourse on high and the cherubim wailed at His lamenting. Whereupon there was inquired the cause of the wailing and lamentation, and He made answer: According to the [divine] command I waited, expectant, upon the height of faithfulness, yet caught not the fragrance of faithfulness from the dwellers of the earth; and when I made to return, lo, I beheld certain holy doves sore afflicted in the talons of the dogs of earth. Thereupon the Maid of heaven hastened forth, unveiled and unscreened, from her mystic mansion, and asked their names; and all were named save one, and when she pressed, the first letter of the name flowed from the tongue, whereupon the dwellers of the celestial chambers rushed forth from their glorious habitations; and when it reached the second letter, they all fell upon the dust. In that moment a voice was heard from the inmost shrine of nearness: "Thus far and no farther." Verily We bear witness unto that which they wrought, and are even now committing.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر inṣāf! انصاف dar ﴾ layl در jamāl-i ليل haykal-i جمال baqā هيکل az بقا ʿaqaba-yi از zumurrudī-yi عقبه vafā زمرّدی bi-sidra-yi وفا muntahā بسدره rujūʿ منتهی namūd رجوع va نمود girīst, و girīstanī گريست ki گريستنی jamīʿ-i که malaʾ-i جميع ʿālīn ملأ u عالين karūbīn و az کروبين nāla-yi از ū ناله girīstand. او va گريستند baʿd, * az و sabab-i بعد nawḥa از u سبب nudba نوحه istifsār و shud; ندبه maẕkūr استفسار dāsht شد ki مذکور ḥasb داشت al-amr که dar حسب ʿaqaba-yi الأمر vafā در muntaẓir عقبه māndam وفا va منتظر rāʾiḥa-yi ماندم vafā و az رائحه ahl-i وفا arḍ از nayāftam اهل va ارض baʿd نيافتم āhang-i و rujūʿ بعد namūdam; آهنگ malḥūẓ رجوع uftād نمودم ki ملحوظ ḥamāmāt-i افتاد qudsī که chand حمامات dar قدسی dast-i چند kilāb-i در arḍ دست mubtalī کلاب shuda-and. ارض dar مبتلی īn شده‌اند vaqt * ḥūriyya-yi در ilāhī اين az وقت qaṣr-i حوريّه rūḥānī الهی bī از satr قصر u روحانی ḥijāb بی davīd ستر va و suʾāl حجاب az دويد asāmī-yi و īshān سؤال namūd از va اسامی jamīʿ ايشان maẕkūr نمود shud و illā جميع ismī مذکور az شد asmāʾ. الّا va اسمی chūn از iṣrār اسمآء raft * ḥarf-i و avval-i چون ism اصرار az رفت lisān حرف jārī اوّل shud, اسم ahl-i از ghurafāt لسان az جاری makāmin-i شد ʿizz-i اهل khud غرفات bīrūn از davīdand, مکامن va عزّ chūn خود bi-ḥarf-i بيرون duvvum دويدند rasīd و jamīʿ چون bar بحرف turāb دوم rīkhtand. رسيد dar جميع ān بر vaqt تراب nidā ريختند az * makman-i در qurb آن rasīd: وقت ziyāda ندا bar از īn مکمن jāʾiz قرب na. رسيد innā زياده kunnā بر shuhadāʾa اين ʿalā جايز mā نه faʿalū * wa-ḥīnaʾiẕin إنّا kānū کنّا yafʿalūn. شهدآء علی ما فعلوا و حينئذٍ کانوا يفعلون *

O Son of My Handmaid! Drink from the tongue of the All-Merciful the stream of inner meaning, and behold, from the dayspring of the utterance of the All-Glorious, the unveiled and unconcealed effulgence of the lights of the Sun of exposition. Sow the seeds of My divinely-given wisdom in the pure soil of the heart, and water them with the water of certitude, that the hyacinths of My knowledge and wisdom may spring up verdant from the goodly city [of thy heart].

﴿ ay ای farzand-i فرزند kanīz-i کنيز man! من az ﴾ lisān-i از raḥmān لسان salsabīl-i رحمن maʿānī سلسبيل binūsh معانی va بنوش az و mashriq-i از bayān-i مشرق subḥān بيان ishrāq-i سبحان anvār-i اشراق shams-i انوار tibyān شمس min تبيان ghayr-i من satr غير u ستر kitmān و mushāhada کتمان namā. مشاهده tukhm-hā-yi نما ḥikmat-i * ladunnīyam تخمهای rā حکمت dar لدنّيم arḍ-i را ṭāhir-i در qalb ارض bīfshān طاهر va قلب bi-āb-i بيفشان yaqīn و ābash بآب dih يقين tā آبش sunbulāt-i ده ʿilm تا u سنبلات ḥikmat-i علم man و sar-sabz حکمت az من balda-yi سر ṭayyiba سبز inbāt از namāyad. بلده طيّبه انبات نمايد *

O Son of Passion! How long wilt thou soar in the realm of carnal desire? Wings have I bestowed on thee, that thou mightest wing thy flight in the air of the holiness of inner meanings, and not in the sphere of satanic fancy. A comb, too, have I graciously given thee, that thou mightest dress My musk-scented tresses, and not lacerate My throat.

﴿ ay ای pisar-i پسر havā! هوی tā ﴾ kay تا dar کی havā-yi در nafsānī هوای ṭayarān نفسانی namāyī? طيران par نمائی ʿināyat ؟ farmūdam پر tā عنايت dar فرمودم havā-yi تا quds-i در maʿānī هوای parvāz قدس kunī معانی na پرواز dar کنی faḍā-yi نه vahm-i در shayṭānī. فضای shāna وهم marḥamat شيطانی farmūdam * tā شانه gīsū-yi مرحمت mushkīnam فرمودم shāna تا namāyī گيسوی na مشکينم gulūyam شانه bikhrāshī. نمائی نه گلويم بخراشی *

O My Servants! Ye are the trees of My paradise; ye must needs bring forth goodly and wondrous fruits, that ye yourselves and others may profit therefrom. Wherefore it is incumbent on all to engage in crafts and trades; for this is the means of wealth, O ye endued with understanding. Verily, all affairs hang upon their causes, and the grace of God shall suffice you thereby. Trees that yield no fruit have been, and shall ever be, but fit for the fire.

﴿ ay ای bandagān-i بندگان man! من shumā ﴾ ashjār-i شما riḍvān-i اشجار manīd, رضوان bāyad منيد bi-athmār-i بايد badīʿa-yi باثمار manīʿa بديعه ẓāhir منيعه shavīd ظاهر tā شويد khud تا u خود dīgarān و az ديگران shumā از muntafiʿ شما shavand. منتفع liẕā شوند bar * kull لذا lāzim بر ki کلّ bi-ṣanāyiʿ لازم u که iktisāb بصنايع mashghūl و gardand. اکتساب īnast مشغول asbāb-i گردند ghinā * yā اينست ulī اسباب l-albāb; غنا wa-inna يا l-umūra اولی muʿallaqatun الألباب bi-asbābihā, و wa-faḍlu انّ llāhi الأمور yughnīkum معلّقة bihā. باسبابها va و ashjār-i فضل bī اللّه thamār يغنيکم lāyiq-i بها nār * būda و va اشجار khvāhad بی būd. ثمار لايق نار بوده و خواهد بود *

O My Servant! The basest of men are they that bring forth no fruit upon the earth. Such men are verily accounted among the dead — nay, better in the sight of God are the dead than those idle and worthless souls.

﴿ ay ای banda-yi بنده man! من past-tarīn-i ﴾ nās پست‌ترين nufūsī ناس hastand نفوسی ki هستند bī که thamar بی dar ثمر arḍ در ẓāhirand ارض va ظاهرند fi و l-ḥaqīqa فی az الحقيقه amvāt از maḥsūband, اموات balki محسوبند amvāt بلکه az اموات ān از nufūs-i آن muʿaṭṭala-yi نفوس muhmala معطّله arjaḥ مهمله ʿinda ارجح llāh عند maẕkūr. اللّه مذکور *

O My Servant! The best of men are they that earn a livelihood by their calling and spend it upon themselves and their kindred, for the love of God, the Lord of all worlds.

﴿ ay ای banda-yi بنده man! من bihtarīn-i ﴾ nās بهترين ānanand ناس ki آنانند bi-iqtirāf که taḥṣīl باقتراف kunand تحصيل va کنند ṣarf-i و khud صرف u خود ẕawi و l-qurbā ذوی namāyand القربی ḥubban نمايند li-llāhi حبّاً rabbi للّه l-ʿālamīn. ربّ العالمين *

The peerless bride of inner meanings, that lay concealed and hidden behind the veils of utterance, hath, through divine grace and heavenly favours, been made manifest and revealed, even as the radiant beam of the Beloved's beauty. I bear witness, O friends, that the bounty is complete, the proof consummate, the demonstration made plain, and the testimony established. It now remaineth to be seen what your own endeavour, in the stages of detachment, will make manifest. Thus is the bounty consummated upon you and upon them that are in the heavens and on the earth. And praise be to God, the Lord of all worlds.

عروس ʿarūs-i معانی maʿānī-yi بديعه badīʿa که ki ورای varā-yi پرده‌های parda-hā-yi بيان bayān مستور mastūr و u پنهان pinhān بود būd, بعنايت bi-ʿināyat-i الهی ilāhī و u الطاف alṭāf-i ربّانی rabbānī چون chūn شعاع shuʿāʿ-i منير munīr-i جمال jamāl-i دوست dūst ظاهر ẓāhir و u هويدا huvaydā شد shud. * shahādat شهادت mī-diham ميدهم ay ای dūstān دوستان ki که niʿmat نعمت tamām تمام u و ḥujjat حجّت kāmil کامل u و burhān برهان ẓāhir ظاهر u و dalīl دليل thābit ثابت āmad; آمد dīgar ديگر tā تا himmat-i همّت shumā شما az از marātib-i مراتب inqiṭāʿ انقطاع chi چه ẓāhir ظاهر namāyad. نمايد kaẕālika * tammati کذلک n-niʿmatu تمّت ʿalaykum النّعمة wa-ʿalā عليکم man و fi علی s-samāwāti من wa-l-arḍīn, فی wa-l-ḥamdu السّموات li-llāhi و rabbi الأرضين l-ʿālamīn. و الحمد للّه ربّ العالمين *

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