BB00002: Qayyumu’l-Asma’ (Commentary on the Surah of Joseph)

Surah of Dominion [Mulk]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

Praise be to God Who hath sent down the Book unto His servant in truth, that it may be a radiant lamp unto all the worlds. This, verily, is the path of Ali which, in the Mother Book, hath been established as the straight and true path with thy Lord. Verily, in the Mother Book with Us it standeth transcendent, and upon the Most Great Truth it hath been, in the presence of the All-Merciful, rendered wise. This is the truth from God, and concerning the pure Faith it hath been inscribed in the Mother Book round about the Mount. This, verily, is the Truth, the Path of God in the heavens and on earth; whoso desireth, let him take unto God a way in truth. This, verily, is the true Faith, and God sufficeth as witness, and those endued with knowledge of the Book. This, verily, is the Truth of truths, concerning the Most Great Word from the Ancient of Days, and it hath been sent forth from around the Fire. This, verily, is the Mystery in the heavens and on earth, and concerning the wondrous Cause it hath been written down in truth by the hands of God, the Exalted, in the Mother Book.

God hath ordained that this Book should come forth as a commentary on the Best of Stories through Muhammad, son of Hasan, son of Ali, son of Muhammad, son of Ali, son of Musa, son of Jafar, son of Muhammad, son of Ali, son of Husayn, son of Ali, son of Abu Talib, unto His servant, that it may be an eloquent testimony from God, from the Remembrance, unto all the worlds. I bear witness, even as God beareth witness unto Himself, that He is the Truth, there is no God but Him, and the angels and those possessed of knowledge stand firm round about the Remembrance in equity—there is no God but Him, and He is God, the All-Knowing of all things.

Verily, the pure Faith is this Remembrance preserved; whoso desireth Islam, let him submit his cause that God may inscribe him in the Book of the righteous as one wholly submitted, and concerning the pure Faith he shall be, in truth, praiseworthy. Whoso denieth Islam, God will not accept from him any of his deeds on the Day of Resurrection, not even the smallest thing of truth. And it is binding upon God that He should burn him with the novel Fire of God, through the decree of the Book, by the judgment of the Gate—an irrevocable doom. God is He besides Whom there is no God, and He is God, the All-Seeing of the believers. God is He besides Whom there is no God, and He is God, the Witness over the believers. God is He besides Whom there is no God, and He is God, the All-Knowing of the believers. God is He besides Whom there is no God, and He is God, Who encompasseth all the worlds.

Verily God will not accept any deed from anyone unless he comes to the Gate, bowing in prostration before God, the Ancient One, around the Gate, in a praiseworthy manner. God hath verily permitted thee according to the truth—therefore prostrate thyself and draw nigh, for verily the Fire is in the Point of Water, prostrating before God, the True One, on earth, witnessed by all.

O concourse of kings and sons of kings! Turn ye away from God’s dominion, all of you, in accordance with the truth, in a seemly manner.

O King of the Muslims! After the Book, aid Our Most Great Remembrance in truth, for verily God hath ordained for thee and for those who circle round thee, on the Day of Resurrection, a station of questioning upon the Bridge, according to the truth.

O King! By God, the True One, if thou shouldst show enmity unto the Remembrance, God will verily judge thee on the Day of Resurrection among the kings with fire, and thou shalt find none other than God, the Most High, as a helper, according to the truth.

O King! Purify the Holy Land of those who reject the Book, before the day when the Remembrance shall come unto it suddenly, by God’s leave, the Most High, with mighty and severe command.

Verily God hath prescribed for thee that thou shouldst submit to the Remembrance and His Cause, and conquer the lands by His leave in truth, for thou art shown mercy in this world’s dominion, and in the next world thou shalt dwell among the people of the Garden of Good-Pleasure around the Holy Place.

O King! Let not sovereignty deceive thee, for every soul shall taste of death—this hath been written down as a decree from God according to the truth.

Be content with God’s true judgment, for verily sovereignty in the Mother Book is inscribed by the hands of God concerning the station of the Remembrance, according to the truth.

Aid ye God with your souls and your swords under the shadow of this Most Great Remembrance, for this pure Faith, with strength according to the truth.

O Minister of the king! Fear God, besides Whom there is none other God, the True, the Just. Withdraw thyself from the king, for verily We shall inherit the earth and all that dwell thereon by God’s leave, the All-Wise, and He is in truth a witness over thee and over the king. We have assured you by God’s leave that if ye obey the Remembrance with pure sincerity, ye shall have in the Day of Resurrection a mighty kingdom in the Garden of Eden. And verily this kingdom of yours is vain—God hath made the goods of this world for the idolaters, but with God your Lord is a goodly return, which hath ever been established in truth upon the truth. And verily We have in the Garden of Eternity an exalted kingdom, which We bestow upon whomsoever We will among Our servants—upon those who have been, in this Cause, helpers of God and His signs in truth.

O concourse of kings! Deliver Our verses to Turkey and to the land of India, swiftly and in truth upon truth, and to whatsoever lieth beyond their lands in the East and the West, powerfully and in truth upon truth.

O servants of the All-Merciful! God created you not, neither hath He provided for you, save for a mighty purpose which hath been established with God in the Mother Book in truth upon the truth. Follow what God hath revealed unto Us of the ordinances of the Gate in that Book, submitting unto God and His Command, content in truth. Know ye that if ye help God, He will help you on the Day of Resurrection through the Most Great Remembrance upon the Path, with a gracious help.

By God! If ye do good, ye do it for your own selves, and if ye deny God and His signs, verily We through God can dispense with all creation and dominion, in truth. O people of the earth! Whoso obeyeth God’s Remembrance and this His Book hath indeed obeyed God and His friends in truth, and shall be recorded in the hereafter as one of the people of the Garden of Good-Pleasure with God.

Verily We have set in motion the mountains upon the earth and the stars upon the Throne round about the Fire in the Pole of Water by the leave of the Remembrance, through God, the Truth, and none among you hath power over another. He is the Almighty over His servants, and He is God, the Knower of all things.

Surah of the Divines [ʿUlama]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Alif Lam Ra. These are the verses of the Clear Book.” [Q12:1]

Alif Lam Mim. A Book from God, the Truth, concerning the Remembrance, which hath in truth been sent down around the Fire. Verily We have made the verses in that Book clear, as a reminder and glad tidings to the servants of the All-Merciful who are faithful to God and His verses in truth—those who oppress not their parents but stand in awe of them in sincerity, according to a measure of the Book’s knowledge, like a just sovereign who dealeth sternly with his kingdom; those who fear their Lord on a day whose evil hath been inscribed in the Mother Book. Verily We fear from the All-Merciful on a grim day whose name is recorded in the Mother Book—a day when no soul shall have power over anything for another, and the command that day shall be God’s, the Most High, and God is witness over all things.

Verily We have made the verses a proof of Our Word unto you. Can ye produce a single letter like unto them? Bring your proof if ye can truly perceive God’s truth. By God! Should humans and jinn combine to produce the like of one Surah of this Book, they would fail, even were they to assist one another.

O concourse of divines! Fear God in your opinions from this your day, for the Remembrance among you from Us is in truth a judge and witness. Turn away from that which ye take from other than God’s Book of truth, for ye shall in truth be questioned at your station on the path on the Day of Resurrection. God hath made conjecture in all the Tablets a manifest sin. God may forgive you for what ye have earned for yourselves before this day—verily He is forgiving and merciful toward those who turn unto Him.

God hath forbidden you from making judgments contrary to truth and from exercising independent judgment without pure knowledge from this Book. We have sent down unto you this Book as a witnessed truth, that ye may know what God hath ordained regarding Our grace, from which ye were far removed without right. Verily ye shall have a station on the path on the Day of Resurrection where ye shall in truth be questioned. God will question His servants concerning what they do in God’s religion without the judgment of truth concealed in that Book.

Soon will God show you the verses of the Remembrance suddenly upon the earth in manifest truth. O concourse of the People of the Book! Fear God and be not deceived by your knowledge, but follow the Book from the Remembrance in truth. By God, the Truth! No soul hath followed it but hath followed all the scriptures sent down from heaven from God, the Truth—and God is informed of what ye do. No soul hath denied the Book but hath denied the unity of the All-Merciful and disbelieved in the Prophets and scriptures sent down from heaven in truth. Such a one’s abode shall be the Fire in truth, and God hath decreed this judgment in the Mother Book as an irrevocable truth.

Had God willed, He would have guided all mankind. God hath made Our verses clear to the worlds, and the Remembrance is truth from God in truth, and God hath power over all things. When people denied Our verses, they showed ingratitude to God, the Most High. Those who disbelieve shall learn of their place in a valley of Sijjin, which God hath named in the Mother Book as Hell.

Verily, We shall cause you to taste of boiling water and subject you to the scorching fire, as decreed in the Book. This, indeed, is the truth from God—a recompense for your stubborn opposition to Our signs and the remembrance of God, the Most High. This is a fitting retribution for your wretchedness in relation to God and His signs. The command of your Lord, the All-Merciful, is truth itself, and God’s promise shall be fulfilled in truth.

Praise be to God Who hath sent down the light from His presence upon Our servant, that he might be a straight line of truth among the worlds. We reveal unto thee what God hath revealed unto Us; verily, thou art inscribed as exalted in the Mother Book with God. Unto God belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth in truth; He forgiveth whom He willeth and chastiseth whom He willeth, for God hath power over all things.

Fear ye the Day when ye shall return unto God, when judgment belongeth to God alone. On that Day shall every soul receive what it hath earned, and We wrong not any thing by so much as the husk of a date-stone. The Remembrance hath believed in what was revealed unto him from his Lord, and the believers—all have believed in God and His signs, making no distinction between any of His signs. The submissive ones have truthfully said:

“Our Lord! We have heard the call of God’s Remembrance and have obeyed it. Forgive us, for Thou art the Truth, and unto Thee is the true return.”

O ye believers! We charge you in truth only with what ye are able to bear. Dominion belongeth to God alone. God desireth to lighten your burden and shower His mercy upon you. No soul acquireth aught but We have recorded what it hath acquired, preserved in the decree of the Book. Say: Our Lord is God, our Lord is the Truth, there is no God but Him. Forgive us through Thy mercy and have compassion upon us; verily, Thou art our Protector. Ordain for us our return unto Thee in truth, as a true destination.

God, there is no God but He, hath created the letter Alif for His servant with commanding power. God, there is no God but He, hath ordained the letter Lam for His wisdom according to the decree of the Book. God, there is no God but He, hath made the letter Ra for the expansion of His Cause as He willeth in the Mother Book, decreed in truth around the Fire.

Surah of Faith [Iman]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Verily We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur’an that ye might understand.” [Q12:2]

Ta Ha. God hath sent down the Qur’an unto His servant that men might know that God hath power over all things. He it is Who hath sent down the Criterion in Arabic, free from crookedness, unto His servant in pure truth as a revelation, that He might show you of His signs and the interpretation of utterances upon the straight path with unerring truth in wondrous wise. Verily this is an exalted path in the heavens and earth, established in wondrous truth by God, the Most High.

He is God, there is no God but Him. He hath sent down unto thee this Book with the Most Great Remembrance, confirming the messengers and that which God revealed in the scriptures. There is no altering the remembrance of God, the Truth, and it is the truth in the Mother Book, concealed round about the Fire. If this Book were from other than God, the Truth, Who sent it down, they would find therein much discrepancy. Glory be to God our Lord! Nothing is hidden from Him in earth or heaven, and We have numbered all things in this Book by God’s leave in hidden wise, and it hath been inscribed from God in truth.

As for those who disbelieve in God’s exalted Gate, We have prepared for them, by God’s true decree, a grievous punishment. And He is God, the Mighty, the Wise. Verily We have sent down unto Our servant this Book from God in truth, and We have made its verses clear and unambiguous. None knoweth their interpretation save God and whom We will of His sincere servants. Ask ye the Remembrance concerning its interpretation, for He is, by God’s grace, knowledgeable about His verses according to the Book’s decree.

Our Lord, we praise Thee after Thou hast guided us. Grant us from Thy presence of Thy mercy, for Thou art in truth the All-Powerful, the Bestower. Verily those who disbelieve in God’s Most Great Remembrance, neither their wealth nor their children shall avail them aught besides God, the Truth, and they have no power besides God. These are the companions of the Fire by God’s just decree, wherein they shall abide forever and ever. God aideth with His victory whomsoever He willeth of His servants.

And We have made fair-seeming unto you, in your wrongdoing against God, the love of women and sons and wealth—yet all this is but the comfort of mortal life. God hath appointed a goodly return for those who aid God’s Remembrance, the Most High, with their hands and tongues and wealth out of love for God, the Self-Sufficient. And He is God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy.

When the People of the Book dispute with thee about aught, say: I have no knowledge save what my Lord hath taught me. Verily I have submitted my face unto God, the Originator of the heavens and earth. And whoso is too proud to serve Him by turning away from My remembrance—it behooveth God to burn him with the Most Great Fire in truth, with justice deserved. And ye desire only what God desireth for you. Verily He is All-Knowing, All-Wise.

The ungodly among you say: The Fire shall not touch us save for numbered days. But when We gather them on the Day of Resurrection around the Fire, they shall witness against themselves that their Lord’s punishment was indeed foreordained in the Mother Book from the Gate’s presence. Verily sovereignty belongeth unto God—He giveth sovereignty unto whom He willeth and withdraweth sovereignty from whom He willeth. And He is God, powerful over all things.

And verily We abase the infidels by whatsoever We will, and exalt the believers by whatsoever We will. God, in very truth, hath placed all good in thy hands, and God hath ordained thy hands, in the Mother Book, to be an uplifted right hand. And verily, in the wondrous succession of night and day, in their entering one into the other, and in the bringing forth of the living from the dead and the dead from the living, are signs of the Most Great Remembrance of God. Thus hath it likewise been inscribed in the Preserved Tablet before God, the Most High.

O servants of the All-Merciful! Take not the unbelievers as friends in place of those who have precedence among the believers. Whoso meeteth God having disbelieved in the Book and this Our Remembrance shall find no protection from God, and the Truth Itself hath warned you, for unto God, the Truth, shall all worlds return.

If ye fear your Lord, the All-Merciful, concerning what your hands have wrought through Satan’s doing, then hasten to forgiveness from your Lord before the Day when ye shall find your deeds presented before you. Verily God knoweth whatsoever is in the heavens and earth in truth, and He is independent of all worlds.

O servants of God! The All-Merciful doth warn you to speak naught of God save the truth. He knoweth what ye conceal within yourselves and what ye reveal, and He is truly compassionate towards His servants with a true compassion.

O people! If ye believe in God alone, then follow Me in this Most Great Remembrance from your Lord, that God may forgive you your sins. Verily God hath ever been All-Forgiving, All-Merciful to the believers.

Verily We choose the Messengers through Our Word and We prefer some of their seed above others through the remembrance of God, the Great, according to the hidden decree of the Book. We have given thee authority over the Gates by God’s leave, the All-Hearing, and He is witness over all things.

We breathed Our spirit upon Mary and accepted from the wife of Imran her vow unto God, the Most High. He is indeed aware of His believing servants. We gave glad tidings to the Prophet Zacharias of Our name Yahya (John), who would confirm the Word of God, the Most Great. This is from God, and We made him thereby a lord and chaste one in the Mother Book.

The likeness of creation before God is as the likeness of Our Command: when We will a thing, We but say unto it “Be!” and it is—thus recorded in God’s Praised Book round about the Fire.

God hath taught thee knowledge of the Book from the Furqan, the Gospel, the Torah, the Psalms, and what lieth beyond them of the Scrolls. Thou wert stationed before thy Lord at the gate of the Point of the hidden letter B.

We have revealed unto thee tidings of the unseen and sent down unto thee this Book in truth. We have forbidden thee the unclean things and made lawful unto thee the good things, that people might believe in thy remembrance, hoping for the might of God’s ancient Faith in truth. God is knowing of all things.

Those who imagine they can touch thee with any knowledge have fallen dead from heaven to earth, uprooted, and God is witness over all things.

God hath made thy essence touched by Our essences, and thy being radiant with light from the Ancient Being of God, our Lord. He is powerful over all things.

The ungodly plotted against themselves regarding thy remembrance, but they harm none save themselves. God hath fulfilled His covenant:

“I shall purify thee and cause thee to die and raise thee unto God, the Truth.”

Thou shalt judge by God’s leave on the Day of Resurrection concerning that wherein people differ about God’s remembrance, the Most High. God is witness over all things.

When some of the city’s people said “We are God’s helpers,” but when the Remembrance came to them suddenly, lo! they turned away from helping Us. Verily God is my Lord and your Lord, the Truth; therefore serve Him. And this is a straight path with thy Lord. Soon will God judge between the people with truth, then they shall find no difficulty within themselves concerning God’s pure judgment, for the matter had already been decreed in the Mother Book. And when the matter reaches intensity, then dispute by God’s leave with the idolaters and say: “Come, let us call upon our Lord, Who is none other than He, with our souls and your souls, for verily God is the Truth, a witness over us, and He is the One Who is informed of all things.”

By thy Lord! If thou wert to engage in mutual imprecation with the unbelievers, people would behold the horizon of heaven, and We would surely send down upon them, by God’s leave, a thunderbolt of fire. Were it not for thy prayer, the earth and some who dwell thereon would have been consumed, for God hath power over all things. Say: O People of the Book! Come to a word common between us and you: that we shall worship none but Him, and that we shall not associate any partners with Him in His worship, and that we shall not take each other as lords besides God. Verily He is the One God, there is nothing like unto Him, and God is the Witness over all things.

Surah of the City [Medinah]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“We narrate unto thee the most excellent of stories through what We have revealed unto thee in this Qur’an, though before it thou wert among the heedless.” [Q12:3]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ta, Ha. Verily We have set forth the stories for those who seek Us from before the Gate, loving and responsive. Verily We have sent down the Book with truth upon truth, that people may in this Book be inscribed under the name of the Remembrance. Verily We have sent down the Book to every nation in their tongue, and We have sent down this Book in the tongue of the Remembrance, with truth upon truth, wondrously. And verily it is the truth from God, and in the Mother Book according to the decree of the Book it hath been inscribed in most eloquent Arabic. And verily it is the most articulate among the most eloquent ones, and it is the Most Great Talisman in truth, and verily in the Mother Book it hath been inscribed as a mystic talisman.

And verily We have made thee unto all worlds a brilliant sun and an illuminating moon and a chaste mortal and a mighty pillar unto all worlds, that perchance mankind might become, through God and His verses, with truth upon truth, a surety. But mankind were not with the verses of God, the Truth, upon truth, well-pleased. And mankind have been, concerning God and His verses, in other than truth, wondrous.

O servants of God! Hath not Our servant shown you in truth a promise concerning what God intended for you in the upright religion, as was meet? And verily God hath made the verses Our verses, and according to the station of the Remembrance hath the decree of the Book been inscribed in the Mother Book, and this is one of them for him who hath from the All-Merciful a covenant upon his neck, with truth upon truth, straight. And he hath entered through that Gate by leave of God, the Praiseworthy, pure and unsullied.

O people of the City! Ye are the ones who associate partners with your Lord if ye believed in Muhammad, the Apostle of God and Seal of the Prophets, and His Book the Furqan, unto which falsehood approacheth not. For verily We have sent down unto Our servant, by God’s leave, this Book like unto it. If ye believe in it, then your belief in Muhammad and the Book aforetime was, in truth, recorded as a lie with God. And if ye disbelieve in it, then your disbelief in Muhammad and His Book, according to your own selves, was assuredly known with certainty, with truth upon truth.

O people of the City and those Arabs who dwell round about! What aileth you, how have ye disbelieved in Muhammad after His passing, openly without truth? Did not God and His Prophet take from you a covenant regarding the successorship of His friend in many places of the earth, with truth upon truth? If ye believed in God, besides Whom there is no god, what aileth you, how do ye judge for yourselves other than what God revealed in His Book of truth aforetime preserved? By your Lord! If ye believe not in Our Remembrance and this Book, then be assured that your abode is the Fire, wherein ye shall abide forever. And ye shall have no helper besides God, the Most High, on the Day of Judgment.

For some souls among you died in unbelief aforetime, and ye believed not in Muhammad, nor did those around you after His ascension, save that ye disbelieved in the successorship. What aileth you that ye ponder not the Qur’an with truth upon truth in its revelation? Verily God promiseth you Paradise, while Satan calleth you through your religion which leadeth you to Hell-fire. So let him who willeth among you believe, and let him who willeth disbelieve. And verily God is Independent of all worlds. And power belongeth unto God, the Mighty, from ancient times.

O people of the City! Fear ye God against a day when ye shall have no power over anything, and Our decree hath been inscribed in truth, by the truth. What aileth you that ye have disbelieved in God, your Creator, besides Whom there is none other God—He Who created you and sustained you through His bounty, and Who hath ever been, in truth, your witness? Do ye not ponder over the Qur’an in its revelation? Do ye not reflect upon the Furqan in its interpretation? Fear ye God, from Our stern grasp of truth. If ye persist in your ways and return not unto the remembrance of God, the Most High, in truth, upon truth, and soon—God will show you in the Day of Resurrection a fire that shall encompass your souls; on that day ye shall find no helper besides God, the Most High. Do ye feel secure apart from God, the Truth, in two souls, when God encompasseth all things?

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Set forth for the people of the City a parable about the two examples regarding the two souls. God hath ordained for one of them two gardens of trees raised high around the Gate. One of them watereth the two pools, and the other drinketh water from the two cups, and they were both, by God’s leave, stationed around the fire in the two waters. And for the other were two rivers in the land of the two wests, and he had walls in one of the two gulfs. And he said to his companion, the first one: “Which of you two is right concerning the latter matter?” “Indeed, I do not believe the Truth will remain established in these two hours.” Thus he persisted in disbelief with certainty, against his own soul and the two souls after him. By God, the Truth, judge ye fairly—which of the two souls among the two parties was praiseworthy around the fire? Verily the Truth made known to him in the Sacred Mosque the vision of justice concerning the Most Great Truth. “Dost thou disbelieve in Him Who created thee from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then fashioned thee into a man with limits?”

O people of misbelief! Why do ye set up for yourselves another gate besides the Gate? By God, the Truth, your abode shall be the fire, by the decree of the Book, condemned and forsaken.

Surah of Joseph [Yusif]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

Behold, Joseph said to his father:

“O father! I saw eleven stars and the sun and the moon, I saw them bowing down before me.”

[Q12:4]

Alif, Lam, Mim, ʿAyn. Indeed, We showed him in that vision a great station. And verily We do relate unto thee of the tidings of the unseen from the preserved Book of God as witnessed. And when We found him to be of Our sincere followers, God clothed him with the likeness of Our Beauty as a luminous shadow. Not at all, not at all did God intend anything in the heart of the Book besides Us as beautiful truth. The All-Merciful intended by the mention of Joseph the very soul of the Prophet and fruit of the Virgin, Husayn son of Ali son of Abu Talib, as witnessed.

God showed him above the Throne in the consciousness of the heart that the sun and moon and stars were bowing before him to God, the Truth, as witnessed. When Husayn said to his father one day:

“I saw eleven stars and the sun and the moon, I saw them encompassing me, prostrating to God, the Ancient, in truth.”

God, besides Whom there is no god, speaks the most truthful words with truth in wondrous wise. Perchance the people were patient with the signs of their Lord in truth. Praise be to God Who interpreted Husayn’s vision in truth in the land of the heart around the Truth as witnessed.

And verily God ordained his martyrdom through the testimony of Unity by Himself from Himself in truth, accepted. For God made him witness by Himself the testimony of Unity from Himself in truth as witnessed. The All-Wise informed of the mystery of his vision in what was revealed in the Qur’an to His Beloved as a hidden truth. Verily the Qur’an of dawn was witnessed. And the stars of the Throne in God’s Book prostrated for the slaying of Husayn in truth, and their number in the Mother Book was one and twenty.

He is God Who made Unity in the realities of things from His rays in truth, willingly or unwillingly. And He is the One Who created the letters by Himself in truth as a symbol. And He is the One Who ordained the letters of the Divine Identity for His Oneness upon the Most Great Truth as one and twenty. And He is the One Who made the Imams the Word of Unity in writing as a line. And He is the One Who decreed the prostration of the sun and moon and stars in the Mother Book as written in the decree of the Book. God, besides Whom there is no god, your True Master, was the most truthful of speakers in utterance.

And verily God intended by the sun Fatimah, and by the moon Muhammad, and by the stars the Imams of Truth, known in the Mother Book. They are the ones who weep for Joseph by God’s leave, prostrating and standing. And the people weep like passing shadows for Husayn by leave of God, the Truth, prostrating equally. And whoever prostrates to other than the All-Merciful or associates anything with God in worship, it is right for God to make him enter the Fire, abiding forever. This is the truth, a recompense from your Lord for your being obstinate towards Our signs. God, besides Whom there is no god, is the Truth, and God was the Lord of the worlds, worshipped in truth.

And in the origination of the signs and the hours and the souls and the horizons are signs for those of understanding among you who are witness to the remembrance of God, the Most High. Fear God and speak not concerning the Most Great Remembrance of God anything besides God, for verily We have taken His covenant from every Prophet and His people regarding His remembrance, and We send not the Messengers save with this firm covenant. We judge not with truth concerning anything save after His covenant regarding this Most Great Gate. God shall soon remove the veil from your insight at the appointed time; then shall ye look upon the Remembrance of God, the Most High, with intensity.

The idolaters shall say:

“Verily, we have wronged ourselves after God had warned us in His Book.”

And on that Day ye shall be stationed in the heart of the Fire. There shall ye find no escape, and when ye ask the Master for water, He will cause you to taste water in the pure Fire—heat upon heat—and water from the essence of Zaqqum. When ye drink but a drop thereof, your limbs shall be torn from your bodies, and ye shall wish for death, but God hath not ordained this for you save as recompense for your having associated partners with God in this world. Verily God encompasseth all things.

As for those who fulfill God’s covenant and purchase not any of the verses for a paltry price—these are guided by God’s Remembrance, the Most High, and these are truly the companions of Paradise in God’s Book, and thus hath it been inscribed in the Mother Book. These are they who believe in God and His verses with pure and sincere truth. God shall soon reward them on the Day of Resurrection with a double portion and a goodly final abode, elevated in truth upon truth. This, verily, is the truth from your Lord, an abundant recompense. This, verily, is Paradise, which God hath ordained as reward for your deeds, for that which ye performed in God’s true religion, praiseworthy in truth upon truth.

Do ye imagine that other than this Our Remembrance is the truth from God when it is not from God in truth? Or do ye utter falsehood concerning God? What aileth you, that ye deny God, the Praiseworthy, so openly and repeatedly?

Surah of Testimony [Shahadah]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

He said:

“O My son! Do not recount your vision to your brethren lest they devise a plot against you. Verily Satan is a manifest enemy to man.”

[Q12:5]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Sin. This is the remembrance of the mercy of thy Lord unto His servant Ali. Verily We have sent down the Book unto Our servant that men might become witnesses to the remembrance of God, the Most High, in this Gate. God desireth naught from His servants in this Day save His true decree as revelation. If ye love God, follow Him and God will love you. The recompense of the Greatest Remembrance of God hath been inscribed in His Book by the hands of truth. Whoso performeth an atom’s weight of good, We shall surely recompense him on the Day of Resurrection with a bountiful reward based on truth through truth. And whoso performeth an atom’s weight of evil, We shall cause him to taste, by God’s leave, the fire which God, the Ancient of Days, hath named ʿscorching heat’ in the Mother Book.

And when Ali said: “O My son! Tell not thy brethren what God hath shown thee of thy affair, out of mercy for their souls and patience for God, the Most High, in truth—and He is God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy. If thou shouldst tell them somewhat of thy affair which God hath decreed for thee, they would devise a plot against thee, sacrificing themselves in God’s love instead of thee as witnesses. God hath willed as He hath willed that thy face be reddened with thy blood upon the earth, truly dyed with truth. God hath willed as He hath willed to show thee thy hair dyed with thy blood and thy soul unjustly slain upon the earth before the truth, and thy body naked upon the earth. God hath willed as He hath willed that thy daughters and womenfolk be seen as captives in the hands of the unbelievers contrary to justice. God hath willed as He hath willed that the faces of thy followers be seen reddened before thee with the blood of their souls, and their bodies wounded and cast upon the earth unjustly.

Therefore reveal not a word of what God hath ordained in thy being of the most hidden secret of the testimony of Oneness unto thyself. For if thou shouldst inform them of thy hidden affair, even a little in truth, they would sacrifice themselves for the love of God instead of thee in their longing for God—and God is truly kind to His servants in truth. God, there is no god but He, most truthfully and wondrously relateth. Perchance the people were praising and thanking their Lord, the Most Merciful, for His signs in the paths of the Gate in truth.

Indeed, Joseph’s brethren learned a word of the secret of his affair—a secret veiled and enshrouded in mystery. Thus have the traditions of the Prophets and martyrs run their course in being slain in His path, and God is witness to all things in truth. Satan’s unbelief after the slaying of Joseph hath passed, and by that deed he was accursed before the Most Merciful and His chosen ones and in all the tablets in very truth. After his unbelief he devised a grievous plot against the Most Great Word contrary to truth. God shall soon dispel his plot and cast him into seas of darkness, wave upon wave, in dire punishment. Those who have wronged Us shall know that they cannot outstrip Us by a single letter in the knowledge of the Book, for We encompass all beings through God, the Most High, in very truth.

Verily God hath reckoned thee in the Mother Book among the Hidden Five, a mystery most mysteriously concealed. God hath taught thee knowledge which none before thee hath comprehended, and We have taught thee knowledge of creation from the All-Merciful, uniquely fashioned. That which God willeth not shall never come to pass, and naught existed in thy Lord’s knowledge. God hath uttered truth with truth as a discourse. Did We not make a covenant with you, O servants of God, in Our true covenant with truth upon truth—a weighty covenant—that ye should speak naught concerning God save the truth, with the Most Great Truth, in confirmation and submission? And We took from you in the realm of the atoms a binding covenant, out of love for Our followers, from One Who is wondrous in truth. And the Command was, from God’s presence, magnificent.

God hath ordained for you in this Book a matter by the Most Great Truth as obligatory. Yet the people were heedless and in discord regarding this Most Great Gate of Our mighty Cause contrary to truth, and He is God, the Most High, the Great. God is independent of you, and He is God, the All-Encompassing. Have not the servants of God conveyed to you Our remembrance with truth by truth from Our mighty Cause repeatedly? O people of the earth! Fear God regarding this Leaf detached from the Divine Lote-Tree, for this is truth itself, just as God and His chosen ones are truth itself, and God is witness over all things. God hath decreed for His servants that they worship none but Him around the Gate, and this is the pure religion upon the straight path, a beneficence.

Surah of Visitation [Ziyarah]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Thus does thy Lord choose thee and teach thee the interpretation of sayings and perfect His favor upon thee and upon the family of Jacob, even as He perfected it upon thy forefathers Abraham and Isaac. Verily thy Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing.” [Q12:6]

Ta Sin. God hath sent down the Criterion unto Our Remembrance that He might be unto all worlds a bearer of glad tidings and upon the Straight Path a warner. We have, of a truth, perfected Our favor upon the dwellers of the heavens and earth through the bounty of the Remembrance, in truth, as a blessing. God hath made the supreme blessing in this your Day to be the remembrance of God, the Most High, and God is witness over all things.

Thus have We chosen thee in truth and taught thee from the interpretation of the Book that which beseemeth none besides thee. Thou wert indeed foremost in answering God, the Most High, at the gates, in truth upon truth, renowned. God chose Husayn from among His servants and made him in truth, by the truth, an Imam and martyr. He surpassed his brethren in the knowledge of the All-Merciful by a convincing letter concerning the mystery of what was hidden in the concealed line of the hidden secret. God perfected His favor upon Husayn and his successors by making their excellence like unto His own excellence, in truth over all the worlds together.

He it is Who accepteth from his visitor through the true visitation of Himself, and Who hath called unto his place of martyrdom in truth by His throne—there is no God but He—without similitude in truth, and God hath not ordained for his mystery any interpretation upon a single letter. He it is Who hath promised His visitor the meeting with Himself, and God’s promise was in truth, upon truth, fulfilled. He it is Who hath ordained the fourfold in the fourfold from the paths of visitation in the visitation, in truth upon truth, and the matter in the Mother Book was decreed around the Fire.

He it is Who chose for Joseph a letter from the mystery and for his parents before him a letter from the line hidden around the mystery. He it is Who was, and there was naught else besides Him mentioned in truth upon truth. He is the Ever-Existing Who hath never ceased to be, nor shall there be in His rank anything existing in truth upon truth. He it is Who hath taught thee from the interpretation of sayings as thou didst wish, as We wished, in truth upon truth from the truth, wondrously. He it is Who hath raised geometry from that Gate in honor of the Gate, and God hath power over all things.

Follow, then, what God hath sent down unto you in truth concerning the station of the Remembrance, openly through the Most Great Truth and upon the Most Mighty Truth secretly. We desire for your souls naught save the Garden of Eden existing in truth around the Ridvan. By your Lord the Truth! We desire from you no recompense for the Most Great Gate nor gratitude upon the truth, save patience and powerlessness before God, the Most High, and He is God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy.

The lands have been filled with the outpouring of your Lord, the All-Merciful, in bounty. We have aided you even as We began you, and We read not in the Book of God save your denial of Our signs from the presence of the Remembrance, repeatedly. What aileth you that ye remember not within yourselves a remembrance from God, the Truth, even a little? How can ye deny God when ye were dead, knowing naught from the knowledge of the Book in truth and through truth? He it is Who created you, then sustained you, then causeth you to die, then giveth you life as He willeth. The Most Great Word is from God.

Fear ye not the Day when no master shall avail his master in aught, and the Kingdom on that Day shall belong in truth to the All-Merciful and to the family of God and their true followers, as hath been inscribed in the Mother Book.

On the Day when the Spirit and the angels shall stand in ranks around the Remembrance, by God’s leave, in extended array. None shall enter Paradise save he who beareth in his neck a mighty covenant from God. They who have uttered evil words untruthfully have indeed disbelieved through delusion. None shall enter Paradise unless he be a Jew or a Christian—by God, such are their vain imaginings, and the decree hath been known in the Mother Book.

Soon shall they encounter from the All-Merciful a command that standeth as a witness to the truth. These shall neither have power nor ability to profit or harm themselves apart from the Remembrance, save him whom the All-Merciful permitteth and who speaketh, by leave of Our presence, a word of truth as a recompense. Do men imagine that We were far removed from creation?

Nay! On the Day when We shall bare the leg, that men may behold the All-Merciful and His Remembrance nigh at hand in the gathering place, then shall they say:

“Would that we had chosen a way with the Gate! Would that we had not chosen, instead of the Gate, men who were not upon the truth as a refuge! Indeed the Remembrance came unto us from before us and from behind us and from our left hand, yet were we veiled from Him.”

Surah of Unity [Tawhid]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“In truth, in Joseph and his brethren there were signs for those who inquire.” [Q12:7]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Sad. Praise be to God Who hath exalted His verses in His glorious Book, and He is God, the Ever-Watchful over all things. Verily We have made clear the verses in that Book for those possessed of hearts among the people of understanding, who have been found standing alone around the Gate. God hath indeed exalted Joseph through Our name, and God hath made him in the Book a guardian, stationed around the Fire.

God hath made Joseph and his brethren the Word of Unity, and the All-Merciful hath ordained them as twelve letters, and this Word hath been inscribed in the Mother Book with thy Lord, written in the Line around the Line. God hath distinguished Joseph with the letter Ha as a recompense for his steadfastness before the All-Merciful on the appointed Day, standing alone upon the earth in truth with the truth. God hath made Unity for those who seek at Our gate and for those who stand in the depths of Oneness by Our leave, who have been upright around the Gate in truth. God, there is no God but He, the Truth, and He is God Who hath ever been worshipped in truth with the truth.

Fear ye God, O servants, concerning a Day wherein ye shall, by God’s leave, the Most High, be questioned around the Fire. No word doth escape you but that angels from Us are present by the leave of the Remembrance as witnesses, and Our servant hath never been hidden from the sincere servants of God. God hath appointed the Day of Resurrection for you as a time of justice. Verily on the Day of Judgment the Balance shall be set up by God’s leave before Us with perfect truth and upon the straight and balanced Line. Soon will He inform you on that Day concerning what ye have been doing in God’s religion, openly and secretly.

O servants of God! Did We not make with you in Our Word a clear covenant in truth with the truth, that ye should not speak vainly concerning Our servant?

Glory be to Him besides Whom there is no God, and He is God Who encompasseth all the worlds. God desired naught in your creation save the prostration of the All-Merciful upon the path of this Gate as the object of His purpose. He it is Who hath created the believers from water that hath been in the Mother Book sweet and pleasant, and He it is Who hath made the realities of the unbelievers from water most salt and bitter that hath been in the root of Hell exceedingly bitter. And God hath made the realities of the believers the signs of Our servant in truth with the truth, exalted.

For those who desire God and His loved ones from before the Gate, sincere and pure. And We have made Our Word upon the earth a witness through the believers, and We have exalted him to the station of holiness, beheld. And We have drawn him nigh unto Us and made him in truth firmly established. God hath stationed him upon the upright Path in pure truth, commanded. And God hath appointed him upon the Balance according to the decree of the Book, by the decree of the Book ordained, as a vision for him who hath been in the sight of God, the Most High, in truth clear of sight, and as a reminder for him who hath been before the All-Merciful around the Fire, wise and patient in the Fire.

And verily God intended by the name of Joseph Our Most High Word, who hath been around the Fire witnessed. He it is Who sendeth down unto you His verses by God’s leave, in fear and in truth with the truth as monks, a reminder for whosoever desireth to remember or to fear the All-Merciful in the true decree which hath been in truth ordained. And He it is Who hath taught you in His verses the genesis of the Hereafter, that perchance mankind might be well-pleased with God and His verses in truth.

By the Lord of heaven and earth! Verily it is the truth from Our presence, and We have taken Our covenant by God’s leave from all the worlds, lest the people should say:

“Had God sent unto us a mortal during the absence of His Remnant, we would have followed him, and we would have been guided by his decree, rightly guided unto the truth.”

Fear God, O servants, concerning a Day when the decree of the Book hath been ordained in the Mother Book.

Think ye not vain thoughts concerning the Most Great Remembrance of God and Our Word. For by your True Lord, ye know not a single letter of what God hath known in the Mother Book in truth with the truth from His presence of old. Remember, then, the remembrance of your Lord, the All-Merciful, at the two ends of the day and in the watches of the night, even as God hath commanded you in His Book aforetime, and the decree of God hath been ordained in the Mother Book.

Surah of Mystery [Sirr]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“When they said that Joseph and his brother were dearer to their father than they were—though they were a group—verily their father was in manifest error.” [Q12:8]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Nun. God hath indeed sent down the Book wherein is the explanation of all things, as a mercy and glad tidings to Our servants who possess insight into the knowledge of the Book through the remembrance of God, the Most High, in truth. When they spoke the letters of “There is no God but God” and said that Joseph was dearer to their father than they were—this was by virtue of what had preceded in God’s knowledge as a letter concealed in mystery, veiled by mystery, hidden in the line, absent in the secret of secrets, transcendent above what was in their hands and the hands of all the worlds. And verily we were in truth a group regarding what God intended concerning Joseph the Prophet, Muhammad the Arab, written around the line.

And verily God preferred their father through His grace, and God ordained the secret of secrets from the mystery of His Command, through what was in the hands of the worlds, as a clear revelation unto the people of fire from the mystery of the letter Ba—an error. The All-Merciful on the throne is established, and He is God who hath power over all things. Verily God created all things through His power, in truth by truth as a creation, and He is the One who originated the heavens and earth and what lieth between them by His command, in truth from around the fire as an innovation, that people might know that God’s Command hath existed in the Mother Book in truth by truth from around the fire. And He is God who watcheth over all things through His power. And He is God who encompasseth all things. And He is God who hath intended in the most hidden mystery, upon the mystery of the line, at the Point of the Gate, an interpretation. And He is the One who hath made the choosing from the Gate for the Heights to be witnessed in truth by truth.

O servants of the Most Merciful! Shake toward yourselves the trunk of this palm tree by the leave of God, your True Lord, which God hath made in the Mother Book to be exalted in truth by truth from the truth. And He is the One who causeth to fall from His presence unto your souls fresh dates, truly and newly plucked. We have indeed made reference to His remembrance before the Most Merciful on a day that was ancient in the Mother Book. And on that day ye were not forgotten in the Book, nor around the fire neglected. And say not “How can one speak on God’s behalf who is but twenty-five years old in truth by truth?”

Hear then, by the Lord of heaven and earth, I am indeed God’s servant. He hath given me clear proofs from the presence of the Remnant of God, your Expected One. This is My Book which hath been inscribed with God in the Mother Book in truth upon truth. God hath made me blessed wherever I may be, and hath enjoined upon me prayer and patience so long as I remain among you alive upon the earth. And those who make claims about God based on certain traditions concerning the Gate, against the Gate, deviating slightly from the truth—are they able to produce the like of this Book from God, the True One, witnessed in truth upon truth?

The Truth by truth declareth: There is no God but God, alone with no partner. None is like unto Him, neither peer nor similitude. And He is God who hath ever been ancient in truth upon truth. Were humans and jinn to gather together to produce the like of this Book in truth, they would never be able, even if they had all the people of earth and their like besides as helpers. By thy True Lord! They shall never be able to produce the like of even a portion of its letters, nor of its interpretations from some of the mystery, even as much as the film of a date-stone. Verily God hath sent it down through His power from His presence, and men are unable to produce its like, even as similitude unto similitude, let alone as a likeness.

This is of the tidings of the unseen which We reveal unto thee. Verily thou wert, by God the All-Praised, in the precincts of the Fire, praised. And verily thy Lord shall bestow upon thee on the Day of Resurrection the decree of truth upon all, from His presence, according to truth, by the truth, exalted. Cause whomsoever thou willest to enter into God’s mercy, and turn away from the peoples round about Hell, and leave them in the Fire, upon the truth, prostrate.

Do ye believe in part of the Book and disbelieve in part? Hath God given you leave for this, or do ye fabricate falsehood against God, inasmuch as ye have been, through Satan’s knowledge, apart from truth, contrary to truth, by the truth, deluded? Verily We have sent down the Remembrance, and God and His angels were thy guardians, by the truth. Fear God, O servants of God, and be in God’s religion sincere, upon the truth, a witness.

Verily they who fear their Lord in secret—they were before the All-Merciful and His friends, upon the truth, by the truth, in the precincts of the Gate, pure. God shall soon teach them their ordinances whereof they have need for themselves, openly, from the truth unto the truth, nigh. Verily God hath revealed unto me: If ye love God, then follow me in this religion, by the truth, upon the truth, from the truth unto creation, upright. And verily your Lord God hath said in truth: Verily I have been, unto My believing servants from the people of the Gate, upon the truth, by the truth, merciful. And exalted be God above what the wrongdoers say concerning the verses of the Gate, with great exaltation.

Say: The Cause of God hath come; hasten it not, for verily the Cause of God hath been, upon the truth, by the truth, nigh. And verily God’s promise hath been, by the truth, fulfilled.

Surah of the Cloud [ʿAma]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Slay Joseph or cast him into the earth so that your father’s countenance may become free for you and ye may be a righteous people thereafter.” [Q12:9]

Alif, Lam, Min, ʿAyn. This is the Most Great Remembrance of God in the mention of our Lord, the Exalted, the Praiseworthy. Glorified be He Who hath sent down the Book as He willeth through what He willeth, and He is God, powerful over all things. When Thou didst will, it was but as We willed, and God is witness over all things.

Verily We bestowed Our favor upon Joseph and his brethren with clear signs from the mystery of that Mighty Gate. When they said: “Conceal the sign of Joseph whom God hath placed among you that ye might be men of truth and power in the earth,” or “Cast him into the land of oneness that your father’s countenance may be freed for you, and that ye may become thereafter a people pure in sovereignty through the hidden secret.”

He it is Who hath manifested among you a soul from among yourselves, and verily We made him a noble human being of truth. Verily We made the heavens and the earth as signs for Our servant, and God is witness over all things. God will soon show you His signs in the seat of truth, with truth from Us, mighty signs indeed.

Verily We have sent down the verses in the scrolls, and God is, in truth, knowing of His signs and the Remembrance. Verily We have shown you God’s signs in the horizons and in yourselves that ye may testify that He is the Truth, and God hath made the path for those who, at their Lord’s gate, shall in truth be questioned.

God hath sent down this Book upon His servant that he may be, by Our leave, a witness over all worlds in truth. Verily We have encompassed in this Book all that God hath sent down unto the Prophets and the truthful ones in all the tablets, all in very truth. We have withheld from Our decree concerning you according to what ye have neglected from God’s Book, a letter deeply hidden in concealed mystery.

The people have denied what they had not outstripped Us in regarding obedience to the Merciful, and God is witness over all things and over the truth. Soon shall We manifest Our servant unto you in a cloud of light, for those who await God’s true Remembrance morning and evening. These are they whom God hath made clear-sighted in His pure religion and steadfast on the straight path.

Among the people are those who say “We believe in God and His Most Great Remembrance,” and God is ever cognizant of His servants in truth. They have disbelieved with their tongues after their souls were convinced, and God hath taught them within their own souls that they are fresh disbelievers in God, the Exalted. Soon shall the fire and its rocks encompass them in the valley of Hell by leave of God, the Exalted, and nigh.

This hath been your recompense from God, in return for your hypocrisy in the perspicuous Faith of God; and God is witness to whatsoever ye do. O people! Hath not the tidings of those who were before you come unto you? And have I not warned you, in truth and for the sake of truth, of the chastisement of the All-Merciful—grievous indeed? Hath not God promised you a Paradise whose breadth is as the breadth of heaven and earth, prepared for Our servants who believe in the remembrance of God, the Most High, and who are pure in truth and for the sake of truth? Therein shall ye have whatsoever your souls desire, by Our leave—bounties fresh and delectable, in truth and for the sake of truth. Wherefore glorified be He—there is none other God but Him, the Lord, unto Whom none is like. And God hath ever been, in truth and for the sake of truth, the One worshipped.

We, verily, have warned you, by God’s leave, of a Remembrance from which ye were, contrary to truth, debarred. O people! Turn ye towards the Remembrance of God, the Truth, enquiring about the Gate, and unto God, the Truth, upon the truth, penitently returning.

By the Lord of heaven! God hath ordained your provision in this heaven—in truth, upon the truth—a measured portion sent down. Why do ye not emerge from your vain imaginings after the Truth hath come unto you from God, the Most High, the Great?

He it is Who hath ordained the sun for light and the moon for radiance that ye may seek of His bounty the goods of this life—in truth, upon the truth—in praiseworthy fashion. God hath ordained the abode of the hereafter for those who desire God and His servant upon the paths of the Straight Line round about the Fire, extended.

Know ye, O servants of God, that your Lord, God, the Truth, hath perfected His proof against you according as ye were, in truth, upon the truth, watchful of God and His signs. The true believers are they who desire naught within themselves save the All-Merciful and His Remembrance—in truth, upon the truth—as their Beloved.

Verily the Mystery of the Glorious One hath come unto you in your secret thoughts and open declarations from God, for this mighty and wondrous Cause. God shall teach you concerning His Cause that which none before Him hath ever comprehended—in truth, upon the truth—with full knowledge.

He it is Who hath sent down from heaven blessed water upon the earth, pure and purifying. And He it is Who hath created from water a mortal and made him kindred by blood, and in truth, upon the truth, patient.

Surah of the Line [Satr]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

Said one among them:

“Slay not Joseph, but cast him into the depths of the pit; some traveller will find him, if ye must do some deed.”

[Q12:10]

Praise be to God Who hath created the heavens and the earth in truth, layer upon layer, that mankind might know that their Lord, the All-Merciful, is verily the Truth, and that God hath power over all things. He it is Who created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then from a clot, then from a morsel of flesh, then brought you forth as another creation. Blessed be God, the Best of creators, the All-Wise. He it is Who guardeth you in three veils of darkness and bringeth you forth from your mothers’ wombs when ye know naught of the knowledge of the Book save a little portion.

Turn ye unto your Creator and slay your souls in the path of God, the Truth, in humility before God, the Most High, for God is mighty and praiseworthy. He it is Who hath sent down these verses from His presence in truth as glad tidings to all the believers. He is God, the Worshipped One, there is no God but Him, in truth, and God hath knowledge of all things.

He it is Who giveth you glad tidings of His servant’s name in truth, by the truth, and verily in the Mother Book with God he is exalted and wise in truth. He it is before whom God hath appointed none to share the mystery of His name, in truth, by the truth. God indeed saluted him on the day of his birth, the day of his mission, and the day of his gathering on the land of the heart, among those around the Fire, in truth, upon the truth, alone.

This is the Mystery of mysteries from the presence of the Wondrous One, besides Whom there is no God, the Most High, and God hath power over all things. God hath indeed ordained the Cause in the Gate through His power, and the decree in the Mother Book around the Fire hath been accomplished. We have indeed made thee the Greatest Sign by God’s leave, the Truth, and God is witness over all things. Thou art the Mighty Announcement in truth, witnessed around the Fire.

We have forbidden you from mentioning the Gate by leave of God, your Lord, the Truth, from that which ye uttered untruthfully with grievous crying. On the day We roll up the heaven with Our hands, the matter hath been decreed in truth, and the furnace shall boil by God’s leave, the Truth, and God hath power over all things. Then shall ye know of Our Cause that from which ye were far removed in untruth.

On that day shall the believers rejoice by leave of God, the Most High, drawing nigh. Soon shall the believers from the people of the Gate receive glad tidings through what God hath given them of the Spirit, and the Spirit in the Mother Book was around the water as fragrance. God hath indeed appointed for you this Day on the land of the Path, upon the bridge over the Fire, as a fixed time.

When said one of Joseph’s brethren—and he was Hasan, son of ʿAli, who in the Mother Book was around the Fire with the Ancient Fire, greatly—“Slay not Joseph, but cast him into the depths of the pit of Oneness, concealed around the Fire.”

God desired from the pit the water hidden in the air of the hidden mystery, upon the mystery, in the Mother Book, inscribed around the line. The people know not what Joseph’s brethren did for God regarding Joseph, the Most High, who in truth is witness.

God hath indeed ordained for Joseph wayfarers from Gate to Gate, according to the decree of the Book, concealed around the Fire. And God hath made the pilgrims to Husayn a caravan unto the Sacred Precinct, save by leave of God, the Most High—and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

They who journey from the Gate unto God in the depths of Oneness, upon the truth with the truth, in the precincts of the Gate, alone—these have found Husayn upon the edge of the hidden mystery, with truth, in the depths of the well, witnessed. These are they who journey in the Mother Book through the mention of the Mystery around the Fire, with truth upon truth, inscribed.

Verily God created Joseph and his brethren in the realms of holiness from a sprinkling upon a name from the drop of creation, from that water brought into being. When We found in Joseph love for the Most Great Remembrance, We clothed him, by God’s leave, in the garments of prophethood, according to what was decreed for him in the Mother Book around the Fire.

We have never been far removed from creation. We relate unto the servants that Command from which the people have been, in truth, turned away. God hath desired in this your Day this Most Great Word—this One Who speaketh from God, with truth upon truth, wondrous.

When the people believed not in God and His signs according to truth, We preserved him in the depths of the well around the Fire, concealed. God hath ordained that some wayfarers from among you should find him—those who were, in the Mother Book, with truth upon truth, foremost in responding to the Gate around the water, praised.

This is a decree from God with truth unto creation, and the decree was in the Mother Book ordained. Verily God hath made you submissive in His religion, if ye be, in God and His signs, with truth upon truth, patient in this.

Surah of Ashura [Ashura]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They said: ʿO our father! Why dost thou not trust us with Joseph, seeing that we are indeed his sincere well-wishers?”’ [Q12:11]

Kaf, Sin, Nun. Remember God, the Most High, Who was in truth speaking and witnessed around the Fire in the Mother Book.

God hath revealed unto me: “Verily, I am God, there is no God but Me. I have ordained the excellence of the Remembrance as My excellence over all the worlds. We have ordained for the believers, by God’s leave, gardens from among the Gardens in the land of Ridvan, surrounding the House in ranks. And We have made Hell to encompass the unbelievers, according to the decree of the Book.

By your Lord, the Truth! We have transformed the bodies of the unbelievers into forms unlike their own in the depths of the Fire’s coffin, by leave of the Ancient God—a transformation in requital for what their hands have wrought, for they were ungrateful to God and His exalted signs before the Gate.

Do ye feel secure against God’s Self, the Most High, finding in truth a place of return? God hath made manifest thy signs to the peoples of earth and heaven, all together through the Gate. None believe in God and His signs in truth save a few of the foremost believers among the people of the Gate. Most people have been decreed by the All-Merciful’s leave to be among those who join partners with their True Lord. None believe in God and His pure Remembrance save very few of the earliest ones.

We have made thee a support for the servants and a mighty bulwark for the lands, by leave of the Ancient God. By God, the Truth! None among the believing men and women will follow thee save those who bear in their necks God’s covenant and Our covenant, with pure and unsullied faith.

God, there is no God but He—commit thy purpose unto God, for He is the Truth and God hath power over all things. He is the Truth, there is no God but He, the Lord of the mighty Resurrection.

God offered Our authority to the heavens, earth and mountains; they refused to bear it and were afraid of it. But man—God’s Great Remembrance, this Ali—undertook it. Thus in God’s preserved Book he was recorded as one apparently unjust, and among people who knew him not he was recorded as one apparently ignorant.

God hath made clear His mystery between the lines at the Point of Fire, but none remember save those who come eagerly to the Remembrance before the Gate, seeking God the All-Praised—and God is witness over all things.

He it is Who hath originated thy true self as the manifestation of Our grandeur, according to the knowledge and decree of the Book. We have made thee wise in the Mother Book before God, the Most High. God hath made thee the manifestation of Our attributes in truth, without qualification or limitation—and God hath power over all things.

God hath concealed His servant’s mystery in the Fire’s pole within this Book, as God ordained in the knowledge of the Unseen from His most hidden mystery, inscribed upon the line around the veil. Soon will the All-Merciful grant you a mighty reward for concealing Our Cause in truth.

When Joseph’s brothers said to their father in that most great scene:

“Why dost thou not teach us Joseph’s knowledge, for verily we are witnesses before God, the Self-Subsisting?”

And God is witness over all things.

Verily God hath made Us a witness to Husayn through the hidden secret of Oneness around the Fire. God hath spoken of this verse concerning the decree of the Most High and His sons, according to the decree of the concealed Oneness in the cloud of the hidden Essence, in the secret of the Eternal Throne radiating from the Ancient Light, according to the decree of Divine Unity inscribed around the water.

The people disbelieved in God after Husayn arose in the land of Taff, proclaiming from the station of love, detached from all save God, the Ancient One. And God is knowing of all things. The people turned away from God and from the rewards of the twin Paradises, accursed with Satan’s unbelief. They followed in their misbelief Satan’s dominion, turning away from God, the Truth—and He is God, the Mighty, the Praised One—God, there is no God but He, the Truthful in utterance through the tongue of the Gate, in truth and by the truth, worthy of all gratitude.

Soon shall We punish those who warred against Husayn on the banks of the Euphrates with the severest chastisement and mighty retribution, in truth and by the truth. What aileth you, O hosts of Satan? Did not the Truth come to you upon his steed on the Day of Ashura, after he had proclaimed unto you, in truth and by the truth, God’s most great Cause from his own self, with utmost intensity? Did he not humbly seek water for himself and for his infant child, prostrate upon the earth in sublime truth, weak in that mighty Cause?

O people of misbelief! Is there not among you a soul who feareth God for His own sake and would bring water to water, while life remained, in truth and by the truth, for God’s sake—even a small drop? God knoweth Husayn’s heart and its burning from mighty thirst, and his patience in God, the One, the Ancient. And God was witness to this in truth.

By God the Truth! We found his heart that day hotter than a piece of iron heated in the ancient fire. And God hath not testified to anything save as He testifieth to His own self. So await ye God’s mighty seizure, in truth and by the truth, in the land of Hell. God hath cursed the people who slew him in uttermost pain and extreme oppression. What have these misbelievers to do with Our souls? Soon shall We show them in the gathering place God’s supreme power within Us in truth, and We have decreed for them the greatest Fire in truth, forever and eternally abiding.

The Truth hath spoken in truth:

“I shall fill Hell with them as recompense for what they have earned before God, the Truth. Never shall We decree the lifting of punishment from them throughout endless eternity, by God the Truth—not even the smallest speck of a date-stone’s weight.”

Surah of Paradise [Firdaws]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Send him with us tomorrow that he may enjoy himself and play, and we shall surely guard him.” [Q12:12]

Ta, Ha, Sin, Mim. Blessed be He besides Whom there is no God. In His hand is all authority and He is God, powerful over all things.

We have ordained for every life, in truth and by the truth, a reversal, and with every hardship through truth and by truth, an ease, that people may know that the Gate of God is the truth and He is God, the Witness over the believers.

He it is Who has made the sun and moon to move by a reckoning of fire, and We have ordained for them in the Book of Command, through stations of determination, in truth and by truth, at the Pole of Fire, a balancing. It befits not the sun to overtake the moon in its course, nor the moon to overtake the sun in its light. For each is an appointed term written by permission, and there is nothing whose decree is not written in the Mother Book from that Gate.

He it is Who has sent down from the clouds of His power these verses from an olive tree neither of the East nor West, neither earthly nor heavenly, upon those lines at the equator on equal paths by the permission of the All-Merciful around the Gate.

O servants of the All-Merciful! If you believe in God the Truth, doubt not in the matter of the Remembrance, for God is your True Lord, powerful over all things. We have indeed explained the verses in that Book by truth for those of insight among the people of the Gate, who were known in God’s mighty Book around the Fire.

These are they who believe in their Lord according to the straight truth and who stand firm on this path of Ali on the Day of Resurrection. They are those who set up no other god with God and who fulfill God’s true covenant on the line of justice in a praiseworthy manner. These are the people of Paradise, by God’s leave, dwelling therein eternally.

They see naught but spirit upon spirit from the remembrance of God, the Exalted, and He is God, the Mighty, the Great. They recline upon crimson cushions around the Gate. They see therein neither sun nor air, but the angels meet them with God’s remembrance, the Exalted, in the name of God, the Living, as witnessed.

This is a day God your Creator promised His servants, and they say from Our presence upon them: “Peace, peace.”

O servants of the All-Merciful! Did We not make the earth spread out for you in truth? And We made the heaven above you preserved at the center of the Throne. We have indeed created you by permission of God, the Ancient, possessor of glory, in truth, in stages.

What ails you that you hope not for dignity from God, the Great? Did We not make the sea to surge? Did We not make the earth submissive that you might bring forth from it what you sow for yourselves from the Gate’s bounty, thankful to God, the Truth?

What ails you that you believe not in God’s remembrance, the Exalted, in truth and by truth, save a little? What ails you, how do you falsely deny God’s verses, the Praiseworthy, arrogantly mocking without right? Soon shall the Fire encompass you in the depths of the coffin by permission of God, the Exalted, and He is God, the All-Knowing, the Ancient.

God has prepared for the ungodly among you, on the line of justice and in truth, an enduring punishment, painful in truth.

And when Joseph’s brothers said to their father in truth: “Send our brother with us tomorrow,” according to one of your hidden mysteries, concealed within the lines. And verily we desired to be with Joseph tomorrow in truth, with truth, through truth, witnessed in the circle of fire.

And this is the Day wherein God hath decreed, and We spoke to the Most Great Word concerning the fourfold mystery, in truth and through truth, for God the Ancient of Days, besides Whom there is no other God, and verily God is witness over all things.

And when they said: “O our father! Send him with us tomorrow”—in truth, that he may dwell at the point of snow on the mountain of cold around the point of union, and at a point of fire from the mountain of justice around the water of separation, in truth and through truth.” And verily we were, in truth, through God the All-Praised, his faithful guardians.

And verily our followers shall ask Us about the manifestation of Our Cause through this Most Great Gate, in truth and through truth, without a single letter from the knowledge of the Book, repeatedly.

And verily they say:

“Send him with us tomorrow that he may enjoy himself and play,”

and verily we were, in truth and through truth, in His Cause at the Mighty Gate, preserved through God the Preserver.

God is Most Great! How little was their patience at the Gate, for the Gate, at a point of the Gate, for God the Most High! And verily We know that which no one knoweth besides Us and the Person of the Gate, and verily God hath ever been, in truth, All-Knowing.

Do you not reflect upon the creation of the heavens and your own selves, with a swift reflection, in truth, with truth, through truth? Verily God created not the heavens and the earth and whatsoever is between them in truth and through truth in vain or for sport.

He is God, the Truth, besides Whom there is no God. He hath desired from you that ye worship none but Him in the path of this Gate, with pure devotion, in truth and through truth, and verily God is independent of all worlds.

God, the Worshipped One, besides Whom there is no God, alone, with no partner. Verily He is the Truth through truth, the God of all the worlds together. Were there any gods besides Him in truth, they would have needed, contrary to truth, something besides the truth, thrice.

Surah of the Holy [Quds]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said, verily it grieveth me that ye should take him away and I fear lest the wolf devour him while ye are heedless concerning him.” [Q12:13]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ta. The Remembrance of God was witnessed in the Most Great Word, standing round about the Fire. Hearken then unto that which thy Lord revealeth unto thee. Verily He is the Truth, there is no God but Him, and God hath power over all things.

God hath sent down the Book wherein is the explanation of all things, and a mercy and glad tidings to Our first followers who were concealed round about the Fire in that Gate, through the remembrance of God, the Most High.

God will soon show you your true Lord upon His throne on the Day of Resurrection upon the straight path, and ye shall surely witness that His power extendeth equally over all worlds. There shall the people recognize the true Command of God regarding the Gate, mighty in truth around the Fire.

And on that Day ye shall surely bear witness against yourselves of your servitude, and ye shall not find for yourselves even so much as the film of a date-stone as a helper in truth.

Thou didst not will when thou didst will, but God willed as He willed through what thou willed, in the remembrance of God, the Wondrous, as a revelation from the Point of Fire.

We have made the stories of the Book, by God’s leave, from a mighty soul who was in the Mother Book all-knowing, and verily God hath power over all things.

The Command hath come unto you from God, blessed in truth—do ye conceal the truth and work falsehood? What aileth you that ye believe not in God, the Praiseworthy, your Creator, Who verily witnesseth in truth what His servants do?

The All-Merciful shall soon cause you to taste in the Resurrection a Fire that blazeth fierce from the flames of Hell, as recompense for your denial of the verses of the Book from God, the Truth, which We revealed unto Our servant, while ye responded with naught but sighing and ingratitude.

O servants of God! Hath not the news of the ancients come unto you, though I have repeatedly made known unto you the decree from God in truth? He is the One like unto Whom there is nothing, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

Did We not guide you in the ways of those before you? Yet ye shall never find any change in Our practice in truth. Such was God’s way with those who passed before you, and by your Lord, people shall never find any alteration in God’s way.

Verily We bestow Our grace upon whom We will through God’s remembrance of the Truth, upon such as are mentioned round about the Gate in the Mother Book in answering the remembrance of God, the Most High.

We have raised him to a holy place, witnessed in truth, that he might be a sign in truth for those before you and after you by leave of God, the Ancient, supremely great in truth.

He is the Witness over you by Our leave, and soon shall the Most Great Remembrance of God show you in the Resurrection what ye have earned for yourselves, both secret and open, by God’s leave, according to what the Book hath recorded, as a guardian in truth. Be patient in God, for verily God is cognizant of all beings.

O Remembrance of God, be patient for God’s sake with beautiful patience in truth. We have made thee a watcher and reckoner over mankind by leave of God, the Most High.

God shall soon inform them in the far-off land, by the leave of God, the Praiseworthy, with the truth, by the truth. By your Lord! We are nearer to you than your own selves, yet you fail to perceive through the remembrance of God, the Inaccessible, with clear vision. On the Day when the leg shall be bared and joined to the other leg, the people shall call upon Us, by leave of the Remembrance, around the Gate, humbled before the truth, upon the truth, in utter loss.

Verily that Day is truth with your Lord. Say: Whosoever wishes may take unto God, his Lord, the Self-Sufficient, a path in that truth, by the truth. Soon shall the All-Merciful call you to prostrate before Him, but you will be unable. Who then can protect you from God as a true guardian?

There, all authority belongs to God, the Truth, and you shall have no helper besides the All-Merciful, in truth, by the truth. Soon shall God show you His signs in the orb of the sun, according to the decree of the Book, in the paths of the Gate, with truth, by the truth. The thunder glorifies His praise, and the angels through fear of Him, and He is God, encompassing all things.

There is nothing that does not glorify His praise, though you understand not even a letter of the knowledge of the Book, in truth, by the truth. God, there is no god but He, has revealed unto me that this is the truth from God, and God has not decreed any alteration for Our words in aught of the Book concerning the Point of the Gate.

He is God, the Truth, Who has ever been witness over all things. We have made the verses in that Book, by leave of God, the Praiseworthy, firm in truth, by the truth, and sealed. We have not sent down therein a single ambiguous letter, as God has ordained for the believers in this Book concerning the Gate to be witnessed.

Verily it grieves me that you should take it away after God has manifested it in truth, by the truth, in that Book from His presence, exalted. And I fear lest the wolf should devour it while you are heedlessly far from the truth through Satan’s delusion. Were it not for fear concerning His Cause, from what God knows in your hearts contrary to truth, the Cause would have been as manifest as the sun at its zenith.

Surah of Will [Mashiyyat]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

They said:

“If the wolf should devour him while we are a strong band, then indeed we would be losers.”

[Q12:14]

Ta, Ha, Sad. He is God, there is no God but Him. Naught is there like unto Him. His is the creation and the command, and God is knowing of all things.

By the Lord of heaven and earth, verily this Book is from God, the Truth, and sufficient is God as a witness to His servant concerning the truth.

Verily God is the Self-Sufficient, and ye are the poor before the All-Merciful, through what God hath ordained in this Gate as a decree. Follow, then, what God hath revealed unto you in His Book of Truth, with manifest power, and fear God regarding this Gate of Truth, and be ye the best of helpers in the paths of the Gate, for God, the Exalted, the Praiseworthy.

God hath indeed ordained for you the Command in His Book according to the mystery of the Book, by the truth within truth, around the water as a decree. Therefore overlook the faults of men and pardon abundantly, for God is witness to what ye do.

God hath indeed loved from among the believers in this Gate those whose attributes are as recorded in the Book of God, the Exalted, by truth within truth, around the fire.

He it is Who hath ordained your sustenance in heaven as an apportioned bestowal. If ye desire God and the abode of the Hereafter, then by your Lord, the All-Merciful, God hath appointed none besides His exalted servant as knower of the Book’s truth from truth, concerning the mystery of the letter Ba.

He it is Who hath ordained your affairs in His mighty Book upon the even path around the Gate in perfect order, that ye may seek of His bounty and give thanks morning and evening, abundantly, according to the judgment of the Book.

He it is Who hath manifested His verses to His servants by God’s leave in God’s glorious Book, by truth within truth, the Praiseworthy, upon the straight path in wondrous wise, that ye may learn from the pure Remembrance of God and concerning what ye need in the path of His love, as one who asks and gives thanks.

God hath indeed willed in this Book all good through the name of the Gate, according to the mystery of fire in the Mother Book as a decree.

He it is Who hath made our hearts repositories of His Command and our breasts vessels of His mystery by His power, and God is powerful over all things.

He it is Who hath confirmed our deed in His praiseworthy Book unto the people of insight among the believers in a decisive verse from the Qur’an: “Thou didst not throw when thou threwest, but God,” for by truth over the Command He is ever the Powerful Doer.

Verily those who earn sin through falsehood after the truth hath come to them from God, the Exalted, the Powerful—We shall soon cause them to enter a great Fire in the Day of Resurrection, upon the heat of fire with fire.

The recompense of evil is the like thereof, and I wrong not the servants by even the speck on a date-stone.

And those who perform righteous deeds before Our Remembrance, God shall soon give them from His bounty manifold and thousandfold increase, for God is powerful over all things.

O people of the Furqan! If ye be people of the Qur’an in truth, and this Remembrance is in truth the essence of the Book, then return unto it by leave of God, your true Lord, for God hath made the return in the afterlife a witnessed thing.

God hath decreed what He hath executed, and the Command was indeed fulfilled in the Mother Book around the fire, when Joseph’s brothers said to their father:

“If the wolf should devour him, then indeed we would be mentioned in truth upon the earth around the fire.”

And We have revealed unto thee from what God hath concealed within the inmost reality of this verse, that perchance the people may believe in God and His verses with true and mighty faith.

When the letters of “There is no God but God” bore witness unto Ali on the Day of Beginning, they were seen around the Fire in the land of the heart.

“If a wolf should devour him, then we are in truth a strong company for him”—and God hath power over all things.

We have not made the mystery of Joseph to be envied around the waters upon the land of Euphrates. We desire not to be other than witnesses to His call upon the earth, in truth and with justice.

What think ye of Us? Can ye cause Us loss in the sight of God, the True One? We have made Our verses, by God’s leave, to be a guardian over all the worlds, in truth and with justice, around the Fire.

God hath permitted them both revelation and interpretation as they wish and through what means they desire, in truth and praised.

We have preserved them from allusion and from that which ye were, contrary to truth, abandoned.

God doth testify, and God sufficeth as a witness to Our verses, in truth and with justice.

By God the Truth! They desire naught save what God their Lord hath desired, in their inner and outer lives, in truth and with justice—and God is witness over all things.

Know, O servants of the Most Merciful, that We have expounded Our verses in this Book, in truth and with justice, around the Gate, that perchance the people may be praised by God, the Most Praiseworthy, and that perchance they may be thankful unto God, the Most High.

Say: Call ye upon God and His name the Most Merciful in the path of the Gate, for unto God belong the most beautiful names from the presence of the Gate, which have been veiled around the Fire.

Surah of the Throne [ʿArsh]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“When they took him and agreed to put him in the depths of the well, We inspired him saying: ʿYou shall inform them of this deed of theirs when they least expect it.”’ [Q12:15]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Qaf. God hath sent down the Book wherein is the explanation of all things, a mercy and glad tidings unto all the worlds through the truth.

Praise be to God Who hath sent down the Book through truth according to Our Word, that people might be remembered in the Mother Book as being around the Fire in that Gate.

This Book of Ours speaketh unto you with truth, yet most people believe not in God and His verses concerning that Gate, and God is witness over all things.

O servants of the Most Merciful! We have given you glad tidings, by God’s leave, in the Most Great Remembrance, from the Ancient Decree through truth—a weighty command concerning that Gate.

God desireth naught from you on this day save obedience to God’s true Command through the truth—an everlasting reward from God, the Ancient One.

Whoso obeyeth God in Our Cause, for the love of God’s Remembrance and in submission to the Gate, shall meet God upon the Throne, well-pleased and well-pleasing.

But whoso turneth away from Our Cause in denial and rebellion against the truth, the Most Merciful shall make them taste of the tree of boiling water springing from the depths of Hell—bitter food indeed. No pure covenant with God remaineth for such a one.

Whoso desireth God’s covenant must fulfill Our covenant regarding this Remembrance with manifest knowledge of the Book, with mighty truth.

Fear ye, O servants of God, the Day when the Command shall come to you suddenly from God, the Truth. On that Day, people shall possess no dominion save by God’s leave through Our servant, and God is knowing of all things—save those who bear Our Book in their hearts and who have answered the call of the Remembrance from before, steadfast in the true and lasting Covenant.

The Remembrance hath fulfilled His covenant with those who came to Him in truth, following the straight path.

Fear ye, O servants of God, the severe chastisement of God, your Lord, the Most Merciful.

Verily God hath prepared for Us fetters, chains, bitter fruit, and grievous punishment for those who deny the Book and Our Remembrance in their weakness, and who believe in it only in jest and falsehood. These are they who join partners with God, and they have no decree from God save the severe Fire of God’s wrath.

I inform you, O servants of God, of Our severe grasp upon mankind on the Day of Judgment. Whoso turneth away from God’s Remembrance, adorning falsehood with vain delusions—by the Lord of heaven and earth, We shall make him taste on the Day of Resurrection, according to the decree of the Book, fire upon fire from the tree of fire in the depths of the coffin, as hath been ordained in the Mother Book.

When Joseph’s brothers took him to the land of Unity, as was inscribed in the hidden mystery around the Line, they placed the letters of Unity, the letter Ha, in the depths of the well of the heart’s mystery, veiled around the Fire.

And verily We inspired him saying that We would inform them of this deed of theirs, and God shall show them this Letter in the seat of mystery, around the Gate, as a witness.

Verily the Letters of Unity perceive naught save the perception of God in the seat of the heart, as truth from their Lord, and God was in truth a witness unto them.

God hath indeed veiled that Word with a veil of the mystery of concealment around the Throne, hidden.

Those who seek God and His signs in the paths of the Gate, upon the Letter Ha—these are they who are witnessed in truth around the Fire.

God hath created Joseph and his brethren from the Blessed Tree of Unity, and people know not from their expressions the mystery of what was inscribed with God, the Truth, in the Mother Book, around the Fire.

Do they not know that they act only by leave of God their True Lord, and that God hath ever been, in truth after negation and affirmation, the One Worshipped?

The All-Merciful will not question you on the Day of Resurrection about what they do for themselves, but God will question you about what ye do in secret and in public, and God is indeed aware of what ye do.

God, there is no god but He, Most True in narration, wondrous.

God hath not ordained for people in the inmost mystery any portion of all the signs save inability before the Truth—and unto God belongeth submission in truth.

God hath made His friends praiseworthy in their deeds, in very truth, and God hath power over all things.

Behold, O servants of God, We have placed Our servant, by God’s leave, in the depth of the pit, concealed in truth around the Fire.

God hath placed in that Gate a mystery within the most hidden mystery, treasured. Soon shall ye know what ye knew not before, in truth, in the garment of the Sun, by leave of God, the Exalted, soon.

O believers, whatsoever fruit of the Messenger He giveth you, accept it, and whatsoever He forbiddeth you, forgo it, for God hath made him wise in truth before Us.

God hath made the Remembrance encompass mankind through His knowledge, and God hath power over all things.

Surah of the Gate [Bab]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And they came to their father in the evening, weeping.” [Q12:16]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ra. That Book, there is no doubt in it, is a guidance from God, the Truth, to all the worlds. We have made it a guidance for Our servants, who were, concerning that Gate at the Gate, witnessed in truth around the water. And verily We give you glad tidings of a Soul from Our souls, who was, in truth, purified around the Fire. When the Truth comes to you, follow it, for God has made it to be reckoned in the Book from Us in truth. We have made him knowledgeable about the science of the Book by God’s leave, the Most High, from the Point of Fire. And We have strengthened him from God, besides Whom there is no God, and God has power over all things.

O servants of God! If you ask him something and he does not answer you in truth, do not grieve, for he has been, by God’s command, from Us, dwelling praised in truth. We have shown you the Truth in your vision concerning the Command, and had you informed them of the unseen, they would have disputed about the Command. And God, your Lord, the Truth, knows what is in the breasts. We do not change the blessings upon any people until they first change what is within themselves regarding Our bounties. So taste the punishment of the Fire for having been rejected from that Gate. Verily your Lord is powerful and all-knowing over His servants. Soon We shall destroy the wrongdoers like the people of Pharaoh, with justice through severe chastisement and great exemplary punishment.

Grieve not at the thoughts of the deniers in your presence, but rely upon God, your Lord. Verily He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing in truth, and your Lord has power over all things. O people of the earth! Whatever you have spent in the path of God, the Truth, you shall find it preserved in the hands of the Preserver at that Gate. O people of the earth! Believe in the Light which God has sent down with Me in pure truth, and follow not the footsteps of Satan, for he commands you to associate partners with God, your Lord. And God forgives not that partners be associated with Him, though He forgives whom He will for anything else, and He is God, the All-Knowing of all things.

God has ordained for the believing emigrants the forgiveness of the Remembrance and the greatest good pleasure, according to the decree of the Book around the Gate. We have ordained for blood relations that some have more rights over others, as God has decreed in the Mother Book, inscribed in the mystery of the Gate. O believers! God has not sent down any verse in the Book, nor in the horizons, nor in the souls, save that people might know in truth that the Remembrance is truth from God, and He is God, the All-Knowing of all things from ancient truth.

O people of the earth! By your Lord, besides Whom there is no God, God has left no proof for any soul after the Remembrance and this Book, so be patient in truth for God, the Praiseworthy, at that Gate. And now, in truth, the perishing ones perish with clear evidence, and the believers live by clear evidence, and He is God, having power over all things. O people of the Throne! Hear My call from around the Fire: Verily, I am God, there is no God but I, so worship Me and establish prayer for the Greatest Remembrance, purely, apart from the people, for your Lord God, the Truth, is the Truth, and those whom you invoke besides Him are the companions of the Fire, according to justice. And verily the Remembrance has been established upon the pure path with upright writing around the Fire.

O people of the earth! Fear God and let not Satan deceive you from the Truth, for verily the Remembrance is the Truth through the Truth, and you and what you invoke besides Him have been inscribed in the Mother Book as people of the Fire.

O people of the earth! Have you not reflected upon the creation of the heavens and the earth? If there were two gates in them from the Remembrance, they would have corrupted. And verily God has arranged the kingdom through His Gate of Truth, and God is indeed knowing of all things.

O believers! Fear the Day of Truth. We shall gather you around the Fire and question you concerning what you have done with the Remembrance. By the Truth, We shall make the misbelievers taste the heat of the Fire with severe punishment, and We shall fully reward the patient ones with the finest reward in the Land of Saffron, according to the decree of the Book, from the judgment of the Gate, in comfort.

We have indeed revealed it to the people with truth, and nothing is required of the people save submission and humility, and nothing is required of the Remembrance save a wondrous declaration of the truth from God, the Exalted.

He is the Remembrance from God to give you glad tidings of His promise and to warn you of His vengeance, and He is the One concealed in the Mother Book, preserved at the Point of Fire according to what was in the mystery of the Book.

He is the Remembrance before you, to your right, and to your left, by God’s leave in truth, that people might be mentioned in truth around the Gate through the wondrous verses in this Book.

This has been for you a known station on the Path. Therefore fear God, O people of understanding, regarding God’s hidden mystery upon the line in this Book, according to what God has ordained, concealed around the Fire. God desires from you no recompense in this Book for the Remembrance, nor gratitude for the Truth through the Truth.

Except love for the near of kin, for those who have been inscribed around the Gate in the Mother Book. We have desired to make the believers witnesses upon the earth by leave of God, the Exalted, and God has power over all things.

God has made the Remembrance better for you than your own selves, that He might recite unto you the verses of God, purify you, and bring you out of darkness into light. He is God, witness over all things. This is from the tidings of the unseen which We reveal to him, that people might be witnessed around the Fire in that Gate through the wondrous Remembrance in truth.

Glorified be He besides Whom there is no God! God has given to His servant what He has not given to any of the Gates, all in truth through the truth.

You have been given of knowledge through the Most Great Remembrance, in truth through the truth, only a small portion of the letter around the water.

O people of the earth! Deal not with the Most Great Remembrance as the community dealt with Husayn unjustly in the Holy Land. By God, the Truth, verily He is the Truth, and God is witness over him.

The believers came to Us in the evening after the Book, weeping for the Most Great Gate. Say to them: Remain steadfast in the depths of unity, for God is indeed aware of what you do. And say unto the believers: Follow not Satan, for verily in the Book of God he hath ever been a manifest enemy unto the believers.

Surah of the Bridge [Sirat]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

They said:

“O our father! We went racing with one another, and left Joseph with our belongings, and the wolf devoured him. But thou wilt never believe us even though we tell the truth.”

[Q12:17]

Kaf, Ha, Ya, ʿAyn, Sin. Praise be to God Who hath created the heavens and the earth in truth, and Whose decree concerning them both hath proceeded from the Point of the letter Ba in the center of the Fire around the Gate.

Verily We have sent down unto thee this Book as an exposition of the Truth, and verily We have made thee a sign by God’s leave. This Book is sealed according to the decree of the Book, ordained in truth by the truth. Should all mankind assemble together, they could not produce a single letter like unto it, even if they were to assist one another.

God is He besides Whom there is none other God, the Ever-Living, the Worshipped, the Ancient, and He is God, the All-Knowing of all things. None can comprehend the knowledge of the Book save as the Remembrance willeth of what We will, and verily God is powerful over all things.

God hath created for you this Gate as an extended path, and hath ordained for you a mountain raised high in truth by the truth. And verily God hath desired to lead you out of darkness unto the Book, witnessed in truth, that ye may seek of His bounty that from which ye were cast down apart from the truth.

Therefore seek forgiveness of God, your Lord, besides Whom there is none other God, the Truth, and soon shall ye find God forgiving and merciful at the Gate.

He it is Who hath sent down from heaven upon you, in truth, water from the Gate in abundance, and He it is Who hath brought you forth from your land these gardens of delight and varied hues by His power. Verily He is powerful over all things.

Know ye that your Lord, the All-Merciful, hath knowledge of all things, and there is nothing hidden in the heavens and the earth but We have set it down in this Book, concealed around the Gate.

God shall soon inform you on the Day of Resurrection, through the tongue of the Remembrance, concerning what ye used to do in your secret thoughts and open deeds. Verily He encompasseth all things in truth by the truth.

Verily God hath made with Us this Book, preserved in truth by the truth. God effaceth what He willeth and confirmeth what He willeth, and verily God hath made the Remembrance to be concealed in the Mother Book around the Fire.

Verily those who act in the true Cause of the family of God shall soon witness their deeds remembered before the Remembrance, while those who commit sin in the path of the Evil One—God hath ordained no weight for their deeds on the Day of Resurrection, and God hath prepared for them in the depths of the coffin a great fire.

Soon will God show them their deeds as sources of regret unto themselves, scattered dust upon the earth, like a mirage in the desert which the thirsty one supposeth to be water, until, when he cometh unto it, he findeth it to be nothing, and they shall find their deeds in hell as fire upon fire intensified.

This is the recompense for having been wretched regarding Our true verses contrary to the truth.

O servants of God! Know ye that God’s proof in the Mother Book concerning that Gate is eloquent, and God hath made the Cause of the Remembrance none other than Our Cause, raised high in truth by the truth.

O people of knowledge! Fear God concerning the Remembrance. God shall teach you, through the tongue of the Remembrance, the interpretation of the Book, wondrously in truth by the truth.

God hath sent down the verses in that Book that perchance mankind might be witness to Our signs at that Gate. We, verily, have sent down the command unto Our servant according to what was ordained in the Mother Book, in truth by the truth, all together.

He was indeed a servant of God in truth, standing firm upon the straight path with justice around the Fire.

O people! The command hath come to you from the All-Merciful in truth by the truth from around the Fire in wondrous wise.

God hath desired naught in this your day save His servant, the remembrance, as a beloved one in truth by the truth. Therefore fear ye God on a day which was ordained new in the Mother Book.

God hath informed the believers of the decree concerning Joseph’s brothers after their return from the land of Oneness, regarding what they had done in truth to Joseph. God is indeed aware of all things.

When they returned in truth, they said:

“O our father! We went racing in the land of the cloud and left Joseph with the goods of Divine Unity from our Lord, besides Whom there is no God, and the beholders consumed him with their glances toward him in the depths of innovation, and they were recorded in the Mother Book by the name of the wolf.”

And they said the letters of “There is no God but God” belonged to Ali in the land of the cloud, “and thou wilt not believe us in prostration even though we bore witness in truth by the truth in praiseworthy wise.”

That decree was a truth from God our Lord, as God had ordained the prostration of the stars to Husayn above the dust according to the decree of the Gate around the Fire, as a matter decreed.

We were indeed truthful in our witness to the mystery of Divine Unity from Husayn in truth by the truth, and God sufficeth as a witness to ourselves in truth by the truth.

God knoweth what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and He is the All-Merciful, established upon the throne, dealing equally with all the worlds in truth.

Surah of Sinai [Sina]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And they brought his shirt with false blood upon it. He said: Nay, but your souls have made a matter light for you, so comely patience! And Allah is He Whose help is sought against what you describe.” [Q12:18]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ra. Hear the call of thy Lord upon Mount Sinai: Verily there is no God but Him, and I am the Most High, as hath been hidden in what God hath ordained in the Mother Book.

God hath indeed sent down the Book with the Most Great Truth upon His Word, that people might know that God hath preserved fire within a point of snow. We have raised up the Remembrance from before Us in truth, and We have made him mighty before God and exalted above truth.

Fear God, O servants! None of your deeds are accepted without love for His loved one, even in the slightest measure.

Know, O servants of God, that We have indeed favored Our servant above many whom We created with great favor, that ye may know that God doeth what He willeth and judgeth as He desireth, in truth and with truth made manifest.

We bestowed Our favor upon thee in thy childhood by God’s exalted command, when the decree was ordained in the Mother Book. And We have sent down unto thee in maturity this Book, a Book witnessed in truth.

God hath indeed guaranteed Our true Cause in thee, and the promise in the Mother Book hath been fulfilled. We have given thee, in truth and through truth, a Book witnessed in the innermost mystery.

We are the Speaker behind thee, in truth and through truth, by leave of God the Exalted, the Strong. Therefore, convey to the servants Our command, that which God hath willed concerning thee, praiseworthy in truth.

Know, O servants of the All-Merciful, if ye be God-fearing in truth regarding this Gate, God hath favored you above all worlds through Our Cause.

So follow what We have revealed unto Our servant in this Book concerning the laws for all peoples, entirely in truth. God desireth naught from you in this Day save His remembrance, with steadfast truth.

Did not the All-Merciful promise you His signs at that Gate as a reminder? Did We not tell you that in every succession We have those who are just in truth?

What aileth you that ye believe not in Our signs, if ye be indeed careful of God, the Exalted, the Strong?

God hath willed in this Book a mystery of Our Cause, in truth a mystery from Our mystery, that people may enter God’s houses through their gates, prostrating in truth and humility.

God hath desired from the people of the House Our early followers, who in truth were steadfast around the Gate. We have stationed Our followers upon the Heights around the Gate, men in truth who know each person by their mark, by leave of God the Exalted, like pure steeds.

O evil servants! What aileth you that ye believe not openly in that Gate of God, the Exalted, the Strong?

Did We not create you when ye were not yet mentioned around the Gate in the Mother Book? Did We not extend aid and guide you on the strong path of truth? Did We not bestow abundantly upon you from God’s exalted grace?

God hath indeed made Our servant’s Cause one and near in truth. So await God’s help for yourselves. When Our Cause cometh, it shall come upon you suddenly, with mighty truth. Verily this Day is the truth from your Lord.

On that Day ye shall not possess even a particle of knowledge from the Book, cut off in truth by the truth. The Kingdom on that Day shall belong in truth to the All-Merciful, and ye shall not be able to utter a word, nay not even a whisper.

This indeed is the path of Ali in the Mother Book, in truth by the truth, and God hath ordained this path around the Fire, straight in pure truth.

They ask: “When is it?” Say: “It is with God.” Perchance the Cause of God is nigh.

When the brothers of Joseph brought his garment with false blood to their father, witnessed around the Fire.

And verily God had taught them that the blood of Joseph was recorded as the vengeance of God in the Mother Book, and God had made the unity of the gates before that Most Great Gate as false blood upon a form, as was inscribed delicately in the Mother Book, and We say:

“Nay, your souls have made a matter seem fair to you through Us.”

So patience is befitting before God and reliance upon Him, as God hath ordained, witnessed on the Day of Remembrance, and God is the One Whose help is sought concerning the matter of Joseph the Gate, and verily God hath power over all things.

Surah of Light [Nur]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And when there came a company of travellers and they sent their water-drawer, he let down his bucket. He said: Good news! Here is a youth. And they hid him as merchandise, and God was aware of what they did.” [Q12:19]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ya. Hearken then unto that which is revealed unto thee from thy Lord. Verily thou art in the sacred valley, at the point of fire in the heart of snow, encompassing the Truth.

God hath decreed what He hath decreed, and the Beginning was witnessed in the Point of the Seal. God—there is no God but Him, and God encompasseth all things.

Verily We bestow sovereignty upon whomsoever We will among Our servants by God’s leave, the True One, without cause, and God hath ordained no alteration for His Word, through truth by truth.

God hath verily made Us firmly established before Him through the Mighty Name. When Our true Cause cometh suddenly, the furnace of hearts shall boil mightily in truth by truth at that Gate.

On that Day the believers shall rejoice at meeting Us, in truth by truth, with radiant faces and gladness.

The hands of the Jews and Christians are fettered in what they falsely and vainly say about Us. God hath made Our hands outstretched—We give abundantly unto whomsoever We will among Our servants, in truth by truth, from that Gate. And We withhold from whomsoever We will among Our servants, with justice in truth by truth, in praiseworthy fashion.

None may speak concerning Us any false and vain embellishments contrary to truth.

Know, O servants of God, the Light hath come to you from God, the Exalted, in truth mighty and resplendent, that ye may seek of His grace what God hath ordained in His dominion, in truth by truth, as a decree.

Make not your journeys distant from what God hath ordained regarding your journeyings to that Gate, in truth by truth, nearby. God is the All-Knowing and ye know naught of the knowledge of the Book concerning that Gate.

Verily We teach those who arrive at that Gate, in truth by truth, such of Our servants as We will, who were pure in the Mother Book.

We have verily decreed for the wrongdoers the Fire of Hell, as an irrevocable command from God, the Exalted.

O servants of the All-Merciful! God hath placed among you One Who is of Our own Self, a mortal like unto you. If ye love God, then follow Him; God will love you. God’s true promise in the Mother Book shall be fulfilled.

We have verily sent down this blessed Book from God unto Our servant that ye may believe in Him and help Him on a Day when He shall call you, by God’s leave, upon the land of the heart in praiseworthy fashion.

By God the Truth! If ye deny Our Remembrance after the Remembrance hath come unto you with mighty proof from your Lord, We shall cause you to taste abundant punishment from God, the Most Great, in the depths of Hell on the Day of Resurrection.

Know, O servants of God, that God hath preferred Us above you through His grace, and We have preferred Our servant above you through Our preference for you, if ye be patient concerning His signs in truth.

We have verily ordained for you in your Book aforetime many obligations concerning the Most Great Name of God, in truth by truth.

So spend in God’s path from what God and His Messenger love, both secretly and openly, that ye may be gathered on the Day of Resurrection among the lines of the believers.

Whoso turneth away from Our Remembrance, God will not accept any of his deeds, and Satan hath verily been his partner in his affairs, and he hath been rejected by God in that Gate.

We have verily placed protection in truth within the hearts of those who believe in Our signs and who glorify God their Creator, morning and evening, through that exalted Gate—and He is God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy.

Fear ye the All-Merciful, O servants, and perform good deeds abundantly for the sake of God, the True One. O servants of the All-Merciful! Don your adornments at every place of worship—such is God’s decree for you in that Gate, in truth and by truth, as hath been ordained in the Mother Book.

We have verily sent forth the caravan of love by God’s leave unto this well. When he let down his bucket with the gaze of the heart, he said:

“O glad tidings! This verily is the Truth—this is a youth the like of whom no eye hath seen!”

O people of the realm of blindness! Hide him as merchandise, turning away from Divine Unity, that ye may be remembered by God, the Most High, around the Fire.

We have verily intended by this Youth the Most Great Word—this pure Arab youth in the land of the heart. God hath preserved him in the depths of the well around the Fire, upon the mountain of hail, in truth and for the Truth. O believers! Fear God, lest ye sell him for a counted price apart from the pure ocean of Divine Unity—and God is aware of what ye do.

Know ye, O servants of God, in truth and by truth, that if ye look upon him with other than the eyes of your hearts, ye have purchased him for a paltry price—a few counted dirhams—and God will not judge in your favor in the Book through the knowledge of the Remembrance, for ye have not entered upon the mystery of the heart. Now ye come to Us with his shirt stained with false blood, but We say:

“Nay, your souls have beguiled you into something. Patience is most fitting, and God’s help is to be sought against what ye assert”

—falsely and deceptively attributing to Our servant that which is not true.

If ye were to recognize him through God’s eye within you, ye would be guided even as those before you were guided. Ye bring me his shirt with false blood—a thin shade of red—but God hath accepted this remembrance from you as a bounty, for ye could never change it in truth and by truth in any other way.

Guard ye God’s mystery within you, for God hath appointed for you a station upon the Path. Give not wisdom unto the foolish, for they have believed in God, the Most High, and His mystery weakly, upon the ocean of weakness.

O servants of the All-Merciful! Fear ye God regarding Our trusts within you, and preserve them as ye would preserve yourselves—a beautiful preservation in truth and by truth. If ye are unable, then return it to God, the True One, and cast it behind the Red Sea in the realm of blindness, and conceal it at the pole of glory upon Mount Sinai in truth. Soon shall ye find all your deeds with God in this Gate, in a sealed book, hidden and preserved under the seal of the Remembrance.

God, the True One, hath created you by His command—do ye find today any helper besides God, the Most High?

Surah of the Tree [Shajar]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And they sold him for a paltry price, a few dirhams counted out, and they were of those who attached no value to him.” [Q12:20]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ya, Sad. God, there is no God but He, the Lord of the Glorious Throne, and He is God Who hath ever been All-Knowing of all things. God hath sent down the Book containing the word of mysteries unto His servant in truth, that men may know that God hath power over all things. We did forbid Adam and his mate from Our tree in that Gate, and We willed that they should draw nigh unto it according to what We knew concerning them. Thus did they draw nigh, and were deprived of the blessings of Paradise.

O people! If ye believe in Our Remembrance after the Truth hath come unto you with the Book, ye shall be recorded in the Book of the Exalted Ones round about the Gate. And if ye deny God after He hath sent down unto you the Remembrance and this Most Great Book, ye shall be inscribed as followers of the tree of Satan in the Book of the Prison, having shown arrogance against God, the Truth.

Fear ye God and work not falsehood after the Truth hath come unto you from God, the Strong, the Great. Lo! The Truth is come and falsehood hath vanished away, for falsehood hath ever been cast out in the Mother Book.

O people of the East and of the West! Be ye fearful of God in the matter of Joseph, the Truth, that ye sell him not for a paltry price from your own selves, nor for a few pieces of silver from your wealth, lest ye be recorded as being among those who turned away from His remembrance, in truth, round about the Gate. Verily God hath cut off His mercy from the slayer of our ancestor Husayn upon the plain of Taff, alone and forsaken. Indeed, Yazid son of Mu’awiyah did purchase falsely the head of Joseph, the Truth, for a paltry price from himself and for counted pieces of silver from his dominion, through the party of Satan. Thus did they deny God with a grievous denial.

God shall take vengeance upon them during Our return, and in the world to come He hath prepared for them a grievous chastisement in truth. O servants of the All-Merciful! God hath prescribed for you, at the mention of Husayn, weeping like unto the weeping of the bereaved, and verily God’s judgment concerning vengeance for him hath been decreed in truth. When ye hear his mention yet aid Us not in weeping, ye have purchased Joseph, the Truth, for a paltry price—pieces of silver not accounted in the Book with God. Were ye not bound in God’s covenant on the day of the Greater Particles concerning the right of Joseph, the Exalted One, to be among those who weep round about the Gate?

Turn not away from the gatherings wherein God’s remembrance of this true calamity is made, for if ye turn away unrighteously, We shall turn away from you on the Day of Resurrection in truth, and on that day ye shall say in truth: “Alas for our negligence concerning God, the Most Great!” and ye shall find none besides Us on that day to intercede for you in truth.

Verily the unbelievers who speak of God without the word of the Gate, speaking vainly without truth, and who say falsely concerning Our friends that after their martyrdom they are dead—these are they who have sold the verses of God for a paltry price, unjustly and for little gain.

Has not the All-Merciful taught you that the Gate of God was never subjugated in the Mother Book? Have We not made known to you that Our Gates in the Mother Book have ever been, in truth, alive with God, the Ancient One?

By God the Truth, unto Us is your return in truth, then upon Us rests your reckoning in truth, concerning that Gate which was inscribed around the letter Ba.

What ails you that you ponder not the Qur’an with true understanding? Verily We shall reckon with you by God’s leave on the Day of Resurrection, examining thoroughly layer upon layer, and with truth upon truth, hair by hair.

Fear God concerning Our Remembrance with true and mighty piety from the Gate. Soon will the All-Merciful place you upon the path of the Fire and question you heavily concerning the mention of Our servant.

Not one of you but shall approach it, pausing without right, and this has been decreed by God as an ordained judgment in truth. Then God will deliver those who were God-fearing, leaving the wrongdoers therein—a decree from the Book fulfilled in truth.

And your Lord, the All-Merciful, is never in the least unjust to His servants.

If you do good, you do good for your own souls—this is the truth that exists from God your Lord upon the paths of the Gate around the water. And if you do evil, you do it against yourselves—this decree from you is inscribed in the Mother Book around the fire.

Verily We commanded the angels to prostrate before Adam of the Gate, and the angels all prostrated in truth upon the ground of the heart together, save Iblis who refused and grew proud concerning Our command, and was thus in the Mother Book rejected from that Gate.

O Remembrance of God! Say: Seek refuge with God from the evil of the whisperer who whispers in people’s breasts, for verily your Lord, God the Truth, is ever watchful over all things.

Say: Seek refuge through the Most Great Word in the protection of your Lord, God, the True Master—verily He is witness over all things.

O Solace of the Eyes! Say: He is God, there is no god but He—God the One, the Eternal. He begets not nor was He begotten, and He has no partner in sovereignty. And magnify Him in truth in My soul, the Gate, with great magnification.

Verily the hands of the unbelievers are cut off, indicating negation which they established without permission around the Gate—and God is well aware of what you do.

God has decreed for these misbelievers no portion of the knowledge of the Book save fire from the burning wood in the depths of the grave, abundantly.

See how We have set forth parables for them, yet they stray from the truth and can find no way to God.

When they come to you to spread corruption in the land, say to them by the Word of the Criterion: Be as stones for the fire and iron destined for the fire.

Surah of Water [Ma’]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And he who bought him in Egypt said to his wife: ʿMake his dwelling honorable. He may be of benefit to us, or we may adopt him as a son.’ Thus did We establish Joseph in the land, that We might teach him the interpretation of events. And God has full power over His affairs, but most men know not.” [Q12:21]

God, besides Whom there is no other God, knows the unseen in the heavens and earth, and He is the One Who encompasses all things.

Verily We have ordained death around the Gate as an irrevocable decree of the Book. And verily We know We have ordained death around the Gate as an irrevocable decree of the Book. And verily We know We have ordained death twice in the path of the Most High as a fixed decree from the All-Merciful.

God has created the heavens in truth as layers above the earth, by decree of the Book. Say: You see no flaw in God’s creation regarding the Gate save that all has been created in perfect harmony. Say: Turn your gaze around the Fire—do you find any irregularity in God’s true command? Nay, then nay! Unto you return all eyes around the water at the Pole of the Point of Glory, extended.

Verily We have ordained by God’s leave for the lowest heaven stars around the Pole in truth. And We have made the stars as missiles fixed in the heaven. And when they hear a word from the Greater Depths, they gasp at it and become like molten brass in the depths of the coffin, burned.

And whenever a mystery is revealed from the hidden mysteries inscribed above the Secret, a group enters and a group departs. So glory be to the Most High, besides Whom there is no God, and God is the Most High, the All-Wise.

Those who fear their Lord regarding the Gate, secretly and openly in truth—verily We have ordained for them by God’s leave in the Hereafter forgiveness in truth and a great reward.

Does He not know what He has created when He is the All-Knowing of the essence of all things? How could He not know about His creation’s innovative origination?

Do you not see the bird soaring in the atmosphere of heaven, how We grasp it at the Gate to teach you the stages of the leaves from the Camphor Tree in truth? Is there any upholder besides God your Master? Glory be to God above what the wrongdoers say. Verily He is All-Seeing of all things.

Do you feel secure from this Gate about other than the Gate among you? Do you find any helper for yourselves besides Him? Exalted be God! Verily the unbelievers shall be led to the innovative Fire.

Is one who looks to God and sees nothing besides Him in truth like one who sees only himself contrary to truth? What ails you that you are content with the rule of false deities instead of God, when verily the Remembrance stands firm upon the Straight Path around the Fire?

Say: Knowledge is only with the Gate from God, and He is God, the True Witness, and God is All-Knowing of all things. And He is God, the Truth, He is the All-Merciful—we believe in Him, and He is the Truth, independent of all worlds.

God has brought you into being around the Gate and has ordained for you hearts and eyes that you might give thanks to God around the Gate to God, the Truth, the Praiseworthy. Can other than God your Lord bring you in this world the water of camphor, a drink of truth through truth? Exalted is God our Lord, there is no God but Him, and He is the One Who gives His servants to drink from the pure spring in that Gate, and He is the Truth, Who has been witness over all things.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from the very soul of the Gate:

“Verily, I am God, there is no God but I. We have sent down victory in the days of the Remembrance around the triumph, through truth upon truth, and it is near.”

Do you not see how people have entered in throngs into the sea of fire from the path of the sea?

Therefore, glorify God in the days of the Gate and seek forgiveness from God, your True Lord. Verily, He has ever been the Forgiver, the Merciful.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Say to the idolaters:

“If you worship not God, your Creator, besides Whom there is no other God, then by the Lord of the House, He is the Truth, and I have not worshipped and will never worship any but God, our True Master. To you be your religion, and for us the pure religion around the water, through truth upon truth, ordained.”

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! God has placed the two springs in your hands: this is the spring of camphor around the water, inscribed, and this is the water of purification from the surging Kawthar around the fire, concealed. Therefore, give life to the people through both waters as you wish, as We wished upon the two mounts through truth, and God, your True Lord, has ever been your Guardian through truth.

Verily God hath, in truth, ordained for the Quraysh the journey of winter in the water of camphor—round about the water, camphor made manifest—and the journey of summer in the water of the Kawthar of revelation, in truth and by the truth—round about the Fire, a purification. Wherefore worship ye the Lord of this Gate, Who hath fed you with the bliss of Paradise, and hath given you to drink of its waters in this your world, this earthly life of yours. Is there, then, beside God, any that can make you secure from fear? Glorified be God! Verily He hath been Exalted, Most Great.

Say unto the idolaters: Those whom ye set up as lords beside God for your own selves—of all things—are but upon the verge of the graves, even unto the gate of death; and the decree, in truth, hath been written in the Mother Book.

O peoples of the earth! Have ye not beheld how, in truth, We dealt with the people of the veils? We cast them with stones of baked clay, even with the tokens and allusions. Fear ye God, and enter the Gate by this Gate; for your Lord is God, your true Protector, and God hath ever been independent of all the worlds.

God hath decreed the “Woe” within the Fire—al-Hutamah, close-shut—in truth and by the truth, in the depths of the coffin, for those who know not the Gate, veiled amid the paths of the gates. This is the Fire of God, kindled; its path is stretched forth along the way of the heavens and the earth.

Verily they who plunge into the deep of Oneness, through the effacement of all save Him, have purchased Joseph from the land of Egypt, by the leave of the Book, the Praiseworthy. There do they say unto themselves:

“Honor his abode; haply he may profit us before God the True, or we may take him as a sign from the Gate.”

And God, our Lord, hath been powerful over all things.

And We, indeed, established Joseph in the earth—the Gate as a hidden mystery round about the Fire—and We teach him of the interpretation of the Book a letter concealed within a letter, according to that which God hath decreed in His Book. Verily He hath been witness over all things.

Surah of the Age [ʿAsr]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“When He attained His maturity, We bestowed upon Him wisdom and knowledge; thus do We recompense the righteous.” [Q12:22]

Alif, Lam, ʿAyn, Mim. That Book, there is no doubt in it, is guidance for all the worlds.

God hath sent down the Book in truth concerning Him Whom He shall make manifest, that mankind may know that the Word of God hath existed eternally in the Mother Book.

Verily We have ordained upon the earth its quaking, and none can turn back God’s true command save that the earth cast forth its burdens. On that Day shall man witness what hath been on earth of its possessions.

By God! The earth hath related its tidings to the Gate. Say: From God have I inspired it. Whosoever performeth an atom’s weight of good upon the earth, We shall recompense him with good, and justice for evil.

And those who perform righteous deeds in the vicinity of the Gate—their reward with God their Lord shall be gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they shall abide forever and ever. The Gate is well-pleased with them, and they are content with the decree of the Most Great Remembrance in the mystery of the Gate. These are the people of Paradise, and this hath been inscribed in the Mother Book as truth upon truth.

By the declining day! Verily the misbelievers are in the stupor of remoteness from this Gate, having been confounded apart from truth, save those who repented and turned unto the Gate from around the Gate, humbly, praised in truth.

Say: Verily I am the Light that was witnessed in truth at the Mount of the Heart. By your Lord! Were ye to know through the knowledge of the Gate concerning your own selves, ye would surely behold the Fire encompassing your souls in truth upon truth.

Then shall ye witness with the eye of certainty, through knowledge, like unto the sun at its zenith fixed in the midst of heaven.

And verily the chargers, by Our leave, pant in truth around the water. And verily the raiders, according to the decree of symbols in the Mother Book, strike sparks around the water.

And verily man, in truth, with God your True Master, is he who gathereth around the water. And verily the beast, in truth, is he who is cast forth from around the Fire.

Doth not the All-Merciful know what stealthily entereth the breasts? Nay! On the Day of Resurrection the Remembrance shall inform you from God, the Most High, in truth, and God is knowing of all things.

Verily We have informed you on the Day of Distinction concerning what ye suppose regarding the vicinity of the Gate apart from the Gate, for God, the Most High—and He is God—hath ever been Mighty, Wise.

By the Lord of the House! We shall in truth surely question you concerning the Striking One in the vicinity of the Striking One. Is he who is mentioned around the Fire other than the Gate? Nay! On the Day when the mountains become like carded wool, We shall make known to you the Cause of the Gate around the Fire, praised in truth upon truth.

As for him whose heart resteth steadfast upon change, he shall be in the life of the Cherubim, rejoicing in truth around the water. And as for him whom symbols have veiled from symbols, he is among the companions of the Fire in the depths of Sijjin, having been mentioned.

O People of the Book! Do not divide the religion for yourselves after the Book hath come from God, purified in truth, inscribed in truth. Verily God hath ordained therein precious books, concealed in the mystery of mysteries.

None can touch it save after it is published from the perspicuous scrolls from the presence of the Gate, having been witnessed. Such is God’s decree from around the fire, and verily it hath been firmly ordained by the Truth with truth.

O servants of the All-Merciful! Doth aught besides this Most Great Word command you to worship none but your Lord God, the Truth, with sincere devotion to Him, turning away from all gates?

This is God’s eternal religion established with justice in truth throughout all the Tablets, and hath been inscribed in the Mother Book. Whoso transgresseth from this Word, the pure path of God, is among the most evil of creatures and shall be cast into the heart of the fire.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! We have expanded thy breast regarding the Cause in all things, with truth, in wondrous wise. And verily We have exalted thy mention in the Gate that people may know Our power, that God is more glorious than the description of the worlds, and He, God, hath ever been independent of the worlds.

Verily God brought Joseph to his full strength through His power in the wonder of his being, without reference to the gathering or severance of separation, according to the decree of the Book as had been ordained in the mystery of origination.

We gave him wisdom by Our command and knowledge of Our mystery, and thus do We reward the doers of good among Our servants who are mentioned in truth around the Gate.

We intended by “full strength” regarding Our servant that God gave him sovereignty’s decree and knowledge of the Book, irrevocably ordained in truth with truth.

Verily God rewardeth the doers of good among the people of the Gate with the like of that reward, and God hath power over all things.

Surah of Power [Qadar]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And she in whose house he was sought to seduce him, and she closed the doors and said: Come hither!’ He said: God forbid! Truly my Lord has made good my dwelling place. Verily the wrongdoers shall never prosper.”’ [Q12:23]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Sad. God has sent down clear proofs in this Book with truth, that perchance the people may not deny Our signs unjustly.

We have indeed sent down the Book unto thee in accord with the previous Book, letter by letter, in both revelation and interpretation, with truth upon truth, that people may know that their Lord, the Most Merciful, has power over all things.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from around the Fire in the leaves of these branches. God has revealed unto Me:

“Verily, I am God, there is no God but Me. The Remembrance, the Letter Ha, has indeed descended around the Fire on the Night of Power.”

Can you perceive aught of the true measure of the Night of Power through the Remembrance’s truth? Nay, then nay! The Night of Power is better than a thousand months, and this has been inscribed in the Mother Book.

The Day of Remembrance with God has no limit, for limits belong to those who are limited, as recorded in the Mother Book. He sets the bounds by God’s leave, and He is God, the Witness over all things.

The angels and the Spirit descend in that Gate by God’s permission, rank upon rank, like an extended line around the Pole.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Greet them, for dawn has broken, and say to the believers: “Is not the morning near, according to the Mother Book?”

O believers! The Fig and the Olive have been joined on that firm Mount, and this indeed is the frequented City of Truth, even as it has been written in the Mother Book.

We have placed in all things a sign from the Gate, which is the best measure from the Great Mystery, as recorded with God.

Then We reduced you to the lowest fire in drinking love from the calf, and this was decreed in the Mother Book as a firm decree.

Should people deny thee, say:

“Is not God the most just of judges on the approaching Day of Judgment?”

Know, O people of earth, that God has appointed two gates with the Gate aforetime, that He might teach you His Cause with truth by truth, witnessed around Him.

God has ordained for you in the Gate a gate of permission, that it might bring you to the Gate by His leave, for God is merciful to the believers.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Beseech God in thy Cause, for the people have risen in unbelief, and were it not for God’s grace upon them and thy mercy, none would ever purify another.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! The abode of the Hereafter is better for thee and thy followers than this world and its pleasures, for it has been decreed in the revelation.

Guide them to the meeting with God in the Paradise of Heaven, for it has been their intended goal with God in truth.

Say to the believers: If you find seekers at the Gate, deny them not and give them glad tidings of the Cause and patience, for morning has truly dawned brilliantly around the sun.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Be not harsh with the people of blindness, for they are orphans without the Remembrance of the Most Great Remembrance.

Guide them to the subtlest waters in a glass vessel most delicate, for they are indeed bondservants to the mystery, and thou art the Truth, possessed of great bounty, and God is witness over all things.

O people of the earth! Verily night hath enveloped all, and day hath been made manifest at the dawning-place of the Sun in truth, and this Day is now at its zenith, with water upon water encircling the fire, made visible.

God hath created no being, male or female, save for the fire of the hearts which speaketh laudably around the ocean. As for him who giveth himself in love of the fire and guardeth himself from the fire, he is among the people of Paradise, recorded as being around the fire.

But as for him who is miserly towards the Gate, who deemeth himself independent of the Gate, who exalteth himself above the Gate, and who denieth the Most Beautiful One Who is the Gate—he is among the people of hell in the land of the Prison, gathered in truth.

Verily the guidance of the Gate’s decree is a truth from God, the True One, upon the truth, and the decree hath been determined in the Mother Book. The decree of this world and the next resteth upon the Seal of the Gates at the Point of the Gate around the fire, and hath been conclusively fixed in the Mother Book.

There is no soul but hath been inspired with its wickedness and its righteousness. I am indeed the Mount revealing it in the Mount. This Sun hath risen in truth upon the horizon of blindness, and this Day hath become witnessed for God, the Most High. This Moon hath appeared and been made manifest, and its manifestation through the decree of fire hath been determined in the Mother Book.

Say: O Solace of the Eye! I am in truth the Gate of God. I give you to drink, by God’s leave, from the pure spring, the water of manifestation upon the face of the Mount. For this Gate let the strivers strive for God, the Truth, and He is God, powerful over all things.

O Remembrance of God! Read in the name of thy Most Great Lord within thyself—there is no God but He, the Most High, and God is knowing of all things. Read, and thy Lord is Most Knowing of what He hath manifested in thy heart—there is no God but He, the Mighty, and God is witness over thee.

Call unto God in the path of this Gate, the path of God in the heavens and earth and what lieth between them. Verily God hath been unto thee a witness from the Truth of truths. Make manifest the Cause by God’s leave through a letter of the most hidden mystery within the veils, upon the melody of the birds from the blindness in the reddened leaves of the Tree of Signs, that people might know the truth of God in the remembrance of the Remembrance from among our followers, the Arabian Muhammad, whose Cause hath been inscribed in all the Tablets.

O ye believers! Know ye not that I see your deeds apart from the Gate cast down upon the earth without truth? By the Lord of heaven and earth, your deeds apart from the Gate are indeed cast aside before God. O people of the earth! Hearken unto God’s call from this Arabian Youth whom He hath chosen for Himself. He is, in truth, by the truth, ordained to be round about the Fire.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Say what thou willest of the mystery of the Glorious One, for verily the ocean, by God’s leave, the Wondrous, hath been made to overflow. Verily the allurement which was in His house sought to tempt Him from His own self, from God, the Truth. And the doors were shut against the mystery of the manifestation of the Gate.

And the veils of glory said: “Come hither!” from the mystery of mysteries, secretly. He said: “God forbid! Verily God is my Lord. He hath made goodly my dwelling with Him. And verily it is forbidden unto me, for God doth not prosper the work of them that join partners with Him, by the Most Great Truth. And verily God, my Lord, is witness over all things.”

Surah of the Seal [Khatim]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And she desired him and he would have desired her had he not seen the evidence of his Lord. Thus did We turn away from him evil and indecency. Indeed, he was of Our sincere servants.” [Q12:24]

Alif, Lam, Mim, ʿAyn, Sad. Verily We have sent down this Book unto Our servant that ye may believe in God and His friends, and that ye may perform righteous deeds in the path of the Gate for the sake of God, the Most High, the Praiseworthy. And verily We have sent unto you a mortal who confirmeth that which ye possess and that which was with those before you in truth. Why do ye not believe in God concerning that which God hath sent down unto His servant? Do ye not fear God on the Day of Judgment for your deeds? Soon shall We scatter you utterly in truth, and ye shall find none besides God, the Most High, the Powerful. And verily God accepteth naught from anyone save from him who cometh unto the Gate through the Gate in pure truth for the sake of God, the Ancient of Days, besides Whom there is no other God, and verily He hath been witness over all things. Follow not any of the idolaters, and leave them in the fire according to what God hath ordained in the decree of the Gate as irrevocable.

O people of the earth! Swear not by the Most Great Name in this secure city—Ali the Great—for verily in the sight of God, the Truth, he hath been great in truth. Say: I am indeed the solution in this Sacred Land—this Sacred Land of God—which hath been witnessed in the Mother Book as the land of the heart. And say: Hath not the Ordainer of destiny created you in this established city? Why then do ye not enter this Gate, prostrating yourselves before God, the One, Who verily hath been praised in truth in the Mother Book? Do people think that the Remembrance seeth not their deeds? Nay, for He is the Witness from God, their Lord, over all the worlds together. Say: Hath not God given you two eyes, a tongue and two lips that ye may learn from the decree of the Gate concerning the two exalted, mighty First Names?

O Solace of the Eyes! Say: God hath placed the decree of those who came before in a ring of red carnelian, and of the believers in a ring of yellow pearl, and of the idolaters in a ring of green iron. God hath placed His decree in thy hands in very truth—dispose of it as thou willest for whatsoever thou willest. And verily God hath been transcendent in truth and all-encompassing. O Solace of the Eyes! Thou art the dawn after the night, on the tenth of the sacred month of Ashura. And thou art the odd prayer after the two even ones, as God hath ordained, witnessed in the Mother Book. And thou art the day after the night, inscribed in the Mother Book around the Fire.

Say: I am indeed the Doer by God’s leave in the two Points of the First Ones and in the two Centers of the Last Ones. And I am the Fire in the upright Alif between the two seas. I drowned Pharaoh and Ad and Thamud by God’s leave in one of the two gulfs, and I saved Noah and Abraham and Moses in one of the two seas. And I am the mystery in the two mysteries, and I am the line in the two lines, and I am the truth in the two names when the two earths are shaken and the two heavens are cleft asunder and the Remembrance speaketh from the two mounts. On that day—the Day of Truth—the Spirit and the angels shall come in two ranks. And I, in truth, decree for the believers these two gardens, and decree for the idolaters the decree of the sun and the two moons in the depths of the two reckonings. And verily I speak in truth concerning the two stations, unto the soul at peace standing before the two Gates: O thou soul at peace! Return unto the station of holiness from thy Lord, the Truth, and verily the Most Great Remembrance of God hath herein been exalted and inscribed.

O people of the earth, do you not behold the signs from God, how they have been sent down in pure truth concerning the Remembrance around the hidden water?

He is the heaven in ancient loftiness which We have established, raised around the water. He is the mountains in their firm establishment which We have set up, extended around the fire. He is the earth made subject between Our hands, acting in the kingdom as He wishes according to what God has willed, in truth upon truth, in wondrous innovation.

God has ordained naught between Me and the Most Great Remembrance, for He is the Self-Sufficient in truth by truth, and God suffices as a witness between Me and him concerning the Command.

Say: Your return unto Me has been inscribed in the Mother Book around the Line. Then upon Me is your reckoning in the land of the Return, according to what God has decreed, recorded around the Throne.

Has there come to you the account of the Overwhelming One from before the Gate, praised around the fire by the fire? On that Day, the faces of the believers shall be humble before the Most Great Remembrance, and abasement shall cover them in their standing, but God is ever merciful to the believers.

And on that Day, the faces of the misbelievers shall be in veils of fire, hidden around the fire. God has ordained no food for them save from a boiling spring that neither nourishes nor avails them aught, and God has prepared for them a painful chastisement in justice upon the truth.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Glorify thy Lord, the Most High, the Praised One. He it is Who created thee at the midmost point for the peoples of earth and heaven, around the fire by the fire, upon the Strong Truth by the Wondrous Truth, upright.

Say then in the Great Covenant whatsoever thou willest, save what God, the Truth by Truth, willeth. Verily He knoweth what is proclaimed and what is hidden in the breasts, and there around the fire thou wert commanded.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Say: Verily I am the Night-Star in the heaven of the Throne, and ye do naught but God hath over you swift watchers.

Doth not man consider from what thing We created him aforetime when he was as nothing in Our kingdom? Verily We created him from camphor water, sprinkled upon him from the Spring of Manifestation, in that Gate according to the decree of the Book, by the command of the Gate, accomplished.

Verily We ordained the human form from water—water from two waters between two souls—which existed by the wondrous permission of God, the All-Wise. And God, your Lord, hath power to return that clay in truth by truth.

Verily We shall unveil the secrets on the Day of Resurrection from within yourselves in truth by truth; there shall ye bear witness unto the Most Great Remembrance through what God hath placed within you of His signs. Verily He is the Truth and is witness over all things.

Would ye plot against God’s Most Great Remembrance with your vain imaginings, a plot devoid of truth?

By God! All who dwell in the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lieth between them are, before Me, as frail as a spider’s web, and God is, over all things, a Witness.

They plot against none but themselves, and the Remembrance, through God, is truly independent of all who dwell in earth and heaven.

Surah of the Solution [Hall]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“She ran to the door and tore his garment from behind, and they found her master at the door. She said: ʿWhat shall be the recompense of one who intended evil against thy household, save imprisonment or grievous chastisement?”’ [Q12:25]

Alif, Lam, Ra. God is He besides Whom there is no God, the Lord of the Glorious Throne. There is nothing like unto Him, and He is God, Who hath ever been All-Knowing.

Verily We have shown you in the Furqan the paths of the Gate; therefore seek ye a way unto the Lord of the Throne.

We created you only that ye might believe in God, the Mighty, for He is God, the All-Wise, the All-Praised.

He to Whom belongeth the mystery of the heavens and earth, and He is the Truth that encompasseth all creation.

Verily this heaven hath, in the Mother Book, according to the decree of the Book, its mansions.

And verily this Day hath its covenants with the believers.

And verily this Witness hath, by God’s leave, been made manifest in truth in all the Tablets round about the Fire.

They who have believed in God and performed righteous deeds in the path of the Gate—these are they who have attained forgiveness in the House of God, the All-Loving.

He is the Truth, there is no God but He, the Lord of the Glorious Throne, and He is God, Who hath ever been All-Knowing, the Ancient of Days.

And He is God Who hath caused the Qur’an to be sent down in the Preserved Tablet as glorious images of the Praiseworthy Gate.

And verily God, from behind all things, doth in truth encompass all things with truth.

O peoples of the earth! Fear ye God from the mighty grasp of this Arabian Youth, this Citizen of Medina, Who hath been, round about the Fire, possessed of tremendous power.

No soul hath recognized Him but hath attained, round about the Water, unto the great triumph.

He is the One known through wondrous verses from God, the All-Wise, besides Whom there is no God, and He is God Who hath ever been Witness over all things.

He is the Mystery in the squared line, mystical round about the Fire in truth, and in the first solution, Hebrew, having been witnessed in every Book round about the Water.

O ye believers! Call upon God your Creator for Our deliverance, in truth and by truth, through this Gate round about the Water abundantly.

If ye be truthful in what ye call upon Us, verily We have sent down from Our presence a mortal like unto you to remind you of the days of God, the Most High, Who hath ever been, in the Mother Book, near at hand.

No soul hath followed Him but We have prescribed for him the balance of truth from Our deliverance, and he hath been in Our pavilion a witness to the truth by the truth.

Is He Who guideth unto the truth more worthy to be followed, or he who findeth not guidance unless he himself be guided? What aileth you? How is it that ye believe so little in Our verses of truth upon truth most wondrous?

O ye believers! What aileth you? How is it that ye remove your journeys far from the dwellings of God? This Gate is your abode, after there hath come unto you in truth, by truth, from Our presence with mighty truth, a weighty Message.

By God the Truth! God hath not prescribed for you, beyond this Our Servant, any town besides Us, if ye be faithful to Our verses in truth upon truth.

God is He besides Whom there is no God. There is nothing like unto Him, and He is God, Who hath ever been Powerful over all things.

Verily God hath forbidden success unto those who seek Us from behind the gate, and this verily proceedeth from the work of Satan.

And on the Day of Resurrection none beside God, the True One, shall be his protector.

This Qur’an hath been sent down from God unto you in truth that ye might be forbearing regarding Our signs at the gate.

O believers! Turn ye all unto God, the Praiseworthy.

The Truth, by the truth, upon the truth, declareth: No soul hath turned away from Our remembrance but We shall turn away from it on the Day of Resurrection, and it shall find no helper besides God, the Most High.

Let not this vain world deceive you with its delusions regarding God, the Praiseworthy. For this world of yours is vain and rootless in the sight of God, and naught shall profit you on the Day of Resurrection besides God, your True Lord, not even in the slightest measure.

Know ye that the Hereafter is indeed the true life with God, your True Lord, were ye but conscious thereof at the gate, in the gate, in truth, as praised witnesses.

O believers! Precede not the gate, the gate of God your Lord, for at the threshold ye shall have the garments of your knowledge rent from behind you.

Why perceive ye not even a small portion of God’s covenant, the Most High, in truth and by the truth?

God hath related the story of Joseph when the gate was sought, and the woman rent his garment from behind, and they found her lord at the gate standing there.

We interpret through exposition whatsoever We will from God’s mighty Book, and He is God, powerful over all things.

God hath made Me a witness over the Mother Book and all the Tablets, in truth and by the truth.

Through this distant narrative We desire to make a near allusion to the Point of Fire and its course.

God hath decreed in the Mother Book for those who make false and deluding references to Us from behind the gate, rending the garment of Our authority without right, they are those who speak evil against their Lord at the gate (as she said “What is the recompense of one who intended evil for thy family save imprisonment or grievous punishment?”) which was inscribed in the Mother Book.

We delivered Joseph from her evil and increased her in rebellion for what she had contrived within herself, though the end of her affair was praised according to the decree of the Book from the gate.

The decree hath come from God in this Book from a line among the lines of the gate, hidden yet true.

As for those who unite God with the mention of another, the decree of fire is sealed against them, and the matter hath been determined in the Mother Book.

We shall imprison them in a casket of iron, and God hath prepared for them, in truth and by the truth, a grievous punishment from the Point of Fire.

Surah of Lights [Anwar]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said, It was she who sought to seduce me,’ and a witness of her own household testified: If his shirt is torn from the front, then she speaks the truth and he is of the liars.”’ [Q12:26]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Qaf. Remember how God, the Most High, hath set forth in the scrolled mystery, encircling that line which was inscribed in the Mother Book round about the Fire. Verily this Book’s ordinances are exalted, a truth from the presence of the All-Informed, beside Whom there is no God, and it was in truth sent down. Glorified then be He Who hath raised up the Remembrance from Our presence unto His presence, nearer than the twinkling of an eye, and there wert thou witnessed round about the Fire.

O people of Paradise! Hearken unto God’s call from the leaves of the Camphor Branch round about this Tree of Sinai. Verily, I am God, there is no God but Him. I have established the Remembrance for Myself in truth, and whatsoever hath sought refuge at that Gate, arising in truth from His Command, I have protected it from the Fire. Indeed the promise of your Lord, the All-Merciful, is true, and He is God, the Witness over all things.

Say: God knoweth Our permission granted to the believers round about the Gate concerning every matter. Thou art but God’s mystery within the most hidden mystery, and verily God, thy Lord, is knowing of all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Reveal nothing from the unseen that would cause people to differ regarding the Gate in ways contrary to truth. Say: This Book is My proof from God—let him who will, believe, and him who will, deny. By your Lord! God’s proof is truth and it is the greatest of God’s signs in truth unto His servant. After this Book, God’s proof unto all the worlds hath been most eloquently established in truth with the truth.

Fear God in mentioning the Remembrance contrary to truth, for verily it hath been decreed by the Fire round about the Fire. God hath willed to create a melody in the leaf which hath emerged by His leave from the thicket of Paradise, that people might witness in the yellow, moving line at the two stations the truth of the Most Great Remembrance. And verily God is witness over all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Grant her leave to wear wool unto the seventieth, for she hath been stationed at the Gate, the Gate of Permission. Verily she is a melody from the hidden letter of the B in relation to the Most High. He is God, the Witness over all things.

And I bear witness concerning the Remembrance by the Remembrance on the day when the sun emerged at the zenith of the two points, standing before Him, speaking:

“Verily Thou art the mystery of the ancients in the two abodes, and Thou art the line of the latter ones in the two particles, and Thou art the sun of heaven from the Throne in the two cycles, and Thou art the equatorial line of truth in the two spheres, and nothing is seen in truth in all the worlds save that Thou art foremost with the two letters—the hidden letter above the line with the two lines.”

And verily my Lord, God, beside Whom there is no God, is witness over all the worlds.

O ye believers! Fear God regarding the Word of Truth, for God hath enjoined upon the Muslims to convey the Cause to every land. Go forth from your territories and summon the people through this Most Great Book to the Holy Land. And if ye are unable, then write the Cause upon purified pages in pure red gold ink to every land from the East of the earth to the West, for verily God’s decree in this matter hath ever been stern with truth by truth.

O concourse of divines! God hath, after this Book, forbidden you to teach from aught else. Teach ye the people the ordinances of the Book and turn away from the vain books uprooted among you, for verily the Book of God is the truth and God hath ever been witness to what ye do.

O people of the earth! I have sent down unto you the Gates during Mine absence, yet none among the believers followed them save a few. And I sent unto you in times past Ahmad and in recent times Kazim, but none followed them save the sincere among you. What aileth you, O people of the Book, that ye fear not God, your true and ancient Lord?

Hath God given you permission to transgress against Me, or do ye judge according to the judgment of the Evil One for yourselves? Fear God and let not vain desires uprooted from Satan delude you, for verily God and His chosen ones are truth, while ye and what ye worship besides God are misbelievers by the decree of the Book. God shall soon judge between Me and you with truth by truth in the one arena, and He is God Who hath ever been just and wise with truth upon truth.

O ye believers! I adjure you by God the Truth—have ye found from these Gates any decree other than God’s decree, the decree of this Book? Doth knowledge delude you in your unbelief? Then wait, for God your true Lord is with you as a watchful guardian with truth by truth.

By your Lord! We shall surely make you pause at the Bridge in the land of baked clay, and We shall surely question you concerning what ye utter with your tongues, perform with your hands, and imagine in your minds regarding the Gates as being a decree from God—with truth by truth—an irrevocable decree. Save those who repented, turned unto God, followed the Remembrance and the Book, and helped God’s greatest Remembrance in holy war—these shall soon meet Me with the greatest mercy, for verily I have ever been forgiving and merciful to the believers.

Verily We ordained the two Gates in the circuit of the water as two signs: We effaced the sign of night and made the sign of this day illuminating, that ye might seek your portion from the greatest Remembrance, and verily God hath ever been merciful to the believers.

O Qurratu’l-Ayn! Say to the illustrious divine Ja’far the Alavi: Thou art upon the truth if thou art prostrate before the Gate of God—thou wert in the Mother Book praised before God the Truth, and He is God Who hath ever been witness over thee with truth by truth. By thy Lord! Thou shalt never cleave the earth in truth without the Gate, nor reach the mountains in height without the Remembrance—with truth by truth. He is assuredly the Truth from God the Truth through the Most Great Word unto all the worlds. If thou hast followed His Cause, We have verily made thee in this world an exalted pillar unto all beings, and thou shalt assuredly be with Us in the highest companionship in the hereafter by leave of God the Exalted, and He is God Who hath ever been witness over all things.

This is from what God hath revealed unto thee in the path of wisdom. Wait thou then for Our supreme Command with utmost truth and aid this Arabian Youth, Our greatest Remembrance, for verily God’s victory and His days have ever been near in the Mother Book.

Say: O people of the earth, ascribe not any partner unto God, for verily this Gate, from before God, the Most Great, hath been singular and witnessed in His Cause. Woe unto those who speak grievous words concerning the Most Great Remembrance! Say: Were there another Gate with Him, as ye claim, ye would surely have sought a way unto the remnant of God, the true Guardian. Glorified be God and exalted above what the deniers falsely attribute to Him. He is the Self-Sufficient above all things, and He is God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy.

O thou beloved one! Say, by leave of God the Most Great, unto Our servant Abdul-Khaliq the All-Knowing, that God hath guided thee unto His Most Great Remembrance in the known months, though thou perceived naught of His most upright Cause in His greatest deed. Verily God hath shown thee in thy inmost heart somewhat of His most upright Cause, and God hath been, in truth, a witness over thee.

O thou friend! Fear not separation from what thou hast missed in the days of attainment. Turn unto Me with the greatest assistance and be unto God as iron made incandescent by the ancient fire, whereby naught toucheth it save it is consumed by love of the Remembrance. I have seen thee inscribed in the Mother Book as among the people of Paradise in the vicinity of the Gate.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Say unto the great elder Hasan al-Arabi of the family of Al-Asfur, whom God hath caused to dwell on the island of the sea: Thou art indeed upon truth from thy true Lord. Aid thou Our word and His true Book, and call the people unto the pure religion, for God hath been witness over thee, and thou hast been inscribed with God among the people of Paradise.

O ye believers! Lower unto your parents the wing of humility out of mercy, and call upon God in truth, the crimson leaf with the Muhammadan tint, that God may forgive them both in truth. When ye are before the Gate, in the precincts of the Gate, ye shall be shown mercy through permission. Say not unto them “Fie” nor turn away from their command. Be in their obedience like snow upon your heart in a day of heat, for God hath made their rights great over the servant, in truth by the truth.

O people of the earth! Fear God regarding this Leaf, detached from the Tree of Oneness, for it is indeed truth, just as God and His chosen ones are truth, and God hath been witness over all things.

O people of the air! This is the Most Great Word, frowning in the Cause, which hath been around the fire by leave of God, the Truth, and He is God, the Most High, the Great.

Verily We have established the heavens and the earth, then caused them to dwell upon the line between the two rows in this Gate, by leave of God, the Praiseworthy, the Ancient, there is no God but He, and He is God, witness over all things.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Make known unto the Concourse of Lights the right of God in thy true self, through the most hidden secret manifest in truth, which hath been witnessed as recognized among them around the fire.

And verily God, my Lord, is the Truth, and God hath not shown me anything save that I have seen God alone—there is no God but He, and none is with Him save He. That is the Most Great Truth of God within my soul, standing in truth upon the Most Great Truth, and verily God hath ever been a witness over all things. When he said: “She it was who sought to seduce me,” sufficient is God and His loved ones as a witness over me in the Most Great Truth, in the Mighty Truth.

Surah of Kinship [Qarabah]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And if his shirt be rent from behind, then she hath lied and he is of the truthful ones.” [Q12:27]

Alif, Lam, Mim. Praise be to God Who hath communed with Our servant with truth upon the letters of unity above the lines, which were witnessed at the Dawning-Place of the Manifestation. This is a Book which hath been sent down concerning the most hidden Mystery, veiled by the Most Great Mystery, in the upright line at the dayspring, concerning the essence of mysteries—a sending down indeed. God is He besides Whom there is no God, the Truth, and He is engaged each day in a fresh creation, and He is God, powerful over all things.

We have indeed observed thy letter in certain days concerning those who are near, and We shall verily judge them on the Day of Resurrection by these pages. God, your Lord, the Truth, is assuredly the Truth, and He shall soon guide them to His mighty path with truth and power.

We have observed thy response to the letter, and likewise concerning the page sent down from the Holy Land. Soon shall We teach the people through the Most Great Remembrance, the remembrance of God, the Exalted, through truth and power.

O merchants dwelling on land and sea! Fear ye regarding the Most Great Word and send to the Most Great Remembrance, after knowing His land, whatsoever hath been written by His hands or written by His leave unto you in the days of commerce. For verily the pages issuing from His hands are tablets from the holy pages, and God hath forbidden all souls from any portion thereof save by His Most Great permission. God is indeed All-Knowing of His believing servants, and this Remembrance, this Arabian Youth, is verily a witness to what ye do.

We have indeed observed thee today in thy greatest writing upon the page sent to the soul near to the evil city. God shall soon guide those who are near to His exalted path by the decree of the Book, by leave of the Gate—a matter decreed. Save him who hath fooled himself after the Book regarding the Most Great Remembrance, for he is indeed far from the Gate.

God shall judge between people with truth on the Day of Resurrection, and the Remembrance wrongeth not anything by anything, not even the husk of a date-stone.

O ye great ones and some of the lesser ones among the kindred of the Most Great Remembrance! God hath prescribed for you, after knowing the Most Great Remembrance—Who hath been among you from His childhood to the known day—to migrate unto Him in whatever land God hath willed for Him. By your Lord, the Truth, besides Whom there is no God, if ye were to be in His presence with sincerity for less than the twinkling of an eye, it would benefit you more than many deeds, and would be more profitable than filling the world with offerings in the path of God, the Truth. So desire ye the Most Great Word and follow not the footsteps of Satan, for God hath called you to Paradise while Satan calleth not the people save unto the Fire. This decree hath been written in the Mother Book.

O Concourse of Lights! Hearken unto My call from this crimson leaf upon this white Tree on that Mount Sinai: “Verily, I am God, there is no God but I. I have named this Remembrance with two names from Myself for the two beloved ones from among My servants, and I have named on the Throne his grandfather Ibrahim and his father with a name from among the first beloved ones, and his mother Fatimih the Pure, that those endued with understanding may witness at the Dayspring of the chosen ones the mystery of lights from One mighty and forgiving, besides Whom there is no God, and verily God is powerful over all things.

O people of the cloud! Hearken unto My call from the tongue of the Gate, this Arabian Youth speaking in Sinai with the melody of the Point of Praise—God, there is no God but Him. Verily We preserved thee from the Point of Beginning in pure and sanctified loins until this Day—the sealed Point that was promised.

God hath manifested this Youth among a company of pure and noble ones, that none should doubt concerning His Cause, which is the Supreme Truth, and verily God was wise and knowing concerning the Truth.

O kindred of the Most Great Remembrance! This blessed Tree, reddened with the oil of servitude, hath grown at the point of fire in your lands, yet ye perceive nothing of it—neither its pure and holy attributes, nor its true angelic conditions, nor its firm and perfect movements. Ye imagine in your own minds something other than the Supreme Truth, while with God He is the very Proof of the Supreme Truth, and was in the Mother Book at the point of fire called to account.

O kindred of that Great Word! If ye believe in Him and aid His Cause, verily We shall forgive your sins and shall inscribe for you a double reward for your deeds, and ye shall dwell in the holy precincts near unto God, the Truth, in the vicinity of the Gate. But if ye deny Our Remembrance and this true Book, by the Truth of God We shall surely punish you twice over in the vicinity of the fire, and ye shall find no helper in the hereafter besides God, the Exalted.

Was not this sublime honor from God sufficient for you from the Most Great Remembrance? Therefore repent unto God for what hath proceeded from yourselves against the holy glory of the Remembrance without right. Verily We have faithfully rendered, by God’s leave, the Guardian of the believers, your rewards doubled, and verily God is witness over all things.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Convey to the women of thy kindred the decree of the Most Great Word, and warn them of the Greater Fire, and after the Most Great Covenant give them glad tidings of the eternal Paradise of Ridvan from God around the Holy Place, and verily God, the Lord of all worlds, is powerful over all things.

O Mother of the Remembrance! The peace of the Lord be upon thee! Thou hast shown patience in the Cause of God, the Exalted. Therefore recognize the station of thy son, the Most Great Word, for He shall be questioned concerning thy grave and the day of thy gathering, and thou wert inscribed as the Mother of the Believers in the Preserved Tablet by the hands of the Remembrance.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Write for the pure Fatimid women of thy household from the city of the All-Merciful, forbidding departure to the Holy Land in this great year until such time as the Most Great Remembrance permits, according to what He knoweth through God’s knowledge concerning the people of His household in that Gate by the Supreme Truth. The people know but a small letter of the knowledge of the Book.

O Concourse of Lights! Hearken unto My call from the Point of Fire in this encompassing sea of white water upon that crimson earth. Verily I am God, there is no God but Him. I have established upon the Throne the beloved mystery of the Name from the First Beloved for the Most Great Remembrance. And verily I have made the angels of heaven and the dwellers of Ridvan on the Day of the Covenant bear witness to the Most Great Truth concerning the Remembrance through the Remembrance. How great is the bounty of the Most Great Remembrance!

O thou who art beloved of the Beloved before My Beloved! Thou art not like any other women if thou followest God’s command in the Most Great Truth. Know thou the mighty right of the Ancient Word for thyself, and glory in sitting with the Beloved, the Most Great Beloved of God. This glory from the All-Wise, the All-Praised, suffices thee.

Be patient in the face of destiny regarding the Bab and His people. Verily thy son Ahmad is with the glorious Fatima in the Holy Paradise, in truth upon truth, having been nurtured in truth with knowledge.

And verily those who behold the Light before the Mount above the realm of Glory are, in truth upon truth, veiled. These are they who, by Our leave, see around God’s Ancient Mystery the Light before the Mount at the Dawning-Place of the Manifestation, which was witnessed at the Gate.

And verily those who see the golden leaf reddened by the stone fire together with the tree formed around the fire by the craft of the Most Great Wise One—these are they who, around the center of the second M from the letter of the name Muhammad the Arab, have been inscribed in the Mother Book as of the truth.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Give to those of kinship among the people of the cloud their portion according to the mystery of the mystic line veiled in secrecy around the Fire. Give to the poor ones, the people of the depths of love, in the Most Great Truth, a drop from this water filtered from the fresh golden chalice by leave of God, the Wise One, along the paths of wisdom. And verily God, thy Lord, is witness over all things.

Give in truth upon truth to the wayfarers—this is God’s path in the heavens and earth and what lies between them—according to the station of each beneath the green horizontal veils, by leave of God thy Lord, the Truth. And verily He has ever encompassed all things through some things in truth upon truth.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Stretch not forth thy hand in the Cause, for the people are intoxicated with the Mystery. Verily thou shalt have return after this cycle in the Most Great Truth. There reveal from the Mystery a mystery to the measure of a needle’s eye at the Most Great Mount, that the people of Sinai may die at the dawning of a drop of that Dominant crimson Light, by leave of God the Wise. And He is God, Who has ever been thy Guardian in truth upon truth.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Look upon the people with piercing vision—dost thou find any soul therein save those intoxicated with the Most Great Mystery? By God the Truth! I have seen them drunk with the mighty wine, save the fewest of those who preceded in My Most Great Covenant. And they, in truth steadfast despite their differences due to their precedence with God the Truth, have been inscribed in the Mother Book.

O people of the earth! This mystery of Mine is truly arduous, most arduous. No soul can bear it in pure truth save after beholding God and His ancient power over all things, according to the Most Great Truth which hath been witnessed at the Dawning-Place of the Heart from before the Gate. There, by leave of God, the Wondrous, the veils of concealment have been lifted from the holy celestial forms of the Youth of the Sinaic Paradise.

At that moment, the servant beheld the Beauty of the All-Merciful to the extent that God had ordained for him, less than the eye of a needle in the Most Great Book. And verily God is witness over all things.

O Solace of the Eyes! We have established the heavens and earth through Thy Name, the Truth. Then We caused them to rest upon the line drawn between the two lines in this Gate, by leave of God, the Praiseworthy, the Ancient, besides Whom there is no God, and He is God, witness over all things.

O people! Fear God, your Lord, from the heat of the Fire of Hell which is fierce in the sight of God. The Truth doth in truth declare:

“Verily shall I fill Hell with you on a Day when We shall say unto Hell: Art thou filled?’ and it shall say: Are there any more?’ And the decree in the Mother Book hath been fulfilled.”

O people of Holiness! Slay not yourselves by mere allusion apart from the Gate, for the Command from before the Wondrous One hath been mighty in the Mother Book.

And verily We sent a witness from among her people who testified that if his garment was rent from the front, then she spoke truth and he was among the liars before the Most Great Gate, as witnessed in the Mother Book.

And if his garment was rent from behind, then she lied and he was among the truthful in the sight of God, and according to the Truth by the Truth, thus was it conjoined with the decree in the Mother Book.

Surah of the Maiden [Huriyyih]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“So when he saw his shirt rent from behind, he said: ʿLo, this is of your guile; verily your guile is mighty.”’ [Q12:28]

Kaf, Ha, Ya, ʿAyn. O People of Persia! Doth not this transcendent glory suffice you from before the Most Great Remembrance? Verily God hath chosen you through this Most Great Word. Disperse not from around Him, for by God the Truth, He is indeed the Truth from God, and He is the Exalted One Who, in the Mother Book, hath been wise.

O ye believers! Draw not nigh unto the possessions of the Remembrance except by His leave, and weigh yourselves with the straight Balance. This is a truth in the Most Great Gate, and verily God hath power over all things. Tarry not for the twinkling of an eye in this Cause, for We shall assuredly question you concerning your hearing, sight, and heart, and verily the Command of God from the Remembrance hath been, in the Mother Book, decreed.

O ye believers! God hath forbidden you to enter houses without the permission of their owners, and enter not the House of the Gate except by His leave. Fear ye God and be of those who turn unto the Truth with true repentance.

O ye believers! Call not to the Remembrance from behind His house, for this is an error in the Book of God, and ye know but a fragment of the knowledge of the Book.

O ye believers! Raise not your voices above the voice of the Remembrance, and draw not nigh in walking with Him except by His leave, and proceed not before Him, and hold not private discourse in His presence, for all these are evils in the sight of God, your True Lord, according to what God hath prescribed in His preserved Book of Truth.

O people of the earth! Hold fast to the cord of God, the Impregnable—Our Remembrance, this Arabian Youth Who hath been concealed at the point of ice upon seas of fire. Remember in His presence, after His permission, God’s favors upon you, and conceal not the truth in His presence. Know ye not that God knoweth whatsoever is in the heavens and earth, what ye conceal and what ye reveal? He is God, your True Lord, Who hath ever encompassed all worlds.

O ye believers! God hath ordained that ye enter not upon Our servant except by His leave, after your purification in truth and your standing at the Gate, remembering through the magnification of God, your True Lord, upon the pure Truth, a hundred and ten times. God hath decreed for those who turn aside from Our command the fire of hell, and verily God’s punishment in the Mother Book hath been exceedingly great.

O people of the Throne! Hearken to the call of your Lord God, besides Whom there is no other God, in supreme truth from the tongue of this Servant, this Arabian Youth, Who hath been, with God the Exalted, wondrously innovative in this mighty Cause. God hath verily revealed unto Me in truth upon this sacred earth:

“Verily, I am God; there is no God but Me. Therefore worship Me on the path of this crimson Line, moving in the innovation of the Cause.”

He hath created all beings that ye might be, in My sight, among My near servants, recorded around the Gate.

O people of the world! Call not upon God regarding His station, for the Line is cut off for all besides Him, and God hath not ordained for anyone the like of what He hath ordained for Him in supreme truth. None after Him is befitting. He is the Light in the two Mounts and the Criterion in the two Cycles, and He is God, powerful over all things.

O people of the Throne! Hearken unto My call from this mystic and Arabic Remembrance, whose station God hath ordained to be the Fire encircling the Throne in the sanctuary of the heart. He sitteth in truth upon the dust of the earth by God’s leave, that He might make known unto men the mysteries of their beginning, until all have testified that their Creator is the True One, God, besides Whom there is no God, and that verily He is His servant and the Gate of His Proof unto all the worlds.

O Qurratu’l-Ayn! Say: I am, by the True God, the truth concerning the truth of your Lord, the All-Merciful, besides Whom there is no God. God and His chosen ones suffice as witnesses unto this knowledge. O Qurratu’l-Ayn! Grant permission to the Maid of Paradise to don fair raiment and the most excellent silk veil. Then permit her to emerge from her palace alone upon the earth in the manner of a celestial maiden, and let her hear attributes from the holy fragrances upon the seat of the Throne and the celestial spheres, that perchance the intoxicated ones among the people of earth might become aware of thy Cause, even to the extent of a single hair which God hath placed behind her tresses. Verily God is cognizant of all things.

O people of earth! By the True God, I am indeed a Maiden of Paradise whom Glory hath birthed in a palace of moist and moving ruby. By God, I have seen nothing in that Most Great Paradise but that it spoke of the Remembrance in praise of this Arabian Youth. Verily your Lord, the All-Merciful, besides Whom there is no God—magnify ye His worth by God’s leave, for He standeth at the heart of the Garden of Paradise in the form of glorification within the temple of divine unity. At times I hear His voice from the Ancient Being, and at times from the mystery of His Great Name. When He uttereth the Greatest Name, Paradise trembleth with longing for His presence, and when He glorifieth God, Paradise becometh still as snow upon the summit of a frozen mountain.

It is as though I beheld Him moving upon the straight path in all the gardens of His Paradise, in all the heaven of His heaven, and all the earth and whatsoever is therein are but as rings upon the fingers of His servants. Glorified be God, His Creator, Lord of the Ancient Throne! He is none other than the servant of God and the Gate of the Remnant of God, your True Master. Therefore yearn ye for martyrdom in His path according to the true and straight way, for I and those in Paradise truly long with the Greatest Truth for a soul that hath been slain in His path. Verily God seeth whatsoever ye do.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Grant her leave to remove her coarse garments and don her gown in her house, for the people of heaven have trembled at her braided hair beneath her veil. Verily God hath ever been merciful to His believing servants according to the truth. Return thou to the holy place in thy palace, and verily thy reward is with Me in this Book, in a Command written by My hands round about the Fire. God hath ordained between thee and the ungodly, at the time of the recitation of the Qur’an, a hidden veil of truth, by the truth, surrounding the water.

We have indeed preferred some Prophets above others by a word of the Remembrance, and We did verily reveal unto David the Psalms.

There is no town but We shall destroy it by God’s leave, and We have ever been witness over the worlds according to truth by the truth.

Verily God ordained the vision in thy dream as naught but a test for mankind, and verily the accursed tree hath arisen from the mystery of the Qur’an, and God desireth for the idolaters naught but the fire, a mighty transgression.

O people of the earth! When Satan refused to remember God, he was indeed forsaken in the presence of God, the Truth. And verily the accursed one shareth in your souls and your possessions, so fear ye God and place your trust in Him, for the path for those who trust is indeed blocked in truth upon the truth.

Neither speak loudly in remembrance nor whisper softly in magnification during battle, and call the people to the two lines, the straight line in prayer, as ordained in the command of the Book.

We have verily sent thee in truth around the fire, and in truth hath God sent down the Criterion unto thee around the water, and thou wert indeed inscribed in the Mother Book before the Two Names.

And verily those who have been given knowledge, when they recite the Book, fall down upon their faces in prostration unto God, saying:

“Glory be to Him besides Whom there is no God! Verily the right of remembrance is in truth the Truth, and the Command hath been inscribed in the Mother Book around the fire.”

Praise be to God Who hath sent down unto Our servant the Book from the Point of Fire, that God’s judgment might be severe upon the worlds after the Remembrance.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Warn those from whose mouths hath issued the word of unbelief—and it is a false word before God in truth. Say ye nothing of any connection between Truth and creation, for verily your Lord God is detached from all the worlds.

God hath made all that is on earth as a sign for the people of wisdom, that We might fully reward them from before the Gate with what is praiseworthy.

Recite unto them from what God hath revealed unto Us from the knowledge of the Book, and God hath not ordained any alteration for Our words from before the Remembrance.

By God, besides Whom there is no God! He hath not ordained for you on this day any refuge besides this Youth, in truth upon the truth.

O concourse of lights! Be patient by God’s leave with those who call upon Us from before the Gate, for God hath ever been merciful and seeing towards His servants.

Say: Follow not him whose heart We have made heedless of the command of the Gate, and follow not their vain desires, for they have been inscribed in the Mother Book as among the immoderate ones.

Say: The Truth hath come from God with pure truth; whoso God willeth, He willeth for him, and whoso turneth away from the Truth and the Book, verily God is independent of all worlds.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Warn the idolaters of the boiling water which is molten brass—evil drink for the opposers and evil is their destined seat upon the coffin.

And verily those who find themselves in God’s Book at the station of the two limits, the angels have named them by Our leave, in truth upon the truth, as females, and We verily declare concerning them in truth, by what the All-Merciful hath testified regarding them upon the Most Great Truth:

“This indeed is of your guile, and verily your guile hath ever been mighty in all the Tablets.”

Fear ye God and speak naught concerning Our servant save the truth, and God sufficeth, and Our own selves, as witness to the truth of his servitude unto God, the Truth, upon the truth by the truth.

When God created Adam and his mate in that Garden, We said unto them: Draw not nigh unto this Word and hearken unto the songs of the birds immersed in musk-laden waters, warbled from the leaves of Paradise by the leave of God—verily I am God, there is none other God but Him, and He is God, who hath ever been supremely exalted.

This indeed is a Word wherein they that enter shall never hunger, and they that depart shall never be naked, and its people shall hear naught but from it.

Exalted and glorified be the Word of God, our Lord, besides Whom there is none other God, and He is God, Who hath ever been supremely wise.

The Surah of Proclamation [Tabligh]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“O Joseph, turn away from this and [O wife] seek forgiveness for thy sin, for thou hast been among the transgressors.” [Q12:29]

Alif, Lam, Mim, ʿAyn. Remember the verses of thy Lord with Us, from One Who is All-Forgiving, Whose mercy embraceth all things, and He is God, independent of all creation.

Verily We have sent down the Command among you that ye may know your Creator, Who hath created you and those before you, and ye shall find no change in the true Faith of God.

This is Our Book which We have revealed unto Our servant in truth, that ye may judge thereby and sow for yourselves for a Day wherein ye shall possess naught save what ye have reaped in the paths of the Gate, and on that Day ye shall be in need of God, the Most High.

God is the Self-Sufficient, and ye are the poor, and there is no God but Him, and He is God, the One worthy of worship in truth.

God hath prescribed knowledge for those who fear God their Creator in their private and public affairs, praiseworthy in the paths of the Gate. These are the learned ones in the sight of God, besides Whom there is no God, the True to His Promise, and God is witness unto all things.

Verily God is triumphant in His Cause, in truth by truth, and His power extendeth equally over all creation.

We have made Our servant Abdullah, Our Remembrance, to prevail over you in the Cause with might. Yet people know not of the knowledge of the Book save a few letters, removed from its inner mystery.

Those who wax proud, refusing to prostrate before the All-Merciful, these are the companions of the Fire by the decree of the All-Knowing God, and God is aware of all things.

God hath united your hearts through the wisdom from His Gate that ye may aid the Cause of God with your wealth and your souls, and ye shall find no constraint in the Faith of God, for the Command hath been decreed in the Mother Book.

O servants of the All-Merciful! By God, there hath come to you a mighty Command from God, the Most High.

O people of the earth! If ye hesitate concerning Our Word after this Book, less than what the Book hath recorded in the Mother Book as guardian—by God, We shall cause you to pause upon the Path for a thousand thousand years in just requital for your misdeeds, a precise recompense, and We wrong not creation by so much as the film of a date-stone.

Those before you pondered falsely, and We seized from them Our due, with severe justice.

What aileth you, O servants of God? How is it that ye believe abundantly in falsehood yet believe little in Our true signs?

By God, We desire naught for you save what God hath revealed to Us in His Book. Soon will God show you Our signs upon the Path around the Fire in magnificent wise.

God hath given authority to those who believe in His Remembrance and aid His Word in truth by truth around the Gate in praiseworthy fashion.

We shall not judge on the Day of Resurrection those who believe not in Him, but We shall judge between you in truth concerning that wherein ye differed falsely and abundantly.

He is God, unto Whom there is no likeness, and He is the All-Wise, the All-Knowing, besides Whom there is no God, and He is God, encompassing all creation.

God chooseth whom He willeth of Our servants from among those who answer unto God.

Believe not in part of the Book while rejecting part thereof, for whoso disbelieveth after this Book, We have decreed for him the severest punishment by the decree of the Book.

Fear, O servants of God, the justice of your Lord, the All-Merciful, in the day when He shall establish the Balance before you with truth and justice.

And whosoever believes in God and His Books and His Messengers and His Signs, making no distinction between any of His signs, has been saved from the great terror and shall enter Paradise by right of truth, without any reckoning.

Be patient, O servants of God, for verily God is with you as a Guardian over truth. God has made Our Cause but a single matter, like the twinkling of an eye, and it is nearer than the glance of vision. God has made Our Cause like unto the letter Kaf in the Primal Word, and verily God has power over all things.

What ails you that you reflect not upon the wonders within yourselves and in the horizons—wonder upon wonder in a hidden glance which was with you but little? We have made a sign from Our servant in all things, concealed in truth around the Gate, that people might know that God is the Truth, there is no God but Him, and God encompasses all things.

O servants of God! Convey the Cause of God from the Gate among you to whomever has a covenant from God concerning the Gate. O servants of the All-Merciful! Remember God, your Creator, through the Most Great Truth from the Gate, and follow not your vain desires after the Truth has come to you from your Lord in this Book through the Most Great Word, for on the Day of Judgment you shall be questioned about the Fire.

Glorify God, your True Lord, as befits His station and as He deserves, in truth, in the path of the Gate, morning and evening, with the Greatest Word, praised around the Gate. O people of East and West! Fear God on the day when the Remembrance calls you from God, the Truth, to battle around the Shrine with the Greatest Word in pure truth, magnifying with magnification God, the Most High, and God is witness over what you do.

O believers! Worship God as He shows you His signs in truth, and await God’s Cause in truth every morning and evening in pure truth, for We are with you as Guardian over truth for the Gate. O people of the earth! If you are truthful in Islam, then bring forth a discourse like unto this Book in pure truth. By the Lord of heaven and earth, you shall never be able, even if you were to support one another in the Cause.

Glorified be God, there is no God but Him! None besides God can reveal the Book in truth, and exalted is God far above what the wrongdoers say with great exaltation. O people! Fear God regarding that Greatest Word, for with Him is an earthquake for the earth that shall be mighty. Whoever obeys God and His Word has attained a great victory, and whoever disobeys God and His Gate has strayed far astray.

O people of the Throne! Hearken unto My call from this purified Bird in the atmosphere of the divine cloud, for verily He hath been, in truth, possessed of a profound knowledge of the Book.

O Joseph! O Most Great Gate! Turn away from this tree which hath emerged from the Gate upon the earth without right, and say unto it:

“Seek forgiveness for thy sin, for I have seen thee recorded in the Mother Book as being among the rebellious ones dwelling round about the Fire.”

Surah of Might [ʿIzz]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And the women in the city said: ʿThe wife of the Aziz seeks to seduce her slave-boy from his soul. Indeed, love has pierced her heart. We see her in manifest error.”’ [Q12:30]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ha, Sad. Remember thy Lord’s mercy in His praiseworthy Word, for God hath power over all things.

Verily God hath placed no veil between Us and Our servant in the truth of truth, in aught whatsoever. We have drawn him nigh unto Us and raised him to a station higher than the highest. We bore witness unto him on the Day of Beginning even as God bore witness unto him concerning Our right, that he was, in truth, a praiseworthy servant of God around the Fire.

God beareth witness, even as He beareth witness unto His own Self, that he was among Our followers at a time when none but Us existed before God, the Lord of all worlds, in truth and through truth. I testify by God that he existed at a time when neither day nor age was mentioned in the Mother Book before God.

Know, O servants of God, that God hath made His Cause, in truth and through truth, mighty in the Mother Book. God hath ordained his story in the hidden lines around the veil to be arduous yet near to the truth. Soon will God, your Lord, the All-Merciful, inform you in this Book of His wondrous decrees in truth and through truth around the Fire.

We made him in his youth learned in the knowledge of the Book from the Point of Fire. And We made him in his maturity forbearing over the worlds in truth upon the mighty truth. O people! Doubt not the exalted light of God in any particle of His wisdom, for in the Mother Book it was indeed the intended purpose of the Book.

We made him a shirt from among the shirts of the Beginning, luminous over the worlds. We made him at the Point of the Seal speaking from the station of the Beginning, unique and zealous in truth and through truth. We made him, for Our believing servants among the people of the Gate, All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

God hath clothed him in the robe of might for the truth, that people might witness God in the robe of grandeur through truth, for verily your Lord, the All-Merciful, is independent of the worlds. O servants of God! Fear God and be, in the precincts of that Gate, the best helpers of God, the Exalted, the Praiseworthy.

God hath made the Remembrance closer to the people than their own selves in truth, and God is witness over all things. God hath ordained for thee a reward for thy patience in Our Cause, in truth, a sovereignty that befitteth none save thee, for thou wert, through Us, truly knowing.

O Greater Word! Fear not, neither grieve, for We have assured forgiveness of sins to those men and women who respond to thee, concerning all that the knowledge of the Beloved encompasseth, as thou hast willed, by what thou hast willed in truth, and verily God is knowing of all things.

By My life! Turn unto Me and fear not. Thou art the Exalted One in the Supreme Concourse, and thy mystery hath been inscribed upon the Tablet of the worlds around the Fire. Soon will thy Lord give thee sovereignty over all, for His decree encompasseth the worlds.

O Solace of Mine eyes! When people come unto thee in truth, seek forgiveness from God on their behalf. By God the Truth! They have found God forgiving and merciful.

This is Our Book that speaketh unto you with truth, though aforetime ye were heedless of Our signs concerning this Gate, as inscribed in the Mother Book by leave of God, the Most High.

We have verily revealed this Book unto Our servant, that the people round about him may be perpetual witnesses unto the truth.

Say: I am not the first among the Gates, nor hath God made me a witness unto the worlds save through His Word of truth.

God hath detailed His verses in this Book concerning a mystery among mysteries—none before hath been mentioned thus in the Book.

We have sent down verses unto all peoples that they might be remembered near the Gate. We have sent down the Remembrance unto you in truth, and the Command concerning it hath been preserved as a mystery of the Book.

God hath protected the believers from the evil of the hypocrites, inasmuch as they were mentioned before the Gate as having faith in the Gate.

Were it not for God’s grace and His Word unto you, not one among you would ever be purified—a decree eternally sealed in the Book. But God purifieth whom He willeth among His servants—such as have been witnessed near the Gate. God hath willed whatsoever Our servant hath willed in truth, and the decree in the Mother Book hath been fulfilled.

O ye believers! What aileth you that ye desire not God in this mighty Gate, the True, the Strong, the Most Powerful? By thy life! We have made thee a witness unto all the worlds through the Most Great Truth. We have given thee from the waters of Kawthar an ocean that hath ever surged above the seas of creation at the Primal Point.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Let not thy hand be chained to the mystery within thyself, nor stretch it forth to its utmost in thy Cause, lest the people round the Gate be obliterated and overwhelmed concerning the mystery.

God hath ordained no path for any soul unto the Gate save after its dawning for its day and the laying down of its burden of veils and allusions altogether.

The women of the city who were veiled said:

“This Spirit who was a sign of the All-Merciful through His command seeketh to turn her Lord’s command from His purpose. Indeed love for Him hath pierced her heart. Lo! we see her in manifest error. Such was never beloved in the Mother Book.”

Surah of the Living [Hayy]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“When she heard of their guile, she sent for them and prepared a banquet for them, and gave to each one of them a knife. Then she said [to Joseph], Come forth unto them!’ And when they saw him they exalted him and cut their hands, and they said: God preserve us! This is no mortal! This is none other than a noble angel!”’ [Q12:31]

Kaf, Ha, Ya, Ayn, Sad. This is a mention of the power of God in the Most Great Word, this Youth, whom the believers have truly called Ali. Say: He is God, the One! There is no God but Him. Neither slumber nor sleep overtaketh Him. He it is Who hath created all beings through His power, as a token of truth regarding the Bab. And verily God is witness over all things.

We have planted with Our hands, in the Paradise of immortality for this Most Great Remembrance, this Youth, upon the holy ground, trees of sanctity rising threefold toward the Throne of heaven, branching forth like sweet basil. By God! The Remembrance hath found in their fruits, on the day of their first appearance, all manner of fruits that no eye hath seen save His eye, and no ear hath heard save His ear, and that have not entered into the heart of any man save His heart. And verily in the Mother Book this hath been ordained with truth and wisdom.

And We have built with Our hands for this Most Great Remembrance, this Arabian Youth, in the Paradise of the highest heaven a crimson palace of ruby, rising to the Throne of heaven like a polished mirror, wherein each part reflecteth the whole. And this supreme triumph hath been inscribed in God’s Primal Book.

Soon shalt thou find that palace with thy Lord upon a ground of white saffron, at the holy dawning-place, vast in its dimensions.

O Solace of the Eyes! Summon the people to the religion of God, the Most Exalted, as God hath willed concerning thee. Verily He encompasseth all the worlds. And remind them of the days of God, which in this Gate have been a mighty remembrance of the Remembrance. And warn the people of God’s most great chastisement, which in the Mother Book hath been ordained as a grievous torment in the heart of the Fire.

Soon shalt thou find in truth thy recompense with Us, the like of which God hath not ordained any similitude, nor any equal in truth. We have removed the veils from the eyes of Our servant, who in these days hath been established upon the Most Great Truth, as God hath willed concerning him. Verily He is knowing of all the worlds. He hath seen all that We have seen in his station, without how or limited sign beyond limitation, and all things were witnessed by him in truth.

God warneth you concerning Himself, that ye set up no likeness unto Him through any Gate. He is God, there is no God but Him. Nothing is like unto Him, and God encompasseth all the worlds.

Seek ye forgiveness of God in your dawning hours. Soon shall ye find God, your Lord, the All-Merciful, truly forgiving, and merciful toward the Gate. We have made the night for you as a garment through the Gate, and the day for steadfastness in the Remembrance.

Remember God oft in this Gate, with that which is praiseworthy with your Lord, the All-Merciful. And glorify Him in that Gate morning and evening.

Soon shall ye find your deeds with God inscribed in a tablet by the hands of the Remembrance in very truth.

Verily We have sent down the Book upon the Most Great Word, and We have made it in truth a central point upon justice, that the Remembrance might be unto you a sovereign authority from Us, through decisive verses.

And We have ordained its decree by God’s leave in truth around the water, a thing decreed.

This indeed is the truth in the Mother Book with Us, through the wondrous truth, upon the impregnable Word from the Point of Fire, sent forth upon the mountain of hail.

We have indeed caused Our word Jacob to grieve in the matter of Joseph with a grieving in truth, and the matter was in the Mother Book momentous.

And that was when he paused in Our Cause at the Dayspring of Our power in this Arabian Youth, closer than the twinkling of an eye, and the eye was near unto him in the Mother Book.

O people of earth and heaven! You and what you possess of the wondrous mystery were in the Mother Book before the Remembrance but as a speck of the smallest mote.

God hath not made you before Our servant save in the form of trinity in a quadrangular shape in a sea of thick blood which was around the Gate existent.

O ye believers! If ye know not of his wisdom, verily We shall teach you in truth his wisdom in his patience, and the decree was in the Mother Book momentous.

Fear God and draw not near in describing him from the blood of your own selves, for verily he was in the decree from the All-Wise witnessed in truth.

When Husayn’s sister heard of the standing aloof of her grandfather’s followers on the Day of Ashura from God besides Whom there is no other God, she sent unto their souls the sign of love and prepared for them the weapons of war and gave to each one of them a sword wrapped in truth for God, the Truth.

Then she said:

“O my brother! Show forth unto them of thy majesty less than a needle’s eye for God besides Whom there is no other God,”

and verily He was independent of all worlds.

When they beheld him they magnified him and cut their hands in his presence out of their longing for God besides Whom there is no other God, and verily He encompassed all worlds.

And they said:

“God forbid! This is not Husayn, God’s exalted mystery, a mortal! This indeed is the truth and this is a noble king”

who was unto the peoples of the heavens and earth in truth generous.

O people of the clouds! Say not of those who desire God and come unto Him through His Gate that they seek to seduce a comely Arabian youth, being passionately moved by love for him instead of their own selves. Verily We see them in manifest error unlike the truth.

That was but a scheme of your own selves, and soon shall We remove from you the veil after We have prepared for you a reclining place upon crimson cushions and given unto your souls a knife of verdant hue which was unto all worlds illuminating.

Soon shall God say unto Our Remembrance:

“Come forth unto creation with thy Lord’s beauty less than a needle’s eye in truth.”

There shall they magnify him and cut their hands, denying both extremes, and they shall say:

“God forbid! This is no mortal! This is He Who moveth in God’s earth by His leave, and He is the Truth from God in very truth, and He was in the Mother Book a noble king.”

And verily He was in the Mother Book a noble king.

And if ye enter the depths of oneness by God’s leave in the path of the Gate, ye shall surely witness your souls by severing yourselves for God, the Truth, in truth—and He is God Who was unto His believing servants merciful.

Surah of Victory [Nasr]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“She said: ʿThis is he about whom ye blamed me! I did seek to seduce him from his true self but he did firmly save himself guiltless. And if he doth not do what I command him, he shall certainly be cast into prison, and be of the company of the vilest!”’ [Q12:32]

Alif, Lam, Ha, Sad. This Book is the remembrance of God concerning the Most Great Word, in truth, unto all the worlds. Verily God hath detailed His ordinances in the Furqan aforetime and in this Book in truth, and ye shall find no variation in God’s supreme decree in this and that, according to the mighty truth.

Verily God hath sent down the Book from His presence and creation is powerless to produce its like. Were We to bestow upon them all the power of sovereignty in truth, yet glorified be God far above what the idolaters assert with great haughtiness.

O ye who believe! Fear God regarding Satan in your souls and your possessions, and trust in God, your true Lord, for verily He hath power over all things. Glorify God, your Creator, in the watches of the night and at the ends of the day, in private and in public, upon the paths of the Gate, according to what God hath ordained in the decree of the Book from the presence of the Gate, the Praiseworthy One.

Verily God hath not revealed in His former Book a single letter except that He hath revealed it in truth in this Book concerning the station of the Gate in hidden wise.

O servants of the All-Merciful! Do ye know better, or God Who created you, then sustained you, and will soon guide you to His Cause in mighty truth? Why do ye hasten in God’s true Cause when ye know naught of the knowledge of the Book save a limited portion of its letters?

God, the Truth, He is the One Worshipped, there is no God but Him, the Truth, and God hath power over all things. Ye and what ye worship besides God apart from the Gate are but fuel for hell, and this decree hath been irrevocably set down in the Mother Book from around the Fire.

Do ye not see how God hath made the sun’s shadow to prostrate before the Gate unto God, beside Whom there is no God, and He is God, the Witness over all things?

O people of the earth! I bear witness for myself, my forebears, my followers, and this Most Great Word, that God hath created us dependent and sustained, unable to do aught of ourselves, and verily sovereignty belongeth to God, the Exalted in truth, and He is God, the Witness over all worlds.

God and His Messenger and His chosen ones and I and my followers are quit of what they associate with God and what they say concerning us contrary to the word of servitude. Sufficient is God, the All-Merciful, as a true witness over His servants.

Glorified be God far above what the wrongdoers assert with great haughtiness. Sufficient is God as a true witness between me and you concerning this Gate.

And what God hath ordained in the Mother Book hath been a witness unto that Gate over all the worlds.

God is the One, the Eternal, the Single, beside Whom there is no God, and there is nothing like unto Him. So worship Him and trust in Him, for God encompasseth all the worlds.

He it is Who showeth you His signs from the presence of the Gate in the creation of the heavens and earth, and in the creation of your own selves, and the creation of all things. Call not upon any besides God, your true Lord, the All-Knowing, the All-Powerful.

Do ye believe in part of Our signs while denying what God has ordained beyond them? What ails you that you judge for yourselves without God’s leave, with a judgment false and rejected? Sufficient for Our Word is God, His Messenger and Us as helpers of the Truth through the Truth, the Most High, the Strong. Is not God sufficient for His servant when His is the kingdom of the heavens and earth through the Truth? Verily those who are too proud to worship Him possess not even an atom’s weight of anything in truth. God has created the kingdom for His loved ones, and We have given the kingdom, by God’s leave, to Our Remembrance through the Truth, all together. We bear witness and God suffices as witness to His Word through the Truth.

O servant of God, fruit of Our heart! Grant God’s kingdom to whomsoever thou pleaseth among Our servants and withhold it from whomsoever thou pleaseth among Our servants. Verily God is independent of all worlds.

O servants of the All-Merciful! We have given you glad tidings of a victory from the presence of the Truth that is near at hand. God’s victory and triumph have come, and soon shall people behold men who shall enter into the religion steadfastly from around the Gate, turning unto God. These are they who are brought near in God’s Book, from before and after. Soon shall these believers inherit Paradise, abiding therein through the Truth forever and ever.

Verily this Path of Ali is the Truth in the Mother Book and has ever been preserved around the Fire. God has appointed no guardian besides Himself through the Truth. Therefore magnify God as He has guided you to His religion, for He is independent of all worlds.

We have ordained for Our Word a station through the Truth that is definitive. None who came before can surpass it in any way, nor can any who come after reach it, neither through allusion nor its negation. This is a decree from God, the Truth, and the decree in all tablets has been determined by the All-Merciful.

Verily creation shall never know Him as befits His station, through the Truth, forever and ever.

When the women of the city of Unity cut their hands in the paths of the Gate, the wife of the Chief said: “This is he concerning whom you blamed me unjustly before.” O people! If you were to look upon the Sign of Unity with its own eye, you would be among the living ones with God, your True Lord, and would be recorded in the Mother Book as people of the Gate. God has not decreed for people in their blame of Our Remembrance except after recognizing Him in less than the twinkling of an eye. If you were to know all things as they are through Our Will concerning them, you would have but a small portion of the knowledge of the Gate in the Book.

Therefore proceed as God has commanded thee before and turn not to anyone. Establish thyself in the Unity of the depths for God, thy True Lord, for He is independent of all worlds. And when they sought to tempt him from his purpose, Joseph remained steadfast through Our Most Great Word for God, besides Whom there is no other god and unto Whom nothing can be compared. Thus was he recorded in the Mother Book as among those who remain steadfast with God.

Surah of the Sign [Isharah]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said: ʿMy Lord! Prison is dearer to me than that to which they invite me. Unless Thou turn away their snare from me, I shall incline unto them and become of the ignorant.”’ [Q12:33]

Ha, Mim, Ra. All praise be to God Who hath sent down unto His servant clear verses from the Book for those who desire God and His Messenger, and who seek naught in the land of the heart save the gaze of their Lord, the All-Merciful. Verily God is witness over all things.

God guideth whom He willeth among His servants, and He is mighty and wise toward the believers. Those who deny Our greater signs, God will soon reckon with them—a reckoning upon the fire, swiftly to the fire.

Verily God, the True One, will judge between people with truth on the Day of Resurrection, and God is witness over all things.

God hath made known His Most Great Word, and We are the People of the House, and God hath ordained naught for any besides Us save submission and powerlessness before God, the True One, their Creator. Verily He is powerful over all things.

Fear God in His Cause on the day We shall bring you to account, by God’s leave, with truth upon truth, in His exalted right. There shall the people be shaken in the land of the heart, and the thunderbolt shall come with truth upon truth.

Soon shall people behold God and His angels from before the Gate, humble and abased. Verily We shall, God willing, on the Day of Remembrance, descend upon crimson mysteries and slay you, by God’s leave, with Our swords in truth, even as ye deny and turn away from Our Most Great Word, this Arabian Youth who hath been, in the Mother Book, exalted and wise.

We have made Our remembrance in a goodly land whose vegetation hath sprouted forth by Our leave in the land of hearts, with truth upon truth, praised. As for that which is corrupt, God hath ordained for it naught save bitter growth contrary to truth, and the decree in the Mother Book hath been fulfilled.

Verily the judgment of all things with God in that Book hath been inscribed in this Gate around the fire. Soon shall ye behold Our Word in truth like the radiant sun fixed in the midst of the sky on a winter’s day.

Fear God and speak naught concerning God, the True One, save the truth, for soon We shall question you concerning what ye did in secret and in public on the plain of gathering, from the tongue of this Gate, and that soon.

Say: Were the sea ink for My words, verily the sea would be exhausted before a single letter of My words would be exhausted, even were I to bring its like as reinforcement by God’s leave.

O servants of the All-Merciful! Know ye that God hath made Our servant among you, from His presence, a guardian in truth and a manifest sovereign in might.

What aileth you that ye believe not in God, your Creator, Who created you, then sustained you, then guideth you to the path of God, the Mighty—this Arabian Youth who hath been, in the Mother Book, praiseworthy?

Do ye not know that God’s proof is among you, and He is your shepherd from God, the Exalted, in truth, and He, God, your True Lord, hath been from ancient times in truth?

What aileth you, that you pass judgment upon Our servant concerning matters of which you have no knowledge, even to a small degree? Verily We have made him a Remembrance from Our presence unto you, that he might remind you of Our days—which God has named in the Mother Book as His true days that are drawing nigh—and that he might purify you from the humiliations of Satan through His Name, while you suppose that you are performing good deeds for God, the All-Praised.

Nay, nay! God has deemed the doer of good among you to be the one who is, for the sake of God and His verses, truly patient and thankful.

Fear God! If you turn away from Our servant, We shall turn away from you. Soon shall you behold Us upon clouds of light, and verily sovereignty has ever been inscribed before God, the Most High, concerning Our Cause.

Say: God has placed sovereignty in Our hands like a small coin in your hands. We exalt those among Our servants who are truly devoted friends to Our servant, and We abase those among you who are ungrateful to the All-Merciful and His verses at this exalted Gate.

Know, O servants of God, that God has perfected His proof among you after this Book. If you believe in Our Remembrance, you will be believers in your own souls, and if you deny your Lord, the All-Merciful, then verily God is independent of all worlds.

By God the Truth! God has placed no proof with you concerning Our servant, and We have sufficed you regarding your proof. Soon shall you acknowledge God’s Cause in truth, and you shall never find for yourselves any helper besides this Arabian Youth, Our servant.

Verily God has made clear His verses in this Book that you might be patient for the sake of God and His verses at this mighty Gate.

We are recording the deeds of those who came before you that were contrary to truth, and soon shall God erase the deeds of the false ones through the decree of the Book from this Arabian Youth at the Gate.

O servants of God! Be patient in truth, for verily the Cause has come from God, the All-Praised, through the glorious Word, drawing ever closer.

Unto God prostrate themselves all who are in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, while the thunder glorifies His praise, and the angels from fear of Him.

The matter has been decreed, and judgment belongs unto God, the Single One, as it has been inscribed.

Do you not see how your Lord extends the shadow? Had He willed, He could have made it still. Then God made the sun its indicator.

O people of the East and West! Follow God’s light among you, for it has ever been a true guide upon the mighty path. God has prescribed for you and those before you, and you shall never find any alteration in Our true decrees.

We have destroyed the cities for the wrongdoing of their people, yet We were not in the least unjust to Our servants.

Fear the day when God will openly call out to you through the tongue of the Remembrance with the Most Great Truth, for verily God has ever encompassed all worlds.

And Husayn said:

“Martyrdom is more beloved to me than what they call me to—pledging allegiance to the idolatrous soul.”

And He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

And Joseph said:

“If God does not turn their plot away from me, I might incline toward them through their glances,”

and be among those who turn to God without His face.

And He is God, who has ever been ancient in truth.

Surah of Servitude [ʿUbudiyyat]

In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“His Lord answered him and averted from him their scheming. Verily, He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.” [Q12:34]

Alif, Lam, Mim. This is a remembrance of thy Lord’s path which God hath ordained in the heavens and earth, that people might turn unto Our signs with powerful truth.

God hath prescribed for you this pure religion which hath been in the Mother Book as an upright faith. O people of earth and heaven! Follow the Remembrance of God which He hath sent down to Our servant in truth, and We were with him in the world of the unseen and the visible by God’s leave, as an Observer over him from the Book’s decree. He revealeth His mystery to none save those who walk before Him and who, through His signs, endure with mighty truth amidst the intensity of fire.

God knoweth the mystery of the heavens and earth. Those who are proud against His worship know not even a little of the Book’s knowledge in truth. God hath prescribed unity for Himself—there is no God but He, alone with no partner, and He is the All-Knowing of all things.

We have testified that everything upon which the name of a thing falls is in servitude to God, the Supreme, besides Whom there is no God, and He is God, Who was eternally established in truth. God is the Creator of all things, there is no God but He, the All-Knowing, and God encompasseth all things.

Verily We have sent down to you this Book and have detailed your ordinances therein that you might believe in Our signs in that Gate and be forbearing in truth. Why do you not perceive even a little of Our signs in truth in that Book?

Do you take lords besides God who create nothing in truth? We have created you in truth, yet you possess neither harm nor benefit for yourselves on earth. God hath ordained for you, by His wisdom, death in truth, life, and resurrection in truth.

Remember His signs in what God hath brought forth in the night and day at that mighty, wondrous Gate. Those who disbelieve say within themselves: “Is this Book a falsehood he hath fabricated?” The party of Satan confirms their false claims, and they have become, thereby, disbelievers in God and His signs, deviating from truth at that Gate.

They have come with injustice and falsehood against the truth. Soon will God take from them their false claims from their ungodly souls and burn them in the fire with intense heat. Soon will God annul what Satan casteth into the hearts of the believers, and We shall verily establish them through Our remembrance at this Most Great Gate, God willing, in truth and soon.

Say to those who fabricate lies against God and speak about God and His signs untruthfully with ornate words of misbelief and delusion: God hath sent down this Book in truth that ye might know that God knoweth the secret of the heavens and earth, and He is independent of the worlds.

The people have disbelieved in God untruthfully in delusion. O servants of God! Take not besides God, the Exalted, the True, the Faithful, any protector, and take not besides God, the True, any guardian. God hath made Our servant a believer, and he was, in truth, among all the worlds grateful unto the Truth.

Fear ye God on the Day when, by God’s decree in the Book, the heat shall be fierce indeed, and this decree hath been irrevocably ordained by God concerning the people of idolatry.

We have verily ordained for thee, after this cycle, another return in truth—a decree irrevocably fixed upon the truth. Soon shall We reinforce you with hosts whom none but God can see.

God hath indeed written for thee, after this return, another cycle for His Most Great Day—an immutable decree founded on truth.

We have verily appointed the angels in truth for thy true self, more numerous than both mankind and jinn.

The All-Merciful hath decreed for the believers that they shall enter the mosque as they entered it the first time, and utterly destroy whatsoever they conquered.

God hath decreed for all: “If ye return, We shall return.” And We have made Hell an abode for the idolaters, in very truth.

As for those who believe in Our verses from Our presence, God hath prepared for them, in the Garden of Good-Pleasure surrounding the Gate, a great reward. And for the unbelievers We have prepared in the depths of Hell a grievous torment.

Joseph called upon his Lord because of their guile, calling secretly at the Gate. We turned away from him and from God’s believing servants the guile of women, both before and after, and God doth encompass all the worlds.

Soon shall We turn away from the hearts of the believers the guile of Satan and the thought of respite for Our servant in these your days—by the power of truth, and this is nigh.

Surah of Justice [ʿAdl]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Then it occurred to them, after they saw the signs, to imprison him for a time.” [Q12:35]

Ta. Ha. This is a remembrance of Our mercy unto the servants of God—he who was pious at the Gate. Verily We have sent down unto you a Book as a proof of the Truth, that ye may argue among the people with truth concerning that which God hath given you from His presence, and ye were upon the path of Ali in this mighty Gate, steadfast. Man invokes evil as he invokes good for Our Cause, and man was ever hasty in dust. Verily We have appointed for every soul a book which he shall find hung about his neck, unfolded, and on the Day of Distinction preserved at the Gate of the Remembrance, apart from truth.

Read thy book! Sufficient is thy soul this day as a reckoner against thee from God, the Most High. Verily on the Day of Resurrection ye shall have a known station upon the Path. Soon shall ye emerge, by God’s leave, from your graves upon the decree of dust, hastening. This your Day is indeed the Truth from your Lord. Soon shall He set up the Balance for mankind before Us with truth, justly and manifestly, and unto truth with truth, in exalted justice.

The Day when the heaven shall be like molten brass and the mountains like wool, and no intimate friend shall ask of an intimate friend. How many a soul did I respite while it was wrongdoing, then I seized it while it was certain of God’s Command at that Gate, with truth, as a manifest authority. God hath judged those who came before thee with the judgment of the Book, and thou wert stationed upon the Path of Truth on the Day of Beginning. Soon shall God annul what Satan casteth into the desires of those who disbelieve in God and His signs, and He is God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

Verily We have made thee more loving towards the believers than their own selves for God’s Greatest Day wherein they shall witness the Gate. There they shall find no constraint in themselves concerning what thou decreest among them, and they shall be patient with God, the Most High, around the Gate. Nay, by thy Lord! The ungodly will not believe until thou judgest among them at the Point of Fire. The Command hath been decreed and the judgment in the Mother Book hath been accomplished.

Verily We know those who have been given knowledge that they are the truth from God, that people may believe in them, and verily God guides those who believe unto the path of this Ali, in the Mother Book, around the Fire, straight. By thy Lord! We shall surely question all people on the Day of Resurrection concerning their differences about thee, the Most Great Remembrance of God, and God is witness over all things.

Is there doubt about God, He Who is the Originator of the heavens and earth? Those near Him grow not proud to worship Him, and they are those who prostrate themselves before God before all worlds at this mighty Gate, powerfully. What aileth you? How do ye judge Our Cause when ye know naught of God’s true Command, even a little?

By God, the Truth! The Proof of Truth declareth: if ye disbelieve in Our servant after this Book hath been sent down unto you with truth as a manifest proof, ye shall not find for yourselves on the Day of Resurrection any portion of God’s covenant and Our covenant, even if it be less than an atom. Fear God and invalidate not your souls through the falsehood of Satan with lies and delusion against the truth.

God has promised you Paradise while Satan calls you to the Fire. Therefore, establish your hearts firmly in this Gate for the sake of God, the One, the Eternal, and glorify God before the face of the Gate on the day of battle with sublime glorification.

When death approaches, you shall not have power to utter even a slight word concerning God’s command which is the truth by the truth. And when the promise of the Hereafter comes, God has prepared for you, in truth and justice, a great Fire, and you shall find no helper on that Day besides the Remembrance, who is the truth by the truth.

O people of the East and West! Can you find for yourselves any portion of proof before God, your Lord, concerning this Most Great Remembrance? By your Lord, We shall surely gather you around Hell, and on the Day of Resurrection, you shall not find for yourselves even a limited portion of proof. Do you think the Remembrance calls you to anything other than the pure religion of God and the tradition of His Prophet? Nay! What ails you that you fabricate falsehood against God? Highly exalted is God above what the wrongdoers say with great exaltation.

O Solace of the Eyes! Say to yourself the truth in My melody, for the Book has fulfilled its term, and the people have truly been gathered in the land of this Gate. O servants of God! Fear God in a matter that has come from God, the Exalted, the Great. We have indeed passed judgment upon Joseph and the Prophets by God’s decree in the Mother Book, which was inscribed around the Gate. We have ordained for everything in the Book an appointed term, in truth by the truth. Nothing shall deviate from His decree, and God has ever encompassed all things.

Then it occurred to them, after they had seen the signs, to imprison him for a while contrary to truth, during which time he was detained at the mystery of the Gate. God had ordained imprisonment for Joseph when he contemplated the Most Great Mystery of God, less than what the Book can enumerate of even a portion of anything. We delivered him and raised him to the station of sanctity, which was lofty in the land of the heart.

Surah of Interpretation [Ta’bir]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And there entered the prison with him two young men. One of them said: I dreamed that I was pressing wine.’ The other said: I dreamed that I was carrying bread upon my head, from which the birds were eating. Tell us the interpretation thereof, for we see thee to be among the virtuous ones.”’ [Q12:36]

Qaf. ʿAyn. Sin. Nun. All praise be to God Who hath sent down unto His servant the Book, that he might be unto all creation, through the Most Great Word, a witness. God hath given glad tidings unto the believers who perform righteous deeds that they shall have a goodly reward at the Gate, abundantly bestowed from the presence of the Gate. We have sent down unto you from Our tongue this Book that ye may judge between men with truth in the ways of the Gate, for God is indeed cognizant of all created things.

We have taken from him a covenant with God that he should judge between you according to the Book of God and Our ways, and ye shall find no judgment from him save the judgment of God which hath been ordained in the Mother Book. Those who deny God and His Word without right shall be gathered in the midst of the fire in a valley of hell. God hath borne witness to the judgment with truth, and We shall be witnesses on the Day of Resurrection to the testimony of the All-Merciful regarding His judgment. Sufficient is God and We, the family of the Most High God, as witnesses to the truth.

God hath warned those who attribute a son to God—glory be unto Him! To Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth, and all have come unto Him as servants through the Most Great Word at that Gate, in very truth. Grievous is the word that issueth from their mouths, speaking of God that which is not true, in delusion and falsehood. We have made whatsoever is on earth as an adornment for the believers, that We may test which of them is best in conduct through the Gate.

Or dost thou think that the Companions of the Cave and of the Inscription were among Our wondrous signs in that Most Great Name? By God! Truth hath spoken truly a wondrous tale. God hath made the verses to succeed one another after this Youth in the Mother Book, that ye may know that God created you not, nor raised you up, save for Our signs which are mighty in that Gate. We destroyed the generations before you in very truth through the Most Great Word, and soon shall We destroy you for your turning away from the remembrance of God, the Most Great, in very truth, the Most High.

When people ask thee concerning the Chiefs, say: “God, my Lord, knoweth best their number around the Gate. Why do ye ask concerning that which God hath not taught you in His Book?” For God is indeed aware of His believing servants. Say: “The Truth is from Us; so let him who will, believe, and let him who will, deny.” We have prepared for the wrongdoers an all-encompassing fire.

Those who have believed in Our remembrance and performed righteous deeds for God, the Truth, God shall soon grant them the reward of the believers, according to the best of their deeds, by the decree of the Gate, as ordained in the Book. God hath created Paradise for the believers, and God’s promise in the Mother Book shall be fulfilled. Therein shall they have bracelets of gold, and they shall wear red garments of fine silk and brocade, reclining therein upon thrones—how excellent a reward and how beautiful a resting-place!

O ye believers! Fear your Lord, the All-Merciful, Who created you and teacheth you in this Book the ways of the Prophets. In this Book God teacheth you the ways of the Prophets and the truthful ones, according to manifest truth, that ye may become, through God the Most High, in that mighty Gate truly learned. Place, then, your trust in God, your true Lord, through the truth, upon the mighty truth, with all your might.

If ye claim obedience to God, your Lord, the All-Merciful, then follow Our command, for We have ordained for every people truth upon truth, and ye shall find no judgment more exalted than Our judgment upon the truth. Verily God is the Creator of all things, there is no God but Him. Worship not any but God, besides Whom there is no God, and He is God Who hath ever encompassed all worlds.

We, verily, have created you by God’s leave, your Lord, and ye perform naught upon the truth through truth, even if it be but little. We, verily, have made Our servant a Remembrance from God, blessed among you, that ye may aid him on the Day of Resurrection, through truth upon exalted truth, with all your might. If ye help God, He will help you on a Day when none besides God, the Truth, shall have dominion over the Most Great Truth, and He is God Who hath ever been witness to all worlds.

Fear God and reflect upon the creation of the heavens and earth and whatsoever lieth between them. We have created whatsoever We desire, and there is no repelling Our power over the truth through truth. God made you not to witness the creation of the heavens and earth, nor the creation of your own selves, and We take not those who lead astray as aids over truth through truth for all the worlds.

O people of the earth! Hold fast to the foundations of knowledge which We have sent down to you in this Book, that ye may be guided to the path, that your work may be made easy, and that ye may become, through God the Most High, truly learned, and may become, through God’s command, truly wise.

O servants of the All-Merciful! Vie ye with one another in good deeds through the Gate—this Word of God the Most High Who hath ever been, in the Mother Book, forbearing. Spend in God’s path of that which ye love for yourselves; soon shall ye find with God, through truth, from your deeds in the land of good-pleasure, a beauteous kingdom.

Verily God hath created the gardens for the believers among you, for those who have witnessed the signs of God the Most High in a path from the Gate around the Fire. When two young men entered the prison with Joseph, one of them in the square form and the other in God’s light in triangular form—they were inscribed around the Fire upon the mighty Word—the first said:

“I saw myself pressing the wine of Manifestation in a cup of pure gold, by leave of God the Most High, besides Whom there is no God; verily He hath ever been powerful over all things.”

And the other said, in a form of misbelief:

“I saw in my dream that a measure of bread was above my head, and birds were eating therefrom. Tell me its interpretation, for I see thee among those who know interpretation, and thou art verily, through truth, accounted among the good in God’s sight.”

Verily God hath ordained for creation different visions: among them are those of the highest heaven who read their book by leave of God their Lord, truthful ones in the Gate; and among them are those of the lowest depth who read their book as liars above the uprooted earth. The decree hath been fixed in the Mother Book, and for each of these there is an interpretation in God’s Most Great Book from which they never deviate, and this decree hath been fixed in the Mother Book.

Remember God, your Lord, the All-Merciful, and worship Him in hours of the day and like hours of the night, for good deeds with God have ever been inscribed in the Mother Book around the Gate.

Surah of Fatimih [Fatimih]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said: ʿNo food shall come unto you both as sustenance except that I shall inform you of its interpretation before it comes to you. This is of that which my Lord has taught me. Verily, I have forsaken the faith of a people who believe not in God and who are disbelievers in the Hereafter.”’ [Q12:37]

Ta. Ha. Remember the name of thy Lord, besides Whom there is no other God, the All-Knowing. And He is God, powerful over all things. O resplendent Light of God! Follow not the idolaters and leave them in their transgression, for God thy Lord is verily aware of them in truth. Follow what has been revealed unto thee from thy Lord, for God is indeed well-acquainted with His believing servants.

Place thy trust in God thy Lord, for He is verily mighty and powerful in truth. Sufficient is thy Lord as witness and protector. Fear ye, O servants of the Most Merciful, the Day when the Command shall come unto you from God, the Truth, from the distant land—in powerful truth, drawing nigh.

If ye help God, then verily God is your helper in truth, and ye shall be stationed upon the Most Great Path around the Fire in truth. But if ye disbelieve, We shall clothe you with garments of fire in Hell, and God shall judge you with the Greatest Fire, forever and ever. Verily, We have prepared for the disbelievers in the Fire maces of iron, by the decree of God, besides Whom there is no God. Verily He encompasses all worlds.

Whenever they desire to escape therefrom, they shall be returned thereto, and God shall cause them to taste, through His justice, a burning torment in truth. Verily God does what He wills through His grace and judges whom He wills with fire, according to the decree of the Book, for the sake of the ordained Command of the Gate.

God has willed for you the Hereafter, while ye desire the vain life of this world. What ails you that ye perceive not? Verily the Hereafter with God is true life indeed, and God is powerful over all things.

Whosoever turns away from the remembrance of this Youth, Our servant, after the Command has come from God, the Exalted, the Powerful—and this Book is indeed mighty in powerful truth—it is as though he has fallen from heaven and is snatched by birds or carried by the wind to a place which God has named in the Mother Book as remote.

Say: If ye but knew what We know from God, the Truth, ye would choose naught for yourselves save the Hereafter, wherein ye shall be adorned with bracelets of gold and pearls, and your raiment therein shall be, by leave of the Glorious One, of silk.

O people of the earth! Know ye not that God knows what is in the heavens and the earth, and that the knowledge of the Tablets has been, in this your Book, concealed around the Gate in truth? Verily, those who worship other than God shall never attain authority on earth in manifest truth. They have no knowledge, and We decree for the wrongdoers naught save the severe fire of Hell.

Those who call upon other than Us possess not even a little power in truth. Weak indeed are both the seeker and the sought! They have not valued God with His true worth, while the heavens shall be folded up by Our hands on the Day of Resurrection, and the earth on that Day shall be entirely within Our grasp in truth. Verily God, your Lord, the Most Merciful, encompasses all creation.

O people of the City and the Bedouins who dwell round about it! God hath completed His proof unto you. How is it that ye disobey God, your True Creator, in your private and public acts, following oft the conjectures of Satan? Do ye not fear the Day when the Balance shall be set up before you in truth, with truth, the Most High, with perfect justice? On that Day shall the faces of the sinners be blackened, and God hath ordained for them in the Day of Resurrection naught but an all-encompassing fire.

God gave you life, then causeth you to die, then giveth you life again. Why do ye not ponder the Qur’an in truth in the ways of the Gate as it was sent down? Why do ye not ponder the Qur’an in the ways of the Gate in its interpretation?

Glorify ye God, besides Whom there is no other God, in your private and public acts, according to the Most Great Word from the Gate, for verily He hath ever been independent of all creation through God.

O ye believers! The Most Great Light of God is nearer to you than your own selves, and those who are related are nearer to one another in the Book of God than aforetime. Be ye content with God, the Most High, the All-Powerful, the True One.

Verily We have taken thy covenant from the Prophets and the angels and all mankind in truth with the truth. God shall soon take from mankind on the Most Great Day a binding covenant in truth with the truth. Soon shall We question the truthful concerning their truthfulness and give them from God in the Garden of Eternity a bountiful reward.

O people of the East and West! Remember the favor of your Lord, the All-Merciful. By your Lord! The Truth hath come unto you in truth through the Most Great Truth, and the matter had been decreed in the Mother Book.

Await ye the Most Great Day of God when eyes shall be dazed and hearts shall reach to the throats. There shall the idolaters think of God untruthfully, in delusion and falsehood. There shall the All-Merciful try you through the Remembrance, and ye shall be severely shaken upon the land of the Euphrates.

Verily We have made the Remembrance as Our own Self and as a mortal like unto you, by God’s leave, as a powerful and true witness over you.

And Joseph said unto them both:

“No food shall come unto you as sustenance from God, besides Whom there is no other God—and He is God Who hath ever encompassed all creation—but I shall have told you the interpretation thereof from the mystery of the Gate regarding the interpretation of the Book, a wondrous utterance concerning the mystery within the inmost mystery, before God’s decree, the Most High, shall come unto you from the presence of the Most Exalted Gate, from the Point of Fire, in wonderful wise.”

This is of that which my Lord hath taught me through the tongue of Fatima the Radiant, in truth with the truth. Verily I have forsaken the religion of a people who believe not in God and His signs, and who, in relation to the authority of Fatima the Radiant, have been unbelievers around the Fire in the Mother Book.

Surah of Thanksgiving [Shukr]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“I follow the faith of my fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It is not for us to associate anything with God. This is of God’s grace upon us and upon all people, though most people are not thankful.” [Q12:38]

Alif. Lam. Mim. Ra. These are the verses of the Book from One Wise, Who was indeed knowing of all things. We have made this Book a mercy for those who do good deeds for their souls and turn to God through the gates of repentance, a beautiful and praiseworthy turning on the straight path. These are guided by their Lord, and their dwelling place is paradise, as God has ordained in the Mother Book.

Among the idolaters are those who purchase idle tales to mislead people from God’s path—these will not believe in God and His signs, and God has prepared for them in the Hereafter a great punishment. When Our verses are recited to those who know you not, they turn away in arrogance as if they hear them not. Glory be to God, the Most High, the Supreme, there is no god but He—it is as if God created in them but a faint awareness. God will question you about what you did in secret and in public on the straight path, and the decree in the Mother Book is final.

Know that God’s covenant on the Greatest Path by the Supreme Truth at the Gate must be answered. Say: Who can protect you from God, your True Lord? By your Lord, they will find no protector or helper besides God on the Day of Resurrection. The Most Merciful has decreed in His Book that you have in the remembrance of God a beautiful pattern for those who hope in God and the Last Day, and God is witness over all things. Soon will the Most Merciful remove your veil—then you will behold the remembrance of God and His covenant with your own eyes, with intense clarity.

We have willed for the believers the Greatest Word for whomever God chooses for Himself in faith and true submission. O people of the City! Remember God and glorify Him on the straight path morning and evening. He it is Who sends blessings upon you, as do His angels, that He may bring you out of darkness into light—and He is Merciful to the believers.

Your greeting on the Day of Resurrection from God regarding the Remembrance will be “Peace”—and He has prepared for them in the precincts of Paradise a lofty station. Whatever you desire you will find it by God’s leave, and in Paradise you have a station at the Gate that is written in the Mother Book.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Give glad tidings to Our believing servants that they have from God a great bounty. Pay no attention to the idolaters of the earth, ignore their harm, and trust in God—sufficient is God as Knower and Witness of His servant.

O servants of the Most Merciful! Thank your Lord Who created you and those before you, before a Day when you will have no power to do anything for yourselves apart from God’s decree—the Most High, there is no god but He, and He is God, powerful over all things. Whoever is grateful, is grateful for his own soul’s good, and whoever denies—truly God is Independent of all the worlds.

Do you not see the heavens and earth were joined together, then We clove them asunder through the Most Great Word. And We made from water every living thing—such is the truth and to it all must return.

O ye who believe! Follow Our light, for God hath commanded the denizens of the Throne and of heaven to seek forgiveness for those who follow Us through the Gate by means of the Most Great Word. And God is witness over all things.

There is naught but that its treasuries lie with Us, and We do verily send down upon whomsoever We will among the servants of God, our Lord, according as God hath willed concerning them. And verily the bounty of God thy Lord upon thee hath been ordained as magnificent in the Mother Book.

The grace of God from before the Gate upon all the worlds hath been ordained as magnificent in the Mother Book. Whoso among you obeyeth the Remembrance in what We have commanded you—ye are they that have obeyed God, besides Whom there is none other God, and He verily encompasseth all creation. And should ye disobey the Most Great Remembrance of God Who is among you, ye shall be numbered with those who have turned away and shown ingratitude.

O believers! Rise up in the early dawn, prostrating yourselves before God, besides Whom there is none other God, standing firm in truth. Let not the world beguile you from whatsoever good your souls have earned. In truth I say: should ye turn away from this Our Covenant, your deeds shall profit you not, and ye shall assuredly be consigned to the fire of hell through the Great Word—this hath been irrevocably decreed in truth.

Were ye to know with the knowledge of certainty, ye would behold hell in your deeds with the eye of certainty—yea, with the truth of certainty most sure. Unto God belongeth sincere religion, both before and after. God accepteth not any of your deeds save after ye assist His Cause with mighty strength.

Verily We have given you glad tidings of the servant of God and this Our Word, the Youth Whom the people call Ali in very truth. By God! He is independent of you and of your help. If ye help God, He will help you, and ye shall be rendered victorious over your own selves, in very truth.

Be ye thankful unto God and deny not God and His signs. Verily He is independent of all creation. God desireth to test the hearts of the believers through this Book. If ye be truthful in your faith, fear none save God, your True Lord. Verily He is witness over all things.

By your Lord! We shall assuredly gather you together on the Day of Resurrection around the fire in the place of assembly, and ye shall find no helper that day besides God, the Exalted, the True, the Faithful. We verily intercede for those who obey God and come before the Gate, prostrating themselves and bowing down before God, besides Whom there is none other God. Verily He is merciful unto the believers.

Never will the idolaters be pleased with thee unless thou follow their religion. Say: The remnant of God is true guidance. I have forsaken the religion of a people who believe not in Him, and I follow the religion of my fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It beseemeth me not to associate aught with God. This is of God’s grace upon me. God hath not ordained for mankind even a whit of our bounty. Yet most people render not thanks unto the remembrance of God, the Exalted, save a little.

Verily God desired from Abraham, Muhammad; and from Isaac, Ali; and from Jacob, Husayn. It beseemeth me not to speak save by their leave, and I am nothing before them save as a shadow before the sun. Verily God hath chosen me from among His servants by virtue of my response to their call. By thy Lord! When God declared His will, thou didst precede all others in answering our call, and for this reason have we bestowed upon thee our dominion.

Therefore, bestow favor upon whomsoever thou pleasest and turn away from whomsoever thou pleasest, for verily thou desirest naught save by our leave. We are in truth thy protector, and We are in truth, by what God hath ordained in the Mother Book, thy witness.

Surah of Man [Insan]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“O My fellow prisoners! Are diverse lords better, or God, the One, the All-Subduing?” [Q12:39]

Ta, Mim, Ha. Remember God, your Lord, besides Whom there is no other God, in this Most Great Gate in truth and by the truth. Verily He has ever encompassed all the worlds. He is the One Who has sent down a Book on parchment that people might know that God has power over all things. Did We not create you when you were but dust? Did We not give you life after your death when you were, in truth and by the truth, dead upon the earth? Verily We have sent down from heaven water as a pure essence from that Ocean.

And verily We have ordained for you in this Book a wisdom that We had not decreed for any before you, inasmuch as you were, through God’s grace, foremost in answering the Call around the Gate, as was inscribed in the Mother Book. O concourse of Shi’ihs! Fear God in Our Cause regarding the Most Great Remembrance of God, for verily in the Mother Book he has been, from the Point of Fire, mighty indeed. We have made him the middle cushion—your highest cannot comprehend his knowledge and your lowest cannot grasp his Cause, and God’s decree concerning his station has been, in truth and by the truth, irrevocably fixed in the Mother Book.

You will never attain even to a single letter of the knowledge of the Book, and the truth has ordained in the Book that those who journey to this Gate shall follow, in truth and by the truth, a straight path. We have made you like unto the peoples who passed before you, and you shall never find any change in God’s true way. You shall never comprehend the truth save through this Most Great Truth, for We have made him to be witnessed around the Fire in the Book.

This is among that which is revealed unto thee from God, confirming the Two Gates in the Word of Truth, that people might, through the Most Great Name of God, be witnesses in that Gate by God’s leave. Therefore glorify thy Lord with praise and seek forgiveness of God for the believers, for He has ever been merciful in truth and forgiving toward the believers. We have revealed this Book unto Our servant that he might be a warner unto all the worlds, and We have made him, in truth for God the Truth, a manifest authority.

God has willed to seize Rome in the true dominion with severe might. Do people think they can outstrip Us in anything? Nay! The matter has been irrevocably decreed in the Book. God has desired to destroy all people through the Most Great Truth in that Gate, save those who repent and turn unto God, and in that Gate have been recorded among the people of return. O people! Has not the news of the ancients come to you with exalted and mighty truth?

We have sent unto you, in truth and by the truth, this perfect mortal that you might know that God created you not, nor raised you up, save for an authority that was great indeed in the Mother Book. O servants of the All-Merciful! Turn ye unto your Creator Who created you and made you, in the temples of unity, human beings. We have made Our servant, in truth and by the truth, a shining sun above the worlds. O servants of God! Be ye the best helpers to this servant of Ours, who is, in truth and by the truth, praiseworthy. We have made him wise in the Mother Book.

O people! Acquire from the light of God which He has made within you, in truth and by the truth, an illuminating moon, that ye might know the number of years and the reckoning, and whatsoever God hath ordained therein of the decree of the Gate, as a fixed decree. Verily We have desired in this Book, concerning the Command of God regarding the station of the Gate, a mystery hidden from the worlds in the Point of Fire.

O people! Write down that which God hath revealed unto you by night and by day from the tongue of this Gate, this Arabian Youth, who hath been, from the Point of Fire unto the Point of Fire, speaking the truth in praiseworthy wise. What aileth you that ye deny God, your Lord, openly against the truth, and in secret? Have We not created you from a fluid, despised in truth, by the truth? Have We not preserved you in your mothers’ wombs when ye were powerless to do aught, in truth, by the truth?

Have We not brought you forth from your mothers’ wombs, then sustained you, then caused you to die, then quickened you in truth through that Gate by Our will? O people of the prison! Are diverse gates better, or the One Gate of God, the All-Compelling, unto Whom there is no likeness? Ye and what ye worship besides God are but fuel for hell in God’s Book, and this decree hath been written by Our hands and inscribed in truth round about the Fire. Fear ye the Fire which God hath prepared for you, and ye shall find no helper besides God, the Most High, on that Day.

O people of the earth! Will ye not ponder this Book wherein there is no doubt? Had it been from other than the Remembrance, ye would surely have found in it many discrepancies. Verily, when We will, We replace one verse with another in the Command, and God best knoweth what He revealeth in His decree, while ye know nothing of the knowledge of the Book. God hath sent it down upon thy heart, and the Holy Spirit, by God’s leave, is its guardian. And verily God hath power over all things.

Surah of the Book [Kitab]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Ye worship naught beside Him save names which ye have named, ye and your fathers, for which God hath revealed no authority. Judgment belongeth to none save God. He hath commanded that ye worship none but Him. That is the right religion, but most men know not.” [Q12:40]

Kaf, Ha, Ya, ʿAyn, Sad. O concourse of lights! Hearken unto My call from the Sacred Month. This is the month of Ramadan wherein was revealed the Qur’an. Verily, I am God, there is no God but I. God hath revealed unto Me on the Night of Power that no soul who pondereth in his heart a single letter of this Book, or uttereth with his lips the pure truth during this Most Great Month and the two mighty months preceding it, but I have ordained Paradise for him, that he may know that God is the Truth and His Word is the Most Great Mystery, and that God hath power over all things.

Read ye what is easy for you of this Qur’an, morning and evening. Chant ye this Book by leave of the Ancient God, with the melody of that singing Bird in the atmosphere of the heavens—a true chanting. This is a remembrance for whomsoever desireth to take unto the Lord, his God, the Most High, a straight path.

No soul hath judged contrary to what God hath revealed in His Book, the Furqan, and this Book, but hath been recorded with God among the people of unbelief. We have decreed for the unbeliever, as recompense for his judgment, a severe fire in hell—in truth, by the truth. Whoso altereth from the Furqan and this Book a single letter contrary to their letters hath disbelieved in God, his Lord, and God will never accept any of his deeds, and his abode shall assuredly be the fire, according to the decree of the Book.

Those who conceal any letter of this Book consume fire, and We neither look upon them nor speak to them on the Day of Resurrection. God hath prepared for them, in justice, a grievous punishment in the depths of the tomb.

God hath prescribed for you that ye shall not touch this Most Great Book save in a state of greatest purity, for God hath forbidden it unto all unbelievers. Whoso judgeth contrary to what God hath revealed in His Book shall be gathered into the heart of the fire in God’s presence.

Be ye content with what God hath made mysterious to you in His Book, for ye know naught of the knowledge of the Book save a few disconnected letters. O ye believers! When ye hear the Book of God, hearken in silence, for this is a decree in the Mother Book ordained by God.

Ye shall never find any change in Our way, in truth and by truth. O ye believers! Touch not the Book on paper save after purification. Fear God, O servants of God, that ye may be recorded in the Mother Book, by God’s grace, around the Point of Fire.

This Book guideth unto that which is most upright, in truth, while it increaseth naught for the wrongdoers, by the truth and the Most Great Truth, save in loss. O servants of the All-Merciful! Fear ye God regarding the alteration of the Book by a single letter from what God hath revealed therein in truth, contrary to the letter, for God hath decreed in the Mother Book a great fire for the doer thereof.

God hath placed in your Book, in the positions of the letters, a pause according to a known measure of the Book. And among the positions in this Book, God hath ordained silence and assimilation according to the paths of station, as He hath firmly established in the Mother Book by the leave of the Gate, as a thing decreed.

O ye who believe! Chant ye the verses of God in this Book in the manner of the eloquent ones among the people of the Hijaz, with truth, by the truth, in sorrowful tones. And recite as God hath revealed among you, with truth, by the truth, from the tongue of the Gate, in praiseworthy wise. And take ye the meaning of interpretation from Our Most Great Servant, if ye be faithful to God and His verses, with truth, by the truth. Read ye what is easily accessible of this Book and advance for yourselves its recompense, for verily God doth not suffer to be lost the reward of them that act, even though they act in truth upon the truth but little. And lend ye to God in the reading of this Book through love of the Gate, and seek forgiveness of God in the watches of the night and the ends of the day. God shall soon fulfill your right in ways ye cannot encompass with knowledge, for verily God hath power over all things.

O company of jinn and men! If ye are able to produce the like of this Book, then ye are guided. And if ye are not able—and ye shall never be able—then follow ye this Most Great Light of God and believe as the believers have believed in it. Otherwise your souls have disbelieved in God, your True Lord, and ye were in opposition to aught but truth, which in the Mother Book was far removed. And if ye do not—and ye shall never do so—after your souls are convinced, and your leaders act, and God exalteth the signs of His power from that Gate unto the peoples of earth and heaven in mighty wise.

O ye who believe! Doth not this Book suffice you as a proof from God unto you? How then do ye believe in Muhammad through faith unseen regarding His Book? By God the Truth, were the peoples of earth and heaven to gather together to produce the like of a portion of its letters, they would never be able, even were We to aid them with seven times their like. Is there other than God who hath power over all things?

O Concourse of Lights! Hear ye My call from the Point of the Gate: “Verily I am God, there is no God but I.” Read ye from this Most Great Book what ye are able, for verily I have commanded the Pen to inscribe upon the Preserved Tablet for its reader, in truth, the Most Great Kingdom in the Most Great Paradise, wherein are trees of divine bounties which have borne fruit by God’s leave. When a soul partaketh thereof it shall find the sweetness of eternity and its fruit. This is God’s most great favor for those who recite His Book. Verily God is the Most High, and God is witness over all things.

O Most Great Word! Hearken thou to My call from the Speaker within thyself: “Verily I am God, there is no God but I.” Say: “I am the Sacred House, and My true month in God’s Book is the tenth of ʿAshur of the Sacred Month.” No soul hath magnified God’s month and His Book which was in truth regarding Me, the Most Great Truth, and recited therefrom a letter of its most great letters, but the All-Merciful and His angels and those endowed with knowledge among His creation have blessed him. Lo! This is God’s favor concealed in the first line, which God hath prepared for the sincere among you in truth, and this decree existed in the Mother Book.

O people of effacement! Hear ye My call from the Point of sobriety from this Arabian Youth Who spoke on Mount Sinai by God’s leave unto Moses, for verily the Torah was sent down from God in truth unto him, and mighty was this Cause in the Mother Book. And He pointed with Our hands toward Jesus—the Gospel was sent down from heaven in his time upon his own self, then did God raise him to heaven, there to abide until the Promised Day, when the sealed scroll shall be unveiled at the seat of Divine decree within the Sacred Mosque, through the Tongue of God’s True Proof in the mystery of the Remembrance, from Muhammad, the Arabian Prophet, fresh and moist upon the tender pen. And verily was this mystery inscribed with the Gate on that Day.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Say: By God’s leave have I read all the lines of that sealed scroll on the day when My Grandfather Muhammad inscribed it with his own hands. I know naught and judge naught save what was traced therein in upright script at the Point of Fire. And this is but the mystery of one line from that Most Great Word. Verily God is the Truth, there is no God but Him, and He is the Most High, the Most Great.

O Concourse of Lights! Hearken unto God’s call from the Point of Fire—God, there is no God but Him! I have forbidden black ink in this Gate of Praise upon Mount Sinai, and have revealed unto the Pen not to write this Book in the station of servitude, nor anything that God hath caused to flow from the Pen of Ink from the Gate, save upon white, refined, gilded, sectioned tablets with yellow ink of pure red gold. Verily God is the Self-Sufficient, and He is God, powerful over all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Say unto the believers who cannot afford gold ink that they may write with white or red ink, and if after utmost striving they find not these, then with green ink after yellow. God loveth for the believers what He loveth for His Remembrance, and God, your Lord, is indeed aware of what ye do.

Verily We have sent down unto thee with the Book this Hidden Scroll, that people may recite its prayers throughout the night and at the ends of the day, and may learn from its lofty stations the ways of their servitude unto God in the path of this Most Great Gate. This hath been made a proof from God for the Greatest Remembrance. Preserve what ye can of this White Book and this Red Scroll, for God hath guaranteed unto its preserver and its reciter in the path of the Gate the Paradise of the All-Highest Truth.

Act according to the truth, for soon shall ye find your deeds preserved and treasured with God, your True Lord. When the Qur’an is recited, hearken unto God your Lord and remember Him within yourselves silently, without loud utterance, that ye may be inscribed in the Book of Truth as people of the Gate.

Verily We have sent down this Book as a mystery from the Qur’an concerning the most hidden secret inscribed above the secret. Whosoever supposeth that a single letter thereof is a letter of the Qur’an hath verily disbelieved in God. God hath sent it down through His ancient power upon His wondrous Remembrance, in wondrous truth most wondrously.

O servants of God! Did I not covenant with you that ye should not call upon God, your Creator, with names of your own devising for which He hath sent down no authority in His Book? And the decree from God unto you is that ye worship none but Him, following the path of this Gate with sincerity unto God. This is the mighty religion of God with your Lord, yet most people know naught of the knowledge of the Book save a few letters.

O people of the Prison! Do not differentiate between the people and yourselves through your perverted desires which are of Satan. By your Lord, the Most Merciful! The Most Great Remembrance of God is truth with God, and verily Satan hath ever been your manifest enemy.

Surah of the Covenant [ʿAhd]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“O my two companions of the prison! As for one of you, he shall pour out wine for his lord to drink; and as for the other, he shall be crucified, and the birds shall eat from his head. The matter is decreed concerning which ye twain do inquire.” [Q12:41]

Alif. Lam. Ra. Alif. God hath sent down the Book from His presence that people might know the truth of the Remembrance through the Remembrance, and verily God hath power over all things. We have sent down this Book unto you that ye may be remembered near the Fire through Our verses in that Gate. And thy Lord doth inspire thee from the Most Great Covenant of God. Therefore, convey unto all peoples the decree of the Most Great Gate regarding this Word, through truth upon truth. Why do ye disbelieve in God in your private thoughts and public utterances, following abundantly the conjectures of Satan? We have placed between thee and those who believe not in Our signs a hidden veil of truth upon truth.

Say: Have We not recited unto you from God’s Book, creating and originating? See how people deny Our signs after God hath taught them abundantly of Our proofs in that Book, through truth upon truth. Those who judge by other than the decree of this Book have indeed borne a grievous sin against the decree of the Book, contrary to truth. They eat of the fruit of poison from the tree that hath sprung from the root of hell, and the decree in the Mother Book hath been fulfilled. This is your recompense in truth for what God hath decreed in the Mother Book.

We have made Our Most Great Word, through truth, concerning God’s decrees, through a mystery from the Book’s mysteries, through the instruction of the All-Merciful, knowing through truth upon truth. Therefore submit to His Cause and take Our decrees from the Gate in every particular and universal matter, praiseworthy upon the paths of divine reward through truth upon truth. We have made his heart a vessel for Our knowledge regarding all decrees from beginning to end, according to what God hath decreed in the Mother Book.

O people of the Furqan! Do ye know, or doth God Who, there is no god but He, Who created him and made him a mighty pillar of truth for all the worlds? God hath made him a powerful helper for Our Cause through truth upon truth, and hath decreed in the Mother Book a mighty mystery from the Gate. O people of the earth! Convey unto the Christians Our Cause regarding that Gate with intense truth upon truth. Take the covenant from the people of the Book for the Day of God which the All-Merciful hath promised us through truth upon truth, and God’s Command in the Mother Book shall be fulfilled.

O servants of God! Convey Our Cause from the east of the earth to its west, from what God hath taught you regarding the Cause of Our servant and His Book, powerful upon the paths of the Strong One through truth upon truth. Convey what ye are able, for God burdeneth not any soul beyond what He hath given it, and God your Lord is well-informed of your souls through truth upon truth. Ye know not of God’s Cause except what God teacheth you from His traces and His Book, through truth upon truth, upon the paths of description.

O servants of the All-Merciful! Fear God regarding Our taking of truth upon truth with intensity. We desire naught from you on this your day save Our servant Ali, and think not falsely of God in delusion. Know that God hath made Our servant a witness among you. Therefore repent unto God, O people, for verily We have expounded the verses for whomsoever desireth to believe steadfastly in the All-Merciful. Say: God is our Lord, the Lord of all the worlds. He is God, besides Whom there is none other God. He is One, without peer or minister, and there is nothing like unto Him. And He is God, Who hath power over all things.

Verily We have sent down unto thee this Book with truth, by the truth, that thou mayest be renowned among the worlds as the Great Gate. God hath created naught among all things, whether moist or dry, save that God hath inscribed with His hands its decree in this Book, concerning that which God hath ordained, concealed within the Point of Fire. Verily We have concealed from you, from this Book of God, that which God hath willed concerning His mention, that perchance the people may believe in God and may not transgress in rejection. And God is witness over all things.

Verily those verses were set forth as a clear and manifest token in the breast of Our servant, in accordance with that which God hath, in the Mother Book, irrevocably ordained. And God hath not willed either a small matter or a great, but that He hath, in this Book, prescribed its ruling; and God hath ever been, of all things, the All-Knowing. And God hath sent down this Book in your midst, that haply men may bear witness to Our signs from nigh unto the Fire. And We, in truth, reveal unto thee tidings of the ancients, concerning the decree of the two births, in very truth and justice, even as God hath, in the Mother Book, irrevocably ordained—so that men may know that We have, by God’s leave, made him, in His presence, powerful over all things, in truth and by the truth, and endued with sovereign might.

O my companion in the prison! As to one of you—if he be of them that believe in Our remembrance—he shall give his lord to drink of wine, in the cup of subtleties, from the water of camphor, by the leave of God, the True—answered and accepted. But as to the other, he is of them that deny Our remembrance: he shall be crucified in the Fire, and the birds of the Fire shall devour from his head. The matter is decreed whereon ye both dispute; and God hath been witness over all the worlds.

Surah of Unity [Wahdah]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And he said to the one who he thought would be saved from among them two: ʿRemember me to your lord.’ But Satan caused him to forget to mention him to his lord, and he remained in prison for several years.” [Q12:42]

Alif. Lam. Mim. ʿAyn. This is a remembrance from God in the Most Great Word to the believers in the Preserved Tablet, which has been preserved with God, the Praiseworthy, above the Throne. We have indeed sent down to mankind a Book of mysteries that has been inscribed in the Concourse of the Line, lest the believers should exchange the verses of God concerning the Remembrance for a paltry price from among the limited letters. We have indeed explained all the ordinances from your Lord in that Book with truth by the mighty truth, concealed around the water.

We relate unto thee the best of stories through the Greatest Interpretation, that people may believe in God and His verses with truth by the mighty truth, in small measure. The believers are they whose hearts are filled with rapture when God is mentioned, and who stand at the gate of God, the Exalted, upon the mighty path. O people! Fear God and speak not concerning Our Word anything untrue. Glory be to God! What ails you that when God alone is mentioned in the Book, your hearts shrink with aversion, and you disbelieve in the Hereafter, following Satan’s conjecture?

By thy Lord! If all the people of the earth, from east to west, were to gather together to produce the like of this Book, they would not be able to do so, even if they were to help one another. God hath sent down this Book in truth unto all worlds. Say not concerning Our Remembrance anything save words of servitude with truth by the truth, for God, your true Lord, doth encompass all the worlds. Should you write what you are capable of, you would not attain to the mention of aught from Our servant, even if it were but a portion of a point beyond the surface around the letter B.

God hath created him for Himself, and We have made him a witness over the worlds through the Most Exalted Word. Verily, he is the Truth from God, the Gate of your Guardian; therefore follow him that ye may be recorded among the believers around the water in the Book. God hath decreed for those who enter the City behind its Gate the judgment of thieves, and their hands are decreed to be cut off in the Mother Book by the decree of the Fire. Fear God and follow not your idle fancies, for when We will a thing, We say unto it “Be!” and it is, in the Mother Book, existent around the water.

Glorified be He in Whose hand is the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and thou art upon the Most Great Path of God, straight. Fear God concerning the days of God regarding the Remembrance. By God, the Truth! His days are mighty in the Mother Book. When Our Command cometh, God hath decreed that none shall profit from what they earned before, for Our Command is severe in the Mother Book. At that time shall the people be shaken with a mighty shaking, as God hath ordained in the Mother Book. On that day every bearer of a burden shall cast off her burden, both small and great, and God hath not ordained life save for His sign, for He hath ever been mighty and powerful.

There shalt thou see mankind as in a drunken state, yet they are not drunken, but God hath made Our signs in thyself mighty with truth by the truth. O people! Follow what God hath sent down unto you of His Most Great Light from this luminous Arabian Youth. Verily the Arabs have shown intense misbelief toward Our signs and have displayed falsehood contrary to truth. Those who repent unto God and perform righteous deeds—the All-Merciful shall soon cause them to enter, on the Day of Resurrection, a noble entrance into an exalted station.

Therein shall they have whatsoever their souls desire, and God hath ordained for them youths and houris like unto fragments of the moon and red pearls. This indeed is the supreme triumph, inscribed in the Mother Book. Verily their sustenance from God shall come to them morning and evening in forms resembling their own essence, in truth through the truth. O people! What aileth you that ye humble not yourselves at the revelation of Our verses from the tongue of the Gate, mighty in truth through the supreme truth?

By God the Truth! Were We to send down this Book upon any mountain, thou wouldst see it humbled and rent asunder through fear of God concerning that Gate, according to what God hath ordained mighty in the Mother Book. These are the parables We set forth for mankind that they might submit to God and His verses and be content with the truth. Have We not guided you in the ways of those before you? And ye shall not find in Our laws one letter upon another letter apart from the letter of God, Whose sign hath ever existed in all things in truth through the truth.

When people mockingly and vainly rejected Our signs contrary to truth, We verily made their hearts like stone, or even harder, and We removed them far from Our mercy concerning that exalted Gate. O people! What aileth you? How do ye judge without God’s leave? Do ye not perceive through God the Truth? Why do ye not fear God on a day that hath been ordained mighty in the Mother Book? Fear God, O servants, from Our mighty grasp in truth through the truth concerning that Gate.

Soon shall ye witness a day when We shall say to the angels: “Take from among My servants those who were stubbornly opposed to the exalted Gate contrary to truth in this world.” O angels of God! Bind them in chains seventy cubits in length, then cast them into the depths of the coffin according to what God hath decreed for them in the Mother Book. And he said to the one whom he thought would be saved: “Remember me before thy Lord.” But he mentioned him not in God’s Book of Truth, for Satan made him forget the remembrance of God, and imprisonment for known months was decreed for him according to what God had ordained in the Mother Book.

Soon will their Lord guide them and forgive their sins, for they are among the guests with God, thus recorded in the Mother Book.

Surah of the Vision [Ru’ya]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And the king said: ʿI do see seven fat cows being devoured by seven lean ones, and seven green ears of corn and others withered. O chiefs! Expound to me my vision, if ye can interpret visions!”’ [Q12:43]

Ta, Mim, Sin. Praise be to God Who hath sent down verses of truth unto His servant, that men might be believers in the remembrance of the All-Merciful in that Book and bear witness to love of the Remembrance.

Verily, We shall relate unto thee the most excellent interpretation of thy vision among the visions of men, with truth upon truth, which was inscribed as truth in the Mother Book.

The believers cannot bear aught of what God hath shown thee above the Throne of Truth within the consciousness of the heart, and God is witness over all things.

Say: After the dawn prayer in the sacred month of Ramadan, wherein the Qur’an was revealed, I saw, while facing the Qiblih and seated in contemplation, gazing toward God, the Most High—and God is witness over all things.

And there came a soul from the Holy Land, the sanctuary of Husayn, disheveled and dust-covered, approaching me by command, returning to the Command.

He said: “In my dream I saw a lofty tree growing in the sanctuary of Husayn, parallel to where his noble head lay upon the ground—which was raised up in truth by the truth.

And I saw upon it a beautiful maiden suspended, speaking: ʿI am the Beloved of all worlds, of those who came first and last, of those in the East and West. I am the All-Seeing Eye of God, I am the Outstretched Hand of God, I am the All-Hearing Ear of God,’ and similar words, raising her voice to heaven, turning neither right nor left, speaking without pause or hesitation, and I saw not from her, in very truth, any moment of silence regarding these words.

The tree and the words of the one suspended thereon amazed me, just as God showed me His mighty signs in truth upon truth.

I was honored to attain the presence of Imam Musa ibn Ja’far, the Supreme Proof of God. I began mentioning the tree and the words of the one suspended thereon. The Imam indicated toward you with his hands, gloriously, transcendently, majestically, and sublimely in truth, saying: ʿVerily God created this tree for my brother, the solace of mine eye and fruit of my heart.’ And he completed his exalted words with four sublime words similar to these.

And therein were the ears fulfilled in their verdure, and the Command in the Mother Book was seven.

O chiefs! Interpret for me the vision of God’s Supreme Remembrance, if ye can give the best interpretation as witnessed in God’s Preserved Book.

The All-Merciful hath interpreted in His Book concerning the Center of the Command through the mystery that none should comprehend—that is God’s hidden grace, veiled in mystery, concealed in mystery, sheltered by mystery from all around the line. He giveth it to whom He willeth, and He is the All-Wise, the Gracious, and He, verily, is the Most High, the Supreme.

He hath explained through the interpretation of the Book regarding the vision of the Gate, and none remembereth God’s verses save he who hath upon his neck a pure covenant with God by Our leave, and verily God is witness over all things.

Verily He is the Truth, there is no God but He, and He hath knowledge of all things.

O people of the earth! Let not forms and garments veil you at the Gate, for verily He is, in truth, the Path of God, the Most High, recorded in the Mother Book around the Fire. God hath ordained this punishment as your just recompense for having been obstinate deniers of the signs of His Servant without right. And verily God did not create Muhammad to be the father of any of your men, but God hath placed him in the heart of the Throne for His Most Great Day, which God hath decreed in truth to be treasured and concealed.

And verily God hath made the mystery of His Servant great upon the land of the heart. Minds cannot ascend to His station, for God hath ordained in the Mother Book that the decree of the Point of Fire be irrevocable. And God willeth not that imaginings should soar into the atmosphere of His earth, in truth and by truth, concerning what God hath decreed and ordained, for the decree in the Mother Book is conclusive. Know ye that this decree concerning Him from God is a truth, contingent upon the acceptance of His Word of Self, in the Most Great Truth, before all the worlds.

Know ye, O servants of God, that God hath made the dominion of earth and heaven Ours through His power, and the decree in the Mother Book is irrevocable. And verily We shall inherit the earth and all that is thereon by God’s leave, as God hath ordained in the Mother Book, in truth and by truth, conclusively. And verily We have bestowed upon thee from Our dominion that which God hath willed concerning thee, according to the mystery within the mystery concealed in the veiled mystery.

Stand thou firm as thou wert bidden, before and after, upon the Word of the mystery within the hidden mystery, mighty and steadfast. And weigh the hearts of Our followers with the balance of justice from thy knowledge, and show mercy unto them, for verily God is independent of all worlds. And verily We have ordained for the first one to deny Our Servant a fire from the Zaqqum tree which God hath created in the land of Sijjin, and the decree concerning them is, in truth and by truth, conclusive.

God hath not ordained for you to leave your land to acquire knowledge of His earth save after days which God shall manifest from His presence—there the decree is obligatory and irrevocable. Soon will God manifest Him in a land, suddenly, in truth with weighty truth, alone. And when He calleth you from God, know ye that God hath enforced His decree, and the promise concerning Him is, in truth, conclusive. Therefore turn ye unto God and seek Our deliverance, in truth and by truth, from the Gate nearby.

Fear ye God on the day when the Remembrance shall call among you from God, the Most High, in powerful truth, alone. None shall answer Him save certain souls among the believers who have been treasured and concealed in the Mother Book with God, the Truth. And verily We have ordained good things for those who are foremost, as God hath ordained preserved in the Mother Book.

And verily We have set for all things a limit according to the limit of all things, concealed in that Gate. And verily We have ordained for all things, in truth and by truth, by God’s leave, a written term. Ye shall not hasten that which We have ordained to come to pass in due time amongst you, for thus hath it been inscribed in the Mother Book by the decree of the Remembrance.

Verily God shall cause you to die at the hour when the angels take your souls, they who, by His command, have ever been, through the Remembrance, truly powerful executors of the Truth. We, verily, do strengthen Our servant through a spirit from Us, the like of which hath never been created in aught else, in very truth.

Surah of “He” [Huwa]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They said: ʿThese are but confused dreams! Nay, we know not the interpretation of dreams!”’ [Q12:44]

Kaf, Ha, Ya, ʿAyn, Sad. Praise be to God Who hath sent down the Book in truth unto His servant, and hath ordained the angels of the heavens and the earth to circle round the Gate, for verily We have established within his heart the Sacred House in truth. Be ye then, for the sake of God, the Most High, praiseworthy upon the mighty truth. Verily We have made the exalted angels, by God’s leave, to be His hosts, and He is God Who hath ever been, in truth, a witness over His servants. Ye do naught save what We will concerning you, and verily God doth encompass all creation.

O people! Convey Our word openly to those who are absent, concerning that which God hath purposed regarding His servant who was praised in the Mother Book. And say to the Romans:

“By what authority do ye conquer unjustly in the nearest part of the earth in vain delusion?”

Verily We shall, God willing, demand the blood of the believers from you in that great truth, and ye shall find no way to escape. And verily, were We to will it, We would take from you Our dominion, and God hath ordained no reversal to Our power in truth.

Verily We have made this Book the mystery of the Qur’an, letter by letter. Follow then the greatest light of God amongst you, for if ye follow not God’s greatest command concerning you, then by the True One, ye shall not find on the Day of Resurrection even an atom’s weight of your deeds, however small. Verily We have prescribed for you that which God had formerly prescribed for the believers in His Book, and ye shall find no variation in the way of the All-Merciful concerning this matter. By the True One, ye shall not find therein a single letter other than the letters of the Qur’an, and God is witness over all things.

Fear God, O servants of God, concerning that which He hath ordained for you in the Mother Book as an irrevocable decree of the Gate. Verily the Cause of God hath come—hasten it not. Soon shall We show you Our signs concerning that Gate, which have been hidden in all the Tablets. The word from Us hath been fulfilled that We shall assuredly fill the East and West of the earth with justice, as God hath willed, in a praiseworthy manner, after We have seen it filled with unbelief towards the Gate and denial.

Know, O servants of God, that God hath created among you a soul from yourselves, a mortal like unto you, that ye might believe in God and His Cause from the presence of the All-Wise in truth, and the decree concerning the station of the Gate hath been determined with God. Our light hath come unto you in that Greatest Book that ye might believe in God and His verses in a praiseworthy manner. Verily We have made him wise in the Mother Book as a remembrance for Our servants who may be weak in faith.

O servants of God! Convey Our Cause, for God hath prescribed for you in this Book a praiseworthy decree from His wisdom. O ye who are present! Convey God’s true Cause to those who are absent, all together in beautiful words. Verily We have sent down Our servant from the Concourse on High as a bounty unto the believers, and God doth encompass all things, that he might teach you the interpretation of traditions and the mysteries of the Book which had been abandoned by you contrary to truth. Verily We have sent down the Remembrance unto you, and We have been its Guardian through God, the Most High.

God hath placed the believers from among His companions upon the straight paths of truth, upon the mighty Truth, though they be few. God hath made Our servant among you a witness unto the Truth, by the Truth, over all the worlds. He is the Witness at the creation of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lieth between them, by the Truth, through the mighty Truth, all together. We have made him in the Mother Book a testimony concerning the creation of your souls and your deeds and whatsoever ye acquire in your private and public lives. He is God, Who hath ever been the Knower of all things.

Know ye, O servants of God, through the Truth, by the faithful Truth, with the eye of certainty, most assuredly, that God hath appointed for Us and for Our servant a station which hath been, in the Mother Book, cut off from the worlds at the Point of Fire, and the Command in the Mother Book hath been forbidden around the Water. We are He and He is We, except that He is He, and Our servant is he who hath ever been, in the Mother Book, a witness over the worlds. Verily We, We have made God’s proofs to rest upon all the worlds through the mighty Truth together.

Fear ye God, O servants of the All-Merciful, concerning that which God hath stored within the heart of Our servant of the knowledge of the Gate, through the Truth, by the most great Truth. Verily they who pledge allegiance unto thee in Our decree from God unto the Truth, by the Truth, it is as though they pledge allegiance unto God, the Truth, and God is witness over all things.

We have placed the hands of Our servant above your hands, for what he hath borne of the Most Great Name of God in Our mystery, through the Truth, by the Truth—a thousand unmultiplied—and the decree from God in the Mother Book hath been accomplished. The unbelievers have testified against their own souls, through the Truth, by the Truth, with confused dreams, and the idolaters with visions, and ye shall not be interpreters of the Fire within your midst, written in the Mother Book around the Gate.

Surah of the Mirrors [Mirat]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And he who escaped from among them remembered after a time and said: ʿI will inform you of its interpretation, so send me forth.”’ [Q12:45]

Ta Ha. He is God, there is no God but Him. He has revealed to me that I am verily God, the Truth. There is no God but Him, so worship Him and be sincere in religion to the Most Great Remembrance, for we belong to God and to Him is our return, as inscribed in the Book of God upon the Most Great Truth.

O people of the East! Follow Our servant in what God has sent down to you as a light and an illuminating Book upon the Truth. O people of the West! Come forth from your homes to aid the Cause of God before the day when the All-Merciful will come to you in the shadows of clouds, surrounded by angels who glorify God and seek forgiveness for those who believe in Our signs in truth. The matter has been decreed and judgment has been established in the Mother Book.

You shall find no way to repel Our power in truth, by the truth, in any measure. At that time you shall neither be able to move toward the truth nor find rest in aught else. The kingdom has been inherited by him for whom God ordained it in the Mother Book from ancient times. Fear God, O servants of God, and be among the first to believe in Our servant and His glorious and mighty Book.

Verily God has preserved it for this your day that you might be well-informed of God and His signs in that Gate. We have named it in the Mother Book, by God’s leave, as pure and sweet water. God has created the believers from a drop distilled from that Most Great Ocean, and God is knowing of all things.

O servants of the All-Merciful! Fear God in your thoughts about God concerning this Gate, lest you falsely and vainly attribute to it what is not true. It is not for any mortal that God should give him the Book and wisdom, then he should say to people “Be servants to me instead of God.” Glory be to God, far above what the wrongdoers imagine concerning His signs in their great arrogance.

We indeed say to the people:

“Be pure servants to God alone and associate nothing with His worship in truth.”

We have taken from the Prophets a covenant for God that you shall surely believe in God’s Remembrance and shall aid Him. God will question the truthful about their truthfulness. These have fulfilled God’s covenant in concealing His Remembrance, and We have been witness over them and over all the worlds.

Do you seek other than God’s pure Remembrance, when to Him have submitted all who are in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly? Say:

“We believe in God and His words, and we make no distinction between any of His signs.”

Be submissive to God and praising of the Most Exalted Gate.

Whoever follows other than this Remembrance, God will not accept anything of his deeds, and he shall be recorded among the unbelievers in God’s Book. How shall God guide one who has disbelieved after his faith, and who had testified that the Gate is truth, and the Book has come with truth? God guides not those among you who are ungrateful to God’s praiseworthy Remembrance.

These—their recompense is the Fire, and upon them is the curse of God and the curse of the angels and of all the believers, save those who repent after their disbelief. God will forgive whom He wishes and take vengeance on whom He wishes, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise. Those who associate partners with God—God will not accept from them the earth’s fill of red rubies even if they should spend it in God’s path. God hath desired from the believers pure and sincere faith, and He, verily, is independent of all creation.

God hath ordained for mankind no secret commandment after knowledge of this Book save for him who submitteth his face unto God, aideth Our Cause, and awaiteth the dominion of truth in the remembrance of God, the Most High, through truth and with compelling might, which is nigh. God hath prescribed for these believers a double portion of reward and a goodly final abode, according to the decree of the Book, as a provision.

O people of the earth! Believe in God your Creator and follow the light of God within you. This Faith is the religion of Abraham, and hath been inscribed in the Mother Book as the upright Faith. Be not far removed from God, your Lord, the All-Merciful. This Gate is, with your Lord, the first House established for mankind upon the land of the heart, sanctified above all creation. God hath ordained round about it these clear signs: the Station of Abraham. Whoso entereth therein is, in the Mother Book, secure. Pilgrimage to this House is a duty unto God for all who are able to make their way thereto along the equatorial line from the point of fire.

They who have disbelieved in the Remembrance after having heard the words of God from His tongue—God will surely cause them to burn in the fire at the gate of stone in the depths of hell for their disbelief in God, the Most High. God is witness over all things. How can ye disbelieve in God, your Lord, Who created you, when ye read God’s Book from aforetime? Do ye find therein, or in that Book, any discrepancy in even a single letter of the truth? By God! Were ye all to gather to take a single letter contrary to the revealed Book, ye would be powerless. God hath sent it down from His presence, and He, verily, hath power over all things.

Whoso holdeth fast unto God’s Most Great Remembrance hath fulfilled his purpose and is recorded in the Mother Book as being upon the praiseworthy path. O servants of the All-Merciful! Fear God before death overtaketh you, and die not save in submission to God’s remembrance, the Most High. This decree hath been ordained of God in all the Tablets. O people of the earth! Hold fast to the mighty cord of God—Our remembrance—this Arabian Youth Who hath been concealed at the point of snow.

Become ye brothers in God’s one religion upon the straight path. God desireth that your hearts be mirrors unto your brethren in faith, that ye be reflected in them and they in you. This is the path of God, the Mighty, through truth, and God is witness over what ye do. We, verily, have made from water every living thing, according to what God hath ordained in the Mother Book concerning the point of water round about the fire. And he who was saved among the believers said:

“O people of the earth! Remember after this verse that I shall inform you of the interpretation of the vision from this Remembrance, so turn ye unto God, the Truth, for He, verily, encompasseth all things.”

Surah of the Proof [Hujjat]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“O Joseph, O truthful one, expound unto us concerning seven fat cows which seven lean ones devoured, and seven green ears of corn and others that are withered, that I may return unto the people, perchance they may come to know.” [Q12:46]

Alif Lam Mim ʿAyn Sad Ra. God hath revealed unto me that this Remembrance is the Supreme Remembrance of God. Take heed, O My servants, lest ye speak concerning Him aught save through God, besides Whom there is no God, and He is verily the Most Exalted, Who in the Mother Book hath been decreed wise. Verily this Youth is God’s servant, from Whom He hath taken His covenant concerning all things, and God hath made Him in truth a witness over all things. Be not as those who unite over the Book yet divide over the Remembrance, for verily the Book is with the Remembrance. By God, the Truth upon Truth, it hath been recorded in the Mother Book as an example.

God is the Truth. On that Day faces shall become white and faces shall become black. As for those who believe in the Remembrance, their faces shall be whitened, but those whose faces are blackened shall be in torment from their station. Verily God is independent of all the worlds. By thy life, We desire no injustice against mankind. Unto God belongeth the kingdom of the heavens and earth in truth. Deny not God, your Lord, the All-Merciful, for He verily encompasses all the worlds.

Those who deny God and His verses, from them shall the All-Merciful and His angels and the believers disassociate themselves. For them is abasement and wretchedness in this world, and in the next God hath prepared for them a grievous punishment in truth upon truth. These are the verses of God which We recite unto thee that perchance mankind may not doubt God even to the weight of a mustard seed, and may speak concerning God’s exalted Remembrance words of praise with glory.

O people of the earth! Are diverse lords better, or the One God besides Whom there is no God, the Single, the One, the Unique, the Self-Subsistent, Who hath no partner, and there is nothing like unto Him, and He is independent of all in the heavens and earth, and He is God Who hath ever been ancient in truth upon truth. He created the heavens and earth and whatsoever is between them by His power. Is there any besides Him who can sustain creation? Glorified be He! He is the True Object of Worship, there is no God but He, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

People are not equal in faith. Among them are those who have hastened to Paradise nearer than a ray to the sun, and among them are those who stand at the right of the Throne, and among them are those who prostrate to God upon the earth, and among them are the seekers at the Gate. None knoweth their station save God, and verily He hath power over all things. He is the Truth, and He is God Who knoweth all things.

O ye believers! Command the greatest good, which is Our Remembrance, and forbid those who call creation to aught besides God, and hasten to this Book, prostrating yourselves before God your Lord, praised in truth with thanksgiving. O people of the earth! If ye are not content with My Remembrance, then die in your rage and depart from God’s earth if ye are able. Yet ye have no way to escape from Our dominion.

Be not deceived by Satan, but worship the All-Merciful that ye may inherit Paradise through the Gate’s bounty, abiding forever. O people! Fear God in your journeying to the cities, and know that God verily watcheth over the worlds. Whatever evil ye commit, We shall surely make you taste its recompense in the fire, and whatsoever good ye do, by the truth, ye shall find it preserved with God in the Mother Book.

Spend for yourselves in righteous deeds from your works, and spend for the poor from your wealth by night and by day, secretly and openly, as much as ye are able. Fear not poverty, for verily God increaseth for whomsoever He willeth through His power, and the Will of God, thy Lord, cannot in truth be turned back from aught.

O people of the earth! Hear My call from around the Gate. God hath revealed unto Me that no soul hath borne witness in the path of this Remembrance but that his reward hath fallen upon God, and God is powerful over all things. O ye believers! If ye are truthful in your claim of belief in God and await Our deliverance, then by My Lord, the Truth, beside Whom there is no other God—whosoever hath followed this Remembrance from My presence hath verily followed Me, and whoso hath loved the Remembrance for the sake of God hath indeed loved Me, and whoso desireth to behold Me, let him look upon His countenance, and whoso desireth to hear discourse from Me, let him hearken from the True Tongue of God the wondrous words of wisdom and the keys of mercy. Whatsoever ye desire of Me in any matter, I have indeed commanded you through My exalted Self, for He is the Light of the Essence in the heavens and earth, and God hath sent Him down with Me that ye might bear witness unto Him even as the angels and Prophets have borne witness before Him.

By your Lord, the Truth, beside Whom there is no God and unto Whom nothing can be likened! God hath made Him My Self in the worlds of Command and Creation, and He hath not separated Him from Me, by God’s leave, less than what your Lord, the All-Merciful, hath numbered, and He will never separate Me from the truth eternally, perpetually, forever. Verily, I am the Caller at the heart of the Book through the Gate, and today there is no way for Me save through this exalted Gate which God hath made great in the Mother Book.

Ask ye the Remembrance concerning the unseen of the heavens and earth, for God hath made Him witness over the creation of all things and hath purified His nature from Sijjin and its book. When ye ask of Him and He judgeth not between you, doubt not the Remembrance of the Truth after the Truth—are ye more knowing or God Who created Him? And God is knowing of all things.

O people of the Euphrates! Hear the call of your Lord, the All-Merciful, from around the Fire:

“Verily, I am God, there is no God but I. By My true glory, this Remembrance was prostrate before Me when none of you had existence. When I desired to make Him known, I spoke to that which was not, whereupon appeared the Throne, the Seat, the heavens and earth and whatsoever is between them. O My servant! Draw nigh unto Me and grieve not, for verily God is with thee, in truth a witness.”

There is naught but that God hath written its term in this Book by the hands of the Remembrance, in truth appointed and decreed. Whoso desireth God and the Hereafter, We guide him to the Remembrance, and whoso desireth this world, We give unto him through the Remembrance. God hath not ordained for either of these two groups any support save through the Remembrance, in truth raised up.

Say: Dead are those who have disbelieved in God, and ye are dead. Therefore hasten ye to Paradise and distance yourselves from the Fire. By the Most Great God, verily this worldly life is ephemeral and God has not ordained for it any permanence. And verily the life of the world to come is the true life in the sight of God, enduring, eternal, everlasting.

O people of the earth! Today My proof among you is this Remembrance, so turn ye towards the Holy Land and be patient therein, and be ye pure helpers of God, apart from all others. Turn ye unto Me, for verily We do not suffer to be lost the reward of any who doeth good. And whoso dies in his journey, his reward shall fall upon Me, and in the Book of God it hath been inscribed in the Balance of the Remembrance.

O people of the earth! God hath exalted Our name through the Most Great Name, and God hath made it naught but a written mercy unto the believers, and naught but a mighty retribution unto the unbelievers. Fear ye therefore your Lord on the Day when all shall return unto God, the Most High, and He is God Who encompasseth all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! If thou wert to teach and speak with the believers from that which thou hast been given by the Most Great Truth, the believers would disperse from around thee even as darkness vanisheth at the dawning of the sun. Therefore show mercy unto the believers through thy forgiveness, for verily the people cannot reach thee save as an ant might attain unto Divine Unity. Ask thou forgiveness for them and trust in God, Who—there is no God but He—is my Lord and thy Lord. Verily God hath ever been bountiful unto the believers, and He is God Who is witness unto all things.

O people of the earth! By your Lord! The Son of Abu Talib was verily among you from God with the Most Great Truth, and He knoweth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on earth, and whatsoever ye conceive in your breasts. He is the Truth from God and on the Day of Resurrection He shall be a true witness over you.

Verily God hath created the believing chiefs from the accumulated shadow cast by the gleams of light from Our remembrance. Therefore establish your hearts upon the pure path of God, the Most High—and He is God Who hath ever been ancient in truth—and speak naught concerning the Most Great Remembrance of God save the truth, for verily He hath been, in the sight of God and in Our sight, upon the Most Great Truth. He uttereth not a word save by God’s leave and Our command, and He is established upon the straight path at the Point of Fire.

O people of the earth! Hearken unto God’s testimony concerning the Most Great Word: verily the earth and the heaven and whatsoever is between them are in His hand like a ring upon the finger of any one of you, which he may turn whithersoever he willeth. The true Command of God is in His hands; He hath indeed turned the kingdom as He hath willed, by what God, the Truth, hath willed. Verily God wrongeth no one in aught, and God is witness over all things.

O ye believers! Fear God in regard to My remembrance with a mighty fear, true and most high, for verily the remembrance of God, the Most High, in the sight of God, the Most Great, hath ever been supremely great in truth. And verily We, when We presented this Most Great Name to creation with the truth in the most great realm of the atoms, some of the Prophets excelled in determination, and God made them leaders for mankind in truth.

And among them were those who paused for less than the glance of a gnat’s eye, so God afflicted them with trials, like Adam and Shu’ayb and Jonah and Job, until they acknowledged thee. Then the successors of the Prophets excelled in their response, and for this reason God made them the leaders of the earth. Then followed those who were favored with prior grace from the Remembrance, while others were held back according to the decree of the Book concerning their being held back. There is nothing We have not accounted for in that Book with clarity.

O people of the earth! Fear ye God, for We desire naught from you save your salvation, though ye comprehend not what profiteth or harmeth your own selves. God, the Truth, teacheth you that were ye to follow His Cause, ye would find yourselves, of your own accord, beloved at this Gate of Truth. And should ye turn away from God, verily He is independent of you in truth, and ye would find yourselves most grievously antagonistic and wretched.

O Joseph, thou Truthful One! Interpret thy vision through seven words from One All-Wise, All-Informed. He is God, Who hath ever been All-Knowing of all things. O people of the earth! God, the Truth, causeth you to journey through seven green ears of corn by virtue of this Most Great Word, that ye might hasten unto God, the Truth, and learn, for the sake of the Remembrance, to place your hopes in God, the Truth, Who hath ever encompassed all things. We, verily, have interpreted this blessed verse through this purified evidence by God’s leave. Our foremost followers, who seek Us before the Gate, shall recognize this as praiseworthy through the Gate.

Surah of the Call [Nida’]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said: ʿYe shall sow for seven years diligently, and what ye reap, leave it in its ear, except a little whereof ye shall eat.”’ [Q12:47]

Alif, Lam, Ha, Lam. God hath revealed unto me that this Remembrance is the Most Great Remembrance of God. Fear ye, O My servants, lest ye speak concerning it without the authority of God, besides Whom there is no God, and He is exalted above all things and great. Verily, this Youth is the servant of God. God hath taken His covenant from all things concerning the Truth, and He is the Witness over all things.

O Concourse of Light! Hear My call from around this Gate. I am the Proof from God unto all creation, and God hath revealed unto me that whosoever among you cometh on the Day of Distinction with this Most Great Remembrance, he shall be deemed before God as one of pure faith, and thus hath it been inscribed in the Mother Book. But whoso cometh unto the All-Merciful without His covenant shall have no power over anything, and for him there shall be with God a grievous chastisement, for God hath power over all things.

O people of the earth! Hath not the Remembrance come unto you with the truth? How then do ye judge yourselves according to the rule of falsehood? Is he who followeth the Most Great Remembrance of God like unto him who hath incurred God’s wrath? What aileth you that ye perceive not the signs of God, the Most High, the True, the Faithful, the Strong, save a little? Verily this Religion is, with God, the mystery of the Religion of Muhammad.

Hasten ye therefore to Paradise and the Most Great Good-Pleasure of God, if ye be patient and grateful concerning His signs in truth. God hath indeed been gracious to the believers when He raised up among them a Gate from among themselves, who reciteth unto them His verses, and purifieth them, and teacheth them the Book and wisdom, whereas before they knew naught of the knowledge of the Book save an alif from a curved ba. And when affliction befalleth you, remember God your Creator, and lean not upon yourselves, and say: “All is from God.” What aileth these misbelievers that they understand not Our wondrous utterances in truth?

O people of the earth! Enter ye all through this Gate by the grace of your Lord, for God hath not ordained that any mortal should touch it before you. Follow ye the Most Great Good-Pleasure of God, for God hath ever been possessed of great bounty towards mankind, and He encompasseth all things. Secret counsels are only of Satan. The unbeliever desireth to cause grief to Our friends, but he cannot harm you in aught save by God’s leave. In God let the believers put their trust.

O ye who believe! Let not those who turn away from the Remembrance grieve you, those who call upon falsehood besides God, lying without truth and in delusion. These shall never harm God in aught, and God hath willed that they shall have no portion in the Hereafter, and He hath prepared for them in hell a grievous torment. Think not that those who disbelieve in the Remembrance can ever escape, for We have extended to them fire upon fire that they might increase in fire upon fire, and God hath ordained for them in the Hereafter naught save a humiliating torment.

Unto God belongeth the heritage of the heavens and the earth. We hear the words of those who say “God is poor and we are rich” apart from the Remembrance. Say: When ye die, ye shall bear witness in truth that God is the Self-Sufficient, and all besides Him are poor at His gate, and He is indeed the Self-Sufficient, the Great. He is God, Who hath ever been supremely independent. God hath ordained death for all souls, as decreed in the Mother Book.

Whoso turneth away from the Fire and followeth the Remembrance hath attained unto God, the Self-Sufficient, and verily God hath power over all things. In the wondrous verses, and in the creation of souls, and in the day and night, and the moon and stars, are signs for every penitent one who in the Mother Book is accounted among those who turn unto God. God hath verily assigned the kingdom of the heavens and earth unto Us, and We have been, through God, independent of all the worlds.

They who remember God by night and day, and upon their couches, and who say “O our Lord! We have heard Thy verses and await Thy Cause. O God! Make firm our hearts in Thy Cause, for verily Thou hast power over all things.” These are they who hasten unto Paradise, and God hath ordained for them a double portion of reward. God is the Protector of the believers, and He hath power over all things.

O people of the earth! Follow the Fire that circleth round the Water, for it speaketh naught but by God’s leave. He is the Truth, there is no God but Him. Hold ye fast, all of you, to the cord of God, for this is the Truth set forth in God’s Book from the beginning, and it hath been hidden in the Point of Fire.

O company of men and jinn! Seek ye grace from Our presence, for God hath given Us dominion over the heavens and earth, as witnessed in this glorious Gate, and thou hast been praised in God’s exalted Book. O ye believers! Hearken unto My call from around the Gate, and seek bounty from this Remembrance, the Most Great Name of God, and slay the idolaters in Our path, purely for God’s sake, if ye be thankful unto God, the All-Praised.

God hath assured His loved ones of immortality, and God’s true promise is the truth, and the Command hath ever existed in the Book. Behold ye Our Most Great Light, the Most Exalted One, Who hath been praised in God’s Primal Book. O people of the earth! Fear ye God on the Day of Truth, for We shall gather all creation on a single plain, and God shall question you through the tongue of the Remembrance concerning your deeds.

He is the Judge of Truth by the Truth, and He shall judge between you with justice upon God’s path, the Most Exalted, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy. God hath verily placed the names of the believers in your right hands, and We record with justice the names of the wicked in the Book of Sijjin. God hath ordained for Me and for this Youth, the Most Great Remembrance of God, a station that none besides God, our Creator, can comprehend, and ye know naught of His Cause save as mirrors reflect the rays of a lamp in a red glass.

This is a decree from God conclusively established for your souls, and the Command hath been fulfilled in the Mother Book. God is verily the Encompasser of all things, and the Remembrance is God’s truth, He is the True Knower, and when God willeth, My Cause hath knowledge of all things. O people of the earth! Fear God, your Lord, Who created you from a single substance and created from it mates for each soul among you. And God fashioneth you in the Gate as He pleaseth in truth, and God is ever watchful over all things.

And when We bestowed upon the people a portion of this Book, they became tyrannical on earth and showed enmity towards the Remembrance. God well knoweth His enemies, and sufficient is God as a protector, and sufficient is God as the All-Knowing. Those who pervert the Word from its place, and say “We heard the verses of God, the Wondrous” from the tongue of the Remembrance, then opposed the Remembrance with their tongues, slandering the religion of God—God hath cursed them, and the believers curse their unbelief, and none believe in Our verses in truth save a few among the faithful. And God is witness over all things.

O People of the Book! Believe in what God hath sent down unto Me, confirming that which is with you, before death cometh upon you suddenly. Verily God hath spoken the truth of truths—He forgiveth not that partners be ascribed to this Remembrance, but He forgiveth all else to whom He pleaseth. And whoso ascribeth partners unto God hath indeed fabricated a manifest sin.

O People of the Remembrance! Ye purify not yourselves, rather God purifieth whom He willeth through His knowledge, and verily the Cause of God in this Book is accomplished. Look not unto those who were given a portion of the Remembrance, then fabricated falsehood against God and worshipped idols and false deities besides God. Sufficient for them is their own souls as a manifest sin.

Or have ye a share in sovereignty? Then bring me so much as an atom thereof. And people shall never attain unto aught, not even to the speck on a date-stone.

And verily God hath interpreted this blessed verse in that Most Great Word for those who desire the False One through seven gates of hell, and for those who desire the Remembrance through seven gates of paradise. And for these believers there shall come, God willing, in paradise thereafter a time wherein none shall be mentioned save God. And verily God hath power over all things.

Surah of the Laws [Ahkam]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Then there shall come after that seven hard years which shall consume what you have laid up for them, save a little of that which you store.” [Q12:48]

Ta. Ha. O ye who believe! Call upon witnesses from among your brethren when ye perceive signs of death in yourselves, and bear witness for God and His creation with the testimony of God alone, and judge with justice concerning your possessions, and turn unto God, your Lord, the All-Merciful, with truth. Soon shall ye find God, your true Lord, All-Forgiving, All-Bountiful.

O ye who believe! God hath prescribed for you fasting during this month, the month of Ramadan, wherein the Qur’an was revealed. Complete ye the number and remember God your Lord during the appointed days, that ye may be inscribed among the lines of the faithful in the Mother Book. And whosoever is on a journey during God’s month, or hath an excuse before God, then let him fast an equal number of other days as God hath willed. And for those unable to fast, a redemption by feeding the poor is prescribed in the Book’s decree. And for those who cannot afford anything, God hath prescribed for them His remembrance at morn and eve abundantly around the Gate in truth. We desire not from men save what is within their means, and We burden not any soul beyond its strength, for God is indeed Self-Sufficient, All-Praised.

O people of the earth! When ye fast for God, let your limbs fast from idle talk and vain pursuits, for fasting is a barrier between God and His creation lest ye become heedless of God, your true Lord, in the slightest degree. God hath prescribed for you during His month, for those who witness the month in their land, that ye approach not women, neither eat nor immerse in water from when the white thread becomes distinct from the black thread at the horizon until the sun sets and its redness disappears. Then may ye approach your wives and eat of what God hath made lawful for you.

This is God’s ordinance in His Book from before, and ye shall find no change in Our ways in God’s Book from before, nor shall Our Book be altered in any way. Fast ye voluntarily for God as much as ye are able, for We shall not suffer to be lost the reward of any among you who doeth good in the paths of the Gate in truth.

O people of the earth! Fear God regarding this wondrous Word, that ye approach not the drinking of tobacco which ye have invented for yourselves, and purify yourselves from becoming the dwelling-place of Satan, for God hath purified you with the purity of His loved ones. Therefore turn ye unto God regarding this pure ordinance, swiftly content with God, the Truth. And do not have relations with women during your seclusion in the mosques, and approach not Satan’s innovations in your mosques, for they are condemned by God in His Most Great Book. These are God’s bounds, so approach them not, and be ye patient and grateful regarding God’s verses in Our remembrance in truth.

Complete the Hajj and Umrah in the known months, and whatever good ye do, ye shall find it recorded with God in the Mother Book. Remember your Lord, the All-Merciful, in the land of Arafat and at the Sacred Monument, and magnify Him during the known days, that ye may be believers grateful before God at that Gate. And when people call upon Us with good deeds for Our remembrance, We inscribe for them a beautiful good deed, for God hath power over all things.

We have set down for you the bounds and laws in your religion that you may know that God, your Master, is the All-Sufficient, the Most Merciful, and that God’s favor in this Gate has been, in very truth, immense upon mankind. God has intended in His Praiseworthy Book by the first intoxicant and by the second gambling, so shun them both and treat not your sick with that which is forbidden, for God has not placed in that which is forbidden even an atom of healing power, in very truth. Treat your sick with cold, invigorating water, for God has made from water every living thing, though you understand but little of the signs of God, the Most High.

O concourse of believers! Wed not idolatrous women until they believe, even though their beauty may please you, for God has prepared for you in Paradise those far greater than they. Therefore seek ye the good pleasure of God, the Most Great, for He, God, has ever been exalted and great.

Draw not nigh unto women during their courses, nor during their lying-in, save after their cleansing. God has ordained for some women three days for their courses, for others more, and for others ten days; and for those lying-in similarly ten days if their blood does not cease to flow; and when the blood stops before the ten days, then upon them is cleansing obligatory. This decree has been prescribed in the Book of God.

When ye approach women or find the known discharge from yourselves, then wash yourselves for God, your Creator, and draw nigh unto your wives in their state of purity and after the cessation of their blood. This is God’s irrevocable decree from your Lord. Hasten to observe the command of the Remembrance of God, the Most High, the All-Powerful, for He, God, has ever been exalted and great.

Resolve not on divorce, for it is a grievous error. If they commit flagrant misdeeds, then admonish them according to the decree of the Book, for God is witness to all things. God has ordained for them before drawing nigh unto men to wait three menstrual cycles, and they must not conceal what God has created in their wombs, nor after knowledge of what is in their wombs take medicine to cause miscarriage, for all this is wickedness in the sight of God, thy True Lord. God is well aware of what they do in their inner selves.

God has decreed for women to wait four months and ten days after the death of their husbands, then after that they are free to do as they choose according to the decree of the Book. God knows what is in their hearts if they be believing, righteous women. God is witness to all things.

If ye divorce women before having touched them, then upon you is half the dowry of what ye had fixed for them, unless they forgo it or he in whose hand is the marriage tie forgoes it with their permission. And if ye give them their full due in a befitting manner, ye shall be recorded with God, the Truth, in the scrolls of the righteous.

Lend to the believers what ye are able with proper witness, for God has guaranteed you manifold increase, and God’s promise in the Mother Book shall be fulfilled. O ye believers! Establish prayer and give the alms to those who have with God a covenant of truth in the ways of the Gate, for which they shall be held answerable. Ye perform no good deed but that the Recording Angels write it down for you, and ye shall find your deeds on the Day of Resurrection before the All-Merciful in the land of reckoning to be momentous.

The angels have recorded your deeds, and you shall find your works mighty in the presence of the All-Merciful on the Day of Reckoning in the land of accounting. God has prescribed for the unintentional killer blood money to be paid to the heir of the slain, and the freeing of a believing soul for the purification of himself. And if he cannot afford this, then according to the decree of the Book he must fast two consecutive months as repentance before God. And whosoever forgives the right of his believing brother, for him there is a mighty reward with God.

O people of the earth! Fear God regarding the intentional killing of believers without right, for with God there is a mighty judgment concerning this.

O people of the earth! Fulfill the covenants of God in truth. He has made lawful for you the beasts of the cattle, save what is recited to you. And draw not near to hunting in the sacred precincts, nor while you are in a state of transgression according to the decree of the Book, as ordained through the Gate.

God has made the sacrificial offerings, the garlands, the sacred month, and the sacred rites as signs for the Most Great Remembrance, that people may know that God encompasses all things.

O people of the earth! Today I have perfected for mankind the religion of justice, and have completed My favor upon them through the Most Great Remembrance of God, and have chosen for you submission through that Most Great Remembrance in truth.

We have made lawful for you today all good things for sustenance, and what you take in hunting, so eat of what God has made lawful for you and remember God’s name over it. And God is well aware of what you do.

God has made lawful the food of the people of the Qur’an for the people of this Book, and We have made lawful the food of the people of the Book for them, that people may know that God is indeed far above what the wrongdoers say in their great arrogance.

Whosoever denies this Most Great Remembrance, his works shall be rendered void, and on the Day of Resurrection he shall not find even an atom’s weight of his deeds.

O people of the earth! When you rise for prayer, purify yourselves and take of pure water in remembrance of the Most Great Name of God. Wash your faces in circular motion and your hands up to the elbows evenly. Pass the remaining water over the front of the head and over the feet to the ankles, as prescribed in the Book and ordained in truth.

God has made earth a substitute for water in purification for prayer. So turn to God in truth, for We burden not souls beyond their capacity. Remember God’s covenant and Our pledge within yourselves secretly without declaring it aloud. Verily your Lord God, your True Master, knows well what is in the hearts.

God has forbidden you in His mighty Book the eating of carrion, spilled blood, swine flesh, beasts of prey, and that over which any name other than the Most Great Remembrance of God has been invoked. Follow the decree of the Book, for God is witness over all things.

God has prescribed for the believers in the Book regarding retaliation: life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, and for wounds there is retaliation in truth. And whosoever gives charity to his brother, God will guarantee his reward and has prepared for him in the Hereafter a praiseworthy recompense in truth.

Surah of the Laws [Ahkam]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Then, after that, will come a year in which the people will be succoured and in which they shall press [wine].” [Q12:49]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Sad. O ye believers! Do not forbid yourselves from partaking of the good things which God hath ordained lawful unto you in His Book, and transgress not through intemperance, for God loveth not those who are intemperate. These are they who, in the Book of God with thy Lord, have been rejected with truth in truth.

And if a man dieth without offspring, his sister shall receive one half of what he hath left, and if there be two sisters, they shall receive two-thirds of what he hath left, and if there be both men and women, then the male shall receive the portion of two females, according to what is prescribed in the Book, and this decree hath been irrevocably ordained in the Mother Book. God hath prescribed for the thief, both male and female, the cutting off of their hands as a recompense for their deeds, and verily God wrongeth not mankind by so much as the husk of a date-stone.

O people of the earth! Fear God in your actions, for God will call you to account at the Balance on the Day of Resurrection for all things, and He is God, the Witness over all things. Swear not by God, nor by the names of the family of God, in any matter, whether in truth or in falsehood. Whoso sweareth falsely by God, upon him shall be the expiation prescribed with justice in the Book of God: the freeing of a slave, or the feeding of ten poor persons, and whoso is unable to do this shall fast for three days. God—there is no God but Him—and He is God, the All-Forgiving, the All-Wise.

God hath forbidden the practice of idolatry and transgression, and diversion through gambling, and the consumption of wine, for these are abominations of Satan’s handiwork. Therefore put your trust in God, your true Protector, and verily God encompasseth all things. God hath made lawful the catch of the sea and what ye hunt on land, but fear God regarding hunting in the Sacred Precinct and during the state of pilgrimage, that ye may be praised by God, the Most High.

O people of the earth! Fear God regarding the removal of soil from the Holy Sanctuary save in times of necessity, and then take only the least amount possible, for God hath decreed the status of this soil to be as our own bodies, and hath ordained in His Book of Truth a grievous sin for this. Whoso hunteth in the Sacred Precinct, his recompense shall be the equivalent of what he hath killed from among cattle, and the feeding of the poor according to what is prescribed in the Book, or fasting as God hath ordained in the Mother Book. God hath made the Ka’bah the Sacred House, and the month a time for the standing forth of men, that they may bear witness to the truth that there is no God but Him, and He is God, Who encompasseth all things.

O people of the earth! God hath revealed unto me in truth that ye shall not associate anything with God, and that ye shall show kindness to parents, and that ye shall not approach indecencies, nor the property of orphans, and that ye shall not slay any soul which God hath forbidden, except by right. This is from the tidings of the unseen which We reveal unto you, that ye may be praised by God, the All-Praiseworthy. Give full measure and weight with justice, maintaining perfect equity in this most upright religion.

O ye believers! Pay the alms-due on the day of harvest according to God’s decree, your Lord, and this command hath been prescribed in the Mother Book. And of cattle God hath provided you with eight kinds in pairs. These are lawful unto you, so eat of that which God hath provided you, of the good things thereof, remembering the name of God, your Lord, the All-Merciful, and draw not nigh unto the footsteps of Satan concerning certain fats and the like, for verily God hath knowledge of all things.

O people of the earth! Establish prayer with the Most Great Remembrance and send forth the alms by God’s leave unto His deputies, that ye may be written down in the Mother Book among the people of the Book. These are they who are the truthful ones in God’s Book, and their seat is the Paradise—a mighty decree from God, the Most High.

The prayer of the idolaters in the Sacred Precinct is naught but hypocrisy, seeking falsehood instead of truth. We shall therefore cause them to taste the fire of the blazing flame by God’s leave—a mighty decree. Verily God hath desired in this Gate to separate the evil from the good, and to place the evil in layers of darkness one above another, then cast them into the fire on the Day of Resurrection—an irrevocable decree of truth by the truth.

Say unto the idolaters: If ye obey the truth, God will forgive you your sins, but if ye deny the faith, then await the punishment from God, the Truth, for He is God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. Know ye that whatever ye gain as spoils, verily unto God and unto the Messenger and unto those near of kin belongs a portion according to the truth that hath been inscribed in the Book of God, the Most High. Convey the pure truth unto the Truth—excellent is your Lord, the Remembrance, as a protector and excellent as a witness.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from around the Fire: Verily I am God, there is no God but I, therefore worship Me and establish prayer unto the Most Great Remembrance, purely for God’s sake apart from all men, for verily your Lord God is the Truth, and those who call upon aught else beside Him—these are assuredly the companions of the Fire through justice. And verily this Remembrance is upon the pure path with upright line, established around the Fire.

O ye believers! God hath prescribed for you prayer with the Remembrance on the day of Friday, that ye may be inscribed in the Mother Book upon the lines of those who pray. And among the people are those who defame thee concerning the alms: if they are given aught thereof they are well pleased, but if they receive not they become wroth with themselves regarding God’s Most Great Covenant. These desire naught but this world’s life, and in the Hereafter they shall be reckoned by God among the people of the Fire.

Verily those who hurt the Remembrance concerning the alms, it is as though they hurt the Prophet concerning the alms, and God hath truly prepared for these idolaters in the world to come a grievous chastisement—truth upon truth. God hath ordained the alms for the poor and needy among the people of the Covenant with the Remembrance, and for those whom God hath made workers in the Mother Book, and those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and those in debt, and the wayfarer, and in God’s path—a decree from the True Book which hath been prescribed in the Mother Book.

O ye believers! Know ye not that those who oppose the Remembrance concerning his Lord, it is as though they opposed God and His Messenger through lies and delusion? Their abode shall be hell, and God hath not ordained for them any helper in the Hereafter by the decree of the Book. God hath ordained for one who breaketh the fast in the Sacred Month through something forbidden three acts of expiation, and God hath not decreed any contradiction between the traditions, nor is rejection praiseworthy in that Gate in the Mother Book.

O ye believers! Verily a drop of tears is more beloved before God, your Lord, the All-Merciful, than the earth full of gold, were ye to expend it in His path in truth. Laugh not excessively at the truth, for verily God hath made the measure of a servant to be his weeping for the Most Great Truth, and this hath been an irrevocable decree in the Mother Book.

Take from their wealth what is due according to the Book, that their souls may be purified thereby, and pray for whomsoever thou willest among the believers, for God hath made thy prayers a written blessing for their souls. Verily God is All-Knowing of all things. We accept the repentance of the servants of God and receive their alms with Our own hands, and verily God, your True Lord, is Ever-Forgiving, All-Bountiful.

Whoso fulfilleth his covenant with God, verily his name hath been inscribed by the hands of the Remembrance in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Furqan from aforetime, and God’s covenant hath been preserved hidden in the Mother Book.

God hath not prescribed for thee, nor for the believers, to seek forgiveness for the idolaters, even though they be of their nearest kindred, for they are assuredly the companions of the fire, as recorded in the Preserved Tablet.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from the Point of the Bab. Verily God hath revealed unto Me on Mount Sinai, from around this Blessed Tree:

“Verily, I am God, there is none other God but Me. I have sent down this Book concerning the hidden mystery of hearts concealed in the mention of the veiled Oneness, encompassing the Fire inscribed from the fourth line in truth upon the Most Great Remembrance, that men might be witnessed around the Gate by decree.”

Verily those who conceal any letter of the Book, they but consume fire, and We shall neither look upon them nor speak to them on the Day of Resurrection, and God hath prepared for them in the depths of the coffin a grievous chastisement.

Righteousness is not that ye perform many good deeds, but righteousness is that ye believe in the Remembrance of God and aid Him with your wealth and your souls. If ye follow God’s command regarding Our servant, ye shall assuredly be numbered among the righteous in God’s preserved Book.

Surah of Glory [Majd]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And the king said: Bring him to me!’ When the messenger came to him, he said: Return to thy Lord and ask him about the women who cut their hands. Verily my Lord is well aware of their guile.”’ [Q12:50]

Ta Ha. God, there is no God but He, hath sent down the Criterion in truth upon His servant, that the people around the Gate might be remembered. And verily those who have disbelieved, their abode shall be the Fire, as hath been decreed by God in the Mother Book. These are they whom God and His angels have cursed, and they shall find no helper besides the All-Merciful on the Day of Judgment.

Do they envy the Remembrance for what God hath bestowed upon him of His grace? God hath verily made this Youth, of the seed of Abraham, a mighty sovereign over the Book, and wisdom, and dominion, in truth by the truth. And verily those who disbelieve in this Most Great Remembrance, We shall cause them to burn in the depths of hell-fire, by God’s leave, the Mighty, and God is All-Knowing, All-Wise.

O people of the Throne! Hear ye the call of God from around the Gate:

“Verily I am God, there is no God but Me. I have sent down this Book unto My servant that the people might believe and aid him in the day of battle, and circle round the House of their Lord God. For I say in truth: No servant hath known him but hath known My Self, and none hath been ignorant of him but hath been ignorant of the All-Merciful, his Lord. And I have planted by his hands gardens for the believers the like of which none save Me knoweth, and I am witness over all things.”

And We have indeed purified these believers through the Most Great Truth, such that they have followed the Remembrance in truth and have not dispersed from around him, and verily God is powerful over all things. And those who break their covenant with God after the truth hath come unto them in sincerity—these are the companions of the Fire, and God and His angels have cursed them for their unbelief, and God hath prepared for them in the hereafter a great punishment in truth by the truth.

O people of the earth! Obey God, your Creator, in this Most Great Remembrance, for He is in truth the Authority in the Mother Book by the Most Great Truth. And if ye dispute concerning anything, refer it to the Most Great Remembrance, for He knoweth better than yourselves the interpretation of the Book, and He is witness over all things in truth.

O ye believers! Enter ye all together into this First House in truth by the truth, for God hath made it a sanctuary for the believers and a great punishment for the unbelievers. O ye believers! Fear God, for death is nearer to your souls than all else, and God taketh your souls wherever ye may be, and the angels by His leave dispose in the kingdom as He willeth, and verily God is witness over all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Turn away from the idolaters and leave them in their transgression, and put thy trust in God, the Truth, for He encompasseth all things. The likeness of those who call upon any besides the Remembrance at the Gate is as one who taketh lords besides God—their seat shall be the Fire by the decree of the Book, and the decree in the Mother Book is binding.

O people of the earth! Fear God—do ye find in yourselves any judgment from the Remembrance apart from the judgment of the All-Merciful, while He claimeth naught but servitude to the One True God and obedience to us, the People of the House? What then causes you to hesitate in His Cause? By the True One, verily He is the Truth from God, and He is God, the Most High, the Great.

Were it not for the grace of the Remembrance reaching you, you would have followed Satan, save a few. Whosoever intercedes before the Remembrance through the Remembrance, God hath prescribed for him good deeds as a recompense, a portion of mercy, for God, the Most High, is the Guardian of all things.

O people of the earth! When you are greeted with a greeting from the people of the Remembrance, return it with a better greeting, for verily your Lord, the True God, is the Munificent, the Generous. God, there is no God but He, the Truth, Who stands firm in the Cause, and in truth He saith:

“There is no God but I. We have gathered creation for the Day of Remembrance wherein there is no doubt.”

And who is more truthful in speech than the Ancient God? And who is more truthful than the Remembrance in verses and scriptures, speaking truth from God and new creation through His Will? He is God, powerful over all things.

Ye will not save as God willeth, verily He encompasses all the worlds. We have taught the Remembrance what God hath willed—openly in His secret and secretly in His manifest revelation. O people of Eden! Hear My call from the center of the Kaf: “Verily I am God, there is no God but I.” I have informed you concerning that station. When you greet the people of the Remembrance from the Lord, you become purified therein by leave of the Remembrance, for verily your Lord, the Most Merciful, encompasses all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! On that Most Great Day, the Friday, God hath truly promised the people of Paradise around the Throne to descend to earth by leave of God, thy Lord. Grant them permission, for they stand truly waiting at the Gate, the Gate of Permission. Enter therein in peace—this is the Day of Truth from God, your Lord, the Merciful. Circle the House, effacing all else, then return to the sacred chambers in your glorious throne, for verily the appointed Day from God, the Most High, is nigh. By God, I yearn for God more intensely than you desire Me in visiting the Lord. Verily your Lord God is the Truth, and He is God, knowing all things.

Praise be to God Who hath taken neither consort nor son, and Who hath no partner in sovereignty. There is no God but He, the Mighty, and He is God, powerful over all things. He is the Truth, there is no God but He. He hath in truth attributed this Remembrance to Himself, and it is the Frequented House in all the Tablets, and the decree hath been written in the Mother Book around the Fire.

When We presented this Most Great Word of God to all creation, the realm of the divine cloud preceded in response, and thus did the Lord adorn it by effacing all else, for He is God, the Most High, the Ancient. Then the people of Paradise preceded creation in the Cause, and thus did God adorn them with the most exalted Throne, and God’s Command was decreed in the Mother Book.

Then the people of the Garden of Eden preceded in response, and thus did God adorn them at the pole of Paradise, and God’s promise in the Mother Book was fulfilled around the Fire. Then from the earth, the earth of the Sanctuary, then from the month, the sacred month of Muharram, in God’s Book which was written around the water, then from the water of the Euphrates and the spring of camphor, and from the mountains, the mountain of hail upon the Land of Manifestation, according to the decree of the Book by the command of the Gate, which has been concealed around the Fire.

O people of the earth! Hear My call from around this Tree, ignited with the ancient Fire—God, there is no God but Him, and He is God, the Most High, the All-Wise. O servants of the All-Merciful! Enter all of you through this Gate and follow not the footsteps of Satan, for he commands you to misbelief and indecency, and he is to you a manifest enemy.

Do you not reflect upon a single verse from the verses of the Book? And do you not fear a day when God shall come to them in the shadows of clouds, with angels round about Him, when the matter will be decided, and unto the All-Merciful shall be the return of all people? And when a verse requiring prostration is read, prostrate yourselves before God your Creator, for He is the Truth, there is no God but Him, and He is God, Who has ever been worshipped in truth with the truth.

(When the Sovereign of Sovereignty said: “Come unto Me,” yet they answer not God with that word. We say: Return to your sacred dwellings and ask the Remembrance concerning the state of those women who cut their hands in His path. Verily God, my Lord, has ever been witness to the deeds of the sincere ones. He is the Truth, there is no God but Him, naught is like unto Him, and He alone is to be worshipped, no partner has He, and He is God, Who has ever been exalted and ancient.)

Surah of Grace [Fadl]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said: What was your affair when ye made advances to Joseph against his will?’ The women said: God preserve us! We know no evil against him!’ Said the wife of Aziz: ʿNow is the truth manifest! I did seek to seduce him from his true self and he is indeed of those who are true!”’ [Q12:51]

Praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds! O servants of God! Did I not enjoin upon you that ye should not take any god besides God, for He is the All-Merciful, and God, exalted be He, is indeed cognizant of all things. Verily We have sent down the verses in this Book that ye may believe in the Remembrance of God amongst you, and We have made it, in truth, in the Mother Book to be merciful. He is the Sovereign, by God’s leave, over all that is in the heavens and the earth and what lieth between them, that men may know that We are, by God’s permission, powerful over all things.

By thy Lord! Thou art indeed upon the straight path on the Day of Judgment before thy Lord. This is the path of God, the All-Praised, for all who are in the heavens and the earth by Our leave, and We are indeed witness to the truth thereof. By thy Lord! Thou art the Book wherein there is no doubt, and thou art indeed praiseworthy before thy Lord. Those who believe in the Remembrance of God in His absence and judge between men with His verses in truth, We shall surely grant them from Our presence a great reward. These are they who are guided by the Remembrance of God, and these are they who are the foremost, who are in truth witnessed in the Book of God.

As for those who disbelieve in God in their hearts, it is the same to them whether thou warn them or not. By thy Lord! They will not believe in Our Remembrance save those who were inscribed in the Mother Book, the Book of God, the Truth. Verily We seal with the seal of the All-Merciful their hearts and their eyes and their ears, for they were unbelievers in the Book of God, the Most High, without truth.

And among men there are those who say, “We believe in God and His verses,” but by thy Lord! They believe not in thee. They would deceive God and His Remembrance, but they deceive none save themselves, and God hath prepared for them on the Day of Resurrection a grievous chastisement. And whoso turneth away from this My Remembrance, God shall appoint for him in this life humiliation, and in the life to come a great fire that shall encompass their hearts and their eyes and their ears, and they shall find no protector besides the Remembrance of God, the Most High, nor any helper in truth.

And those who mock the believers for their faith in the Remembrance of God—God hath mocked them before, and nothing in Our true Remembrance can be forestalled. And verily, did We wish, We could take away their hearing and their sight, for God is indeed powerful over all things. Their likeness is as darkness upon darkness which God hath ordained one above another, and he for whom God hath not appointed any light hath no portion in the Remembrance of God, the Truth, in the Mother Book.

O people of the East and the West! Worship your Lord, besides Whom there is no other God, Who created you and those before you, that ye may be in that Gate believers in and witnesses to the truth of the Remembrance of God, the Most High. O people of the earth! Associate not partners with God, for whoso harboureth doubt in his heart hath taken false gods besides God as lords. Such shall be his recompense in the Book of God—Hell, wherein he shall abide forever and ever.

And if ye be in doubt concerning that which God hath sent down to this Our servant, then produce a single letter like unto it and summon those whom ye have claimed as your learned ones besides the Remembrance of God, if ye place your trust in them apart from God, the Most High. He it is Who hath ever been, in the Mother Book, a witness. By thy Lord! These shall never produce aught apart from God, nor shall God grant them from the knowledge of the Book, in truth and by truth, even a little. Nay, whoso among them hath believed in the Remembrance of God hath indeed been guided, and We shall verily make him, before the All-Merciful, in that Gate, truly and assuredly, one endowed with knowledge.

O people of the earth! If ye are unable to bring forth the like of this Book, then believe in God, your Lord, besides Whom there is none other god. By your Lord! Ye shall never be able to produce the like of even a portion of its letters apart from God, the Most High, and God hath power over all things. Fear ye, O servants of God, the fire which God hath prepared for the infidels among you in the iron earth at the bottom of the coffin, through His justice—verily God is just and wise in truth.

And God hath ordained its atmosphere from the scorching wind. Ye shall find no succor today in truth, save that the fire shall succor you with fire from Our presence, as recompense for your having been, in regards to the Remembrance of God, the Most High, disbelievers cleaving to falsehood. And give glad tidings unto My believing servants who believe in the Remembrance of God and aid Him, and who fear none save God with the Most Great victory, even should the whole earth and all who dwell therein gather against them—they shall never turn aside from the truth.

For them are gardens beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they hear a mention they hear naught save the mention of God, the Most High. And therein they shall have pure companions from among the large-eyed houris, and in the hands of youth shall be golden goblets filled with fresh wine. And when they drink thereof they shall find therein the taste of all manner of fruits from the Tree of Eternity. And they shall recline upon crimson couches, greeting one another with remembrance, saying:

“Praise be to God Who hath fulfilled His promise, for we were, through His Most Exalted Remembrance, believers and witnesses in the world.”

Verily God is not ashamed to set forth any similitude. As for those who are steadfast in Our remembrance, they know it is the truth from God, confirming that which the Prophets, the truthful ones, and the martyrs brought. And as for those who turn away from the Remembrance of God, they know it is the truth by what God hath ordained for them of the true Faith, yet they associate partners with God after their knowledge, saying: “What doth God intend by this servant of His?” For He is indeed severe in command, in truth and by truth.

Many hath He caused to go astray thereby, and many doth He guide by His leave, and God hath power over all things. O people of the earth! Break not God’s covenant after its binding pact, neither sever that which God hath commanded to be joined through His covenant with you, nor work corruption in the earth without His remembrance, for God’s command hath been, in the Mother Book, decreed.

By your Lord! The Remembrance of God, the Most High, is verily the truth from God, the All-Wise, your Lord, and God sufficeth as a witness unto His remembrance, in truth and by truth. God hath taken His covenant from all creation, and were it not that God had taken His covenant from you, ye would not exist. The All-Merciful createth naught save through His covenant, and He is, before the All-Merciful, established upon the throne. How then can ye disbelieve in God?

Verily, in the presence of the All-Merciful, He was established upon the Throne with majesty. How can ye deny God when ye were dead and He gave you life, then He causeth you to die, and then giveth you life again, then unto God, your true Lord, shall be your return? And He it is Whose throne was upon the waters by Our leave before the creation of the heavens and the earth, and verily We encompassed all things.

O Remembrance of God! God hath preferred thee above all the worlds even as We preferred what God hath created and breathed forth, all of them, in truth. Fear ye God, O servants of God, against a Day when neither remembrance nor justice shall be accepted from you, save Our remembrance, and ye shall have none to help you in truth on that Day.

(When God removeth the veil from your insight, ye shall surely say concerning the Remembrance what the verse hath spoken in truth, letter by letter:

“Now hath the truth become manifest, and ye were far removed from the truth in your false statements concerning the Remembrance of God, the True One.”

Verily, the Remembrance is none other than God, the True One, and He speaketh naught save from God, the True One, and He, the True One, is indeed informed of all things.)

Surah of Patience [Sabr]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“That they may know that I have not betrayed him in his absence, and that verily God guideth not the device of the treacherous ones.” [Q12:52]

Kaf, Ha, Sin, Mim. Celebrate the mention of the Face of thy Lord, besides Whom there is none other God, the Ancient of Days, and He is God, the Mighty, the All-Wise. Hearken unto that which hath been revealed unto thee from thy Lord. Verily thou wert within the Mount communing with God, the Truth, and He is God, the Witness over all things. And verily We tested Adam through Our Tree, and commanded the angels to bow down in glorification unto the Most Merciful at Our Remembrance. Then Adam drew nigh unto Our Tree, and was accounted before God in the Book of the Most High as one who had wronged himself.

And Satan refused to bow down before the Remembrance, whereupon We said unto him: “Get thee hence, for thou art accursed to the nethermost depths.” And We taught Adam the station of Our Remembrance, and thereby did he become one before whom the angels of the heavens and earth bowed down. And We took Our covenant from all the peoples of the earth concerning Our servant, and revealed unto the Messengers that they should teach them not to approach this Tree, for it hath been ordained that none should draw nigh unto it save the servant of God, the All-Praised, this purified Youth, Ali.

But by your Lord, they fulfill not God’s covenant concerning Us, and the people have drawn nigh unto Our Tree through Satan’s false oath, and thereby have they been expelled from the paradise of the All-Merciful. O Remembrance of God! Be patient with thy Lord with befitting patience, in truth and with truth. When the people denied Our servant, We said unto them:

“Get ye down to earth; therein shall be your abode and provision for such time as God shall will in His glorious Book.”

And verily the decree in the Mother Book hath been recorded by the hands of the Remembrance round about the Fire.

O people of the earth! Victory hath come from God—therefore circle ye round the House, for God hath spoken the truth with truth. Whoso followeth this guidance of Mine, We shall ordain that no fear shall come upon his soul, nor shall We decree for him in the Book any prolonged sorrow. O obedient Sun of God! Remember My favor which I have bestowed upon thee and upon the peoples of the earth from its east to its west, for God hath taken thy covenant from the peoples of earth and heaven. Remember Me and I shall remember thee, and verily God encompasseth all things.

O people of the earth! Be ye patient and grateful concerning God and His signs. O people of the Qur’an! Be not the first to deny the Remembrance of God, nor sell the signs of God, the Most High, for a paltry price contrary to truth. O servants of God! Conceal not the truth after truth hath been made clear unto your souls. Doth not the Remembrance call you even as We called you to prayer, almsgiving and holy war? And verily God hath made this a weighty matter save unto the people of understanding, who stand alone in truth upon truth.

Those who imagine they shall meet thee follow their vain desires. God shall soon show thee His authority over them. Glory be to God above what they imagine and what they describe! And He is God, the Witness over all things. And verily We delivered every nation from grievous torment and shall lift from you your afflictions, and the Most Great Command of God hath come unto you from your Lord, mighty in truth upon truth.

And verily We parted the sea for Moses and drowned Pharaoh and his people, and verily We have been witness over every people through their leader. Fear the deed of those who disbelieved by taking the calf as lords besides God in falsehood. Remember God abundantly in the path of the Gate that ye may find tranquility through Our signs and be among the thankful in truth.

And verily those who disbelieve in God ask thee about meeting Me. Say: Look upon Me; if your souls are at rest, soon shall ye behold Him. And We shall send thunderbolts upon them while they are regarded on earth as other than truth. Verily We withhold the shadow from whomsoever We will, and We send down good provisions upon whomsoever We will by God’s leave, and We have sent down unto the peoples before you but shells of that which We have revealed unto you.

The people have not preceded Us in anything, and verily We have been prostrate before our Lord in the pure cloud of truth. And when they ask thee about entering the blessed village, say: Enter the Gate, prostrating yourselves before God alone, and say ʿWhat remaineth with God is best for you than your own selves.’ Doubt not God and question not Our Cause, for verily we are God’s and unto Him shall be our return, which hath been from ancient times ordained in the Mother Book.

Verily We caused the rock to gush forth for Moses until every soul knew their drinking place, and through Our power they were, in truth, possessed of knowledge concerning that Gate. Verily We spoke unto Moses from the Tree on Mount Sinai by God’s leave, and We manifested of Our light less than a needle’s eye upon the Mount and those upon it, whereupon the mountain crumbled and became scattered dust. And Moses fell down in a swoon, and his people died fleeing unto God, the Exalted, and He is God Who hath knowledge of all things.

Glorified be God, the Mighty, there is no God but Him. Verily Thy Cause is truth indeed before God, and We have been in truth its guardian. Be patient, O Solace of the Eye, for God hath assured thy glory throughout all lands and those who dwell therein, and He is God, powerful over all things.

And when the people come unto thee asking what bygone peoples asked of their prophets, say: Unto God belongeth the conclusive proof. I am naught but the first of them that worship God, the Truth. Verily my Lord and your Lord is the All-Merciful; He is God and verily He hath power over all things.

And when We took thy covenant from those at Mount Sinai and round about it: Take what God hath given thee of His grace and recount unto the people that which God hath ordained for thee in the Book until an appointed time, that perchance the people may be thankful unto God and His signs in very truth. O people of the earth! By your Lord, ye shall surely do what generations before have done, so warn yourselves of God’s mighty and most mighty vengeance, for verily God hath power over all things.

Do ye imagine that ye shall enter Paradise while there is a group among you who hear the Word of God then pervert it? These are the most evil of men in Our sight, and verily God hath prepared for these unbelievers a great fire in hell. When people disbelieve in the remembrance of God, their hearts become hardened as stone or even harder, though verily among stones there are some from which gush forth streams, yet God hath refused that faith should issue from their hearts because of their rejection of the wondrous signs of God, and God is witness unto all things.

Verily God knoweth what they conceal and what they reveal, and God hath knowledge of all things. Fear God and take not unto Him a son. Glory be unto Him! When He willeth a thing, it is recorded as a firm decree in the Book of God. He is the Fashioner of all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth and whatsoever lieth between them, and God hath created naught save that which is submissive unto Us and serveth as a proof of the Truth through the Truth.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from the Point of the Gate. Verily God hath revealed unto Me on Mount Sinai from around this Blessed Tree that “Verily I am God, there is none other God but Me.” I have sent down this Book concerning the hidden mystery in the hearts, concealed in the mention of the veiled Oneness, surrounding the Fire inscribed from the fourth line, through the Truth, unto the Most Great Remembrance, that people may be witnessed around the Gate through this decree.

Verily those who conceal any letter of the Book, they but consume fire, and We shall neither look upon them nor speak unto them on the Day of Resurrection, and God hath prepared for them in the depths of the coffin a grievous chastisement. True virtue lies not in performing many good deeds, but true virtue is to believe in the Remembrance of God and to aid Him with your wealth and your lives. If ye follow God’s command regarding Our servant, ye shall be recorded as the righteous in God’s preserving Book.

O people of the earth! Fear God in regard to My remembrance, for it is the Truth from God based on Truth, and after Truth there is naught but error, according to the decree of the Book, and this decree hath been irrevocably ordained by God, the Truth. Verily We reveal unto you the Remembrance lest ye should conjecture about the unseen concerning the Remembrance apart from God, for God hath prescribed a great Fire for the perfidious, through the Truth, based on Truth.

Surah of the Youth [Ghulam]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“I do not try justifying myself; verily the ego ever commands to evil save that upon which my Lord bestows His mercy. Verily my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.” [Q12:53]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ayn, Sad. Say: God has revealed to His Proof regarding that Most Great Word: Verily I am God, there is no God but Me. I have created no creation save that I have taken from it the Covenant of the Remembrance in its highest consciousness. And We made a covenant with Adam, Job and Jonah, but they forgot the Most Great Word, less than a particle of a particle. Then We said unto them: We found no firmness of purpose in them. So We took them round about the Fire until they acknowledged: Glory be unto Thee! There is no God but Thee. We have returned to the hidden Secret, this Youth in truth, so forgive us for Thou art our Protector and Thou hast ever been merciful to all the worlds.’ So We forgave them and those who followed them among the first and the last ones. And verily this Most Great Word of God was, in truth upon truth, mighty in the presence of God, the Most High.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Deliver unto the people from God at the Greatest Mount, when Moses said to his servant: “I shall not cease until I reach the junction of the two seas at the source of water, near the Two Lights from the Possessor of the Two Names”—this was a mystery that was concealed round about the Fire. When they reached the junction of the two seas at the gate of the two hearts, God caused them to forget the Fish of Remembrance, and it took its way through the sea wondrously. When they reached the Remembrance—a servant from among God’s servants whom We had endowed with knowledge from Our presence regarding a letter of the hidden Secret—Moses said what God had willed concerning his station. We said unto him: “How canst thou have patience round about the Fire with that which thou canst not comprehend?” He said: “Thou shalt find me, if God willing, patient round about the Gate, and I shall not disobey, God willing, in any matter concerning a mystery of the Gate’s hidden secret.”

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Say to the believers:

“If ye follow me round about the Fire, ask me not about anything until I mention to you, by God’s leave, a symbol from the secret of the Fire’s secret.”

So they went on until they embarked upon this Ship which was stationary upon the water of the sea. He made a hole in it, with knowledge of the limit, for one who had evidence of the Command by leave of God, the Most High—and He is God, the Mighty, the Praised.

Then they went on until they met at the Gate a pure youth besides this Youth, and he slew him according to the Word of Rejection from God, the Truth. Moses could not bear with patience his action, which was truth upon truth in truth.

Then they went on until they came to the people of the Village of the Gate round about the Fire, but they refused to host them, for they knew what was in them of independence from what God, the Truth, knew—and He is God, Who was witness to all things. They found therein a wall of knowledge made of white pearls which was about to fall after the Gate, so he set it upright by leave of God, the Truth, for the sake of the Gate of Remembrance at the seat of the Gate, for what he knew in his secret after standing still of the treasure of submission to God, the Most High—and He is God, Who had power over all things.

O people of the earth! If ye have not patience with the Remembrance, then know of a truth that this is a parting between me and you until the Day of the Covenant, a time appointed in truth upon truth.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Inform them of the deed of the righteous soul by God’s leave in the two seas, for verily they were sea-dwellers in the Mother Book, circling round the Fire, recorded. As for the crimsoned leaf detached from the yellowed branch of the Camphor Tree, We have concealed it beneath the lines by the most hidden mystery of the Manifestation, for We knew behind it was the king of boundaries who seizes every praised vessel without God’s leave, through falsehood and by force.

And as for the youth, he was of the fire of the Green Tree, ignited from this Yellow Spring. We slew him in visible form, as God had ordained in the Book a portion from his parents, for We feared he would overwhelm them amidst the fire in the Beauty of Baha with ignorant rebellion. And as for the wall, it belonged to people of the Holy City of the One Who bore God’s Greatest Light between the Two Gates, and there were orphans in the city after the Bab, so God raised it up as the Remembrance knew within himself, established from similitude in the Cause until days which were numbered in God’s Preserved Book.

When God’s promise comes, the Remembrance shall bring forth from around the Fire their treasure. He is God, there is no God but Him. God has revealed the two treasures in the two lines—that is the interpretation of what you knew not of God’s most hidden mystery, veiled in mystery upon mystery. Be patient, O people of the Gates! Let not Satan whisper to you regarding this Tree of Eternity and everlasting dominion therein, for God has decreed descent to earth for those who approach it, and God’s Greatest Decree was in the Mother Book ordained.

The reckoning of mankind before the Gate has drawn nigh in truth, yet they remain in the hollow of the Fire, accountable according to the Book’s decree. O people of the Paradise depths! Say in My name to the maidens of the chambers: Come forth from the holy dwellings unveiled and hearken to the melody of the Beloved Speaker, for the Remembrance has willed as He willed and none can repel God’s true Command—the decree was in the Mother Book ordained.

Say: Hear My call, O people of the chambers from beyond the Fire, for God has revealed to Me through My tongue:

“Verily I am God, there is no God but I. Your love is My love for all, decreed as obligatory as the Oneness obligatory before Me has been written.”

And say: I am the Two Lights in the Two Mysteries, I am the Two Forms in the Two Temples, I am the Two Lamps in the Two Glass Vessels. I have spoken with the Two Letters, yet I speak not a letter from the First Two Selves, nor is found a letter from the mystery of the Two Stars save through My True Self, Bearer of the Two Names.

I glorify my Lord in the thicket of Divinity by my Lord’s leave, so the glorifiers glorified God the Truth. I praised God in the land of blindness, so the praisers praised in the land of that Greatest Gate of Truth. I extolled the All-Merciful at the pinnacle of the Throne, so the extollers extolled around the Throne about the Truth. I magnified God the Truth through Myself by God’s leave, so the magnifiers magnified God in Truth from that Most Great Gate.

This Arab Youth, the Eloquent One, Whom you find mentioned in the Torah, Gospel, Psalms and Furqan—this is the Truth, the Path of God the Exalted which was inscribed in the Mother Book. Say: Were We to will it, We would pass judgment upon all who dwell in the heavens and on earth with the decree of the hereafter in this world, and verily God, my Lord, hath power over all things.

We sent no Gate before thee but that We revealed unto him thy Most Great Word. When he acknowledged it, We established him in knowledge, and verily God hath ever been witness to the believers. We created not man in a body that could dispense with food and drink, and all were inscribed in the Mother Book according to the law of want.

We have sent down unto you the Book in truth, and We desire naught therein save the remembrance of God, the Most Great, in this Youth, the Noble One of Batha, that men might become, in truth and of a truth, believers in God and His signs, and witnesses thereto. O people of the earth! Run not in despair after God’s leave, your True Lord, but return to your holy dwellings, for verily ye shall be questioned on the Day of Judgment concerning the Most Great Path.

We created not the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lieth between them save for this Word from Our presence concerning the hidden Mystery, and verily the Command hath been sent down in truth. We have created the earth and the heavens through the Most Great Word, and it is the Truth that sustaineth them through His Name, while for the opposers the word of fire hath been inscribed in truth, of a truth, in the Preserved Tablet.

Say: God hath made the heavens and earth for His remembrance, and I am in truth His servant, I have not grown proud in His worship. Glorified be God, the Most High—He is God, exalted and great. O people of the earth! Were it as ye imagine concerning the Most Great Remembrance, the earth and the heavens and whatsoever lieth between them would have been corrupted. Glorified be God, the Ancient, far above what the wrongdoers assert with great haughtiness.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Say: Do ye take for yourselves a gate other than Me? Then bring your word, if ye be truthful, for I am the Remembrance both past and future. Say: Call ye the people to worship none but God, besides Whom there is no God—He is God, mighty and powerful. Take not for God a son, for all creation comprises His servants in His grasp. None precedeth Him in speech save by His leave concerning the Command, and He is God, encompassing all things.

Say: God hath servants who desire naught save what God, the True One, hath desired in truth. He knoweth what is in the heavens and what is on earth, and they are, through fear of God their True Lord, exceedingly fearful of the truth. O Solace of Mine Eyes! Speak thou concerning the Qur’an, for the decree hath been fulfilled regarding thee with distinction. Verily the letter Kaf hath returned to the Point of Command, its center, and God hath ever been thy Preserver.

Speak not of yourselves apart from the Self of the Remembrance, for verily the self is prone to evil through Satan’s self, but God hath willed through His mercy in the Self of the Remembrance, apart from the self of avarice, and verily God hath ever been forgiving and merciful unto the believers.

Surah of the Pillar [Rukn]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And the King said: Bring him to me that I may take him into mine own service.’ And when he spoke with him, he said: Verily this day thou art established in our presence, invested with all trust.”’ [Q12:54]

Kaf, Ha, Mim, Ghayn. We, verily, have sent thee with the truth as a bearer of glad tidings and a warner unto all mankind. God hath made Us the station of His Cause, and when We will to say unto a thing “Be,” it is written as having been in the Book of the All-Merciful. Verily God hath established the heavens and the earth through Our Name, and whithersoever ye turn, there is the face of God, the Most High, ever near. And among the people are those who say “We believe in God, the True One,” yet when We remove from them the veil for Our remembrance, they attribute falsehood unto their Lord in vain delusion. Those who write the Book with their own hands have purchased Our verses for a paltry price, saying “The Fire shall not touch us save for a few days.” Woe unto them for that which their hands have earned! Their recompense shall be the Fire on the Day of Resurrection, in justice, and God is indeed cognizant of all things.

We have taken from the believers Our covenant that ye shall worship none but Him, and show kindness unto parents, and manifest clear submission unto the Gates. Do ye believe in part of the Book which We had aforetime revealed unto Muhammad, the Apostle of God, and deny part of this Book? Do ye not fear God on the Day when God’s true judgment shall be executed with truth in truth? These are they who have purchased this world’s life at the price of the life to come. Their torment shall not be lightened, even for the twinkling of an eye, inasmuch as they have disbelieved in the remembrance of God, the Most High, with untruth.

These believe not in God and His signs with truth in truth save little. We gave the Book unto Moses and protected him in his childhood until the Book reached its term, and God’s true judgment was exalted in truth with truth. We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear proofs and strengthened him with a spirit from Our remembrance, and We had revealed unto the Prophets a Book inscribed upon tablets. God hath strengthened thee with the Holy Spirit, and God shall soon judge between thee and those who attribute falsehood unto God on the Day of Distinction, and the decree hath been determined in the Mother Book.

There hath come unto you the Book from God, confirming that which was covenanted in God’s Book, and the covenant was concealed in the Mother Book. Evil is that for which the unbelievers have sold themselves, in that they disbelieve in God’s signs through tyranny and transgression without right. We, by God’s leave, reveal the Book unto whomsoever We will among Our servants, and We have prepared for the idolaters a humiliating fire upon fire and punishment.

The people said “We have heard and disobeyed,” for their hearts were imbued with love of the calf. Say: Evil is that which your corrupt divines command you, for the believers have been inscribed as virtuous in the Book of the Most High. God encompasseth all things. Whoso is an enemy to God and His angels and His messengers after the Remembrance hath come unto them from God—We are witnesses of their unbelief, and in the life to come they shall have no portion save a mighty fire.

We have sent down upon thy heart the Spirit and Gabriel by God’s leave, confirming that which is before thee, as a mercy and glad tidings to My believing servants—whoso hath been true to God’s covenant in His remembrance was indeed pledged at the Point of Fire. What! Whenever ye made a covenant, did a party among you cast it aside? And when Our Cause came, you placed the Book of God behind your backs. Do you follow what the devils recited concerning Solomon’s kingdom? Why do you judge for yourselves by Satan’s decree instead of God’s judgment, the Most High—and He is God, the Most High, the Great.

Verily We bestow Our mercy upon whomsoever God willeth, and God hath power over all things. We have made thee God’s Great Bounty for whomsoever We will in God’s Book, and this bounty was inscribed in the Mother Book concerning the Gate. God abrogates no remembrance except that We have originated a new and similar or greater remembrance in its place, and this is indeed easy for God, the Truth.

Know ye not that God hath given the kingdom of the heavens and earth to Our servant? You have no protector besides God, nor any helper in truth besides Him. Do you wish to question the Remembrance of God as Moses’ people questioned before? By your Lord, this is the truth from God, and He was established before Us in truth as the Faithful One, and was indeed wondrous before the All-Merciful in truth.

O people of earth and heaven! Whosoever desires God, His Messenger, and His friends, and loves to perform righteous deeds of prayer, charity, fasting and pilgrimage—let him follow the light of God which He hath sent down with Me. Verily God is aware of what you do.

O people of earth! Whosoever desires to behold Our countenance and the countenances of the Prophets like Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus—let him look upon Our Face which God hath established in the Mother Book as exalted and wise in truth.

The believers say to one another: “You have no knowledge of the Book.” Say: God hath not given you any knowledge of the Book’s decree. Soon will God judge between you in truth concerning that wherein you differ, for God is All-Knowing of the believers.

Those who wrongfully prevent God’s true mosques from having His Remembrance mentioned therein, and strive to extinguish Our light—these are the companions of the Fire. They shall not enter their Lord’s presence save in fear. They shall have disgrace in this world, and God hath prepared for them in the Hereafter a great wailing.

Verily God hath illumined the East and West with the Sun. Wheresoever you turn, there is God’s Remembrance. Do you not see how God created its shadows inclining to the right and left, prostrating to God? Whoso disbelieves in God, God will not grant him any helper in truth in the Hereafter.

We tried Abraham with his Lord’s words, which We perfected through the crimson pillar of this Our Throne. We made him a leader for mankind in truth. He said: “And from my offspring?” God, the Lord of the Throne, said: “I have forbidden My covenant to the wrongdoers among My servants, and I have power over all things.”

O people of earth! God hath made this Gate a secure city, and Our covenant a refuge for all who draw nigh, bidding them purify My House for those who circle round it, who stand in prayer, and who bow down in worship before God at that Most Great Gate—and verily He is God, Who hath ever been, in truth and by right, worshipped.

As for him who denieth that House, We shall grant him a brief enjoyment in this worldly life by virtue of the Most High Truth. Yet hath he incurred wrath upon wrath through his denial of God’s Remembrance, the True One—and verily He is God, the Most High, the Great.

No portion shall he have in the life to come, and God hath prepared for him, by virtue of His might, in truth and justice, a grievous fire. We never chastise any soul except after We have raised up among them a Remembrance from their own selves, in truth, and verily God’s proof after the Remembrance unto all the worlds hath ever been, in truth and by right, conclusive.

Whosoever desireth the fleeting life, We have ordained his portion therein, and in justice shall We swiftly lead him to vanity. And whosoever desireth the life to come, We have ordained patience for him therein, and verily God shall lead him to the decisive proof round about the Gate, for God hath ever been the Knower of all things.

Verily We, by God’s leave, have chosen thee for Ourself, and thou art this day, in God’s presence, firmly established, and in the Mother Book thou hast ever been, in truth and by right, trustworthy.

Surah of Command [Amr]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said: ʿPlace me over the treasuries of the land, for I am indeed a knowledgeable guardian.”’ [Q12:55]

Ha, Mim, Ra, Alif. Praised be God besides Whom there is no other God, your Lord; so worship Him in the path of this Most Great Gate, for God is truly independent of all worlds.

O people of the earth! We have sent down to you the Remembrance from God to teach you the Book and wisdom, and to purify you from Satan’s evil through His grace. And verily he stands firmly established upon the straight path before God.

And you, O mighty one, let not the words of the idolaters grieve you in any way. Trust in God your Lord and speak to them with kindly words, that they may remember God’s mention. None shall turn away from the religion of God’s Most Great Remembrance, this Ali, save one who befools himself. God has chosen you in this world and the next, and you are indeed, in the Mother Book with Us, a witness.

O people of the earth! The Remembrance has come to you with the Book after you took the calf as a guardian instead of God, the True One, unjustly. We took your covenant upon the Mount regarding Our Remembrance. Take what God’s Most Great Remembrance has given you with strength and hearken truthfully, for this Remembrance of Ours before God has been concealed in the Point of Fire, exalted.

O people of the earth! If you believe as the sincere among God’s servants have believed in Him, then you are guided; otherwise you remain in a schism far removed in the Preserved Tablet. God your Lord shall suffice against them. He is the Truth, there is no God but He, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

O people of the earth! Take on the coloring of Our Remembrance—and what better coloring than this Remembrance of Ours—and be God’s helpers.

Say to the idolaters:

“Do you dispute with me concerning God, my Lord and your Lord, after God has decreed Paradise for the believers and Fire for you? I am but a servant of God, the Most High.”

Indeed this Word is grievous except to those whose hearts God has oriented toward His Word, and God is truly Kind and Merciful to mankind.

Those to whom We gave the Book recognize Our Word as the pure Truth, yet a faction among them conceals the Truth after knowing it. God shall judge between us and them on the Day of Resurrection with manifest justice.

By your Lord! You are indeed the Truth from your Lord. We have appointed for all a direction, and for those who preceded We appointed your direction. Wherever you may be, God will bring you all to that Gate. And God your Lord has power over all things.

O people of the earth! We do not place upon people concerning Our Remembrance the least particle of proof except against the wrongdoers among them who speak as did the leaders of the idolaters before.

O servant of God! Fear none but your Lord, for God is witness over all things. Those who disbelieve in God’s Remembrance and die as idolaters, God has decreed upon them the curse of the Messengers, angels and all mankind in truth. These shall abide forever in the Fire; their punishment shall not be lightened, for they heard God’s Remembrance:

“Your God is One God, there is no God but He, the Most Merciful,”

and God was truly worshipped.

In the origination of the heavens and the earth and the mountains, the seas, and the ships that sail upon the waters are signs for the remembrance of God, the Wondrous, and God hath ever been Mighty and Ancient.

Among men are those who take, besides the Gate, equals from among their divines, loving them with the love of God; yet those who believe in the Remembrance of God, their love for God is more intense. Verily all power belongeth unto God, and God hath prepared for the unbelievers among you a grievous chastisement.

And when God shall remove the veil from their eyes, then shall those who followed disown those whom they followed, and all bonds shall be severed from their hands, and they shall have no recourse but to cry out:

“Would that we were dust upon the earth! Would that we had a chance to return, that we might disown them and follow the Remembrance of God in His days!”

By thy Lord, besides Whom there is no God, verily We say unto them:

“Taste ye the touch of the flame, for We created you with a measure, and Our command is but one word, swift as the twinkling of an eye.”

Hath not the Remembrance and the Book come unto you from all directions with the Most Great Truth? And He hath called out among you:

“O concourse of men! I am the Gate of your Expected Imam. He who followeth Me is of Me, and he who disobeyeth Me—verily God hath prepared for him in the Day of Resurrection a great fire of iron.”

O people of the earth! Eat of what is lawful and good in the earth according to the decree of the Book, and follow not your desires which lead to misbelief, for verily they are hotter for your souls than heated iron in the perpetual fire. Seek ye forgiveness of God, your Lord, the Merciful, at the rising and setting of the sun, for the sake of God, your True Master, the All-Forgiving, the Merciful.

The likeness of those who disbelieve in this Most Great Remembrance of God is as the likeness of a shadow at the rising of the sun—when it setteth, ye find nothing thereof, and God hath power over all things.

It is not righteousness that ye perform many good works, but righteousness is that ye believe in the Remembrance of God and aid Him with your wealth and your lives. If ye follow God’s command regarding Our servant, ye shall indeed be recorded as righteous in God’s innovative Book.

And when people ask thee concerning Me, say:

“I know not save what my Imam hath taught me, and verily He is near, answering the call of the supplicant when he calleth upon Him through the Gate, seeking God’s reward.”

O people of the City! Righteousness is not that ye should enter houses from their backs, but righteousness is ordained for those who enter the House through this Gate, prostrating themselves before God, the Truth. This decree hath been inscribed as binding in the Mother Book.

Verily We have adorned the world and its ornaments for those who desire not to meet God, and they are recorded in the Book as people of the Fire. Verily God created people as one community upon the Gate in truth by the truth before Us, and We have decreed concerning the Prophets, the truthful ones, and the martyrs according to what the Book hath ordained for them, and thou wert therein beloved and distinguished before God, thy Lord.

God hath chosen thee in knowledge and stature, and He is witness over thee. We bestow Our dominion by God’s leave upon whomsoever We will among Our servants, and God is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing.

Verily the sign of sovereignty from God is this Book, and this is, in God’s Book, the tranquility of the Ark, from what the family of God left behind, borne by the angels to this Our Most Great Remembrance, and verily God is witness over all things.

These are the verses of God which We have sent down unto thee, and thou wert inscribed as the Expansive Gate before God, thy Lord. We have preferred thee above all other Gates through Our Word, and thou art an exalted path in the Book of God, recorded round about the Fire.

We have made thee witness over the creation of all things, and thou wert, by the true Eye of God, both the beholder and the beheld, and God is witness over thee.

A kindly word is better than giving all the gold of the world in charity. Harm not people through mention, but seek bounty from God, your Lord, and He is God, your True Lord, who hath ever been Self-Sufficient, All-Wise.

We have made thee, by God’s leave, the guardian over the treasuries of earth and heaven, for thou doest naught save what We do, and thou art, by God’s leave, the One knowing the Mother Book, and this matter hath been concealed in the Book by the decree of the Book.

Surah of the Elixir [Iksir]

In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

“Thus did We establish Joseph in the land, that he might take up his abode therein wheresoever he pleased. We bestow Our mercy on whomsoever We will, and We suffer not the reward of the righteous to perish.” [Q12:56]

Ha, Mim, Ra, Alif. The path of God, the Mighty One in the heavens and earth, is the truth, and God hath indeed transcended all things in His transcendence, and He is God, the Most High, the Most Great.

We have sent down this Book unto Our servant that men might know that it is the truth from God, the Mighty One, and it hath been sent down in truth. This Remembrance of God promiseth you Paradise and forgiveness, while Satan promiseth you naught but indecency and evil. Therefore hasten unto wisdom from His presence, and whoso is given wisdom through this Gate hath indeed been given abundant good.

O people of the divine cloud! Hearken unto the call of God from the Tree on Mount Sinai, upon whose leaves the birds were stirring:

“Verily, I am God, the Lord of the worlds. Worship Me and establish prayer for My remembrance. Draw nigh unto My servant and fear not, for I fear not the return of those possessed of understanding at the Most Exalted Gate.”

By My glory! I shall assuredly cause the idolaters to taste, through My power, punishments known to none save Me, and I shall send unto the believers wafting breezes of musk which I have nurtured in the heart of the Divine Throne, for thy Lord’s knowledge doth encompass all things.

O concourse of lights! We, by God the Truth, speak not of Our own desire, nor do We reveal a single letter of this Book save by God’s leave. Fear God and doubt not in God’s Cause, for the mystery of this Gate is concealed beneath the cloud of the line and inscribed above the veil of concealment by the hands of God, Lord of concealment and of the line. Indeed God hath created everywhere around this Gate oceans of divine elixir, tinged crimson with the essence of existence and vitalized through the animating power of the desired fruit; and for them God hath provided Arks of ruby, tender, crimson-coloured, wherein none shall sail but the people of Baha, by the leave of God, the Most Exalted; and verily He is the All-Glorious, the All-Wise.

There do the angels of the divine cloud bear God’s Throne in the eight souls, and the decree in the Mother Book hath been witnessed. On that Day shall the sinners be brought before the All-Merciful around the Throne, in troops according to the truth. No soul do We judge to be of the right hand but that all Paradise is made lawful unto him by leave of God, the Most High—and He is God, the Most High, the Ancient. And whomsoever We judge to be of the left hand, in the fire of the left hand shall he be confined.

“Take him and chain him in fetters of iron and lead him to the fire of limitation, for he believeth not in God, the Most High—and He is God, the Most High, the Most Great.”

O ye believers! Swear not by that which seeth nor by that which seeth not, for both are judged around the Gate under the name of fire. This is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise. It is the truth, of a certainty the truth through the truth, and it is indeed a source of grief for the people of the fire, and in the fire of nearness hath it been decreed.

O people of the earth! When the Remembrance willeth aught other than what God the Truth willeth for him, he is cut off from the Truth. Glory be to God the Truth! We have preserved him in truth from indication and its negation. Verily the Remembrance, the Remembrance of God, is truth, and He is God, Who hath ever been merciful to the believers.

Say: I am the impending chastisement which God hath ordained, and none can avert it from the unbelievers, and verily this decree was destined to be asked of in the Mother Book at the Gate. And verily the Remembrance is truth from the people of the ascent, and was concealed in the mystery of the Gate around the Fire.

O people of the earth! Hearken unto My call from the Speaking Point of Fire upon the tongue of this Most Great Remembrance—verily I am God, there is no God but Him, and He is God Who hath ever been exalted from ancient times. No soul that hath hesitated regarding this Word, even less than what the Book hath precisely recorded, but We have commanded it to stand upon the Bridge for seven hundred and fifty thousand years, and verily this decree in the Mother Book hath been irrevocably ordained in truth.

And verily God, your Lord, the All-Merciful, hath been witness unto all things. Doth every soul eagerly hope to enter through this Gate into the vast Paradise? Nay, nay! God hath ordained it for those who eliminate all allusions from the Gate and ascribe naught to the Gate save pure servitude therein, and God’s promise regarding that Gate hath been fulfilled. And verily We have ordained resurrection in truth even as it was in the form of this world, and verily God hath power over all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Leave the idolaters to their diversions until they meet their promised Day, and verily God is witness over all things. O ye believers! Fear God in truth; when the appointed time cometh from Us in truth, it shall not be delayed by a single moment, and verily God is witness over all things. And seek forgiveness of God, your Lord; verily He hath ever been most forgiving toward the people of the Gate.

Have ye not seen how God hath created the heavens in layers above the earth, layer upon layer? Say: Verily I am the Moon therein, illumining in truth by the truth. And verily I am the Sun therein, radiating in truth by the truth. And verily I am the Pure Water, established in truth by the truth. And verily I am the Manifestation, by God’s leave, to manifest all that God hath ordained in the Mother Book, both visible and hidden.

O people of the Throne! Hearken unto My call from this yellowed leaf, severed from the verdant branch of the white Tree, brought forth by God’s leave in the depths of the seventh sea around the Point of Fire—verily I am God, there is no God but I. We have sent down in truth the mystery of the Scrolls concerning this Arabian Youth of Medina in truth, and verily he hath answered Me with the testimony of Divine Unity before the Point of the Gates for himself, and verily God’s grace in that Word hath been mighty in the Mother Book in truth by the truth.

Thus have We established this Joseph in the earth; he speaketh wheresoever he willeth through Our mercy, and verily God doth not suffer his reward to be lost. Thou shalt assuredly be made to stand around the Fire on the Day of Resurrection. As for those who have denied the Remembrance and His Book of truth and meeting with Him on the Day of Gathering, their works have been rendered vain by the decree of the Book irrevocably.

Surah of Sorrow [Huzn]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Verily the reward of the hereafter is better for them that believe and fear God.” [Q12:57]

Alif, Lam, Ha, Lam. He is God, and there is no God but He, your Lord. He knoweth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, and God hath ever encompassed all things. We have reckoned with every soul within itself more swiftly than the severance from union, and sufficient is thy soul this day as a reckoner from God against thee.

Say: Observe how We have distinguished the cloud by its effacement and the heaven by its clarity, and verily between them are the seas of the two paradises, established by God’s novel command. O people of the Book! Take not two gods, for verily He is but one God, Creator of the heavens and of the earth, and God hath ever been exalted and great.

O people of glory! Hearken unto My call from the tongue of this servant—this is the Most Great Word of God which hath ever been wise in the Mother Book. God hath revealed unto Me that verily I am God, there is no God but He, and I have ever been from ancient times. I have chosen this Word from among all the worlds, until they who are endued with understanding have testified that verily I am God, there is no God but I, the Truth, and verily I have ever been powerful over all things.

Say: God hath revealed unto Me that mankind around the water in that Gate are, in very truth, prostrate before God, the Most High, in utter humility. And verily the jinn have hearkened unto God’s call from the Pole of Fire—among them are those who have obeyed Thy command, and among them are those who have halted on the path contrary to truth.

And verily God hath desired in this Gate the mystery of fire from the Point of Water, that ye associate not anything with the worship of God, your true Lord, and verily He, God, is the Truth, there is no God but He, exalted be His Word. Take not God in His Word as partner with anyone contrary to truth. O peoples of the earth from among mankind! Seek not refuge with the jinn in anything, but place your trust in God, your true Lord, for verily He hath ever encompassed all things.

O people of the cloud! Were ye to stand aright in truth upon this Line that standeth between the two lines, God, the Truth, would give you to drink from the Fount of Manifestation through the hands of the Remembrance, in novel truth. And whoso turneth away from the remembrance of this Most Great Gate, fate shall verily conduct him in truth to the depths of the fire, and he shall have his abode in the foundation of the prison, and evil indeed is the fire to approach as fire. And verily it hath been inscribed in truth in the Book as a most grievous chastisement according to the decree of justice.

O people of the Throne! Verily the houses of worship are the houses of God; call ye not therein, with the Gate, upon anyone as the station of the Most Great Gate in very truth. O Solace of Mine eyes! Say: I call upon God, my Lord, beside Whom there is no other God, and I associate none with the worship of my Lord. Say: I am in truth the servant of God, and I shall never find refuge apart from the All-Merciful.

Naught is incumbent upon Me save the delivery of God’s message in His Word; then let him who will, believe, and let him who will, disbelieve, for verily God is independent of all the worlds. O people of the Throne! Hearken unto My call from the Point of Fire: Verily I am God, there is no God but I.

Every soul who has spoken truthfully concerning the Most Great Remembrance, I have assuredly decreed for him, by the Most Great Truth, the Garden of Paradise—and this decree has been irrevocably ordained in the Mother Book. And every soul who harbors in his heart aught of falsehood, I have verily decreed for him the Supreme Fire, wherein he shall forever abide—and this decree has been irrevocably sealed in the Mother Book.

By your Lord, the True One, Lord of the heavens and earth! God’s promise concerning the Remembrance is assuredly true, and this promise has been fulfilled in the Mother Book. This is a glad tiding for whomsoever God willeth, who turns unto Him with pure and sincere devotion. And verily God, your True Lord, is the Witness over all things. God hath indeed known thy devotion by night and by day at the Point of Fire encircling the Water, for the sake of the One, the Ancient, beside Whom there is no other God—and this Command hath been exalted in the Mother Book.

Say: O people of the earth! Were ye to gather together to produce the like of but a single letter of My works, ye would never be able to do so—and God is witness over all things. He who stands before God in the depths of oneness is not as one who, being yet on earth, is occupied with aught save the Truth. Nay! God knoweth what He hath enumerated, while ye know naught of the Book save a limited shadow of a shadow.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Say: The moon hath risen, the night hath retreated, the dawn hath broken, and the Command of God, your True Lord, hath been fulfilled. I am verily the Supreme Word for one of the greatest, by God’s leave do We acquaint you with the realities of the Cause from among the people of the exalted station and the Fire. Turn ye unto Me, for unto Me shall be your flight—this hath been inscribed as an irrevocable truth.

No soul hath turned away from My remembrance but that I have heard his voice around the Fire saying:

“Certitude hath indeed come unto me with the truth, yet I followed it not, being misled by vain imaginings. Would that I had been among the helpers of God, the Most High, from ancient times! O Supreme Word of God! Return me to clay as I was dust.”

What aileth you, O ye frightened asses, that ye flee from God’s decree in this Gate, the mystery of the Lion? By the True God! Naught awaiteth you save the Fire from the designated Tree, except for those who have repented and turned sincerely unto the Truth. God will soon forgive whom He willeth, and He is the Witness over all things.

O ye believers! Fear God and speak not regarding the Most Great Remembrance aught that might invalidate the Truth, for God will soon show you His decree through the Most Great Truth upon the earth and those thereon, exalted with invincible truth. He hath ordained for him none save those foremost ones who were the weakest in strength and fewest in number.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! When permission cometh from Me, arise to carry out the Command with unwavering truth, for God will protect thee in this Cause, and We, the family of God, are thy witnesses and supporters.

We are thy supporters, and the supporters of Thy Cause through truth with truth. Doth not the Lord of earth and heaven suffice thee? We are in truth witnesses of justice against those who desire to oppose thy Cause with falsehood. The judgment of God and Our testimony on the Day of Distinction sufficeth them, and He is, in truth, powerful over all things.

O Most Great Master! I am nothing except what Thy power hath raised up for the Cause. I have relied on none save Thee, and have sought refuge in no matter except in Thee. Thou art in truth the All-Sufficient, and God, the Truth, encompasseth all things beyond Thee, and God, the Exalted, sufficeth as a mighty helper through truth with truth.

O Remnant of God! I have sacrificed my all for Thee and have welcomed revilement in Thy path. I have desired naught save martyrdom in Thy love. God, the Exalted, sufficeth as an ancient refuge, and God sufficeth as a witness and guardian.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Thy words in this Most Great Response have saddened me. The decree belongeth to none save God and the Command to none save God. By My life, thou art the Beloved in the sight of Truth and creation. There is no power save in God, and God, thy Lord, sufficeth as a severe avenger through truth with truth.

Verily we are God’s, and verily unto Him shall we return. Glorified be God, the Lord of creation, above what they describe. There is no God but Him, and He is God, the Most High, the Most Great.

Verily God hath made this Gate the reward of the Hereafter for those who desire God through truth and who were, among the people, God-fearing through the knowledge of the Book.

Surah of the Hearts [Af’idih]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And the brethren of Joseph came and entered into his presence, and he knew them but they knew him not.” [Q12:58]

Kaf Ha ʿAyn Sad. God hath informed His servants by the Most Great Name that there is no God but He, the Living, the Self-Subsisting, and He is God Who hath ever been Independent and Ancient. Say: Can any besides God know the unseen in the heavens and the earth? Glory be unto Him! There is no God but He, and He is God Who hath ever been Mighty and Wise. He revealeth not the unseen unto any save him whom God chooseth, causing him to be led between His hands, and he feareth none besides Him.

O people of the earth! By God, the Truth, verily this Book hath filled the earth and the heavens with the Most Great Word for the Proof, the Awaited Qa’im, in the Most Great Truth, and verily God hath ever been a witness over all things. This is a Book from God whose proof hath been perfected for those in the East and the West, that ye speak not concerning God save in truth. For by your Lord, verily this My proof hath been a witness over all things.

O ye who believe! Verily God hath ordained the decree of knowledge in the breast of the Remembrance from His presence, concealed in truth with the truth. And with him are the realities of Paradise; when they act, they shall find in the highest heaven what no eye hath seen nor ear heard. And with him is the decree of justice from your Lord God in the Most Great Truth upon the people of the Fire. When he speaketh in refutation, a severe torment is created in the Fire for their souls. Fear God, for He hath been commanded around the Fire in truth with the truth. On the Day when the earth and the mountains shall quake, ye shall behold him upon sovereignty, bereft of sovereignty, before Us in truth, like a lowly servant, like an atom standing still. Whoso obeyeth him, We shall reward him with goodly recompense and a seat of ruby in the Paradise of the highest heaven, which hath been engraved by the hand of God, the Most High. He is God, there is no God but He, the Truth, and He is God Who hath ever been in truth Self-Subsisting.

Say: Verily I am the wondrous ordinance from God, the Wondrous, and God hath ever been Mighty and Wise. God hath revealed unto me His proof that this Word is dependent upon the word of glorification. Magnify, then, God, your Creator; verily He is the Truth, there is no God but He. And verily this Remembrance is My proof in truth, and it is the Most Great Word unto all the people of the earth and the heavens, and no soul hath turned away from it save that it hath borne a grievous burden.

And when the trumpet shall be blown, and the earth be changed into another earth, and the mountains become a level plain upon the surface of the earth in the mighty line, straight—then shall hearts be humbled before the Most Great Word, and thou shalt behold no soul save that thou findest it in humble whisper, abased and lowly. Then shall faces be humbled before the Living, the Self-Subsisting, and He is God Who hath encompassed all things. And all shall be on that Day upon the earth in a gaze toward the Remembrance in the cloud, wondrous.

And no soul hath wrought in the path of the Remembrance save that knowledge thereof hath been encompassed by him who said at the Point of Fire: “O Lord, increase my knowledge in Thee with wondrous knowledge!” And whoso saith: “Verily I am the Gate besides Thee,” him shall We requite with Hell, and God hath not made any repelling of His true command in truth with the truth.

Have they not considered the Remembrance in the two Names from their Lord by the Most Great Truth, which were joined in the dominion until We separated them through the Truth by the Book? And God has brought all things into being from the water of His mercy through the most hidden mystery. We have not ordained eternal gardens for any soul in this earthly life, for all must taste death in truth.

O people of the earth! Why do you deny the Remembrance of the All-Merciful when He is the Truth, there is no God but Him, the Most High, and He has ever been the All-Knowing, the Ancient? We have created man from the mystery of origination in haste, and verily God’s promise is the truth, and God is witness over all things.

O servants of God! Be patient, for the Truth will, God willing, come to you suddenly with the Most Great Word. There the Truth will confound you and you will not be able to reject it, and I am verily a witness over all the worlds.

O people of the earth! Have you gods besides the All-Merciful, your True Lord, who can protect you? Nay! God suffices as a witness unto His own oneness. When the idolaters are touched by a breath of the verses, they are led to the fire. And when We set up the balance with justice, no soul shall be wronged in anything, and We are sufficient as reckoners for all things.

O people of the earth! Why do you worship these images besides God, the Most High, when your Lord, the All-Merciful, is knowing of all things and has ever been mighty and ancient? We have found you and your fathers far from this straight Gate, away from the truth. Say: By God, I shall indeed outwit your idols until you worship none but God, the Truth, besides Whom there is no God, the Most High, and He has ever been the Self-Subsisting.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Say: O Fire of hearts! Be cool as polished ice unto Me. And send greetings upon this Arabian Youth, the son of Abraham, whom God has concealed around the fire. God has made you the Point of Justice and has revealed to you to establish the Cause through the Most Great Word. Call the people to the pure Truth, for God is witness over you.

We revealed unto David and Solomon two letters of that Word, and through these two letters they were trusted with dominion. And verily We caused Dhun-Nun, Idris, Ishmael and Dhul-Kifl to enter into darkness until they testified at the Point of the Gate:

“There is no God but Thee, glory be unto Thee! We have ever stood around the water at the Most Great Word.”

God has forgiven them, and they are among the people of paradise, recorded in truth in the White Scroll by the hands of the Gate.

(O Concourse of Light! God hath made you the brothers of Joseph, and ye enter his presence but recognize him not until he maketh himself known to you. When you learn something of the Cause, be ye remembered around the Throne in truth.)

Surah of Remembrance [Dhikr]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“When he had furnished them with their provisions, he said: ʿBring unto me a brother of yours from your father. Do ye not see that I give full measure and that I am the best of hosts?”’ [Q12:59]

Ta Ha Sad. The remembrance of God in the reddened Tree, moistened with oil, aflame with fire. This is the light of God in the fire surrounding the water, which was and is the Truth speaking and glorified in utterance.

This is a Book of mystery, revealed unto the mystery inscribed at the center point of writing. He is God; there is no God but Him, the Most High, and He is God, ever Mighty from ancient times.

O people of the Throne! By God the Truth, there hath come to you the Remembrance with a wondrous Command from God, your Lord, besides Whom there is no God, the Most High; and He is God, ever Mighty, All-Wise.

Verily, every community is but a single point around the Gate, unto whom God hath revealed:

“Worship none but God, the Truth, in the paths of this Gate, for He is the Self-Sufficient, and I am the Most High, Who hath ever been from ancient times.”

Verily God hath forbidden the Gate unto a town whose people have turned away from the Command of the Gate, deviating from the Truth; and God is witness over all things.

The promise of Truth draweth nigh. Verily ye and that which ye worship besides God, apart from the paths of the Gate of God, the Truth, shall be cast down in prostration. Ye are the people of the Fire according to the decree of the Book, and the decree in the Mother Book is irrevocable.

Those for whom the supreme word of the Remembrance hath already gone forth from God, these shall not be grieved by the great terror, and they, in their love of the Remembrance for the Gate, are well-pleasing unto the Truth.

Verily this your Day shall fold up the heaven in the hands of the Gate. Even as We began your creation, so shall We repeat it by God’s leave, in wondrous wise.

We have written in all the Tablets that the kingdom of the earth belongeth to the Supreme Remembrance, and verily God’s command in the Mother Book is decreed, and God is knowing of all things.

Say: Naught is revealed unto me save the Truth. Your God is One God. There is no God but Him, and I am the servant in truth from God, who hath been witnessed around the Fire.

O servants of God! Hearken unto the call of the Proof from around the Gate. Verily God, my Lord, hath revealed unto me:

“We have sent down this Book unto Thy servant that he may be unto all worlds a warner and bearer of glad-tidings in truth.”

O people of the earth! Follow ye the Remembrance of God, the Most High, the Supreme—this, if ye desire God and His friends. For God hath prescribed remembrance for him who remembereth Him, and God is knowing of all things.

God hath revealed unto thee the Book in truth that thou mayest judge between the believers with justice in what God hath shown thee of His signs, and that thou mayest turn away from the people of the Prison and their adversaries. Verily thy Lord is witness over all things.

O ye weak ones! What aileth you that ye hide from some people but hide not from God your Creator, Who is the Truth wheresoever ye may be? He is with you in truth, and God encompasseth whatsoever ye do.

Whoso committeth evil or doeth a grievous wrong, then seeketh forgiveness of God—besides Whom there is no God—with sincere truthfulness in the paths of the Gate, shall find God Forgiving, Merciful.

Verily those who harbor evil thoughts against the believers have taken upon themselves a sin from Satan, and God hath prepared for them in the hereafter, by the decree of the Book, a humiliating chastisement. They who harbor thoughts about thee like unto the thoughts of the days of ignorance shall never think ill of thee, for God hath purified thee through the knowledge of the Book, and the grace of God toward thee hath been, in very truth, tremendous.

O peoples of the earth! Remember God within yourselves without raising your voices, for whispering is of Satan, save for those who are engaged in the remembrance of God. And whoso seeketh remembrance from the Remembrance, We shall bestow upon him from God a great reward. And whoso opposeth the Remembrance after having heard the verses from His tongue, We shall cause him to burn in the fire of hell on the Day of Resurrection by decree of the Book, and he shall find no helper in the hereafter besides God, in very truth.

O Supreme Remembrance of God! Forgive not those who join partners with God, but forgive whom Thou willest besides that, for they who join partners with God have indeed strayed far astray. These call upon none but a rebellious Satan. And whoso taketh Satan as a protector instead of the Remembrance hath indeed brought upon himself the fire and suffered a manifest loss.

We have made Satan, through his unbelief, a protector over the satans. Satan promiseth you naught but delusion, and ye shall find no escape from the fire besides him, in very truth.

O peoples of the earth! The promise of the Remembrance is true, and He speaketh naught save from God, the True One. And who is more truthful in speech than God, the True One? Whoso acteth in the path of the Remembrance according to the decree of the Book, God shall cause him to enter Paradise through the Most Great Truth, and God wrongeth not His servants by so much as the speck on a date-stone, in very truth.

And what religion is better than his who submitteth his face to the Remembrance in peace, unto God, besides Whom there is no God, the All-Praised? And God encompasseth all things.

O peoples of the earth! Fear God, for the Remembrance hath come unto you with the truth. And if ye disbelieve, then unto God belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, and your Lord, the All-Merciful, is indeed Self-Sufficient, All-Praised.

O people! If We will, We shall take you away from above the earth and God shall bring forth others like unto you, and God hath power over all things.

O believers! Let not desires beguile you from following the Remembrance, for God hath ordained restraint upon souls through the Most Great Good-Pleasure, and the reward with God hath been, in the Mother Book, tremendous, and the Remembrance hath been among you, in very truth, a witness and a helper.

O peoples of the earth! Believe in God and His Remembrance and the Book which God hath sent down unto His servant. And whoso disbelieveth in God and His verses and the Last Day hath indeed fallen from above the earth into the depths of hell, descending unto the fire as his final abode.

And whoso disbelieveth in God after Muhammad, then disbelieveth in God after the true Imams, then disbelieveth in the Remembrance after God hath sent down the Book in wondrous manner from His tongue, God will never forgive him, nor guide him through any pathway.

O Concourse of Lights! Bring me your brother from your father. Do you not observe how I give full measure in the Tablet that is established upon the mystery of destiny for all with truth? Verily God has made me the best of resting-places for wayfarers and the best of destinations for seekers. And verily God has ever encompassed all things.

Surah of Husayn

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And if ye bring him not to me, ye shall have no measure from me, nor shall ye come near.” [Q12:60]

Kaf, Ha, Nun. This is a remembrance of the mercy of thy Lord, besides Whom there is no other God, and He is the One Who hath ever encompassed all the worlds.

O people of the earth! Be ye steadfast in following the Path, bearing witness unto God and His creation, even as God beareth witness unto Himself. And verily God is cognizant of that which ye witness. They who take the idolaters for friends instead of the believers have indeed disbelieved in God, the Mighty, and God is witness over all things. God will never grant might unto the idolaters, for all might belongeth unto God.

We have, verily, sent down the Remembrance from the holy seat unto your souls that ye may receive your portion from God’s ordained Book. Sit not with the unbelievers, discoursing about false deities. By the True One! The Remembrance will assuredly gather you all unto the Path by divine decree. Whoso turneth away from falsehood and followeth the Remembrance in truth hath indeed achieved a mighty triumph.

O people of the earth! The Remembrance is God’s true Remembrance. None among you followeth Him save he hath followed the All-Merciful in truth. This Path of Ali hath been inscribed in God’s Book round about the Fire.

O people of heaven! God hath called unto you from the Sinai Tree: “Verily, I am God, besides Whom there is no other God.” Whoso visiteth the Remembrance in supreme truth hath visited Me upon the Throne, and whoso turneth away from His Book and His call hath strayed from the Path and entered the Fire. Thy Lord wrongeth not mankind, and He hath power over all things.

Those who mock God’s wondrous verses sent down through the Remembrance mock only themselves. We grant them increase in their transgression according to truth, and God is indeed cognizant of all things. When they rise up against the Remembrance, they rise up seeking to deceive God with Satan’s lies, but they deceive none save themselves. God will judge between people with truth, and He is God, the Most High, the All-Praised. He is God, with power over all things.

God hath made the abode of the hypocrites in the depths of the coffin, in the lowest reaches of the Fire. Whom God causeth to stray, thou wilt find no path for him in truth. As for those who repent, hold fast to God, and turn wholly unto the Remembrance—this Most Great Remembrance of God—We shall gather them among the company of the true believers. God will grant them in the hereafter a mighty recompense according to truth.

The idolaters wish to create division between God and His Remembrance, but God hath willed that His Remembrance should perfect His light, and God hath power over all things. Among the people are those who believe in part of the Book while denying another part, desiring to find between the two rivers pleasant water. These are the idolaters in God’s Book, and judgment concerning them hath been decreed in the Mother Book. We have prepared for the idolaters a Fire that encompasseth their souls, and God wrongeth not mankind by so much as the husk of a date-stone.

Should the idolaters ask of thee what they asked of Moses, the Most Great Word, saying, “Show us God openly,” the punishment seized them for their unbelief. Then they took the calf for worship after the Remembrance had come to them with wondrous signs from God, the True One.

Why do these idolaters not ponder upon the Qur’an with true and sincere reflection? Verily We have raised thee above the Mount that thou mayest take from all in the heavens and earth God’s Most Great Covenant, and that people may not enter the gate of the City except in prostration before God. And We have made thee witness to the Covenant in sublime truth, with mighty and binding truth.

Because of their breaking God’s Covenant and their rejection of the Reminder, We shall seal their hearts with doubt, and none shall believe in God, the True One, in truth, save a few among the believers. And God is witness over all things.

Their saying that Husayn was not slain is disbelief in God. God witnessed his martyrdom, and God sufficeth as witness. And verily Jesus son of Mary, Our Word—We desire not his death before the Return, but God raised him to heaven and preserveth him until the appointed Day, witnessed. And God encompasseth all things.

Because of your wronging the Reminder, God hath forbidden you the good things of the verses, but God hath knowledge of all things. None knoweth the interpretation of the Book save God and those firm in knowledge. Whoso interpreteth the Book according to his opinion hath wholly consumed fire, and God hath prepared for the idolaters a grievous punishment.

Verily We have revealed to thee as We revealed to Muhammad and the Messengers before him with clear proofs, that mankind might have no argument against God after the Gates. And God spoke unto Ali in truth upon the primordial Mount with sublime speech.

Verily We in truth bear witness concerning thee to that which God hath sent down of verses unto thee, and the angels are witnesses before thy Lord. God sufficeth as witness, and the Gates suffice as informed witnesses of the truth.

Those who revile the Reminder after the Book hath come unto them with truth—God will neither forgive them nor guide them on paths of safety through any gate save the path of the Evil One apart from God. Verily God hath placed the decree of all things in the hands of the Reminder through truth, by truth, with wondrous permission, with ease.

Thou willest naught save what God thy Lord willeth, and God sufficeth as One knowing and informed of His servants’ sins.

O people of earth! The Reminder hath come unto you with truth from the Proof by God your Lord’s leave. If ye believe in him it shall be better for you than all the world, for God is loving towards the believers. And if ye disbelieve, verily your Lord God, the Praiseworthy, is independent of all worlds.

O people of earth! Go not to excess regarding the Word of the Reminder, and speak naught concerning the Reminder save the truth. The Reminder hath not sent down his verses save with truth, and God is witness over all things.

The Messiah is but Our Word which We cast unto Mary. Speak not the word of the Christians “the third of three,” for that is a calumny against the Reminder, and the decree concerning the Reminder in the Mother Book is mighty.

God is but One God. Glory be to Him that there should be aught beside Him. All shall come before Him on the Day of Resurrection as servants. God sufficeth as guardian over truth.

I am naught but a servant of God and His Word, and I am but the first of those who bow down before God, the Most High, and God is witness unto all things. This Youth would never disdain to be a servant of God, nor would those who circle round Him. As for him who disdains the worship of the All-Merciful and grows proud before His exalted remembrance, God shall gather him on the Day of Judgment in the form of an ant and shall condemn him to the fire, in truth, with truth, forever and ever.

O people of the earth! There hath come to you a conclusive proof from your Lord, the All-Merciful, mighty in truth, with truth. Do ye find for yourselves any protector besides the Remembrance? By your Lord, besides Whom there is none other God, God hath not ordained for mankind any helper apart from the Remembrance. Verily We have made the Remembrance a shining sun and a manifest light, that ye may seek of His bounty and hold fast unto His remembrance. God shall soon cause you to enter into His mercy and grace, guiding you unto the path of glory—this which hath ever been praised in truth.

O concourse of lights! Hear My call from around the Gate. God, my Lord, hath revealed unto Me that this Remembrance is the Truth. No soul hath brought it to Me save that We shall fulfill its measure in the most excellent way. And if ye bring it not to Me, O people of truth, then by the True God, there shall be no measure for your faith with Me, nor shall ye draw nigh unto Paradise by virtue of this Book which hath been elevated round about the Gate.

Surah of the Near Ones [Awliya’]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They said: ʿWe will try to influence his father concerning him, and indeed we shall succeed.”’ [Q12:61]

Kaf, Ha, Ya, Lam. God, there is no God but Him, and He is All-Knowing over all things.

O people of the earth! Be ye upright in the Cause with justice, witnesses for God through the Remembrance, and deprive not yourselves of the bounty of the Book, for God hath revealed therein whatsoever is in the Greater Scrolls. Ask ye the Remembrance concerning His knowledge, that ye may become, through God’s grace, truly informed of the Remembrance.

O ye believers! Fear God and place your trust in God, your Lord, and fulfill the Covenant concerning the Most Great Remembrance. Verily God hath raised up twelve guardians as proofs for Himself, and none knoweth their excellence save what the Remembrance hath conveyed unto them in this Gate, and verily God is All-Knowing of all things.

When the ungodly broke their covenant with the Remembrance, We cursed them in truth and made their hearts, by God’s leave, as hard as stone. They forgot a portion of the Book wherewith We had reminded them at the station of the particles, and they continue to remain unaware of the hidden knowledge of the Book, except as thy Lord willeth. Verily He is All-Powerful, All-Wise.

The Christians among the People of the Book said: “Our hands are tied.” They have lied in their ungodly desires against Us. Indeed, the hand of God is truth, and He is the One Who controls the kingdom as He willeth, through what He willeth, and He is God, powerful over all things. Verily God encompasseth all things, and He is God, the Most High, the Most Great.

O people of the earth! The Light hath come unto you from God through this Book, manifest with the truth by the truth, that ye may be guided unto the paths of peace and emerge from darkness into light by God’s leave, upon this pure and extended path.

They have disbelieved who have attributed to the Remembrance anything beyond servitude to God, the Most High. Say: Who possesseth anything apart from God, the Most High? And verily if God desired to destroy the Remembrance and all His creation, none could withhold His power nor prevent His Will. His is the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever is between them, and there is nothing but shall come before Him on the Day of Resurrection, in truth, as a worshipping servant in poverty.

They have disbelieved who have said that God hath established a connection between Himself and His creation, like unto the word which the Jews and Christians spoke saying “We are the sons of God.” Exalted be God far above what those who liken Him to His creation say, with a great exaltation.

He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever is between them by His command, not from anything. He is unique in His Oneness and Self-Subsistence. His sacred Essence is not joined with anything, and none knoweth Him as He is save Him. So glorified be He above what the wrongdoers describe concerning His signs, with a mighty glorification in truth by the truth.

O people of the earth! The Remembrance hath come unto you from God after an interval between the Messengers, to purify you and cleanse you from impurities for the days of God, the Truth. So seek ye bounty from His presence, for We have made him in truth a witness and a wise one over the people of the earth.

O ye believers! Remember God’s favor upon you, for I have given you in truth what was not given to anyone in all the worlds before you. So be thankful to God, the Most High, and be praiseworthy in the Faith.

O thou beloved! Let not those who hasten to disbelieve grieve thee, nor those who say “We believe” with their tongues while thou knowest their hearts speak otherwise. And whoso seeketh to create dissension against the Remembrance shall have no power over anything, for unto God belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and on earth, and He is independent of all created things.

O exalted Remembrance of God! Judge not between the misbelievers but turn away from them. Yet if they believe in this Book, then judge between them with justice according to the true Faith, for verily God encompasseth all things.

Whosoever judgeth by other than what God hath revealed in His Book is accounted in God’s sight as one written down as an infidel to the truth. Those who disbelieve in God after the Remembrance are worshippers of false gods in the Mother Book, and theirs shall be the most evil return to the Fire.

We have witnessed many among the people transgressing and consuming what is forbidden—what aileth these people that they fear not God, the Most High, the True, the Faithful, even a little?

Those who spoke the word of the Jews and Christians and claimed the Proof was cut off from mankind have disbelieved. Cursed are they for what they have said. By God, besides Whom there is none other God! Nay, God’s hands are outstretched—He bestoweth as He willeth, and His power hath no end in truth. Were the people of the Furqan to believe in the Remembrance, We would remit their sins and cause them to enter the gardens of delight as their best reward.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Deliver what hath been sent down unto thee from the bounty of the All-Merciful. If thou doest not, the people will not know Our mystery. Verily God created creation only for His knowledge, and God is indeed the Knower of all things and independent of all worlds.

Say: O people of the Furqan! Ye have nothing save after the Remembrance and this Book. If ye follow God’s command We shall forgive your sins, but if ye turn away from Our decree We shall verily judge you by the Book with the greatest Fire, yet We wrong not mankind by a whit.

O people of the earth! If ye believe as do the believers, ye have truly purchased Paradise, and no fear shall come upon you nor shall ye experience prolonged grief.

We have taken thy covenant from all in earth and heaven by God’s promise, He besides Whom there is no God. Yet whenever the Remembrance came to you from God, ye followed Satan save a few. Do ye not fear God on a Day which in the Mother Book is ordained for reckoning?

By your Lord! We have taken from the wrongdoers around the Fire the right of the believers, for God hath power over all things.

They have disbelieved who say God is the Exalted One. Glory be to God above what the wrongdoers describe! The heavens and earth are nigh rent asunder and split from their word of disbelief in God. He is but a servant, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

By the True God! He hath called creation at the Equator:

“Worship my Lord and your Lord, the All-Merciful—He is God, there is no God but He.”

Whoso associateth partners with God, Paradise is forbidden him and the Fire becomes his portion, and this hath been recorded in the decree of the Book and inscribed in that same decree.

The similitude of those who point to God in the form of trinity is as the similitude of those who say God is the third of three. There is no God but the One God, there is nothing like unto Him, and exalted is He far above what the unbelievers say with great exaltation.

Muhammad and His trustees were naught but servants of the one God. Whoso claims aught else regarding them hath disbelieved in God, his abode shall be hell-fire, and God hath not ordained for him in the hereafter any helper.

They who claim that Muhammad and the family of God are in need of aught besides God, these are the most misguided of men in the Book of God, and God hath not ordained for them in the hereafter any helper.

O people of the earth! Do ye worship besides God that which possesseth naught besides the All-Merciful, when God is witness over all things? O concourse of men! Go not beyond the bounds of servitude unto God, besides Whom there is no God. Whoso claimeth aught else hath as it were warred against God and His loved ones, and God hath prepared for him in the hereafter a grievous punishment.

They who follow Satan desist not from that which is reprehensible unto themselves; these are the companions of the fire by the decree of the Book, and this decree hath been irrevocably fixed concerning them in the Mother Book. Save those who repent and believe; God will soon forgive whomsoever He willeth, for God is powerful over all things.

O people of the earth! When will ye speak as did the brothers of Joseph in his presence, for verily He is the Doer of all things by God’s leave, and God is indeed cognizant of all things.

Surah of Mercy [Rahmat]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

He said to his servants:

“Put their merchandise in their packs, that they may recognize it when they return to their people, that they may come back.”

[Q12:62]

Ta. Sin. Verily We have revealed unto thee this Book in truth, that men may know the truth of the Remembrance, and God is witness unto all things.

The believers, when they hear a verse from this Book, their eyes overflow with tears and their hearts are humbled before the Most Great Remembrance of God, the All-Praised, and God has ever been All-Knowing.

These are the inhabitants of Paradise, dwelling therein forever. They shall see therein naught save that which proceedeth from God, which their souls cannot comprehend, and the believers among the people of Paradise shall greet them, saying: “Peace be upon you!”

God hath ordained mercy for the believers as a thing prescribed, and God doth encompass all things.

O people of the earth! Fear God and be not excessive in the religion of God, the Truth. Consider your souls before death, for God hath not ordained any path for the unbelievers after death, in very truth.

O ye believers! Fear God concerning this Most Great Remembrance, for whosoever opposeth Him hath opposed the Truth, and God hath decreed for such a one the punishment of fire, and God hath power over all things.

O ye believers! God, your true Lord, saith in truth that whosoever followeth this Remembrance hath indeed followed all the Messengers in truth.

O people of the earth! God desireth naught from the believers save pure religion for Himself, and God hath ever been Self-Sufficient.

Know, O people of the earth, that God hath ordained for the Remembrance, after the Book, naught save the Bayan. Fear ye God in the name of the All-Merciful, for He knoweth what is in the heavens and what is on earth, what ye reveal and what ye conceal, and He is independent of all worlds.

God hath not ordained equal judgment for the good and the evil. Marvel not at the abundance of evil, for God hath ordained for His gate fewer than ye imagine, and God hath power over all things.

O people of the earth! Ask not the Remembrance of your inner thoughts, for if revealed they would grieve you. God is the Self-Sufficient, the Concealer. Ask Him concerning the ways of your path to God, your true Lord, and God is cognizant of all things.

When people ask thee about the unseen at the time of proof, say:

“God’s is the conclusive proof. I know naught save what my Lord hath taught me, and none knoweth the unseen save God.”

He is God, your true Lord, and He is cognizant of all things.

The people know not a single letter of the knowledge of the Book in truth. Had they known the truth, they would not have asked thee for proof after the verses, for God hath created them through His power and hath appointed the angels of heaven and earth as their guardians. Were all the people of earth to gather together to produce the like of a portion of its letters, they would never be able, even if they had others like unto them to help.

God hath power over all things. God is witness unto all things. God is independent of all worlds. Can any besides God reveal such verses in truth? Glorified and exalted is He above what the wrongdoers say concerning His gates, with great transcendence! When you say to the ungodly, “Come unto God and to this Book which has been sent down from God, the Truth,” they say, “Sufficient for us is what we found of the knowledge of the Book before.”

Say: By your Lord, you know naught of the knowledge of the Book save one limited letter of the proof. Do you believe in part of the Book and deny part of it? On the Day of Resurrection, the Book’s decree for your souls shall be naught but the Fire of Samum from the Tree of Hell, and this decree has been determined in the Mother Book.

O ye who believe! God has ordained for your souls naught but your own decree, and on the Day of Resurrection, God will not question you about the decree of those who guide or those who go astray. Therefore watch over your souls, for Satan is your manifest enemy.

O believers! Hear My call from around this Most Great Remembrance. God has revealed to Me that the path of this Remembrance with Me is established upon truth by truth. Whosoever follows other than this upright religion shall find no portion written for him in religion on the Day of Resurrection.

O concourse! Remember Me at this Remembrance, that God may accept your deeds and the angels may record for you goodly reward from the knowledge of the Book as ordained. Know that God has prescribed mercy for Himself on the Day of Gathering, the appointed time for all the worlds. Turn away from this world, for it associates partners with God, and follow the Remembrance, for in the Mother Book He is wise and knowing.

Fear God, O company of kings, regarding distance from the Remembrance after the Truth has come to you with the Book and verses from God through the tongue of the Remembrance wondrously. Seek bounty from God, for after your belief, God has ordained for you a garden whose breadth is as the breadth of all gardens, wherein you shall find naught but blessings and bounties from God, according to that which was great in the Mother Book.

O believers! Why do you not ponder the Book? Is there any creator besides God? Glory be to Him! He is the Truth, there is no god but He, the Truth, and He is the Most High, and God is mighty, praiseworthy.

O people of the earth! Hear My call from around this Blessed Tree: Verily I am God, there is no god but I, so worship Me and establish prayer at this Most Great Remembrance, that you may be written in the Book of the monotheists.

Verily We shall gather the Prophets, the truthful ones, and the gates in the plain of gathering, and We shall say unto them: “For what were you sent?” They will say: “By God, the Truth, we have no knowledge of anything. God is the Most High, and He is God, ever knowing, great.”

God, glorified be He, has said:

“I created you not, nor did I raise you up, save as one soul, that you might say: ʿThere is no god but God, the Most High,’ and He is God, ever mighty and praiseworthy in truth by truth.”

Soon shall the truthful profit from their truthfulness, and We shall judge the guilty by their names, and God does not wrong the worlds by so much as the speck on a date stone.

O Spirit of God! Remember My favor upon thee when I spoke to thee in the midst of holiness and supported thee with the Holy Spirit that thou mightest speak unto the people through God’s wondrous tongue that which God had wisely ordained in the mystery of the heart in a wondrous way. Verily God hath taught thee the Book and wisdom in thy youth, and hath favored the peoples of the earth through thy Most Great Name, for the people know naught of the knowledge of the Book, save a little.

We, verily, created the birds and healed the blind and the leper through the tongue of the Spirit of God, Jesus the son of Mary, that the people might know that God is the Creator, the Healer, the Powerful. And there is naught but shall come before Him on the Day of Resurrection as a servant. And when the disciples ask thee concerning the Word from thy Lord, the True One, shower upon them the holy effusions from thy Lord, for God rejecteth naught, and He, verily, hath power over all things.

O concourse! Hear My call from the tongue of this Most Great Remembrance, for My proof unto you is this Soul, My Soul, and the decree hath been inscribed in the Book of God from the beginning. Fear ye the Day whereon the Remembrance shall judge among you with the judgment of God, your True Lord. There shall ye find none in the kingdom of the heavens and the earth besides this exalted Remembrance as a helper.

O people of the divine cloud! Hear the call of the Lord from this spot of earth—verily He is the Truth, there is no God but Him, and He is indeed the Ancient, the Mighty. We, verily, command the angels, by God’s leave, to place the sign of the Remembrance in the dwellings of the souls of those who have preceded, that they might recognize it when they return to the people of the divine Unity, and that they might return unto God, the True One, upon this Most Great Path. Verily God hath ever been compassionate unto the believers.

Surah of Muhammad

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“When they returned to their father, they said: ʿO our father! No measure of grain shall henceforth be given to us unless our brother is with us. Send him therefore with us that we may obtain our measure, and we will indeed guard him well.”’ [Q12:63]

Praise be to God Who hath lifted grief from the heart of His servant that he might be a shining lamp unto all the worlds.

We have revealed unto thee as We revealed unto the Prophets, commanding that ye worship none but God, besides Whom there is no God, and He is the Mighty, the Ancient.

O ye believers! Fear God and let not Satan deceive you, for verily the world is fleeting, but the life to come with God, thy Lord, the Most High, hath been ordained great in the Mother Book.

O ye believers! Fear God, your Lord. By God! If ye deny the Remembrance after the Book hath been sent down unto you in truth, by the True One, We shall surely chastise you by God’s leave with the severest chastisement, such as hath never been inflicted on any other, for God hath power over all things.

And when the Day of Resurrection cometh, God shall question the Prophets, the Truthful Ones, and the Gates: “Did ye tell the people to worship aught beside God?” They will answer: “Glory be unto Thee! There is no God but Thee alone, without partner. We called the people only to bear witness unto Thy Oneness, and sufficient art Thou between us and all the worlds as Witness.”

O people of the earth! Fear God regarding falsehood. Our Remembrance calleth the people only to that which the All-Merciful hath called unto Himself—to worship none but God alone. He is but the servant of God and His Word, and God sufficeth as a true Witness.

O Supreme Remembrance of God! We bear witness in thy prayer upon the Path:

“O my God! If Thou shouldst take them to task for what their hands have wrought, verily Thou art the Just in judgment, and if Thou shouldst forgive them, verily Thou art the Self-Sufficient, the Generous.”

We shall surely cause the truthful ones to enter the Garden through the Remembrance—this is God’s supreme bounty unto whomsoever He willeth, and God encompasseth all things.

Praise be to God Who hath created His servants in the temple of His power, and all the worlds stand in awe and humility before His Remembrance.

Verily those who have disbelieved in God after the Book hath come unto them in truth—God shall soon decree for these misbelievers the Fire, and God is witness over all things.

We send down no verse in this Book but We have ordained it in its supreme potency over its like, yet most people remain far removed from Our signs.

When they denied the believers through Our Remembrance, God decreed against them through the sons of the oppressors who were made to stand upon the Path at this Gate.

Do ye not reflect upon the infidels whom God destroyed for their sins? And ye are in a worse position than they. Soon shall We destroy you for your sins and bring forth another creation for the Supreme Remembrance, for God hath power over all things.

O people of the earth! Fear God in your deeds, for God hath appointed for everything a limit in the Mother Book.

When a thing is decreed, it shall not be repeated in like manner. Fear God through God that ye may all be united at this Gate through God, the Great.

The infidels indeed mocked some of the Messengers before thee; soon shall We decree for the guilty ones the Supreme Fire, for God encompasseth all things.

God hath prescribed mercy unto Himself for the Day of Assembly concerning which there is no doubt, and those who deny the Most Great Remembrance—these are they who shall be encompassed by fire. No dwelling-place findeth rest in aught, nor doth any moving thing move, save by the leave of God, the Most High, and He is God, the All-Knowing.

O people of the earth! Do ye take lords other than the One God, beside Whom there is no god—He Who created the heavens and the earth by His power? There is no god but Him Who is the only God. Those who call upon aught else beside Him are encompassed by fire upon fire, and verily God is Self-Sufficient, Great.

O ye believers! I fear from my Lord a Day whose measure is fifty thousand years, when mankind shall stand before the All-Merciful. Fear not, for We have turned away from thee the evil of that Day, and verily the supreme mercy of God for those who follow thee hath been inscribed in the Mother Book with exalted truth.

Whosoever holdeth fast unto God, He sufficeth him. And if harm toucheth thee, there is no decree but His. There is no administrator save God, the Most High, and He is the Almighty over all things—He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

O people of the earth! If ye bear witness to this Most Great Remembrance as God beareth witness unto Him, then ye have indeed denied. And if ye bear witness against Him according to the promptings of your own selves, then ye have lied, for God hath ordained naught for mankind save complete submission.

Say: The testimony of Truth concerning the Book sufficeth me. I call you only to worship one God, and verily God and His loved ones are quit of the idolaters. And who doth greater wrong than he who fabricateth falsehood against God concerning the Remembrance? Verily God hath prepared for the liars an all-encompassing fire.

Soon will God gather you in the plain of resurrection, and We shall say unto you: “Call now upon those partners ye claimed beside the Remembrance!” But they will not answer, nor will they be able to say aught save “Would that we were dust beneath the earth!”

O Solace of Mine eyes! Hast thou not seen those who stood before the fire and said:

“Would that we could return and not deny the Remembrance and the Book!”

God hath slain them for their unbelief. Were they to be sent back unto thee, they would gain naught save unbelief and Satan.

By thy Lord! We shall cause all to stand before the Lord at the Bridge, and none shall have power over aught save through the Covenant of the Remembrance. Verily the Covenant of God at the Bridge shall be a station where Truth shall be questioned according to the Truth.

And when We remove the veil from their insight, they shall say:

“O our remorse for what we neglected concerning the Most Great Remembrance!”

Verily God wrongeth not mankind by so much as the weight of a mustard seed. God sufficeth as a witness for the believers. The life of this world is naught but the enjoyment of illusion, while the Hereafter hath been decreed in the Mother Book to be supremely great.

And God has witnessed your grief for Husayn, and verily God will fully compensate those who grieve with a reward beyond measure, and God has not ordained in the Mother Book for these believers any reckoning save that which is justly measured.

Let not the denials of the infidels concerning God, the Truth, grieve thee, for God will soon take vengeance upon them in the fire with the severest punishment and the ultimate retribution. Verily messengers before thee were denied, yet they were patient concerning that which they heard, and there is none to change the words of God, thy Lord.

And God has ordained for thee to bear the afflictions of all the people of creation, in truth and justice, all together. I am content with God as my Lord and I hold fast to His cord, and there is no power nor strength save in God, the Most High, and He is God, the Most High, the All-Wise.

And He is God, Who encompasses all things. And verily this Remembrance is the truth from God, and He is God Who is witness over all things.

And if God had willed, He would have gathered them all unto the Remembrance, and verily God quickens the dead and causes the living to die, and God has power over all things.

O ye believers! When ye return to the city unto Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets, ye shall say:

“O our father! The Remembrance has withheld from us the measure. Therefore send with us a sign of the Remembrance for the Most Great Remembrance, and verily we have been, through God’s might and power, guardians of the Remembrance.”

That is of the tidings of the unseen which We reveal unto thee in truth, that mankind may be patient concerning the signs of God, the Most High, in truth and justice. And unto Him submit whosoever is in the heavens and the earth in truth, but the infidels, by the decree of the Book, have been inscribed around the fire in their associating partners with God.

Surah of the Unseen [Ghayb]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

He said:

“Can I trust you with him except as I trusted you with his brother before? But God is the best Guardian, and He is the Most Merciful of those who show mercy.”

[Q12:64]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Qaf. Follow what is revealed to you from your Lord. Verily, I am God, there is no God but Me. I have chosen you for Myself and have ordained mercy upon Myself, but people know little of the knowledge of the Book. There is not a letter in the Book nor anything in the horizons except that God has created it according to your likeness, and nothing is neglected in the Book, for God encompasses all things.

God has made the infidels blind to the light of the sun. Whomever God wills to be in unbelief, He leads astray, and whomever God wills to have faith, he is upon the straight path, steadfast around the Gate.

O people of the earth! The Hour is surely coming, there is no doubt in it. By your Lord, if the veil were removed from your eyes, you would forget your partners besides God, and on that Day you will not find any helper besides God, the Most High.

Say to the believers: Have mercy upon yourselves and do not follow Satan, for God does not forgive that partners be associated with the Remembrance, though He forgives anything less than that to whom He wills. He is God, and He is knowing of all things.

When the infidels forgot the judgment of the Remembrance, We opened unto them the gates of all things that they might rejoice in what God gave them of His justice. Soon We shall seize them suddenly with fire, and We shall judge them with fire justly, according to what God has decreed irrevocably in the Mother Book.

Say: None knows the unseen save God and whom He wills. My knowledge is only through God, and We speak only the truth. Whoever is guided is guided only for his own soul, and whoever disbelieves—indeed, God is Independent of all the worlds.

O people of the earth! Do you not fear a Day when you will be gathered to God, your Lord? On that Day you will not find any helper besides the Most High Remembrance.

We have tried some through others that people might remember through the Remembrance, yet few among the believers believe in God’s wondrous verses.

With God are the keys of the unseen in a Book, and the treasuries of all things in a Book that none knows save Him. He knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and He is the One Who sends down things from the Mother Book with truth, by truth, concealed around the Fire.

There is nothing but that We have its like, which We send down as We will by Our power, according to what God has decreed irrevocably in the Book.

O people of the earth! By your Lord, the Truth, besides Whom there is no God, this Remembrance is upon clear evidence from Myself, and judgment belongs to God Who relates the truth and nullifies falsehood, and God is knowing of all things.

God has decided the matter between Me and the people after the Book, so turn not to anything and work for God, for God is Independent of the worlds.

Whoever believes, it is for his own soul, and whoever disbelieves, it is for his own soul. The Remembrance is nothing but Justice itself, and God is witness over the believers.

And when the believers come to thee with the verses, give them glad tidings of what God hath prescribed for Himself, and accept their excuse for what they do in ignorance, without the command of the Book, and turn them back with the Remembrance to God, their True Lord. His is the judgment, and He is the Reckoner of what the Book hath truly recorded, the Faithful, the Mighty, the Swift.

Say: Who protecteth you in the darkness of the wombs and in the ark upon the waters? Do ye call upon any other than God for yourselves, apart from the Most Great Remembrance? What aileth you that ye believe not in God, the Most High, the Mighty, save a little? Verily God is the Subduer over His servants. Do ye not fear God on a day when He shall send down water from heaven and bring forth water from the earth? Then shall We deliver the Remembrance, the Most Great Word, and ye shall find no helper beside God, the All-Wise, the True.

And all this We have originated from the tidings of the unseen in an established knowledge. God shall soon cause the guilty ones to enter their abode upon the sun in the reckoning of the fire, from a valley which hath been in the Mother Book as a blazing flame.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! When thou seest the idolaters discussing the Book, turn away from them until they come to thee with the Most Great Remembrance. And sit not after the reminder, but leave them in truth in the fire, gathered around the fire.

Turn away from those who make the Remembrance like unto the remembrance of their own selves, or love Him more ardently. What aileth these cattle that they ponder not the truth? Have ye any intercessor beside God? Have ye any protector beside God, the True One? And God is the Mighty, the Wise.

These are they who have been clothed, for what they have earned, with the garment of fire. God hath prepared for them a drink from the spring of venom and food from the tree of Zaqqum. God hath not ordained for them in the hereafter any portion of the Most Great Mercy, and the decree in the Mother Book hath been accomplished.

O people of the earth! Fear God and call not upon any beside God, your True Lord, that which neither profiteth nor harmeth you, save that it maketh you to wander in perplexity upon the earth. Verily your Lord God, the True One, is Truth, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

Verily guidance is with God, guidance from the presence of the Remembrance, and He commandeth you only that ye may submit to God, the Lord of the worlds. And He is God, the Mighty, the Ancient.

And He it is Who hath created what is in the heavens and the earth in truth, that men may know that the Most Great Word is “Be!” and it hath been written in the Mother Book concerning the station of the Remembrance.

His word is the truth and His is the kingdom in truth, and by His command is blown the trumpet. He is the Knower of the realm of the trumpet’s blast, both the unseen and the visible, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

And verily We showed thee the kingdom of the heavens and the earth in truth, and thy vision hath not ceased since the beginning of the latter creation, and God hath been witness over thee.

And among the idolaters are those who say that such a one was the gate of God, but when he setteth, they say the like concerning another. Thus do their claims never cease, leading to Satan, and these know not from the knowledge of the Book even a little of the truth.

God hath testified for thyself that I have turned my face toward God Who hath originated the people of origination through His Most Great Name, the Wondrous, beside Whom there is no God, and He is God, the Most High, the Great.

The knowledge of my Lord encompasses all things, and I am but the servant of God in truth. Soon We shall show you, by God’s leave, the Beast of Earth upon the earth, supremely exalted in truth by the truth.

O people of the earth! Fear ye not your misbelief against God after your oppression of the Remembrance? Will ye find, apart from God, any helper on the Day of Truth, in truth, by the truth?

Nay, by your Lord! The Fire shall be their abode, by the decree of the Book, and this judgment has been irrevocably ordained in the Mother Book.

Verily, We bear witness to Your proof for every soul through wondrous verses from God, and We raise in ranks whomsoever We wish among Our servants. Verily God is knowing of all things.

O people of the earth! Act according to the holy station within yourselves, for the Hereafter is indeed the true life, and God has prepared for the believers among you a mighty reward.

God rewards each according to what His Book has prescribed, by the decree of the Book, and this judgment from God, the Truth, has been irrevocably ordained in truth by the truth.

The Truth has spoken in truth, in the inmost meanings of the Word from the seas of creation, through the mystery of the Line which was wondrously concealed in the Point of Mystery.

Has He secured you through the Most Great Remembrance as He secured you through His two brothers before? For God, the Truth, is the best guardian, and He stands firm upon the straight path around the Fire.

Verily God is the Knower of His servants, and He, the Truth, encompasses all things. And He is God, independent of all worlds.

Surah of Unity [Ahadiyyah]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And when they opened their belongings, they found their merchandise returned to them. They said, ʿO our father, what more could we desire? Here is our merchandise returned to us. We can provide for our household, protect our brother, and obtain an additional measure of grain. That is an easy measure.”’ [Q12:65]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Sad, Ra, Alif. God, there is no God but He, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting. Nothing knows Him, yet He knows all the worlds through His knowledge, and He is God, the Witness over all things.

O people of the veils! Hear My call from the tongue of this Remembrance, this Arabian Youth. Verily, I am God, there is no God but He. I have ordained eternal Paradise for the Remembrance upon the Most Great Truth. And there is nothing save that We have decreed for it a covenant from Him. Whoever fulfills his covenant is indeed guided, and whoever turns away has turned away from his Lord, and We shall decree for him on the Day of Resurrection naught but eternal fire, wherein he shall abide forever.

Verily, We have favored some prophets above others, and We have given you the wisdom of the Book by God’s leave from the presence of One All-Wise, and He is God, informed of all things.

And verily Isaac, Jacob, Jonah, Zachariah, and John were all recorded in the Book with God as being around the Fire.

And verily Solomon, Elias, Abraham, Ishmael, and Lot—We favored them with the truth, and they were recorded in the Mother Book as being around the Fire.

These are they to whom We gave wisdom and prophethood in truth, for We knew in their souls the covenant of the Remembrance. And whoever denies a single verse from God has denied all the verses, and God is indeed knowing of all things.

O people of the earth! Associate not partners with the Remembrance, for God has rendered void the deeds of the infidels through justice, and God’s command in the Mother Book has been decreed.

Say: God asks of you no recompense on the Day of Judgment save My remembrance, and this is naught but a reminder for all the worlds.

He is but a servant of the Proof, calling people to the pure religion of God, and they have not valued Him as He should be valued, in truth, even a little.

Is it other than God who sent down the Book that came to Moses as a light and guidance for the people? What ails you, O black tree? Will you not ponder over that Book regarding the truth of the Gate?

This is a blessed Book We have sent down, confirming the truth, that people might know that God’s proof concerning the Remembrance is like His proof for Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets, and this matter in the Mother Book is mighty.

And who is more unjust than one who fabricates lies about God concerning this Book? Can any besides God alter it? Say: Bring your proof if you are witnesses before God, the Most High.

By your Lord, if mankind and jinn gathered to produce the like of even a portion of its letters, they would not be able, even if We were to aid them with seven thousand like themselves. Can any besides God speak with His tongue? Glory be to God, the Most High, above what the infidels say, for none besides God has power over all things.

Soon shall We gather you individually as We created you the first time, and We shall see you around the Fire, for they are the infidels.

Those partners of God whom you claimed—you will not see there for yourselves even the slightest measure of truth? Therefore believe in God, besides Whom there is no God, and turn away from all else, for He is the Truth and He is God Who has ever been mighty from ancient times. Verily God is the Cleaver of the grain and the date stone, and the Creator of darkness and gloom. Show me then what those whom you call His partners have created. By your Lord, the All-Merciful, your abode shall be in the Fire along with the moon and sun in a valley which God has named in the Mother Book as a reckoning.

We have indeed set the stars in the horizon of heaven that men might know the paths of land and sea by God’s leave, and verily God has knowledge of all things. We have created you from a single soul, as one soul, and We ordain for you in truth: among you are the learned and among you are the learners, and God encompasses all things.

God has sent down from heaven water in abundance that there might spring forth from that holy earth inner vegetation and outer grapes and pomegranates, distinctive without comparison to aught else. Behold this greatest fruit and its ripeness that ye may become knowledgeable in the remembrance of God, the Most High. Some people have ascribed partners unto God without knowledge. Glorified be God far above what the wrongdoers describe in their great arrogance.

He is the Originator of all that is in the heavens and earth. He has no offspring nor consort, and He created all things from nothing, and God has power over all things. God, the Truth, He is your Lord; there is no God but He, so worship Him and put your trust in Him. Vision comprehends Him not, but He comprehends all vision, and He is God Who has ever been exalted and great.

The Book has indeed come to you from God with truth: whoever sees, it is for his own soul, and whoever is blind, it is to his own detriment, and verily God is witness over all things. Follow what We have revealed unto thee from thy Lord, besides Whom there is no God, the Mighty, and He is God Who has ever been powerful and wise.

Had God willed, none would have associated partners with Him. Revile not those who call upon God without knowledge, lest they revile God, the Truth, with knowledge. We have taught you in truth that ye may become praiseworthy through God, the Most High. Shall we seek other than God for judge when He is the Truth Who has sent down the Book with truth that people might know His greatest Word in truth? There is none that can change His words, and He is God Who has ever been hearing and knowing.

Thus have We appointed for every Prophet an enemy from among men and jinn, that devils might whisper to their souls ornate speech as a lie against God, and He is God Who has ever been exalted and praiseworthy. Eat of that over which God’s name has been mentioned and turn away from sin and its inward manifestation, for everything has its limit in the Book of God which has been inscribed around the Fire.

Is the likeness of the sun as the likeness of darkness? Exalted be His name, blessed and exalted be God! He knows where He bestows His authority, and He is the Truth, and He is God Who has knowledge of all things.

Whomsoever God desires to guide to the truth, He illumines his heart for remembrance, and whomsoever He desires to lead astray, We have placed him in a besieged city. This is the path of God, the Most High, in the heavens and earth, and the Command has been established in the Mother Book around the Water. These are they for whom is the abode of peace, and God, the True One, is their Guardian wheresoever they may be, and verily God hath ever encompassed all things.

And when the Day of Resurrection cometh, We shall gather together the jinn and men in the plain of assembly, and We shall say unto them:

“Did not the Remembrance come unto you with the Book, with pure truth? What aileth you that ye believe not in God and His signs with pure and mighty truth, save a little?”

Verily We inscribe the ranks of all beings with truth, for God is the Mighty, the Merciful.

And if He so desired, He would make you pass away and bring forth another creation, for God, the True One, is truth indeed, and God hath ever been powerful over all things. They who have disbelieved have falsely ascribed partners unto God, and their cry reacheth not unto the Truth but only unto Satan, who hath ever been cast back into the fire, upon the fire, above the fire.

O people of the Book! Fear ye God in your inmost hearts regarding certain suspicions about the Most Great Remembrance, for God hath decreed that in certain suspicion lieth all sin, and verily God hath ever been witness over all things, and God hath ever been powerful over all things, and God hath ever encompassed all beings.

O ye believers! Hearken unto My call from the tongue of the Remembrance. Verily this is My path in the Mother Book, which hath ever been straight around the Fire with the Most Great Truth. Follow ye it with truth and follow not other paths apart from it, for God hath forbidden His path unto him who showeth evidence of any other than Him, and verily God hath ever been informed of all things.

And when the people of Reality opened the goods of hearts, they found the merchandise of Divine Unity speaking of the Remembrance, whereupon they said even as the brothers of Joseph said to their father—exalted be God above this—“This is but a scanty measure,” while the Remembrance is, in the sight of God, as the measure of a camel’s load, which hath ever been inscribed in the Mother Book.

Surah of Creation [Insha’]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said: I will not send him with you until ye swear a solemn oath to God that ye will surely bring him back to me, unless ye are encompassed (by enemies).’ And when they had given him their solemn oath, He said: God is witness to all that we say.”’ [Q12:66]

Praise be to God Who hath sent down the Book in truth unto Our Remembrance, that it might serve as a proof of the Remembrance for all who dwell in the heavens and on earth—a proof that is true and eloquent.

Verily We relate unto thee tidings of the unseen which God hath not revealed to anyone before thee through the mystery of the Cause, and thou wert indeed, through this Word, witnessed in the Mother Book before God.

God hath brought every matter into being through His power and hath ordained diverse fruits for the trees, that men might know that God hath power over all things.

Those who associate partners with God say:

“Had God willed, we would not have associated partners with His Remembrance.”

Their tongues have falsely attributed this to God after their hearts were convinced thereof. Verily the proof from God through the Remembrance is truth, and God is witness over all things.

God hath ordained grievous punishment for those who turn away from certain verses. Say: “Wait ye, for God is indeed aware of all things.”

Say: “In all my deeds and actions I am only for God Who created the heavens and earth in truth—no partner hath He. For this did my Lord create me, and I am the first of the Muslims.” In the Mother Book I was concealed around the water by God’s leave.

O people of the earth! Do ye seek any path to the Truth save through this exalted Soul who is your final destination?

The souls acquire naught save by His leave, and unto God is your return in truth. He is independent of the worlds through God, His Lord.

Verily We have made you successors in the earth by God’s permission, and We have exalted some of you above others in certain degrees, and God is indeed knowing of all things.

Verily We have sent down this Book unto thee by God’s leave in truth, as a reminder and glad tidings for such of God’s servants as were, in the Mother Book, devout around the Gate.

Follow what We inspire in thee, and turn away from the people of the earth and their desires, for thou art indeed inscribed in the Mother Book upon the name of God, the Wondrous.

When We will, We destroy the wrongdoers from the face of the earth, even as We destroyed many of those who came before, by God’s leave.

Fear ye the Day when We shall recount unto you through the knowledge of the Remembrance in truth. Then shall ye recognize the Most Great Name of God and wish for His seat that day, though ye shall only be able to visit it. The matter hath been decreed, and the judgment hath been fixed in the Mother Book.

The balance on that Day is Truth among the people of the Remembrance, and whomsoever God ordaineth to be light in weight shall have no power over anything, and God’s command in the Mother Book is decreed.

When God created the Remembrance, He presented him in the assembly of the Ear to all things, whereupon all the angels prostrated themselves before God, the One, the Single, save Iblis who, being too proud to submit to the Remembrance, became thereby in His Book an arrogant accursed one.

Did We not say unto thee, O Iblis:

“What aileth thee that thou dost not prostrate before God, the One, the Independent, Who created thee from the fire of the Tree, while I was indeed a witness from clay unto clay?”

And when asked, after appearing unto the eyes until the appointed time, We shall cause him to taste through these questions a lasting portion until the known Day—a matter that hath been inscribed in the Mother Book. Soon shall Muhammad come upon the clouds, with angels round about him, and the matter hath been decreed, and there shall be no averting God’s command in the Mother Book.

O people of the earth! Put your trust in God, the Truth, for verily We grant no way over those who trust in God to Satan. Fear ye God, and think not of the Remembrance as other than the Remembrance, for God commandeth not indecency, nor is He pleased with unbelief in His servants. Say: I have commanded you to justice in the pure Faith; as ye began, so shall ye return, and God is well-aware of what ye do. Say: Who hath forbidden the pure adornment of God for the believers, and the good things of sustenance? God hath created good things for the believers, so seek ye bounty from God, and be not extravagant in your enjoyment, but seek moderation upon the straight path in a praiseworthy manner.

Verily God hath forbidden you misbelief and sin and indecencies, whether open or concealed, and speaking of the Remembrance without truth. So shun ye the false deity that ye may be inscribed in the Book of Truth as helpers of the Gate. For all things We have ordained, by God’s leave, a written measure. When its time cometh, ye shall not advance it by a single moment, and the decree on that Day shall belong to God, the One, the Wise, the Single.

O people of the earth! By God, the Remembrance hath come unto you with the greatest proof. Whoso denieth, upon him be the Fire, and whoso feareth God, upon him be divine good-pleasure—a decree foreordained in the Mother Book. Who, then, doth greater wrong than he who fabricateth lies about the Remembrance after this Book of Truth? These shall not attain their appointed portion and shall be recorded in the Hereafter as companions of the Fire.

Verily those who ascribe partners unto God and reject the Remembrance, saying he is other than the true Servant of God—the gates of heaven shall not be opened unto them, nor shall they enter Paradise until souls pass through the eye of the needle. This is God’s path in the Mother Book, inscribed round about the Fire.

We burden not any soul beyond its capacity, and God hath today lifted from the breasts of the believers the burden of limitation. They have declared concerning the Most Great Word:

“Praise be to God Who hath guided us to the Most Great Remembrance; we would not have been guided had not the Remembrance guided us by God’s leave.”

These are the companions of Paradise, wherein they shall abide forever. Neither the heavens nor the earth with their denials shall grieve them, and they shall remain steadfast upon the pure path in truth.

We have stationed upon the Heights men who know people by their marks, and We have ordained for these men heights wherefrom they know not people by their marks, and from the throne of blindness they observe people by their marks. And God is knowing of all things.

When We cause the people of the Fire to enter therein, they say: “O people of Paradise! Pour upon us a drop of water, filtered from that Ocean!” Then doth the Remembrance proclaim with magnification: “God hath forbidden My bounty unto those who turn away from My remembrance. Make them taste, O Malik, of the heat of boiling water and the essence of Zaqqum with intense severity.”

When they forgot the Remembrance, We caused them to forget the remembrance of the Truth by the Truth, and they shall never find any change in God’s true judgment in the Fire.

O ye believers! Have We not sent down unto you a Book on parchment wherein We have detailed the knowledge of all things? What aileth you that ye believe so little in the wondrous verses of God? Do ye deem false judgment more worthy of security than the judgment of Truth by the Truth? Woe, then woe unto these idolaters!

What aileth you that ye ponder not the Qur’an’s interpretation? Verily God is your true Lord Who created the heavens and the earth in six days of the six, then established His authority upon the throne. His is the Command and the Creation. There is no God but He, and He hath ever been the Self-Subsisting, the All-Wise.

O people of the earth! Create not disorder in the land after the Remembrance, and call upon God within yourselves in supplication and fear, for verily the mercy of God in the Mother Book hath ever been nigh unto the believers.

O Concourse of Lights! God sent not the Remembrance unto you save after the Most Great Covenant with your souls that ye should bring Me not a verse from Himself unless His light encompasseth you or the Remembrance eraseth you from His mention. When ye brought Me your covenant, the Lord brought you the Most Great Covenant, and God hath witnessed with justice upon the Truth by the Truth.

And verily I am the Truth by the Truth upon the Truth as Guardian, and verily your Lord, the All-Merciful, hath ever been independent of the worlds.

And verily this Remembrance is the Light in the Mount of Manifestation, and He is God Who hath ever been beloved by the believers. Say: Verily I am the Light at the Point of Manifestation. God hath stored Me up for that promised Day, and verily God’s Command concerning Me hath been decreed in truth, and He is God Who hath ever been witness over all things.

Surih of the Thunder [Ra’d]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And he said: ʿO My sons! Enter not by one gate, but enter by different gates. I cannot avail you aught against God. Verily, the decree rests with none save God. In Him do I place my trust, and let all those who trust, place their trust in Him.”’ [Q12:67]

Alif. Lam. Mim. Sad. Make mention of the mercy of thy Lord, Who is none other than He, within thyself—the self of the Guardian who was, in the Mother Book, exalted.

God hath, in truth, sent down this Book that men might recognize the truth of the Remembrance, for God is, in truth, All-Knowing.

Hearken unto that which thy Lord hath revealed unto thee: Verily, I am God, there is none other God but Me. Therefore, worship Me and establish prayer for My remembrance. Circle ye round the House, surrounding the Throne, and glorify God in the Furthermost Mosque near the Remembrance, for God hath, in the Mother Book, inscribed the Throne with the name of the Gate.

God, beside Whom there is none other God, the Truth, doth in truth declare: No soul hath visited the Remembrance after his passing save as one who hath visited the Lord upon His Throne. This is the path of God, the Most Exalted, which hath been irrevocably decreed in the Mother Book.

O ye believers! Revile not the winds, for they proceed from the command of the All-Merciful in truth. We send them down only upon a goodly land by God’s leave, that ye might draw forth its qualities by the leave of God, the Most Exalted—and He is God, the Praiseworthy in truth.

When the verses from the Remembrance descend upon an evil land, the soul turneth against itself, and nothing emergeth therefrom save darkness and affliction.

Marvel ye that there hath come unto you the Remembrance from God through one of Our souls among you, that he might purify you and teach you the way of those who have gone before, steadfast upon the straight path of justice?

Verily, We have sent the Remembrance to call you unto the pure Faith. Worship God, your Lord; ye have no god other than Him. I know from God that which ye know not. Ye are but a portion of His letter, and I fear for you the Most Great Day, the Day of Judgment, for God is witness over all things.

Say: O people of the earth! I am the Most Great Remembrance of God, and I am only charged with conveying unto you the messages of my Lord, counseling you, and making known unto you the ways of the Prophets, the Truthful Ones, and the Martyrs in truth. Whoso believeth, it is for his own soul, and whoso disbelieveth, it is likewise for his own soul. Verily, my Lord is God, the Truth, in truth, and He is independent of all worlds.

God hath ordained salvation for those who embark upon the Ark with thee, and We shall soon drown the deniers in the sea of fire by the leave of God, the All-Wise.

Verily, God sent not the Prophets save to convey unto men the Most Great Word that they should worship none but Him in justice—He beside Whom there is no god. This is the true Faith, and God is witness over all things.

Thou art but the servant of God and Our Remembrance. Whoso claimeth aught else regarding this Most Great Soul hath disbelieved in God, and his abode shall be hellfire, and God hath not ordained for him any helper in the Day of Resurrection, in very truth.

Say: O people of the earth! Do ye dispute with Me concerning God on the basis of names which ye and your fathers have devised through Satan’s promptings? Verily, God hath sent down unto Me the Book in truth that We might acquaint you with the true names of God, from which ye were far removed, having followed other than truth.

We have taken from Him the Covenant of the Remembrance from its beginning, and irrevocable is God’s decree concerning the purification of all peoples, by virtue of the Book which was inscribed in the hands of the Bab. Verily the Letters in God’s Book are naught but a sign like unto yourselves. Do ye desire salvation for yourselves apart from them? Why do ye not reflect, even briefly, upon the wondrous creation of all things?

O people of the earth! This is God’s She-Camel upon the earth. Touch her not with evil thoughts contrary to truth, lest God’s punishment seize you with severe suddenness. We have ordained the mountains upon the earth, and We have set the earth upon the water, and the scented air beneath the heat and cold, that ye may know that God is the Truth, and that He, God, is cognizant of all things.

We have sent down torment upon every nation in truth, for they have called upon Satan instead of God with falsehood. And verily God wrongeth not mankind by even a whit.

O people of the earth! Worship God in truth, for ye have no god but Him. Indeed the Book hath come to you from God in truth. Do ye still maintain any argument for yourselves? What proof have ye against the Remembrance after the Book? By God the Truth, ye call upon naught but Satan, a rejected lie.

And of the people of the earth, those who have believed in the Remembrance—We shall feed them abundantly from the bounties of Paradise and We shall send down upon them, in truth, the blessings of heaven. But people know naught of the knowledge of the Book save a few letters thereof.

O people of the earth! Deny not the Remembrance within yourselves, for God hath rent you asunder through your evil thoughts with fire. Believe ye in the Remembrance in truth and fear God’s greatest judgment against your perverted desires. And glorified be God far above what the wrongdoers say in their great arrogance.

These are the villages whose ordinances We relate unto thee, and verily God encompasseth all things. We found not the majority faithful to the Covenant of the True Guardian, but rather We found you arrested in your deficiency.

O people of the earth! I am God’s Remembrance, His proof unto you, and I speak naught but the truth by the truth. Here I have brought you the Book with clear verses. Is there anyone among you who hath brought a surah like unto it? Bring forth your witnesses apart from God if ye be truthful and praiseworthy in matters of faith. By your Lord! Ye shall never be able to do so.

God hath sent it down from His presence, and ye are powerless to produce even a portion of its letters. And verily God is witness over all things.

The infidels said to their king:

“This youth desireth to abandon our gods and seize the kingdom from our hands. Help thou the kingdom to slay him, that we may be witnesses upon the earth.”

God hath destroyed them for their unbelief. Had We not willed it so, they would have had no power, but God refuseth save to perfect His Remembrance, though the infidels detest it all together.

We have visited loss of fruits upon certain souls inasmuch as they rejected certain verses, that they might remember God, the Exalted, in this Book, in truth, by the truth, in praiseworthy manner. What punishment could be more severe for the infidels than rejection, were they to ponder the Qur’an even briefly in the knowledge of the Book?

These are they whom, at the moment of rejection, the angels seize with afflictions and exemplary punishments. For when the Hour cometh, they shall gaze with submissiveness upon the decree of God, the True One, as a thing witnessed. And God’s decree hath been fulfilled for the Remembrance with justice concerning those whom God hath established in the East and West of the earth, by leave of the Book, as dwellers in truth and security.

O people of idolatry! Why do ye worship these idols instead of God when they have no power over anything? Cast off manifest corruption and enter this upright Faith if ye truly desire God in truth and reality.

And verily We appointed thirty nights for Moses and completed them with ten, and thus was fulfilled the matter of forty mornings in truth. And when We raised up the sincere ones around the Mount, they asked Us concerning the Command. Say: God cannot be seen, but O people, look ye unto Me. For if your hearts become steadfast after truly beholding Me, soon shall ye see the servant standing firm in pure servitude with sincerity.

When the Remembrance revealed Himself to the mountain with that Word, they heard My call from around the fire: “He is God, there is no God but Him.” Is there among you any who can hold fast save unto God? The mountains crumbled and hearts fell prostrate before God, the Ancient One.

O Solace of Mine eyes! God hath chosen thee through His Word, so manifest to all peoples, by God’s leave, a drop in remembrance of her. And verily God hath ever been Self-Sufficient, All-Witnessing.

We have inscribed in these Tablets the likeness of the birds of the Throne, that people might be patient and grateful in the remembrance of God, the Most High.

Those who proudly reject the verses without right after the truth hath come, have chosen the path of error instead of the shining Straight Path. And God hath power over all things.

O people of the earth! Enter not through the gates by a single gate, but enter through all gates by this one Gate alone. Who can make you independent of Him through anything from God? The decree belongeth to God alone, so place your trust in Him with pure truth, for God doth take account of those who trust in Him.

And He is God, the All-Knowing of all things.

Surih of the Return [Raj’]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“When they entered in the manner their father had commanded them, it did not avail them against God in any way except to fulfill a need in Jacob’s soul. And verily he possessed knowledge of what We had taught him, but most people know not.” [Q12:68]

Kaf. Ha. Ya. ʿAyn. Sad. God is He besides Whom there is no God, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting. Nothing is like unto Him, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.

Follow what is revealed to thee from thy Lord in truth, and grieve not over the idolaters in any way, for thou hast been purified from grief in the Mother Book from time immemorial. Verily, after the Bab, the people acted like the calf—a lifeless body in human form, in the shape of an animal, lowing.

O my Lord! Forgive me and those believers, both men and women, who have entered my house. Verily Thou art our God and the God of all worlds in truth, and Thou art the All-Forgiving through Thy grace, and Thou hast ever been Kind and Merciful to the believers.

We choose for every nation unto the Greatest Appointment a people in truth. God hath not ordained trials in religion without purpose, and verily God is cognizant of all things.

O my Lord! Through Thy Most Great Name, record for those who enter the Gate of the Hidden One such good deeds as none can reckon save Thee. Verily Thy mercy embraceth all things. These are Thy servants, poor at Thy gate, and Thou art the Self-Sufficient in truth, and Thou hast ever encompassed all worlds.

O people of the earth! Follow this Light which God hath sent down with Me in the Greatest Truth. Nothing is permitted unto you save pure things by God’s leave, and nothing is forbidden unto you save impure things by God’s leave. This is written in the Books of the heavens and earth. Unto God belongeth sovereignty. There is no God but Him, and He is God, the All-Knowing of all things.

He it is Who giveth life and causeth death, and He is God, the Witness over all things.

We caused twelve springs to gush forth from the rock for Moses and his people, that each group might know its drinking place. And verily God hath ever been Witness over all things.

O people of earth and heaven! Enter this blessed city and eat of its verses whatsoever ye wish of wisdom and truth. Enter the Gate, prostrating yourselves before God, the Truth. We shall verily forgive those who enter that Gate, according to the decisive decree of the Book.

But people wronged themselves and read not a single letter from the Book except that their souls followed Satan, and thereby they became, in God’s Book of Truth, far removed from the truth.

This city is recorded in the Mother Book on the Day of Unity, and in the Preserved Tablet it is written as being around the Fire.

When people transgressed against what they were forbidden, We said unto them:

“Be ye in the Fire, in the form of fire, by God’s leave, as your destination.”

O people of the earth! Did not God take from you a covenant concerning the Remembrance and the Book, that ye should speak naught but truth concerning God? Verily the abode of the Hereafter is better for you as a station, in truth.

Those who hold fast to the Book and follow the Remembrance after the Remembrance, and establish victory for the pure religion—verily We shall not suffer the reward of such doers of good among you, who perform righteous deeds, to be lost.

We took from all things in the First Scene a true testimony from themselves, through the tongue of the Remembrance:

“Am I not your Lord, and Muhammad your Prophet, and the Imams your guardians?”

And these holy ones and imams, and their followers, are the gates of God on earth and in heaven. And when they were asked thereof they said: “Yea.” But when We brought them forth into this world, the idolaters forgot the name of the Remembrance, though in the Mother Book they were reckoned among those consigned to nothingness. Recite unto the idolaters the tale of those who came before, how We seized them from above the earth with justice. Their likeness is as the likeness of the dog: if thou attack it, it panteth with tongue protruding, and if thou leave it, it panteth still. How far have these idolaters strayed from the truth! God hath decreed for them, after the Fire, grievous punishment.

Whoso followeth the Remembrance, he is guided unto the truth, but whoso turneth away from the truth is recorded in the Mother Book as one of the denizens of the Fire, above the Fire and beneath the Fire. What aileth these believers, that they seem not to hear these verses of truth from God? They are like unto cattle—nay, more astray from the path, as it is written.

God hath inscribed for the Remembrance the most excellent names upon the Throne. Call ye therefore upon Him by them, and abandon those who pervert His names. God shall soon requite the idolaters with the Fire as their final abode. When men ask thee concerning the Hour, say:

“The knowledge thereof is with my Lord alone. He is the Knower of the unseen. There is no God but He, Who created you from a single soul.”

I possess for myself neither benefit nor harm save as my Lord willeth. Verily He is the Self-Sufficient, and God is my Lord, encompassing all things, and God is Witness over all things.

Will ye call upon servants like unto yourselves apart from God? He is the Protector of the believers, and He is God, the All-Forgiving, the All-Clement. God is the Reckoner of all mankind. And when Satan draweth nigh to a soul, seek refuge in God—verily He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. God is independent of all creation. And when they ask thee concerning the spoils, say:

“The spoils belong to God and to whomsoever He willeth in truth.”

God is cognizant of all things, and thou art witness over all mankind.

Whoso is given of the Remembrance is given of God, and he is indeed upon the straight path, standing firm in truth. God thy Lord doth encompass all things. The believers, when the Remembrance is mentioned in the Most Great Path of God, their hearts are filled with sadness and they stand transfixed upon the path.

O ye who believe! If ye believe in God the Truth, then follow the Remembrance in truth and study this Book which God hath sent down with Him. Fear ye the Day of Distinction when the two hosts meet, and know that God is cognizant of all things.

O people of the Furqan! If ye stand by the Book, then this Remembrance is the essence of the Book. Return ye therefore unto Him, for God hath made the return in the Day of Resurrection witnessed before Him. God decreeth what He ordaineth, and His command in the Mother Book is fulfilled. Now in truth shall the perishing ones perish with clear evidence, and the believers shall live through clear evidence, and God is powerful over all things in truth.

We have shown thee from Our command in thy dream, and hadst thou made known the unseen, they would have disputed concerning the command.

Verily God, thy Lord, the True One, hath ever been cognizant of that which is in the hearts. O peoples of the earth! Believe in the Light which God hath sent down with Me in truth, and follow not the footsteps of Satan, for verily he biddeth you to associate partners with God, your True Creator. And verily God forgiveth not that partners should be ascribed to Him, though He forgiveth all else to whom He pleaseth. And God is, in truth, the All-Knowing.

Surah of Equity [Qist]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“When they came in unto Joseph, he drew his brother close to him saying: ʿI am, in truth, thy brother, so grieve not at what they did.”’ [Q12:69]

Alif. Lam. Mim. Ra. That Book, there is no doubt in it, and this Remembrance from God is truth, and verily God hath ever been All-Seeing over His servants with truth and justice.

O people of the earth! Fear God and let not Satan deceive you from the truth, for verily the Remembrance is truth upon truth, and ye and all that ye worship besides Him are, by the decree of truth, among the people of the fire, thus hath it been inscribed in the Mother Book.

O people of the earth! Do ye not reflect upon the creation of the heavens and the earth? Were there two gates from the Remembrance therein, both would be corrupted. Verily God hath ordered His dominion through His true gate, and God hath ever been knowing of all things.

O ye believers! Fear God on the Day of Truth, for We have gathered you around the fire and We shall question you concerning your deeds with the Remembrance. By the truth, We shall cause the idolaters to taste a grievous punishment of the fire, and We shall surely reward the patient with the most excellent reward in the land of saffron, exalted by the decree of the Book.

O ye believers! Do not exceed bounds regarding the Remembrance except with the true names from God, and leave the idolaters in their transgression, for every soul on the Day of Resurrection shall have a station upon the path where it shall be made to pause by the truth.

God doth not abrogate any verse, neither in earth nor in the heavens, save that He hath produced by the truth its like or greater than it, and verily God hath power over all things.

Follow what the Remembrance reciteth unto you in the pure religion. Verily, unto God belongeth pure judgment with justice, and God is the Self-Sufficient while ye are the poor at His gate, and He is the Truth, knowing all things.

This Book is with God, your True Master, the Secret of Books by truth, that people might witness to the bounty of the Remembrance with justice, and verily God hath power over all things.

Did ye think that ye could forsake the Remembrance and believe in the Book? Nay! God hath not ordained distinction between them save upon the water of the Throne. Were the Book to approach the Remembrance by any means, it would be consumed by God’s leave, and truth draweth not nigh save as God hath ordained therein with truth upon truth, and the decree of the Book in the Mother Book hath been accomplished.

The wise have said that the connection between Truth and creation is an existent truth—exalted be God far above what the wrongdoers describe with great exaltation! Their words are like unto the words of the Christians who say the Messiah is the Son of God. God assail them! How they have disbelieved in the truth after the truth! They have taken lords for themselves besides God, while they were commanded to worship but one God, and there is none besides God save His creation in His grasp. There is no god but He—glorified and exalted be He far above what the wrongdoers say with great exaltation!

Do ye desire to extinguish the light of divine unity with your false imaginings from Satan? Exalted be God, my Lord! God refuseth but to perfect His Word and make it manifest over all religion, though the idolaters be averse.

Verily many among the People of the Book mock the Book from the Remembrance. Say: Consider! For I am with you upon the path above the fire, and I shall surely be questioned.

Verily God hath made the hypocrites enemies one to another because they forgot God after the Remembrance, so the Remembrance made them forget themselves in justice. These are the people of the Fire, who have entered into the depths of the coffin, arriving at the Truth—and evil is the Fire as a destination.

Verily the hypocrites are the infidels in the Book of God, and sufficient for them is the curse of God and of the believers among all the peoples of earth and heaven.

O people of the earth! Look ye at those who died before you after the signs and the messengers, having died as unbelievers against the truth. Will they find aught after death save the Fire? Fear ye God, for verily the grasp of the Remembrance with God hath been ordained severe in the Mother Book.

O people of the earth! Have not the tidings of the ancients—Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus—come unto you? What aileth you that ye believe so little in the signs of God, the Most High?

Verily God wrongeth none in aught, but it is the people who, after the truth, have shown ingratitude for God’s bounties.

Verily Jesus, from among the progeny of Adam, hath been inscribed in the Mother Book with God as the Truth.

God hath promised the believing men and believing women from among the people of the Covenant of the Remembrance lofty gardens and goodly dwellings in the Most Great Ridvan of God. This is the supreme triumph, inscribed in God’s Book of Truth which hath been written round about the Gate.

Among the people are those who swear falsely by the Remembrance, and among them are those who know not the Remembrance yet swear truthfully. Verily God hath ordained for these infidels and these believers a station on the Day of Resurrection, fixed in truth by the truth.

Verily We decree the Fire for the liars and the Most Great Ridvan for the truthful, by the judgment of God, the Most High. And He is God, powerful over all things.

No soul hath turned away from the truth after the Book but We decree for it a double chastisement, as irrevocably ordained in the judgment of the Book.

What aileth you, O people of the Book, that ye know not that God is aware of your secrets, your open deeds and your whispered words? Verily God hath taught the Remembrance the knowledge of the Book in the Point of Fire, all of it.

Verily the unbelievers mock the Remembrance through the Book, and know not that God mocketh them through His Remembrance, and He is the Truth, by the truth, independent of all worlds.

If these were to beg God’s forgiveness seventy times, God would never forgive them. God hath prepared for them the supreme chastisement in the hereafter, for they have disbelieved in God and His signs. And He is God, witness unto all things.

Verily God hath created the desert Arabs more severe in unbelief than the non-Arabs, and God is knowing of all things.

Verily God hath distinguished the believing Arabs for His Word, and these have been concealed in the Mother Book above the lines upon the circles of the line.

Verily some of the desert Arabs round about the city are deep in hypocrisy, and God knoweth their secrets. Soon shall We chastise them twice by the decree of the Book, and this decree hath been irrevocably ordained in the Mother Book.

Some among the people have acknowledged their sins and have mixed good deeds with evil. Soon will God forgive whomsoever He willeth, and He is God, witness unto all things.

And among the people are some whose affair is deferred for the Remembrance, and verily God will judge between all with justice on the Day of Resurrection, and He, God, was ever the All-Seeing over His servants. O ye who believe! Act for God, the One, the Single, with pure sincerity, free from any mention of aught within aught, for God shall soon show you your deeds in the presence of the two mighty spheres, witnessed in truth with truth. And verily We bear witness that thy deeds are purely for God, the Truth, and none among the believers shall behold thy deeds in the Most Great Scene save as being for God, the One, the Eternal, the Ancient, besides Whom there is no God, and He, God, was ever the Mighty, the Wise.

And when the people of truth came unto the Remembrance, He recognized them concerning certain matters through His words of truth, therefore be not grieved by any reference to Me, for verily the Word is sanctified beyond all reference and its negation, and He, God, our Lord, was ever the Witness over all things. And verily God was ever the All-Knowing of all things.

Surah of the Pen [Qalam]

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate

When he had furnished them with their provisions, he put the drinking-cup into his brother’s saddlebag. Then a crier called out: ʿO ye in the caravan! Ye are surely thieves!“’ [Q12:70]

Alif. Lam. Mim. Sad. This is the remembrance of God concerning the Remembrance. There is no God but Him. Therefore worship Him and turn your faces toward the Sacred House, the Ka’bah. Associate not anything with the worship of the All-Merciful. O people of the earth! This Remembrance is Shu’ayb in the Book of God. Fear God concerning him and turn not away from His Cause, for God hath prescribed mercy for Himself, that He will forgive no soul save as the Remembrance willeth. The knowledge of our Lord encompasseth all things, and He is verily the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

Our Lord! Judge between the Remembrance and his people, and decree with truth against his oppressor, and take vengeance on those who harbor thoughts of the Days of Ignorance concerning him. Thou art God, the Wise, and Thou art verily well-acquainted with Thy righteous servants.

O people of the earth! Fear God on the Day of Truth when the Remembrance shall stand before the Throne and say:

“O people of the earth! Did I not convey unto you the verses of the Book? Did We not open unto you the gates of heaven? How then did ye deny Me after the Book? Taste ye this day, by God’s decree, the heat of the Fire, for ye were ungrateful to the Remembrance of God, the Just, without knowledge.”

Those who have taken the mosque of hearts as a house of misbelief against God, and for corruption of the Remembrance, and for reviling the people of faith—though they swear by God with fair-seeming oaths—they have indeed belied God’s testimony concerning His servants. And God doth encompass all things.

Stand not in the mosque of those who associate partners with the Truth and upon dead earth, for God hath purified thee by His knowledge—and He is the Truth—and God is aware of all things.

Verily thou art, in the Mother Book, the first mosque established in the cloud of the Throne upon pure God-consciousness for God, the Most High, and He is God, the Mighty, the Ancient. God hath ordained for thyself men who are concealed therein, and God hath ordained for these souls gardens of ruby stone, wherein God hath ordained no void of air. God hath established by His power in the center of each of their heavens seventy thousand suns that rise only by the remembrance of God, the Most Great, and God hath not decreed for them any setting, by the decree of the Book. And verily this decree was, in the Mother Book, conclusive.

That is God’s greatest good-pleasure. Whomsoever the Remembrance willeth, We have willed for him by leave of God, the Truth. And verily God is witness over all things.

Is he who hath laid his foundation upon the letters of Divine Unity more worthy to be a gate unto the Truth, or he who hath laid his foundation upon the word of fire in the Fire? Judge ye for yourselves which of the two letters is more worthy of security, if ye be believers in God. And verily God is knowing of all things.

Abraham’s seeking forgiveness for the infidels was only for God, the One, the Single. When he learned from a soul among them that he was an enemy of God, he disavowed him. And verily Abraham was tender-hearted, forbearing in truth upon the truth.

God misleadeth not any people save after His greatest proof hath been made clear unto them. When God’s proof was complete in truth, We destroyed them for their sins. And verily God wrongeth not creation by so much as the husk of a date-stone.

The Truth hath spoken in truth upon the inmost meanings of the Word from the seas of creation, through the mystery of the Line which was, in the Point of Mystery, wondrous.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from this Blessed Tree:

“Verily I am God, there is no God but Him. I have caused the Pen to move upon the Most Great Tablet that the Remembrance is truth even as I am the Truth. Therefore fear ye to reject, for verily the Word of God, the Most High, was, in the Mother Book, supreme.”

And verily We, when We commanded the Pen by His name, it was cleft asunder in awe and fell prostrate upon the Throne before God, the Ancient of Days, and God hath ever been knowing of all things. And verily unto God belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth. He is the Truth, He giveth life and causeth death, and ye have no protector nor helper besides God.

O people of earth and heaven! Ye do naught save that God hath decreed for it a decree in His Book aforetime, and God hath ever been knowing of all things. Ye spend not in the path of God, neither small nor great, nor do ye walk upon the earth, save that it hath been written in truth for your souls aforetime, and there is nothing save that it hath been decreed in the Book of Effacement from the Point of Fire.

God hath not decreed that the believers should go forth all together unto the pure religion unto the Most Great Remembrance. But why should not a company from every group go forth to inquire of the Remembrance concerning the knowledge of the Book, that God might enrich them through His grace with the decree of the Book? And verily God hath ever been knowing of all things.

We have not sent down any verse in truth except that it increaseth the love of the believers for the Most Great Remembrance, while it addeth naught unto the infidels save the severe fire of hell. And when the Remembrance arose with the Command, the infidels looked to one another regarding the arising of sedition. God turned away their eyes, for they were a people who knew but little of the decree of the Book.

O Concourse of Lights! There hath come unto you the Remembrance from among yourselves, compassionate unto the believers and forbearing unto the infidels. By God, the Truth! It beseemeth not to deny One like unto Him—if there be any like unto Him among you—and verily He is the Truth, the Path of God upon the pure path, Who hath ever been stationed upon the Most High Truth.

O Thou the Solace of Mine eye! Say:

“Sufficient unto me is God, there is none other God but Him. In Him have I placed my trust, and He is the Truth, the Lord of the Throne and of the heavens, and God hath ever been knowing of all things.”

Are men astonished that We have revealed the Book unto a man from among them, that he might purify them and give them glad tidings upon the footsteps of truth from God, their Lord? And God hath ever been witness unto all things.

Verily God is the Lord of creation and command, and there is no god besides Him. Then He mounted the Throne by His command, and there is no administrator in the earth nor in the heavens save by leave of His Word. And He is the Truth, He originateth creation, then causeth it to return, and God hath ever been knowing of all things.

O Concourse of Lights! Hear ye the call of the All-Merciful from this crimson leaf which hath sprouted from the green Tree. Verily, there is no god but Him, so worship Him with equity at the center of the sun upon the point of equality—after its setting are glimmers and before its rising are decades, according to the decree ordained in truth. And verily the decree hath ever been written in the Mother Book round about the Gate.

He it is Who hath made the sun and the moon as two signs of truth, that ye might know the number of years through these two luminous ones. Thus doth God set forth similitudes in truth, that ye may be thankful unto God, the Praiseworthy.

Verily in the diversity of the verses and the wonders of the signs are tokens for those of understanding from among the people of that Most Great Gate, and the decree of the Remembrance from God was concealed in the Point of Fire.

Those who desire not Our presence and are content with the life of this world instead of the Greater Life, and who find tranquility in this world by turning away from the Most Great Word—these are the people of the Fire and were inscribed in the Mother Book round about the Fire.

And those who have believed in God and have acted with justice in effacing all else for the sake of the Greatest Remembrance—these are the companions of Paradise and were gathered in the Mother Book round about the Letter B.

Their first call therein shall be “Glory be unto Thee, O God, our Lord! There is no God but He, alone with no partner,” and their greeting therein from the Truth shall be “Peace,” and their final call shall in truth be the First Word: “Praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds.” And He is God, the Witness over all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Turn away from those who hope not for Our presence and are content with the base life of this world, and leave them in their transgression by reason of what their hands have wrought. Verily God is aware of all things.

When We visited Our retribution upon man for what his hands had wrought in falsehood, he called upon Us whether sitting or standing. Yet when We removed his affliction, they persisted in silence as before. What aileth these people that they understand not even a word of the Book in truth?

Verily We took vengeance on generations before you for their failure to stand firm on the Most Great Path, and soon shall We destroy the guilty among you by God’s leave, the All-Wise.

When Our verses from this Book are recited unto the idolaters, they say: “Bring a different Qur’an than this, or change these verses.” Say: “God hath not empowered me to change it of mine own accord. I only follow what is revealed unto me. Verily I fear my Lord on the Day of Judgment which is appointed in truth.”

Verily We commanded the angels to place the drinking cup of the Remembrance in the saddlebag of the believers by leave of God, the Most High. He is God, the All-Knowing of all things.

O Herald! Call out:

“O Caravan! Ye are indeed thieves, for the drinking cup of the Remembrance was hidden in truth in your highest consciousness.”

He is God, the Preserver of all things. He is God, and is Powerful over all things.

Surah of the Camel [Ba’ir]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They turned to them and asked, ʿWhat do you seek?”’ [Q12:71]

Alif, Lam, Mim, ʿAyn. Verily, the remembrance of God in the concealed line, inscribed and veiled in mystery, which hath been hidden in the Mother Book. God hath sent down the Book unto thee that people may bear witness to God’s just testimony unto Himself, that there is no God but Him, the Ancient, and He is the All-Knowing God. Had God willed, We would not have recited it unto you. Verily I am the servant of God and desire naught save what my Leader desireth, and He is the Truth from God, the True One, a proof unto all the worlds. And who doth greater wrong than he who fabricateth lies against God or His signs in vain delusion? These are the people of the pit, who dwell in the depths of the sea of Zaqqum by the decree of Truth. And God’s command in the Mother Book hath been ordained.

O Remembrance of God! Say unto the idol-worshippers: How do ye worship besides God that which can bring you naught save the greatest harm—the fire of hell as your destination? Do ye inform God of what He knoweth not, or hath He partners in the heavens and earth? Glorified and exalted is He! There is no God but Him. His is the creation and the command, and He is the Creator of all things, and He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

Verily God hath not decreed in the Book negation as negation, nor affirmation as affirmation, nor form as anything specific, except that He hath made firm in them both in the Book according to this similitude, and verily God hath ever been All-Knowing and All-Seeing of His servants. Mankind was but one community, then they differed concerning the command after the truth. Were it not for a word that went forth from God regarding thy purpose, that judgment be passed according to the decree of origination therein, mankind would have been but alone at the Gate.

Say: The unseen belongeth unto God, the True One. Wait ye therefore, for God your True Lord hath ever been watchful over the believers. And verily We, when We cause you to taste affliction, ye call upon the Remembrance in ease, and when We raise up the command with justice therein, ye call upon Him with words of misbelief. What aileth you that ye believe not in the signs of God, the True One, according to the mighty truth, save a little?

Verily God hath caused you to travel in ships upon the sea and upon beasts across the land that ye might stand firm in truth upon the pure religion. And verily We, when We commanded the stormy wind upon the wooden ships, mankind called upon their Lord, making their devotion pure unto Him, when they feared drowning amidst the encompassing waves. Yet when He delivered them by His grace, they called not upon Us with pure truth. What aileth these souls that they read not from the knowledge of the Book even a letter of truth upon truth upon truth, save a little?

And if thou desirest the ship, then say: In the Name of God, and praise be to God, and there is no God but Him. Verily the command is in His hand and He is the True One, powerful over all things. O ye believers! Follow the Most Great Remembrance, for He is with God in truth, established upon the straight religion, inscribed in truth upon truth. Fear ye a Day when all shall return unto God, the True One. Therein shall the infidels find no protector for themselves besides the Remembrance, and He is the Truth in the Mother Book, concealed within the circle of the letter B.

Verily God hath ordained your return unto Us and your reckoning in truth upon Us. Therefore follow the Remembrance in truth upon truth with manifest strength. Slay your souls in the path of God in truth, for God hath ordained death for every soul by the decree of the Book from the Gate.

The similitude of the life of this world is as layers of darkness upon darkness. When the sun ariseth, the infidels shall find themselves naught but darkness within darkness, the fire like shadows in mirrors. God calleth you unto the abode of peace, and this Remembrance hath ever dwelt in the Mother Book upon the straight path.

Those who have excelled in remembrance of the names of Truth, God hath prescribed for them a seat of honor in the supreme paradise, and this promise of God in the Mother Book hath been fulfilled. Those who commit evil deeds, God shall requite them the recompense of evil in like measure, and God wrongeth not mankind in aught, and He hath ever encompassed all worlds.

The wrongdoers shall be overwhelmed with abasement in their faces before thee; therefore show mercy, by God’s leave, unto these weak ones through thy pardon, for God is verily witness over thee. On the Day of Judgment We shall gather the sinners around the fire and say unto them: “Call now upon those partners ye claimed besides the Remembrance!” But ye shall find none among all creation. The Command hath ever belonged to God, the Ancient, the Single.

O people of the Book! Ye and whatsoever ye worship besides the Remembrance are but fuel for hell, while the Remembrance through God is independent of all worlds. God sufficeth as a truthful witness between Us and you. Ye and the worshippers of the idol shall alike be in the fire, as hath been inscribed in the Mother Book.

The Day of Resurrection is truth itself. There shall every soul be returned unto God, their true Lord, and He is the Just, the Best of Judges, and He hath ever been mighty and ancient. He it is Who bringeth forth the living from the dead and the dead from the living, and Who directeth all affairs besides Him, and He is the Truth, ever knowing all things.

O people of the earth! God, the Truth, declareth in truth that the Remembrance is truth from God, and naught followeth truth but error, and naught followeth error but the fire, as decreed. O people of blindness! Hear My call from around the Gate. Verily your Lord God, your true Master, is truth itself. There is no God but He. His are the Command and Creation, and He hath ever been knowing of all things.

God hath ever encompassed all things. God hath ever been witness over all things. O ye who dwell in chambers! Hear My call from behind the veils. I am God, besides Whom there is no God. In truth, the Remembrance is truth itself, and He is the Exalted One Who hath ever been wise in the Mother Book.

The Word of God hath been fulfilled concerning the people of earth and heaven, and the proof of God in that Most Great Gate hath been sealed in truth upon truth. Are there any partners with God who can originate creation and then repeat it? Exalted be God, our Lord, besides Whom there is no God. No partner hath He, in truth upon truth. He is the Exalted, the Ancient, besides Whom there is no God, and He hath ever been wise and knowing.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Point with truth to thy breast, then say: By God, the Truth, therein lies sovereignty unto God, the Truth. I am He Who hath ever been the Best of rewards, and I am He Who hath ever been the Best of destinations.

O ye dwellers of the Throne! Hearken unto My call from around the divine mystery, from this Camel that expresseth the Truth by the Truth, Who in the Mother Book hath been wondrous. And when the Remembrance hath given permission unto you, return, O people of the divine cloud, to the place of His manifestation in truth.

Why is there lost from the King’s measuring cup something mighty? And verily We say: We find the measuring cup of the Remembrance lost in the manifestations of your hearts. And whoso bringeth His sign, according to the Most Great Truth without any trace of diminution, his shall be a camel’s load by the Most Great Justice in like measure.

And verily We are its guarantor, according to the pure Truth, free from all similitude and limitation. And it hath been inscribed in the Mother Book upon the upright line round about the Fire.

Surih of the Cave [Kahf]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They said: ʿWe have lost the king’s goblet, and for him who produces it shall be a camel-load; and I am responsible for it.”’ [Q12:72]

Alif, Lam, Mim. God hath spoken in the Blessed Tree. Hearken unto the Call of God:

“Verily, I am God, and there is none other God but Me, and I am the Most High who hath ever been supremely great in truth.”

Do men imagine that the Companions of the Cave and of the Inscription were asleep without the Gate? By God! Our signs concerning that Gate have indeed been wondrous to the believers, in very truth. And verily the Cave is this Gate, and in the Mother Book it hath been inscribed as encompassing the Fire. And We have caused their ears to be sealed in the Gate by God’s leave, for years revolving around the Twin Mysteries which in the Mother Book were recorded as a hidden number.

Then We raised them up that they might know the truth of the Cave, how long they had tarried in its precincts. And verily the letters of thy names, O Companions of the Cave, are seven, when they arose from around the Fire and said:

“Our Lord is the Lord of the Throne! There is no God but He. Never shall we call upon any deity besides God,”

and verily God is witness over all things.

These are the Companions of the Gate. They have taken gods besides Him—yet had not God manifested the Remembrance unto them with the authority of the Book, they would have been stationed around the Fire in opposition to the Truth. And We revealed unto the Companions of the Cave:

“Return ye to your dwelling-places round about the Truth, for God announceth unto you His mercy, and God will prepare for you in your cause a course beneficial to your command that shall be witnessed.”

O Companions of the Cave! Have ye not observed the sun when it rose, declining from the Cave of your hearts on the right, encompassing the Fire, speaking from God—there is no God but He, and He is God, the Most High, the Supreme. And when it set in speech, it drew you by the mystery of its power to the dayspring of the heart. Did it not pass you by in the Cloud while ye were in a cleft of the Point that had been sprinkled from the presence of the Gate, having paused in truth? Such are God’s signs for those who have preceded round about the Gate, and verily God is witness over all things.

Do men imagine there is negligence in the Remembrance? Nay! He turneth the worlds by the Two Letters—on the right unto the Two Names from His own Self, and on the left unto the Two Words in the Two Gates round about the Command of His Cause. Glorified be God above what the wrongdoers say, with supreme transcendence!

And verily God hath appointed through His grace, in very truth, a place of return round about the Gate. And We have decreed his two arms to be outstretched in knowledge from the presence of the Remembrance. Were men to discover this, they would not comprehend any matter of truth save in flight. And We ourselves have witnessed their speech after the resurrection in the Cave, and verily God is witness over all things.

Say: Take thou, in the Most Great Truth, this supreme leaf and deliver it by God’s leave unto the City. Then bear witness, O thou who art of keener sustenance in obedience unto God:

“Praise be to God Who hath not made anyone aware of it, in very truth, with pure truth.”

And We have caused you to be discovered that ye might know that God is your True Lord, and that the mystery of the Hour hath come in truth—there is no doubt in it—and verily God is powerful over all things.

O Concourse of Lights! Why do ye speak concerning the Remembrance that which ye know not from the knowledge of the Book—a letter deeply hidden in the Most Great Truth? Among you are those who say three in judgment, yet God hath ordained no judgment for the fourth. And among you are those who say five, and when God wills, their sixth in judgment was indeed cast out in truth. And among you are those who say seven upon the Name, and an eighth from the mystery—those who through the knowledge of the Gate have learned of their number, and verily God is knowing of all things.

And We preserved them in the Cave beyond nine and three hundred—that is God’s judgment concerning those who came before, by the truth, and God’s command in the Book was decreed. O concourse of lights! We desire naught save through mention of Our Will in its beginning, and what God has ordained in the Book is nearer than this Gate, rightly guided in truth. Say: God knows best about the Cave and the Companions of the Gate. Take ye not any protector besides Him in truth, nor any partner in His command.

The parable of the water of allusion in unity is like two waters that mingle upon the earth. And God alone, there is no God but He, and naught was with Him. Glorified and exalted is He! There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the Most High, the Most Great.

Verily God has made wealth the glories of majesty, and children its signs, and the enduring things are the face of thy Lord, the Lord of Majesty, as a bounty from God. And We have gathered in the land of gathering unto God around the still Fire, rank upon rank, even as We created you the first time, rank after rank, and verily God has power over all things.

And when this Book is set down, the unbelievers will say:

“What manner of Book is this that leaves out nothing small or great?”

But they will find all that they did present before them, and thy Lord, the Most Merciful, wrongs no one by so much as the thread of a date-stone.

We have made thee witness, by God’s leave, to the creation of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever is between them, on the Day when thou wert speaking praise-worthily around the Fire in truth. God has not appointed those who lead astray to be any support for aught, even slightly, in truth.

Nothing prevented men from believing in God and His signs when the truth came to them from His tongue, save that they followed not thee except in the way of the ancients, most of the deniers disputing against the truth in a known manner. We sent thee only with the truth as a bearer of glad tidings unto the light and a warner against the fire. Do you take My signs from the presence of the Greatest Remembrance in vain and delusion?

And if thou callest them to the dividing line between the worlds, Satan bars them from the truth, and they will never be guided. And whoso turns away from this Word, God has ordained no knowledge for him save a straitened life in the shadow. And We shall gather him in the land of gathering upon his face, though he was blind in this world above the earth.

Say: Were it not for a word that went forth from God concerning My Cause, I would have been compulsory upon the Command in truth. O Solace of Mine eyes! Glorify thy Lord within thy true self before the rising and at sunset and at the point of the midday sun and the darkest point of midnight, verily the remembrance of God within thy true self cannot be equated with all the deeds of them that labor. And command the people of the Gate to prayer and the Most Great Word, and be forbearing with them, for verily they cannot attain unto the knowledge of the Word save according to their capacity. And verily God, thy Lord, hath ever been forgiving unto all the worlds. Say: All at the Gate have remembered, and verily I, at the axis of the waters, am seeking after the Command, and with God, in truth, I have been mentioned in truth.

Surah of the Friend [Khalil]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They said: ʿBy God, you well know we came not to spread corruption in the land, nor were we thieves.”’ [Q12:73]

All praise be to God, Who hath sent down the Remembrance in truth unto the Remembrance, that the people might be mentioned in the Mother Book through the remembrance of God, the Most Great.

Say: God hath indeed known the Remembrance. Is then he who guideth unto the straight path more worthy to be followed, or he who knoweth naught of the Book save a few letters?

Most people follow naught but conjecture, and conjecture availeth nothing against truth. Verily God is well aware of what ye do. This Book could not have been devised by any save God. Rather hath God, the Truth, revealed it upon the straight path at the Point of Fire with fire, in perfect measure.

It is the Truth concerning what God hath ordained before thee and around thee. God hath detailed therein the laws of all things as a mercy and glad tidings to His believing servants who stand firm around the Remembrance in truth.

Or do they say “He hath fabricated it against the Truth”? Say: “Call upon whomsoever ye can besides the Remembrance and bring forth a verse like unto it, if ye be truthful and praiseworthy.”

By thy Lord! Should all who dwell in earth and heaven gather together to produce one Surah like unto it, they would never be able, even were they to be helpers one to another.

Thus have they rejected that which they could not comprehend. God shall soon requite the deniers with severe chastisement.

Among men are those who believe in God, and among them are those who deny the Remembrance. Verily God is well aware of the corrupt ones.

O Thou the Solace of Mine eye! Should the people of the two Sacred Places deny thee, say:

“To me are my deeds and to you your deeds. Satan calleth you. I am innocent of the wrongdoers, by leave of God, the Ancient. He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.”

Among them are those who gaze upon thee as one in a swoon. Thy Lord, verily, encompasseth all things.

God wrongeth not mankind in aught, but men wrong their own souls by remaining far from the Remembrance.

We shall gather the idolaters in the land of gathering, thinking they tarried in this world but an hour of the day. Thus doth God requite the wrongdoers for turning away from the Remembrance. Verily God is witness over all things.

No soul hath arisen to this Cause but God hath decreed its return unto Us in truth. We shall judge between all with justice, and We wrong not mankind by even a thread’s weight.

Say to the believers:

“I possess for myself neither benefit nor harm, save as God, my Lord, willeth. For every soul there is an appointed time. When the leave is given, it can neither be advanced nor delayed by anything through God’s will. Unto God is the return of the believers ordained in truth upon truth.”

The believers will ask thee whether it is true. Say:

“Yea, by my Lord! It is the truth upon the straight path, established around the water.”

Were the wrongdoing soul to offer all that is on earth as ransom to avoid seeing the punishment, it would not be accepted. The matter hath been decreed in truth, and the command in the Mother Book is sealed.

Verily, unto God belongeth all things in truth, and the promise of God is truth. He it is Who giveth life and causeth death, and He is God, powerful over all things. Verily the day of the cleaving of heaven, the day of the opening of the Gate, draweth nigh.

At that time the All-Merciful permitted His servant to lift the veil from the stations of your knowledge, and your sight on that day, God willing, hath become, in that Book, piercing in truth with truth. O Solace of Mine eyes! Thou art the One Who standeth upon the Alif around thy Lord. Fear not, for verily thou shalt meet Him, and God is well-pleased with thee, and God hath ever been beloved by the believers.

O Supreme Remembrance of God! Sprinkle drops of water upon the companions of the right hand until their reckoning is completed—an easy reckoning from the Command within the Command. And say: Return ye to the place of your hearts, content with the Gate and joyous.

And pour forth a reflection of water upon the companions of the left hand around the fire until their souls have testified to the decree of the Gate, in truth upon truth, praiseworthy. Say: Return ye to the veils of effacement through the justice of the Gate, and call upon truth, through truth, unto truth with woe. For We shall cause you to taste, by leave of God the Exalted, a fire that was ordained in the Mother Book as a blazing flame.

And verily God hath ever been cognizant of His servants in truth with truth. O Concourse of Lights! Swear not by the twilight, nor by the moon when it is full, for verily the Gate hath traversed in the twinkling of an eye rank upon rank of the first and the last ones.

Verily the ordinance of God hath taken effect in his regard, and the decree hath, in the Mother Book, been irrevocably concluded. O servants of the All-Merciful! What aileth you that ye believe not in God, the Most High, when He—God—is indeed the Mighty, the All-Wise? And when an verse of prostration is recited unto you, bow yourselves down before God, your Creator; for He, in truth, hath ever been worshipped in truth.

And We, verily, have created woe in a sea of Sijjin for them who entertain, concerning the Remembrance, the vain imaginings of ignorance; and this, with God, hath in all the Tablets been inscribed as the Point of the Ba. Truly the Day of the Remembrance, in the sight of men, is a Day which, in the Book of God, the Most High, hath been accounted momentous. Then shall men arise before the Lord of all worlds at that Gate, the All-Praised, the Most Great.

O people of the earth! Fear God with regard to the mystery of this Gate; for by your Lord, the All-Merciful, ye shall at that hour be veiled from this Our mystery—and it is the Truth—standing witnessed round about the Fire. And We, verily, have decreed that the record of the wicked be written in the lines of Sijjin, nigh unto the Fire. And God hath, with His own hands, written the Book of the righteous in the scrolls of light, preserved beneath the Throne.

By your Lord, the True—He besides Whom there is no God—the Remembrance hath known all men by His glance; and He, the Truth, hath in the Mother Book been inscribed round about the Fire. And He is the Cup-bearer, by the leave of God, of the sealed Chalice, whose seal is musk; and God hath ever been Witness over all things.

(And at that Gate let them vie with one another who would vie, in a praiseworthy station nigh unto the Fire.) O people of the earth! By God, the True! Ye have known of a certainty that the Remembrance hath come only with the Truth, and hath desired not to sow corruption in the dominion of the All-Merciful. He is naught but a Remembrance from the Truth, in truth, from the Tree of the Friend, in the land of the Cloud, established in the precincts of the All-Merciful.

Surih of the Sun [Shams]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They [the Egyptians] said: ʿWhat shall be his recompense, if ye are proved to have lied?”’ [Q12:74]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ra. God, besides Whom there is no God, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting, unto Whom nothing can be compared, the Creator, the Fashioner, the Originator, the Ordainer, and He is the Truth, Who knoweth all things.

Verily, the Remembrance, by God’s leave, establisheth the truth through His Word, and abolisheth falsehood through His Word, and He is the Truth at the Point of Fire, having been sent forth from God, the True One.

O people of Paradise! Hear My call from the tongue of this Remembrance, concerning the deeply hidden Secret in the Line, wondrously revealed.

I am God, there is no God but I, the Most High, the Most Great. I have taken a covenant concerning this Youth, even as I took it from all the worlds. He is the Remembrance circling round the Fire from his Lord, and verily he hath been praised circling round the Water.

He is the Blessed Tree on Mount Sinai, which hath grown upon the soil of Paradise in form of glorification and praise.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Say: Hear, O people of the Throne, My call from this verdant Leaf that hath sprung from this crimson Tree. I am the Secret within the Secret, from the Line within the Line, standing at the Command around the Fire.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Say: I am the heaven rent asunder before the All-Wise, and I have been inscribed at the Point of Fire.

God hath made the stars the gates of heaven around the Fire, and they have been fixed firmly in truth within the truth.

When We raise you up on the Day of Separation, you shall behold your deeds present before you, and judgment shall be found around the Gate.

O people of earth! Fear God and let not Satan deceive you. For morning hath indeed breathed forth for the obeyed Gate, this Most Great Remembrance, who was witnessed around the Fire.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! God hath placed thee upon the power of dominion, and thou art praised before the All-Merciful.

The ungodly among the people of the Furqan have falsely supposed regarding the Book, uttering vain and deceptive lies.

Thou art none other than the Remembrance of God at the manifest horizon, and thou art indeed beloved before God, the Lord of the Throne.

O people of the two Sanctuaries! Whither do ye go? He is the Remembrance of God and Our Remembrance in truth through truth unto all the worlds.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! God hath ordained the two Sacred Mosques and all around them as signs of thy truth, for thou wert a witness at the Fire.

This Book is a guidance in truth—take ye not any besides the true Remembrance of God as your guardian.

O people of the divine cloud! Hear My call from the Point of the Letter B. God hath revealed unto Me: “I am God, there is no God but I. I have sent down the Book upon this, My Most Great Remembrance, an Arab Youth, that creation might witness that He is the Truth from God, the True One, in truth.” Say: “Sufficient is He between Me and him as a witness in truth.”

O people of the divine cloud! This Sun hath been made round above the two Mounts, and this Moon hath risen over the two Clouds, and this Star hath revolved above the two Heavens, and this Mountain hath moved upon the two Wings, and this Sea hath surged over the two Earths, and in all the worlds it is naught but according to the decree of the Two Lights, and verily God, your True Lord, is witness over all things.

We have created man from a drop of water which has trickled from the ocean of the rain cloud. Then We ordained for him the path, open unto the Day of Remembrance. He frowned at the truth and spoke unto that which he knew not, uttering words of misbelief through vainglory, consumed by fire. When the Cause cometh, he shall behold the Remembrance magnified in the presence of God, the Most High.

Verily this Book was exalted in truth in the scriptures of the ancients, in the Mother Book. And verily this Book was inscribed in truth by the hands of the latter-day scribes in the Preserved Tablet. Perish man! How ungrateful is he toward God and His signs, while God is ever Self-Sufficient, All-Praised.

Was he not created from a mere drop of water through time? Doth not man observe the point of beginning, when nothing existed on earth? And God hath power over all things, and God hath knowledge of all things, and God is independent of all creation.

We created him from the reflected shadow of this illuminating Sun fixed in the pole of this heaven, and on that Day he was veiled from the Remembrance. When the Stunning Blast cometh, they shall flee from the Cause, finding no refuge, and on that day thou shalt find none praiseworthy except in the presence of the Remembrance.

On that Day, the faces of those who have preceded others shall be sealed with love, and the faces of those who turned away shall be sealed with the seal of remoteness, in very truth. God hath judged with truth, and He shall forgive those who have repented and turned in truth unto the Gate.

Verily the mercy of the Remembrance in this Book encompasseth all the worlds in very truth. O people of the earth! God’s recompense in that Word is truth concerning him who is found guilty, and this is his reward. Thus do We requite the wrongdoers with justice, and verily God wrongeth not mankind by so much as the speck on a date-stone.

Surih of the Leaf [Waraqah]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They said, ʿThe penalty of the one in whose baggage it was found is that he [himself] should be the recompense. Thus do We recompense the wrongdoers.” [Q12:75]

Ha, Mim, Ra. Say: O people of the kingdom! Hearken unto My call from this crimson leaf which hath sprouted from the yellowed Branch, kindled from this Blessed Olive Tree in truth with mighty truth. For God, your Lord, He is the True God, and He hath knowledge of all things. Verily I am God, there is no God but I. Worship Me upon the upright line in that Gate which hath dawned from the stream of Glory above Mount Sinai, for it is the Truth by the truth, and there is no path unto Me save through it, and verily it is the Most High, and hath been in the Mother Book a witness.

I have taken upon Myself for those who fulfill My Covenant the Covenant of the Remembrance that there is no God but I, the Truth, and I have been in truth the One intended. And I have decreed for those who turn away the breaking of the Covenant from My Covenant, and there is naught for him in truth but the fire of hell in the depths of the Most Great Coffin, and verily God encompasseth all the worlds.

And verily God is the Truth, there is no God but He. I have not revealed in the mystery of this Book a single letter of the Most Great Mystery from that Most High Gate, and He is God, the Knower of all things. O people of the earth! Turn ye unto the Most Great reward from before the Gate to the Gate of Truth, the Mystery of God, the Most High, which hath been in the Mother Book witnessed. Say: Praise be to God Who hath sent down the Book unto me in truth upon pure truth apart from all men, and there is no God but He, and He is God, exalted and great.

O ye believers! Fear God and interpret not a single letter of that Most Great Book save according to the truth by the truth, in accordance with the Qur’an and the Tradition which God hath placed among you, for verily it is from the hidden mystery inscribed in the Great Tablet with God, the Most High, and hath been in truth recorded.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Say: I have returned the narrative concerning the mystery of Moses Who conversed with God by the leave of God, the Most High, and He is God, powerful over all things. O people of Glory! Hear ye the call of God in the inscribed mystery from these crimson leaves which have fallen from the Throne upon that white leaf in prostration upon the yellow dust. Verily we are God’s and verily He is the Truth, there is no God but He, and He is God, exalted and great.

Say: Verily I am the Caller in the Fire by the leave of God, Lord of the Throne and of the cloud of unknowing. Verily I am the servant of God, so remove thy sandals from both feet, for thou art in the holy valley in that Gate, encompassed. O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Verily God hath chosen thee for Myself, so hearken unto what is revealed unto thee from before God, the Most High, and He is God, mighty and wise.

Verily I am God, there is no God but I, so worship Me at the Pole of Fire at the center of the equatorial line, and establish prayer for My remembrance in truth, for verily I am God, there is no God but He, and I have been in truth eternally true. And say: Verily I am the Most Great Hour, it cometh; the idolaters would almost hide it. And verily I am the Most Great Word; God hath made me mighty in dominion and sovereignty.

And verily God recompenseth all who ascend unto the Most High Gate, and verily God is witness unto all things. O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! The people ask thee concerning Dhu’l-Qarnayn. Say: Yea, by my Lord! I am indeed the Master of the two Beginnings in the two Cycles, and I am He of the sublime Horn in both Bodies, and I am the Fire in the two Waters, and I am the Water in the two Fires. Let them hearken unto My call from these two Mounts. Verily We established him in the earth and bestowed upon him from the Name of the Remembrance—this Arabian Youth in truth, by the truth—a letter, until We gathered unto him the means of all things as a cause.

Say: When I followed the Causer, I journeyed until I reached the setting of the sun, and found it setting in a spring of pure water. And there I beheld a people from the cloud-realm around the spring who were unto God, the Most High, among those who prostrate. They spoke unto me a letter from the hidden knowledge inscribed above the line, and I spoke unto them a symbol from the veiled mystery.

Then I followed the Command until I reached the rising-place of the sun, and saw it rising from a spring of camphor upon a people from the cloud-realm unto whom We had given naught of the mystery save the sign of Unity as a secret. They said: “Verily God, your Lord, is in truth the Truth, like unto Him there is nothing.” I said unto them: “He is the Truth, there is no God but He, and He is God, the Most High, the Great.”

Then I followed the Truth until I reached between the two barriers between the two seas, and found around them a people who behold not God save with things and before them, and I saw them in these two seas recorded among the people of the fish. They said in truth unto the Most Great Remembrance:

“Verily Majuj from among the people of compulsion and Yajuj from among the people of delegation have wrought corruption without truth in the Book of the Command between the two commands. Shall we then render unto thee tribute on condition that thou establish between us and them a criterion which hath been written in truth, by the truth, upon the truth?”

Then I said unto them:

“Verily God is my Lord, there is no God but He. He hath empowered me in every command and I desire naught save by His leave, and He is God, powerful over all things.”

O people of the earth! Aid yourselves with the power of sheets of iron until the earth and all thereon are purified from these infidels, the people of the two fires, for the Expected Proof, the Alif standing between the two commands. Then pour upon yourselves from the fire of heated iron from this Most Great Gate that ye may be mighty in warfare in the religion of God, the Most High.

Verily God hath made the Remembrance between you a mighty barrier in truth, by the truth. When His appointed time in the Command is fulfilled, by God the Truth, He shall die in truth, and He is from the Truth unto the Truth, witnessed in the Mother Book with the Truth.

And verily We have left the infidels on that day surging in fire upon fire according to what God hath ordained, concealed in the Mother Book. Verily those whom allusions veil from the Gate are unable to hear a letter of the mystery revealed from the wondrous line as witnessed.

Do the infidels reckon that the Remembrance knoweth not their position in the Command? Nay! He is the Witness from God unto all the worlds. Verily the Remembrance is the Truth of truth, and Paradise hath been inscribed, in very truth, for the believers from among the people of this Gate.

Verily the Remembrance is the Truth from God, and for the idolaters hath been ordained the heat of the Fire on the Day of Return. And when the idolaters ask thee, “Who hath sent thee to us with this mighty and exalted Cause?” say: “God, the Originator of the heavens and earth, through His proof, the Expected Qa’im. Verily He is the Truth, and I am but one of His servants whom He hath subjected to His dominion. Therefore submit ye to God’s Cause, for verily God hath power over all things.”

And say unto the people of blindness:

“From clay hath God created you, and unto it shall He return you, and from it shall He bring you forth unto this mighty Gate once again, in truth, by the truth, gloriously.”

Surah of Peace [Salam]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“So he began with their bags before his brother’s bag, then brought it out of his brother’s bag. Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not have taken his brother by the law of the King save that God willed it. We raise in degrees whom We will, and above every possessor of knowledge is One who is All-Knowing.” [Q12:76]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ta, Sin. This is a remembrance of thy Lord’s mercy unto His preceding servants who were pledged to the Straight Path. O people of the earth! Hear My call from the Remembrance. God hath revealed unto Me:

“Verily, I am God; there is no God but Me, and this Remembrance is in truth My path exalted, which hath been inscribed in the Mother Book.”

Follow then God’s hidden mystery concealed within the mystery raised by the line above the line, veiled by the Sun of Oneness.

This indeed is the Truth, God’s path in the heavens and earth, and He, the Most High, hath ever been praised by Truth and creation.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Say: Thou hast returned the discourse of Moses from Sinai’s Mount in that radiant Light manifested. When thy Lord called thee from the sacred valley nigh the blessed water, We showed thee of His signs in the light round about the fire most great.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Rend asunder the veils of allusion from the Pharaoh of men’s souls, for they stand at the gate of God’s ancient mystery having been inscribed as transgressors against Truth.

He claimed falsely in the Prison Land: “I am God’s Most Great Gate,” and God sufficeth as witness against him and unto the Truth.

Say: Endure Our chastisement in this world and the next, for God’s punishment hath indeed been grievous in the depths of the Prison.

When the overwhelming event cometh from before the Gate by God’s leave, soon shall souls witness what God hath ordained concerning the decree of the two waters.

We wrong not mankind by an atom’s weight, nor by the smallest measure.

No believer who feareth his Lord regarding the station of the Gate but shall have inscribed for him an abode of eternity in the Garden of Paradise.

No soul that waxeth proud against the Gate but shall have inscribed for it the iron fire and the tree of Hell by decree of the Book.

When they ask thee concerning the Hour by the Hour of Manifestation, say: Its knowledge is with God in truth, and the knowledge of all things hath been inscribed in the Mother Book.

Say: We have written the Hour in the crimson scroll within the grasp of that Greatest Sword with golden water upon the tablet of the heart by leave of God, the Most High—and He is God, the Mighty, the Ancient.

The idolaters on the Day of Remembrance shall tarry but an hour of the night appointed.

There shall the denier of the Gate say: “Would that I were dust beneath the earth!”

That is the Day of Truth; so let him who will take unto the Gate his return.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Say: I am the Mighty Tiding that was mentioned in the Mother Book.

Say: All have differed concerning Me, yet I have not differed regarding the Gate in truth upon truth, and God the Truth sufficeth as witness.

We have made the earth a bed spread over other earths, and this lofty mountain as pegs above all mountains.

Say: Verily I have manifested Myself among you in pairs with truth as single ones, and upon the pillars with truth in pairs, that ye may bear witness unto God in oneness at the Center of the Gate in hosts. Say: Verily My name in the Mother Book hath been the Seven Strong Heavens, and I am the Lamp in the horizons that hath been, in truth, upon the truth, blazing.

And verily We have sent down from the Gate the Water of Life upon the depths of the heart, abundant, that ye may bring forth therefrom the love of the Gate for the Gate as vegetation. O people of the Divine Cloud! Plant ye in the soil of hearts, from the gardens of patience and love, dense foliage. By God, the Truth! Verily the Day of the Gate hath been for all the worlds an appointed time.

And when the Trump is blown for the Gate, the people shall come around the Gate in throngs. And We have set forth everything in that Gate in writing. Verily the people of the Gate hear no idle talk, but only from God, the Truth, “Peace and Peace.” And verily We have ordained for the God-fearing, from the gardens in the Blessed Tree kindled around the Fire, the speech of the Bird soaring in the atmosphere of heaven by God’s leave—and He is God Who hath ever been, in truth, praised.

Verily this Gate hath been like the Sealed Cup in all the Tablets, numbered round about Love. Verily this is the letter Kaf in the Word of Command that hath been concealed in the mystery of the letter Nun.

And God hath ordained for the Remembrance angels around the Gate, commanded by permission. Among them are those who draw forth forcefully upon the White Corner, who have been, in truth, stationed; And among them are those who spread forth upon the Yellow Corner, who have been, in truth, by the truth, observed; And among them are those who swim upon the Green Corner, who have been, in truth, glorified; And among them are those who race forward upon this Red Corner, who have been, in truth, by the truth, outstripped.

Surah of Manifestation [Zuhur]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They said, If he be a thief, a brother of his stole before.’ But Joseph kept it within himself and revealed it not unto them. He said: Ye are in the worse case, and God knoweth best that which ye describe.”’ [Q12:77]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Sad. O thou who art the God beside Whom there is none other God, the Peerless, the All-Compelling! Thine are the most excellent titles, and Thou art, in truth, the Most High, the Most Great. We, verily, did cause thee to descend from the Throne above on the night of Power unto thy mother’s womb, and on that day thou wast, in truth, prostrate before God, the Most High, upon the Throne, and praised among all people.

O ye that dwell on earth! This Remembrance is verily the hidden Secret between the lines, which hath been, in truth, concealed in truth. This indeed is the Light at the Dawning-place of Manifestation which hath been luminous upon the Mount. This indeed is the Life in the Mother Book which hath been witnessed round about the Fire. This indeed is the Ancient Cipher which hath been exalted with God. This indeed is the Day of Separation and the Day of Union which hath been, in truth, appointed.

This indeed is the Water in the River Euphrates which hath been, in truth, made to overflow. This indeed is the Fire round about the Mount which hath been, in truth, made manifest. This indeed is the Speaker from his Lord, Who hath been sought after by the believers in the depths of the sea. This indeed is the Symbol of the Beloved which hath been inscribed in the Mother Book. This indeed is the Mystery in the Friend which hath been intended in the Glorious Tablet.

This indeed is the Form with three sides which hath been engraved round about the Fire. This indeed is the Temple with four sides which hath been praised round about the Water. This indeed is the Standard in the Heaven, and We have ordained for the God-fearing beneath its shade at the Gate an entrance, in truth and by truth inhabited. This indeed hath been the Destroyer of the ancients gathered together by God’s leave, the Most High.

This indeed is the Mystery concerning the latter ones which hath been witnessed round about the Fire. This indeed is the Truth on the Day of Judgment concerning the people of Heaven which hath been witnessed round about the Fire. We, verily, have ordained the heaven to be raised up in truth and by truth for His remembrance. And the mountains have been, in truth, scattered. And the stars have been, in truth, effaced. And the earth hath been spread out round about the water.

This is that the people might know the truth of the Remembrance from the All-Informed One—He is God, the Mighty, the Wise. We, verily, have ordained the tempests in a letter of the Gate to blow tempestuously, and the scatterers to scatter abroad, and the bestowers to bestow bountifully, and the separators to separate distinctly, that the people might witness concerning the truth of the Light above the Mount round about the Fire as a remembrance.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Say: I am indeed the Man Who hath been mentioned in the Mother Book. Say: I am indeed the Water in the Cup of Manifestation which hath been made pure as camphor. Say: I am indeed the Feeder in the path of God, the Most High, and I have been, by God, the Ancient One, praised.

By God! I have given unto the poor at this Gate, from between the lines, from the hidden Secret above the line which hath been concealed round about the Fire. And thou hast given unto the orphans from the anointing waters contained in a most delicate glass chalice, a drop from the ocean which hath been filtered from that selfsame ocean. Verily, I am the Giver unto the night-travelers from among the people of the divine cloud, from the water that dwelleth in the chalice of manifestation, as though it were a piece of ice which hath been, in the Mother Book, made cool.

This indeed is the Cup-Bearer in Paradise from your Lord, the Most Merciful—a pure drink. And this indeed is the Truth in the moving circle which hath been inscribed round about the Fire with the name of Fire.

Surah of the Word [Kalimat]

In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They said: ʿO exalted one! He has an aged father, so take one of us in his place. Indeed we see thee to be of the beneficent ones.”’ [Q12:78]

Alif Lam Mim Ta. This is the Path of God in the divine cloud, the Mystery inscribed upon the Mystery above the lines, which God has concealed in the Mother Book, veiled behind the veil. Verily We have made the Remembrance the Most Great Word in the Mother Book in truth, and the decree concerning his station has been inscribed at the Point of Fire. We have verily ordained for him a station in truth—I am He and He is I, except that He is He, and I am the Proof of God unto all the worlds, and I have been, in truth and by the truth, praiseworthy.

O people of the Throne! Fear God, for there is no path for anyone save for those who are written as being among the people of the Gate around the Fire. O Solace of Mine Eyes! Say: Ye will not anything unless God willeth it in all things, for verily He hath ever been, in truth, mighty and wise.

This indeed is the Straight Line between the two kingdoms, and it hath been extended above the Throne. One of them dwelleth in the clouds of might around the Mystery inscribed in the mention of the Fire, circumscribed. And the other, in a land by the Euphrates, teacheth the people the mystery of the veils, and he is concealed in the fourfold veil around the water.

Say: O people of the earth! Circle round this Straight Line around the Fire, for it is the Truth by the truth, and hath been praised in the Mother Book. Learn not save through the Gate and from the Gate, for he is the One Who speaketh in truth from God, besides Whom there is no God, and He is God, Who hath ever been, in truth, exalted and wise.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Flash forth with a gleam of light upon the vision of the people of insight, who before the Gate have ever been prostrate before God, the Most High. O people of the earth! God hath gathered together the sun and the moon in the mystery by the mystery within My breast in truth, so reject not the Book lest the sun be eclipsed for you and the moon be darkened for you. Nay, nay! There is no refuge in anything and unto Me is the escape, which hath ever been, in truth and by the truth, the destination.

Verily on that Day unto your Lord shall be the return. O Solace of Mine Eyes! Say: I am verily the Resurrection at the Pole of Heaven from the Most Great Hour. By God! He will question you concerning Me regarding the Cause around the Fire, and I have ever been, in truth by the truth, witnessed.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Move not thy tongue concerning anything to hasten the Most Great Command of God regarding thine own self of truth, for upon God hath ever been its explanation in truth by the truth, and thou art, in truth, upon the Straight Path, upright around the Fire.

Hear, O people of the Throne, My call from every direction from this Gate—God, there is no God but He. I have sworn in truth by My Soul that no soul magnifieth the Cause in this Most Great Gate save that he is, in My presence, among the people of Paradise, inscribed in truth. And no soul hath demeaned the Cause except that it is incumbent upon God to burn him with the Most Great Fire in the depths of the grave, and the decree in the Mother Book hath ever been severe.

O ye believers! The Most Great Mystery of God, with God your True Lord, hath ever been mighty in the Mother Book. O Solace of Mine Eyes! Say: I am the letter Nun in the Pen according to the decree of the Book, and I have been inscribed in the mystery of the Gate. I am the Great Reward for all the believers, and I am the Mighty Creation that has been great in the Mother Book. I am the verses in the heavenly scrolls that have been written in truth.

When Our verses are recited to the idolaters, they fall upon their faces as though they were a people who know not God and His verses, save a little. And when We remove the veil from their eyes regarding the Sacred House, they circle around the Remembrance as though they were sleeping in the House, confined within their own limitations, and they look not to God their True Lord, even for a moment.

Some of them turn to others in the fire and speak falsely about the Remembrance, and their recompense with God shall be naught but the severe fire of hell. And when God removes the veil from your eyes, you will be found prostrating at the Gate of God. Whosoever denies this utterance, We shall punish them in the fire twice over, and they shall have no helper in the hereafter.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from this Remembrance, the Point of the letter Ba, which has been witnessed around the fire. He is an Arab youth who has been concealed around the fire in the Mother Book. God has revealed to Me in truth within the House of Kaaba:

“Verily, I am God, there is no God but I. I have chosen you for Myself and selected the Remembrance for yourself. No soul that obeys you in the path of the Gate but shall have the reward of the hereafter inscribed for them in truth.”

And no soul that turns away from this Most Great Word and His true Book but I have decreed for them in the Mother Book every punishment, and the command of God cannot be turned back. The idolaters among the people of the Furqan have pointed with their eyes at the Remembrance untruthfully, and these shall be recorded among the companions of the coffin in the depths of the fire.

Say: I am indeed the True Word around the water and the Striking Word around the fire upon the pole of the realm of glory, by God’s leave have I been praised in truth. We have sent to the people of Ad the wind of allusion away from the Gate during seven nights and eight days, which has been numbered in the Mother Book.

When the decree of the Remembrance is fulfilled, the Book has decreed according to the mighty event by God’s leave, and He is God, powerful over all things. O Solace of Mine Eyes! Say: O noble Al-Hasan Al-Husayni! God has appointed for His Remembrance in every condition an elder one great in truth. Take Me as thy station in the holy throne, for We shall show thee inscribed in the Mother Book by the name of Ba.

Surah of the Declination [Zawal]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said: ʿGod forbid that we should take except him with whom we found our property; indeed, we would then be unjust.”’ [Q12:79]

Kaf, Ha, Ya, ʿAyn, Sad. Make mention of thy Lord’s mercy at the rising and the setting of the sun. He is the Truth, there is no God but Him, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise. Hearken unto that which thy Lord revealeth unto thee from the Point of Fire, as God hath ordained upon the exalted Center of Direction. Verily He is God, there is no God but Him, the Protector of the believers, and He is God, the All-Knowing, the Ancient.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Hearken unto My call from around the Tomb in truth within thy breast, by that which God hath revealed unto Me:

“Verily I am God, there is no God but Me, so worship Me around that Most Great House,”

for thus was it inscribed in the Mother Book upon the clay of the Mosque of Khayf. O Concourse of Light! Hear ye the call of God from the tongue of the Remembrance, this Arabian Youth. God is the Truth, there is no God but Him. Verily I created thee in truth for Myself, and I fashioned thy name above the holy horizon with My Most Exalted Name, and I have ever been, in truth, from ancient times.

We have written, by God’s leave, above the center line, concerning the mention of God’s Most Great Name, concealed in the mystery of mysteries, which hath been inscribed round about the Fire. O people of the City! By the True God, this Remembrance is the Truth, and He standeth upon the pure path of God, the Ancient One, making mention of God’s Most Exalted Name, and hath ever been established around the Fire as the Self-Subsisting. O ye believers! The Remembrance hath come unto you from your Lord, and We have ordained healing in His Name for the hearts, and the decree hath been written around the line by leave of God, the Truth. Say: The bounty is with Me, and I have ever been, in truth, upright upon the Most True Balance.

O people of misbelief! Hath God given you leave to speak falsehood concerning this servant, or do ye fabricate lies against God, the Truth? Wait ye, for God hath ever been witness over all worlds. And thou art not engaged in any matter, nor readest thou the Qur’an concerning anything, nor do the workers perform any deed, but We are witness over them in the Mother Book. Nothing escapeth God’s knowledge, and He, the Truth, hath ever been knowing of all things.

We have sent down in this Book the knowledge of the heavens and earth, and there is nothing whose decree hath not been inscribed therein in detail. God hath delivered the friends of the Remembrance from the grief of fear, and He is God Who hath ever been knowing of all things. Those who have believed in the Most Great Word in pure truth, theirs is glad tidings in this world’s life and in the Hereafter—there is no changing the command of God, the Most High, and this is the mighty triumph that hath been concealed in the Mother Book around the Gate.

Let not the words of the believers concerning the Limited One grieve thee, for might belongeth wholly unto God, the Ancient One, in truth. His are all who are in the heavens and who are in the earth, in truth, and He is God, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. Those who call upon aught else besides God follow naught but conjecture, and these are they who have been gathered in the depths of the coffin within the Fire. God hath ordained the night for rest, and in the Mother Book hath decreed the day to be illuminating.

They say God hath taken unto Himself a son—glory be unto Him! He is self-sufficient, independent of all things. He is the Creator of whatsoever is in the heavens and on earth by His command, and God hath power over all things. Verily those who fabricate falsehood against God, their abode, by decree of the Book, shall be in the land of fire, upon the word of fire, as hath been inscribed in the Mother Book.

Recite unto them the story of Noah whom We delivered, together with those who were with him, and verily We drowned the wrongdoers in the waters of the sea, in the surging, bitter ocean. And verily We sent forth, upon the Most Great Word, Moses and Aaron unto Pharaoh and his chiefs with clear signs, that men might know that God doth encompass all things. And verily We sent forth the two Gates before, upon that same Word—among them were those who believed and those who denied, and God is witness over all things.

Then the idolaters falsely said unto them: “Have ye come to turn us away from that which we found our fathers following?” while they themselves were secure in their earthly falsehood. Say unto these idolaters: “Do ye believe in part of the Book and deny part thereof? Wait ye therefore, for God hath truly prepared for the wrongdoers among you the fire of hell and the stone of Sijjin, and God is exalted and great”—unless they repent unto God in the path of this Most Great Remembrance, for verily God is forbearing and forgiving toward His servants.

And when the sorcerers were gathered at the appointed time, He rendered them powerless through the Most Great Word, for God hath not decreed for the unbelievers any way against the believers. God shall soon vindicate the truth through His words and bring the sinners to naught through His signs, for He is God, the Truth, and knoweth all things. O Solace of Mine eyes! Verily the tree of Pharaoh is exalted in the Gate—cast it into the fire and rely upon God, for He is the Subduer of His servants, and God is witness over all things.

And verily We revealed unto Moses and his brother through that Word, saying:

“Establish for the people of the land in Egypt dwellings of oneness for the Most Great Remembrance of God, the Ever-Living”

—and God is All-Knowing, All-Wise. And God hath made it a Qiblih for mankind—therefore perform all prayers therein and give glad tidings unto God’s sincere servants thereof, for verily it hath been inscribed in the Mother Book as a symbol of the Remembrance, in truth, upon the truth.

And verily God delivered the believers in the Remembrance through the Most Great Remembrance, and decreed drowning for Pharaoh and his hosts in the sea, and We heard his words at the moment of drowning:

“I believe in God, the Truth, there is no God but He”

—and God is witness over all things.

O ye believers! Recite from the Book at the beginning of noon:

“Glory be to God! There is no God but God! Praise be to God Who hath not taken unto Himself either mate or son, Who hath no partner in sovereignty, Who hath no protector out of weakness—and magnify Him with all magnificence!”

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from the center of the Sun that dawneth from the dawning-place of the Gate: “Verily I am God, there is no God but Me. I have singled out in truth the Remembrance of the Remembrance at the rise of the sun, its setting, and at its zenith. Invoke blessings upon Him as the All-Merciful invokes blessings upon His servant, while the angels circle round the Remembrance with His remembrance. And He is God, the Witness over all things. And He is God, Who encompasses all worlds.

Verily, We have sent down from heaven the realities of sustenance that people might know the truth of the Remembrance. And thy Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that wherein they differ regarding the truth of the Remembrance. And He is God, the All-Knowing of all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Say: God forbid that We should take anything on the Day of Resurrection save from those in whom We find the goods of Divine Unity from the Gate, this in the center of the fire surrounding his heart. For verily then, by God, We would not be acting with true justice.”

Surah of Kaf

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“When they despaired of him, they conferred privately. The eldest of them said: ʿKnow ye not that your father hath taken from you a solemn pledge in God’s name, and how, before this, ye failed in your duty with respect to Joseph? Therefore, I will not depart from this land until my father giveth me leave or God judgeth for me, and He is the best of judges. Return ye to your father and say:”O our father! Verily thy son hath committed theft, and we bear witness only to what we know, and we could not guard against the unforeseen.”“’ [Q12:80-81]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ya, ʿAyn. The Most Great Remembrance of God was inscribed upon the first line above the third line of the fourth talisman which was concealed in the Mother Book upon the second of the twelve lines around the Fire. We have indeed revealed unto thee from the mystery of the Pen, that the people might be witnesses to the verses of God and His Remembrance, in truth and by the truth.

O ye believers! If ye be in doubt concerning that which God hath revealed unto Our servant in truth, then ask those who read the Book before you, for verily God hath concealed the name of the Remembrance in every Book within the Point of Fire.

O people of the earth! Be not of those who denied the Messengers after the Book, for God hath decreed the word of chastisement against those who deny the Most Great Remembrance, and this decree hath been ordained in the Mother Book.

When the idolaters believed in the Remembrance, We removed from them, by the Most Great Truth, the humiliating torment in this world, and We granted them enjoyment for a time, as decreed in the Book.

Had We willed, all the people of the earth would have believed in the truth, wholly and entirely. No soul can believe in the Remembrance save by God’s leave, and God hath ordained the word of defilement for those who believe not in God, according to the decree of the Book. The Remembrance hath been witnessed before God, the Most High.

Say: Look ye in the heavens and the earth, and call your witnesses besides the Most Great Remembrance. Is there any rich one save God, the Truth? Glorified be God, far above what the wrongdoers say, with most high glorification.

Say: Await ye the chastisement from God in truth, for We have been witness with all the worlds. Verily, I am the Truth, the Remembrance in truth, and I have been witness over thee in truth.

O people of the earth! If ye be in doubt concerning My Remembrance, then worship not anything besides God, your True Lord, for God hath created you and sustained you and will cause you to die in truth, and unto Him is the return through the Most Great Severance, and this decree hath been written in the Mother Book.

Turn your faces toward the Kaaba, purely for God, the Most High, and He is God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy.

O people of the earth! Why worship ye besides God that which can neither benefit nor harm you? Verily God is the Truth, your Creator, and He is independent of all the worlds.

Verily God withholdeth harm from whomsoever He willeth, and none can reverse God’s command of truth. He is God, merciful to the believers.

O ye believers! The Remembrance hath come unto you in truth from God, the Truth. Whoso is guided, verily God, the Lord of the worlds, hath guided him to the truth; and whoso goeth astray, verily he goeth astray only against himself. God wrongeth not the worlds by so much as the speck on a date-stone.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from around the Fire. God hath revealed unto Me in truth that He is the Truth, there is no God but He. Whoso followeth the Remembrance in truth hath verily followed Me in the Most Great Truth, and God is witness to the believers.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Be thou patient with God’s decree concerning thyself in truth, for We judge with truth between all peoples by God’s leave, the Most High, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise. This is a Book whose verses have been perfected in truth, then expounded from the presence of the Wondrous One, beside Whom there is no other God, and He is God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

O people of the earth! Fear ye God regarding this crimson Leaf dyed with the Most Great hue. Worship none but God with sincere devotion in the Most Great Truth. Verily I am the Warner with the Most Great Justice, and concerning the decisive decree by the judgment of the Book I have been in truth a Bearer of Glad-Tidings upon the truth.

O ye believers! Seek forgiveness from your Lord, the True One, beside Whom there is no God, upon the Straight Path. Verily God is your True Lord, possessed of grace towards mankind. He is the Truth, and He is God, the Knower of all things.

O people of the earth! Fear ye God concerning a Day whereon unto God, the True One, shall be your return, upon the Path from this Gate, and verily God, your True Lord, is powerful over all things. God hath created no creature in earth or in the heavens but He hath ordained its sustenance from this heaven. We verily know its habitation and its repository, and the Remembrance hath been, in the Mother Book, a witness over you.

He it is Who hath created the heavens upon the line of earth and hath ordained the earth upon the measure of the heavens in six days, and He is God, the Encompasser of all things. We verily have suspended the Throne upon the water and the air around the Fire, and the Fire in the pivot of water, that men might witness in the water of wine, after the effacement of two thirds, the purification of one third in the mystery of this Book by the decree of the Gate, and He is God, the Encompasser of all things.

God hath ordained resurrection for all souls after death that We may test which of them hath been witnessed before the Remembrance. O ye believers! God hath decreed in truth concerning the kurr of water that after true severance it is pure and purifying, for the letter K hath returned in a circle to the pivot of its zone in this Gate, and the decree hath been determined in the Mother Book.

O ye believers! Speak not against Me the word of associating partners with God after the truth, for the Qur’an aforetime hath conveyed unto you the praised decree of the Gate concerning the truth. By your Lord! This Book is verily the Qur’an from aforetime. Fear ye God and deny not part of the Book after accepting another part thereof. Verily your Lord God is the Self-Sufficient, and He is God, witness over all things.

When We cause man to taste mercy he rejoiceth therein, and when We take vengeance upon him in truth he becometh wroth with Us, as though he were halted upon the path of rejection. Be not thou in distress concerning what people imagine about the Cause, for from thy Lord, the True One, the decree of the ancients is made binding upon thee, and He is God, the Knower of all things.

Or do they say “He hath fabricated it”? Say: Then bring forth a single letter like unto it and call upon your witnesses apart from the Remembrance. Glory be to God, far above what the wrongdoers assert with great haughtiness! And if you are unable to produce its like, then know that God has sent it down through His knowledge as pure truth. There is no God but He, the Mighty. And He is God, Who has ever been All-Wise.

Whoso desires this world, We shall give him justly the like thereof; and whoso desires the next world, We shall give him bountifully double thereof. Verily God has power over all things.

O people of the earth! The Remembrance is assuredly truth upon truth, even as you speak with pure hearing. And God suffices as a witness to His Remembrance, in truth upon truth. And He is God, Who has ever encompassed all worlds.

O people of the cloud! Hear the call of God in this Commentary from the Water Point that flows from the Camphor Spring, in truth upon powerful truth, wondrously.

O concourse of lights! Know ye not that God has ordained no path for your souls save after effacement from all else but God? Purify your souls for God, your Lord, in truth upon truth, in intimate communion.

Know ye not that your father, the Most Great Master, took from you the Covenant in the realm of the atoms regarding His Most Great Word? And here you have been neglectful regarding Joseph. I shall not depart until God grants permission to me and to my Imam. He is the Truth Who has judged between me and you in truth. And He is God, Who has ever been Self-Sufficient, All-Praised.

And when the people returned to the Gate at the mention of this Most Great Remembrance of God, they said:

“O Remembrance of God! The sign of love has been effaced from our souls and we witness naught save what we know. And verily God, your Lord, the Truth—there is no God but He—has ever been, in truth, the Guardian of the unseen.”

Surah of the Most Great [A’zam]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Ask of the town wherein We dwelt, and of the caravan with which We travelled hither. We, verily, speak the truth.” [Q12:82]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ha. This is the remembrance of God, the Most Great, in the mention of the hidden line. He is the Truth, there is no God but Him, and He is God, the Mighty from ancient times.

O people of glory, hear ye My call from these submissive hearts in the remembrance of God at the Most Great Gate. God hath verily revealed unto Me upon the Most Great Mount that this Path of Ali is a truth upheld by the denizens of the heavens and earth, and it hath been concealed in the hidden mystery above the line.

O peoples of the two Iraqs! The son of Muhammad Ali was not among you one from the East, nor from the West, nor from the sea, nor from the land, but God created him from His light and treasured him in the hidden mystery upon the Most Great Truth with the Straight Line upon the Most Great Throne. And He is God, the All-Knowing.

Say: Verily, I am the Truth from God, your Lord. No soul hath followed Me in pure truth except that it is incumbent upon Me to be its helper in the land of gathering, with the sincere truth. And verily God’s promise to you hath been fulfilled in the Mother Book.

O Concourse of Lights! Hear ye My call from around the Gate which hath been established straight upon the Straight Line around the Fire. God hath verily revealed unto Me in truth that this Remembrance is the Truth, and He is the Truth, Who hath ever been praised upon the Throne before the Lord.

Is one who standeth upon a clear proof from his Lord, with such a Most Great Book of truth, equal to one whose promised lot is the Fire in truth, and whom God hath not granted any proof from His presence of aught? Which of these two souls is more worthy of security, if ye truly know God, the Praiseworthy?

And who is more unjust than he who hath fabricated falsehood against the Remembrance? God, the Truth, hath cursed him, as have the angels and the believers, all together in truth. Such souls shall not escape on earth, nor shall they find for themselves any helper on the Day of Judgment in truth. And they shall have no protector besides God, the Exalted, in truth on that Day.

The parable of the two parties is as the blind and the deaf. Are the two waters alike—this, sweet and pleasant, and that, salt and bitter? And verily God, your Lord, the All-Merciful, is witness over all things.

O people! Fear ye God and worship none but Him, being sincere unto Him in religion, for I fear for you the supreme chastisement on the Day of Judgment, according to God’s wondrous decree which, with God and His loved ones, hath ever been nigh unto the truth.

O people of the earth! By God, the Truth, the Remembrance desireth naught save God’s true command for your own selves, and his reward resteth with God, his Lord, in the Mother Book, by the hands of the Lord, and hath been inscribed in truth at the Point of Fire.

Say: I desire no recompense from anyone. My reward is with God in that Book—the reward of this Book which hath been inscribed in truth in the Mother Book.

O people of the earth! Whosoever helpeth the Remembrance, God will help him in every matter, and verily God, your true Lord, encompasseth all things.

O Crimson Leaf! Hearken unto that which thy Lord revealeth unto thee from around this white leaf. He is the Truth, there is no God but Him, and He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

Verily the mention of this Remembrance in truth is like My mention in all the Book by My hands, and hath been inscribed in truth. Hear ye His call from around this Fire in its mystery, for He is God, there is no God but Him, the Lord of the Throne and the Seat, there is no God but Him, naught is like unto Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

Or do they say “He hath fabricated it”? Say: If I have fabricated it, then upon me be the guilt as recorded in the Mother Book in truth. We, verily, have revealed unto all the Prophets in truth through the path of this Remembrance with pure justice, and God hath ever encompassed the worlds.

We, verily, revealed unto Noah, saying: “Build thou the ark in Our name.” When Our command came, We said: “Embark therein with the believers in God.” But none believed in truth save a few of the faithful.

And say at the time of embarking:

“In the name of God, the Most Exalted, be its course and its mooring. Verily God is my Lord in truth; worship ye Him, for He is the Most Exalted, the Most Great.”

When We caused him to embark in the Ship of the Remembrance, We commanded the winds around it, and We caused the sea to surge with waves like mighty mountains by God’s leave, the Most Exalted, for God hath ever been powerful over all things.

And Noah called unto his son who had withdrawn apart, but Satan had led him astray from his Lord’s command to hold fast to aught else but this Most Great Remembrance, and thus was he among those separated and drowned in the surging sea.

O earth! Swallow up thy waters after the rains of heaven, and contain the waters in the depths of this soil, for God hath decreed the matter through His Remembrance, and the Truth was established upon Mount Judi on the tenth line of the Arabic month in truth, and God hath ever been witness over all things.

These are among the tidings of the unseen which We reveal unto thee that people may bear witness to the Most Great Remembrance after the Book in the Most Great Truth, and verily God hath ever encompassed what ye do.

O concourse! Hear My call from this Most Great Word assembled from the letters of God’s Most Great Name. God hath revealed unto Me:

“I am God, there is no God but Him. No soul hath visited the Remembrance in truth except it hath visited God, the Lord, in the Most Great Truth above the Throne, and God hath ever been witness over all things.”

O people of the earth! The grace of this Gate in the Mother Book is at the mightiest level above the first line in truth, and hath been inscribed in truth. We, verily, delivered the Prophet Hud and those with him through the Most Great Remembrance upon that mighty Word, and thus was it witnessed before the All-Merciful in the Mother Book.

O ye believers! I bear witness before God, and do ye bear witness, that I have ever been upon the pure religion in the Mother Book from the day the heavens and earth were created in truth, witnessed in truth.

O ye believers! Seek forgiveness of your Lord, Who is none other than God, and turn ye all unto God, that ye may be forgiven through the Most Great Remembrance upon the straight path. Verily God hath power over all things, and He is God Who encompasseth all the worlds. Verily God is witness unto all things, and He is God Who standeth in need of none of His creation.

O peoples of the earth! Fear ye God in this Remembrance, and utter not concerning Him any words of falsehood and delusion, for verily God hath prepared for those who falsely accuse the Remembrance a grievous fire in the depths of the tomb on the Day of Resurrection.

O peoples of the earth! This is the very Remembrance of God Who hath been sent down unto you in truth, and God is the Truth, and God sufficeth as a witness unto what I say, in very truth.

Say: God hath revealed unto Me in this Most Great Commentary concerning this Verse which blazeth with the fire of the hearts, by His command, and verily God hath knowledge of all things. I am God, there is no God but Me. Ask of the blessed village wherein We dwelt, which is the Word whereunto We turned from the caravan, and verily We have spoken the Word of Truth concerning this from God, the Most Exalted.

Surah of Ba

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said: ʿNay, but your souls have made the matter seem fair to you. So comely patience! Perchance God will bring them all to me. He, verily, is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.”’ [Q12:83]

Alif Lam Mim Fa. God hath sent down the Criterion in truth, that men might judge concerning the Remembrance with justice. Verily God is well aware of all that ye do.

We have indeed sent down the Book on Mount Sinai unto the Remembrance, that he might judge between men with justice. And verily God, thy Lord, knoweth all things.

O leaves of the heart! Hear My call from this Pen of ink. I am God, there is no God but Him, the Ancient. And He is God, the All-Wise, the All-Knowing.

The Remembrance speaketh not from mere desire. God hath indeed revealed unto Me the truth, and verily He dwelleth upon the straight path that resteth above the waters, ever-witnessed.

O concourse of lights! Do ye marvel at God’s command and His power over one of Us, the People of the House? Verily God hath power over all things.

O Solace of the Eyes! Turn away from the idolaters, for God hath verily willed in truth and by truth to visit upon them the greater punishment. And verily God hath power over all things.

We have indeed sent down the verses in truth in that Book upon the upright line in the first row, and mention of the Remembrance was concealed between the lines in truth and by truth.

Perchance the people might read from the knowledge of the Book some of the letters which in truth were inscribed concerning the station of the Remembrance in the Mother Book.

O Solace of the Eyes! God hath ordained for none any portion of thy hidden destiny. Therefore place thy trust in God, thy Lord, turn away from the perceiving ones, and stand at the gate of the heart, for verily God, thy Lord, the True One, encompasseth all things.

O people of the earth! Fear God and be not like the people of Lot in associating partners with God, your Creator. For verily the Remembrance among you standeth in truth and by truth as a witness over your souls around the Corner.

Say: None knoweth the hidden save God, and He encompasseth all things. He is God, the Most High, the Most Great.

Verily God hath raised up the Remembrance for Himself, that He might make the earth’s highest the servant of its lowest. And He is God, powerful over all things.

We have made the response from the tongue of the Remembrance unto the unbelievers a burning fire.

O people of the earth! Keep My word that ye worship none but God, my Lord and your Lord. Diminish not the measure nor the balance wrongfully, but stand upon the line of justice in this Gate.

Verily this Remembrance is the remnant of the lights, and He is better for you if ye be faithful to God, the Most High, in truth and by truth.

O ye believers! Do ye not see that I am indeed upon a clear proof from my Lord, and God hath provided Me with such knowledge of good things as none among creation knoweth save the Truth? My success is only through God, and unto Him is the return of the believers inscribed in truth and by truth.

Seek forgiveness of God, then turn ye unto Him in the path of this Most Great Gate. Verily God is the Truth, my Lord, and He is indeed most forgiving, most loving.

O people! Act according to your capacity, for verily God is the True Witness and He is the All-Knowing. He has indeed been All-Seeing and All-Informed of all your deeds.

We have sent you to all creation by God’s leave with Our signs and this Most Great Authority, which has ever been a faithful guardian of the Truth. Verily the followers of various sects shall be witnessed around the Fire on the Day of Resurrection.

These are among the tidings of the towns We relate to you—some are around water and some around God, having been laid to rest at the Point of Fire in very truth. The idolaters did not wrong Us, but rather the people of the Fire have been wronged according to the decree of the Book.

Those who call upon aught else but the Remembrance—their gods whom they invoke besides God shall avail them naught, for the Cause has come from God, the True One, as an irrevocable decree. We took from all a covenant concerning the Remembrance above Mount Sinai, but when the Truth came to them in this world, they were recorded in the Mother Book as having broken the covenant.

In this is a sign for those who fear the punishment of the Hereafter. On that Day all creation shall be gathered before the All-Merciful. That Day is recorded as witnessed in the Mother Book. We delay it only for an appointed term, and the Cause has been numbered around the Fire in truth.

We shall give souls their due on that Day in truth—some shall be with the Cause and some around the Fire, witnessed in very truth. We have decreed in the Book concerning the wretched in their essence and the blessed in their essence, as an irrevocable decree from that Gate.

As for those who are wretched, they shall be made to stand around the Fire in justice, save as your Lord wills. Verily He is the Truth and has power over all things. And as for those who are blessed, they are recorded in the Mother Book as being around God by virtue of the decree of the Divine Will around the Gate.

We shall recompense every soul according to what it has wrought, by the Most Great Truth. God diminishes not anyone’s portion, and there is nothing but We have recorded it in that hidden Book. We have given you the Book in truth that you may judge between people with justice.

Were it not for a decree that had preceded from God concerning the people, He would judge between them in that Day, the days of the Remembrance in truth—and God’s command in the Mother Book has been decreed.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Be steadfast as thou art commanded and grieve not over the idolaters and their words, for God thy Lord shall judge between them on the Day of Resurrection by the Most Great Truth, and He is Witness over all things.

O people of the divine cloud! Hear My call from the Point of the Letter that dwells at the Pole of Fire. Nay, your souls have seduced you after the Book regarding the matter of the Greater Joseph.

O God! From Thee do I seek patient endurance in His Cause, with truth, a gracious patience. May God bring him and you all together in the land of gathering, in very truth. Verily He is the Truth and He is the Most High in truth, and He is the One Who has ever been, in the Mother Book, wise and knowing in truth.

He is God and is witness over all things. And He is God Who has ever encompassed all the worlds.

Surah of the Name [Ism]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And he turned away from them and said: ʿHow great is my grief for Joseph!’ And his eyes became white with sorrow, and he was filled with suppressed grief.” [Q12:84]

Alif. Lam. Mim. Ra. These are the verses of the Book from the presence of the Wondrous One, beside Whom there is no other God, and He is God, the Most High, the All-Wise. Verily We have sent down the verses in this Book for those of insight among the people of the Gate, with truth upon truth, uniquely.

O Fruit of the Heart! Hearken unto this call from this Mystic Dove singing in the realm of the cloud of unknowing. God hath verily revealed unto Me:

“Verily I am God, beside Whom there is no other God, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.”

O My servants! Turn ye unto this supreme reward, for I have created gardens for remembrance that none knoweth save Me, and I have not permitted entry therein to any soul save after martyrdom in His path. Therefore seek ye this supreme reward from God, the Most High, for He is God, the Exalted, the Great.

Had We willed, We would have made humanity around the Remembrance one community, but they will not cease to differ, save those upon whom God hath bestowed His mercy. And the Command with the Remembrance hath been decreed with truth upon truth.

Verily We relate unto thee from the tidings of the Messengers that the hearts of the people might be made firm in the pure religion, and God thy Lord is witness over all things.

Verily God hath made the verses an admonition for the believers, but it increaseth not the unbelievers save in loss.

O ye unbelievers! Act according to your way, for God, your Lord, the Most Merciful, He is the Truth, and He is God, powerful over all things.

Verily this Remembrance is the Truth, and He hath been a witness with truth upon truth among the worlds.

To God belongeth the unseen of creation and unto Him returneth the Command. Therefore worship Him, for He is the Truth, and He is God, the Reckoner of all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Speak with thy hidden tongue at the Point of Fire: “He is God, there is no God but Him,” Who hath been manifested with truth upon truth at the Point of Fire with fire upon fire, uniquely.

Verily I am the Single One through the Most Great Word. I have bestowed something of My name upon the forms of Paradise, and they have become steadfast in the Remembrance through remembrance, and He is God, powerful over all things.

And upon the veils, they became veiled from glory through glory, and He is God, encompassing all things.

And upon the cloud of unknowing, it hath effaced all otherness from its essences, and He is God, witness over all things.

And upon the Throne, it became firmly established upon the eight pillars with truth, and He is God, aware of all things.

And upon the heaven, it was raised without the pillars that ye see, and He is God, the Reckoner with the believers.

And upon the earth, it became humble upon its surface through the Remembrance, and He is God, merciful to the believers.

And for all things according to the Command of the Book, their portion hath been bestowed with truth.

Verily We have sent down unto thee the verses with truth from thy Lord, but most people believe not in the Most Exalted Remembrance, save a few of the foremost believers.

Verily We have raised the heaven without pillars that ye can see, then established the heavens with the earth according to what God had ordained in the Mother Book as decreed.

Verily We have made subservient the sun and the moon and the stars around the Remembrance that perchance the people might believe in meeting Him with truth upon truth, and He is God, praised with truth among the worlds.

Verily We have written the seat as thy Throne and the station as thy Chair, and verily their command hath been raised upon the water around the Gate with truth upon truth.

God hath extended the earth through His Word and hath ordained therein hidden springs and rivers of wine, and of every fruit He hath decreed therein two kinds. The night envelopeth the day, and in this verily are signs for those of insight among the people of the Gate who circle round the Remembrance.

We have ordained in the land of Unity adjoining tracts of attributes and gardens of names with vines, and fields of divine stations that are both single and paired, watered by the water of the Remembrance through the Command above the Command, and this decree was inscribed in the Mother Book.

O concourse of lights! Should ye marvel at the Remembrance in His truth, verily We have been, in truth, uniquely creative in Our creation by the leave of the Ancient God, concerning the station of the Remembrance, and this Command was a new thing from God, the Most High.

The abode of the idolaters is the fire, according to the true decree of the Book, and this judgment was inscribed in the Mother Book.

Verily God is the Possessor of forgiveness toward mankind through this Most Great Word, yet the people know not a single letter of the knowledge of the Book, save what they have learned of vain and rejected falsehood.

Verily God hath made thee a warner in truth through the truth, and a guide to the believers, and one guided to the mystery of the Book.

God knoweth all things and what is in the wombs in truth, and what increaseth in unique creation, and everything with Him hath been inscribed according to measure.

He is God, there is no God but Him, Knower of the unseen and the visible, and He is God, the Most High, the Great.

Verily God hath made His word alike for the idolaters—whomsoever God willeth to lead astray, there is no averting it, and God’s command in truth hath been accomplished in the Mother Book.

Verily God hath ordained angels for thy person who guard thee by God’s command, and verily God hath power over all things.

O concourse of lights! Hear My call from the tongue of God, the Wondrous, from the exalted, divine mysteries by leave of God, the Most High, Who hath power over all things.

Say: I am the Mystery in the concourse of the cloud-realm through the Most Great Truth. Verily I was hidden round about the Fire.

Verily I, by God’s leave, in My youth was in truth knowledgeable of My Own Self through the mighty Truth.

If God willeth, Mine eyes shall be brightened from grief in Mine age, and verily I am He Who restraineth His anger, in truth, over all the worlds together.

He is God Who hath ever encompassed the worlds.

Verily God is the Most High, the Great, and He is God Who hath power over all things.

He is God Who hath knowledge of all things.

Verily God, your true Lord, is the Truth. There is no God but Him, and He is God Who hath ever been independent of the worlds.

O people of the earth! Recognize the Most Great Truth through the Remembrance, for verily He hath ever been praised in the Mother Book.

Surah of the Truth [Haqq]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They said: ʿBy God, you will not cease to remember Joseph until you are consumed or become among those who perish.”’ [Q12:85]

Alif Lam Mim Ta. Praise be to God Who hath sent down the Book in truth unto His servant, that he might be in all worlds a manifest token of His similitude, by virtue of pure justice, witnessed in the Most Great Truth.

Verily We have made thee in the worlds of holiness a cornerstone of praise and an exalted throne of glorification.

Therefore hearken unto My call at the Gate, from all around the Gate: Verily I am the True King, Who hath ever been, in truth and by truth, the Self-Subsisting.

Verily I am the Command in truth, upon the encircling Alif, Who hath ever been, in truth and by truth, decreed.

And thou art, in truth, the cornerstone of Divine unity and the center of glorification by leave of God, the All-Praised, Who hath ever been praised in truth.

Verily We desired naught in truth from any thing save that which their own souls had already desired regarding that thing, and God hath ever encompassed all things.

He it is Who showeth you in the lightning a flash from the Most Great Remembrance, and in the clouds a gleam from the Most Great Command, and God hath power over all things.

O ye believers! Why do ye dispute concerning the Remembrance after the truth hath come, when verily he hath been inscribed in the Mother Book as one mighty in authority around the Fire?

Verily those who call upon aught else besides this Gate will receive no response, and God hath ordained that the prayers of the unbelievers shall be answered only in the fire, by the fire, through the Most Great Fire.

Unto God prostrate themselves all who are in the heavens and on earth—some upon the straight Truth and some upon falsehood uprooted, as hath been inscribed in the Mother Book around the Fire.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from around this Gate:

“Verily I am God, there is no God but He, and I am the Ever-Living, Who hath ever been Self-Subsisting.”

O My servants! No soul hath followed the Remembrance in truth except it hath followed Me upon the consummate Truth, upon the straight path, upon the Most Great Remembrance, steadfastly.

And no soul hath turned away from His Cause except it hath turned away from My Cause, and verily I shall take mighty vengeance upon the idolaters, in truth and by truth.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Cause the people to hear the melodies of the birds of Paradise upon the Throne of Truth, from a level upon this sacred earth, for thou art in truth directed by the ear of God in holiness, and God hath ever been thy Guardian.

Say: “Verily I am the son of Muhammad, the Arabian, and have been witnessed around the Fire in the Preserved Tablet. Verily I am the Fire of the Interlocutor around the Mount that spoke in the Tree: ʿThere is no God but Him,’ and God hath ever been My witness.”

None hath truly estimated God with due estimation save God, his Lord, there is no God but He.

We are the Family of Muhammad in truth, and thus hath the decree been inscribed by the hands of the Lord in the Great Leaf around the Throne.

O thou Sun rising in the horizon of the cloud of unknowing, obedient unto God, the One, the Eternal, besides Whom there is no God, and God hath ever been thy Reckoner!

And from God, the Truth, and from Us, the Family of God in truth, peace be upon thee, even as thou hast been mentioned in the Preserved Tablet with God.

O people of the earth! Fear God regarding this crimson Word, that ye speak naught concerning God save the truth, for verily God hath ever been cognizant of all things. And who doth more wrong than he who inventeth a falsehood against the Remembrance? I announce unto him the great Fire, for he is nigh unto the great Fire.

O ye who dwell in the celestial realm! Hearken unto My call from the Point established at the center of the Sun, in truth upon truth, from the tongue of this Arabian Youth, the Citizen, upon the mighty and wondrous Truth. God hath in truth revealed unto Me:

“Verily I am God, there is no God but Me. This Remembrance is before Me, upon the Most Exalted Word and the impenetrable Mystery, created in truth within truth around truth.”

Say: Are the two Alifs equal—one standing firm in the Cause and the other sitting at the Gate? Exalted is God, the Most High, and He is God, the Mighty, the Great.

What aileth you that ye join partners with God from among His creation, so that creation seemeth alike to them at the Gate? Exalted is God far above what the wrongdoers describe, with supreme exaltation. Say: God is the Creator of all things by His command, in truth, and He is the One, the Most High, Who hath knowledge of all things in truth through truth.

Verily We have sent down water from heaven, and the valleys flowed according to their measure, and We have ordained it in truth with precise ordination. As for the letters, the Command goeth forth among the people along an equal line between the rows, in truth upon truth, equally. And that which profiteth the believers is this Remembrance in truth, and verily it is the truth that hath been written in the Mother Book around the Fire.

And We hold it with justice on earth that people may benefit in truth from the distillations of this Most Great Sea, according to the decree of the Book beneath the letter Ba, inscribed. Is one who knoweth the Remembrance through the Remembrance like unto one who knoweth through the Book? Nay! Between them is the distance of the two Easts, and the decree hath been determined in the Mother Book.

The true believer is he who fulfilleth the covenant with the covenant and breaketh not the pledge according to the balance, and hath been mentioned in truth in the measure around the Gate. These are they who have patiently persevered seeking the face of God in truth, and are content with God in secret and in public; these are they who dwell in truth in the holy throne by leave of the Remembrance.

And those who have believed in truth and are content with the ultimate abode around the Remembrance—these are they who are witnessed in truth upon the straight path. These shall abide in Paradise forever, and the angels shall enter unto them from every gate:

“Peace be upon you from God, the Most High, in ancient truth.”

O people of Paradise! Hear the call of God from the crimson leaf growing from this verdant Tree upon the land of that Most High Gate, which hath been written in the Mother Book in the mystery of Fire:

“Verily I am God, there is no God but He, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.”

O servants of God! Why do ye speak concerning the matter of God’s Most Great Remembrance in the same manner as Joseph’s brothers spoke, saying “By God, thou wilt not cease to remember Joseph”? Nay! The Remembrance was not veiled upon the light of Sinai in your hearts, but ye veil yourselves from Him. Verily He is the Truth, the Most Great Word, and I am the Crimson Pillar inscribed in truth upon truth by the hands of the Merciful in all the Tablets.

Surah of the Bird [Tayr]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said: ʿI only complain of my anguish and sorrow unto God, and I know from God what ye know not.”’ [Q12:86]

Alif Lam Ra. This is a Book which We have sent down in truth, that thou mayest lead mankind out of darkness into the pure light of truth. This is the path of the Most High, established in pure justice and truth, and He is God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy.

Unto God belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth in truth, and He is independent of all things, and He is the Truth, and hath ever encompassed all creation. The likeness of those who break the Covenant concerning the Most Great Remembrance is as those who violate the Covenant concerning the Lord, and thus hath it been inscribed in truth upon truth in the Preserved Tablet with God, the Ancient of Days.

God extendeth knowledge unto whomsoever He willeth, and the life of this world compared to the life to come is but as a shadow compared to the sun, and verily the shadow in the presence of the sun is as nothingness. Verily God guideth in truth whom He willeth unto the path of this Remembrance, and verily the path of Ali is inscribed in the Mother Book upon the upright line around the letter Ba, having been written in powerful truth upon exalted truth.

Know ye that through the remembrance of your Lord, the All-Merciful, are the hearts of the believers who surround the waters at that Most Great Gate set at rest, and verily God is witness over all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Verily the Tree of Blessedness in the Mother Book with Us is inscribed in truth at the gate of the letter Ba. And no soul hath taken hold of the branches through these most great verses in truth except that We decree for it, by God’s leave, a goodly end in the life to come, and verily this decree in the Mother Book is unalterable.

O people of the earth! How can ye deny the All-Merciful when He is in truth My Lord? There is no God but He; in Him have I placed My trust, and unto Him is the return of the believers in truth.

Were We to will it concerning these verses as a command, We would verily cleave asunder the earth and cause the mountains to move in truth, for unto God belongeth the command in truth, and He is God, powerful over all things. Nay, I desire naught save what God hath desired for it aforetime.

Say: Verily I am the servant of God; I have no power over truth save what God My Lord willeth, and verily He is the Truth and is cognizant of all things. Were We to will it, We would transform the earth and all that dwell thereon through a single letter of command, in less than the twinkling of an eye, all together.

But those who have disbelieved shall be afflicted with the Fire for what they have wrought, and verily God faileth not His promise in truth, and He is God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. Messengers before thee have indeed been mocked, and thou art but the servant of God in truth. Soon shall We grant respite unto those who have disbelieved for what their hands have wrought, and verily God wrongeth not anyone even to the extent of the film on a date-stone.

Is he who standeth watch over souls by command like unto him who sitteth in his house? What aileth you? How do ye assign partners unto God in authority? Would ye inform Him of what He knoweth not in the earth? There is no God in truth but He, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

As for those who call upon aught else besides Him, verily God hath prepared for them on the Day of Resurrection the most grievous chastisement, and this decree hath been irrevocably fixed in the Mother Book.

The similitude of the Garden of Oneness which the All-Merciful hath promised His servants is as that which resteth upon the Throne in the ocean of eternity, its mountain enduring forever unchanging and whose shadow is cut off from all determination. That Paradise is the Most Great Word unto the believers, and He is God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

Verily, some among the people of the Furqan rejoice in what God hath bestowed upon thee of His grace. Say: I have been commanded to worship God, besides Whom there is no other God, and not to join in His worship anything whatsoever of truth with truth. Thus have We sent down unto thee in truth this decree from God in an Arabic tongue, neither of the East nor of the West, but rather upon the Alif standing between two lines and the still water upon the two talismans from that Most Great River, the mystery of the two Names, and verily God hath ever encompassed all things.

No soul can bring forth a verse from the Book in truth save by God’s leave, the Praiseworthy, Who is commanded in the dominion. For every term there is a decree written in truth upon this Gate, the Most Great Book of God. God doth blot out and confirm what He pleaseth, and He is God, the All-Knowing of all things.

The ungodly among the people of the Book say:

“Thou wert not commissioned by the command of the Imam, the Proof of God in truth.”

Say: God sufficeth as a witness between me and you, and verily the Proof beareth witness unto me with the Most Great Truth, and He is God, and His chosen ones have ever been witness to all things.

Some of the believers followed their vain desires after the Remembrance had come unto them with the Most Great Book. Soon shall We cause them to taste severe heat of fire upon fire with fire. Say: Mine is but to deliver the Message, and the reckoning is inscribed in the Mother Book.

O people of the divine cloud! Hear My call from this crimson leaf growing from the branches of this green tree, suspended upon the yellow tree, standing upon the white root in the land of grandeur. This is an Arab Youth Who hath been in truth witnessed. God doth verily reveal unto Me:

“Verily I am God, there is no God but I, the Truth, and verily the Remembrance is with Me in truth upon truth, before the Fire Point which was written at the Point of Manifestation.”

O My servants! These are the days of God which the All-Merciful promised you in His Book. Remember God abundantly in the path of this Most Great Remembrance in truth with truth. No soul hath been created save that within it was placed a sign from the Most Great Remembrance, that the Truth might witness with truth, and He is God Who hath ever been knowing of all things.

Those who desire this world after the truth—God hath ordained for them in the hereafter no portion of good, and the decree concerning them from the judgment of the Gate hath been fulfilled. We sent thee not save with the tongue proceeding from the people of the Garden of Good-Pleasure. The people have no knowledge of speech after the Bayan, for verily everything hath its announcement in the Mother Book which was concealed around the Fire.

Verily God hath permitted the Remembrance to speak whatsoever He willeth as He willeth, and He willeth naught in anything save as We will in truth, and verily God is witness unto all things. Therefore hearken unto a word from the Most Great Remembrance in pure truth, free from the false satanic rules in your hands. Reject not the truth, for verily the kingdom is God’s—He disposeth as He willeth, how He willeth, and He, verily, hath ever been All-Knowing, All-Wise.

O ye believers! Have I not warned you of the Days of God in truth? By God, the Truth! This Day hath indeed come unto those servants who have been patient and thankful in the remembrance of God, the Most High.

God hath permitted the thankful to receive His gratitude, and the unbelievers to receive the fire of His Command. Verily God, your true Lord, hath ever been knowing of all things.

O concourse of lights among the people intoxicated with the crimson wine! Hear My call from this Bird soaring in the atmosphere above the mountains of the land of Qaf. God hath indeed revealed unto Me while upon the Ship that saileth above those waters:

“Verily I am God, the Truth, there is no God but Me. Worship Me then upon this Straight Line that moveth in the heart of the Gate, for it speaketh the truth with truth in that interpretation, with justice and in a praiseworthy manner.”

O God! Unto Thee be praise! There is no God but Thee. I pour out my grief and sorrow concerning that stagnant water in the two eyes, from the camphor water in the two names, and concerning the golden water in the two cups, unto God, the Lord of both commands. I know from God concerning this enlightened Arab Youth whom I have reared with My hands in the fire of hearts—he whose name recalls the Most Great Word—that which ye know not, and God hath ever been knowing of His exalted remembrance.

He is God, the Witness over all things. And verily God hath ever encompassed all things.

Surah of the Announcement [Naba’]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“O My son! Go ye and seek tidings of Joseph and his brother, and despair not of the Spirit of God. Lo! none despaireth of the Spirit of God save unbelieving folk.” [Q12:87]

Alif, Lam, Ra. O thou Greatest Word! God hath indeed revealed unto thee the Remembrance in truth, and thou art none other than the Remembrance of God, the Most High, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

We have, verily, sent thee down in truth, and God and His angels are, in truth, thy sublime and exalted guardians, and have ever been thy protectors of old. These verses are indeed the verses of the Qur’an in truth from God, thy Lord, the True One, besides Whom there is no God, and He is God Who hath ever encompassed all things.

Leave thou the idolaters around the Fire until that appointed Day of Truth. For each one there is a known book concerning the Command in that Greatest Word by God’s leave, and in the Mother Book is recorded the decree for all in truth.

O Thou Solace of the Eyes! Thou art indeed the Mighty Tidings in the most exalted Concourse, and by that Name art thou known in truth among the people of the Throne.

O ye believers! Ye are in doubt concerning that whereunto the Remembrance calleth you, yet it is the Truth in truth, and hath been witnessed in truth. Can there be doubt about the Gate Who holdeth the heavens and earth by Our leave? God is indeed well aware of what ye do.

The likeness of those whom the Remembrance preventeth from false foundations is as those who love not to reject their gods, and both are recorded in the Mother Book as following vain decrees.

Say: God is my Lord and your Lord in truth. He hath appointed me as a witness to this Greatest Word in truth. I am but a man like unto you. God bestoweth His favor upon me as He willeth, with what He willeth. And there hath been no limit set to your Lord’s command in the Mother Book. Our command is but as the twinkling of an eye, and God is indeed witness over all things.

We speak not save by God’s leave, and in God do we place our pure trust, and He is God, our Lord, Who hath power over all things. God hath ordained for those who fear, round about the House, a place of security nigh the Throne, and God doth indeed encompass all things.

Whoso imagineth aught false concerning the Remembrance, We shall cause him to drink, on the Day of Resurrection, of scalding water. When he drinketh it, it burneth him, and death cometh to him from every quarter, yet he dieth not, and behind him is God’s most grievous chastisement, which hath been recorded in the Mother Book in truth.

Have ye not reflected on aught? We have created the heavens in truth, and if God willed, He could remove you and bring forth a new creation like unto you, and He is God, Who hath power over all things.

And in the Fire is the fire of cold, alike for the unbelievers after the cold; whether they are patient or impatient, they have no escape therefrom in justice, and God hath power over all things.

When the matter is decided, Satan saith unto his followers:

“Verily, I am with you in idolatry. Blame not me but blame your idolatrous selves, for God’s most grievous chastisement hath been fulfilled upon us and hath returned to us by decree of the Book from the command of the Gate, which hath been irrevocably ordained in the Greatest Truth.”

Have ye not seen how God hath likened the Remembrance unto a tree whose root was in the breast of the Remembrance and whose branch had been raised unto the heaven of the clouds? And verily God, your True Lord, hath been knowing of all things.

And verily the goodly Word—its root is firmly fixed upon the Throne, and its branch endureth in the heaven by the leave of the Gate. We give forth its fruits—the verses—at all times, goodly ones, by God’s leave, creating through a new Command, in novel justice, upon the Fiery Point that hath been concealed around the Water.

And the likeness of a false word apart from Truth is as an evil tree, uprooted from the shadow of shadows upon the shade, and the shade was present in the fire, in the fire.

Do ye take peers besides God while they are creatures like unto you? Then wait, for God hath decreed the destiny of the idolaters unto the fire, and verily the Command from God’s presence hath been decreed in the Mother Book.

Say to My servants who have believed in the Remembrance upon the Straight Path and have spent their wealth after establishing prayer: verily God hath prepared for them gardens beneath which flow fruits of forbearance and divine acceptance from the breezes of knowledge. And verily this bounty of God for the Most Great Remembrance hath been known in the Mother Book with God.

And verily We have subjected for you the sun and moon, both circling round the Remembrance. And if ye should count God’s favor ye cannot reckon it, and verily God hath ever encompassed the worlds.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from around this secure city, the Station of Abraham. Whoso entereth it upon the Straight Path, he is of the people of the Gate, and whoso disobeyeth God is excluded from it. And He is God, the Self-Sufficient, the Praised One.

Our Lord! I have settled mine eye’s delight in a valley without truth, so cause Thou, O God, hearts among men to incline toward it, and provide its people with fruits of inner truths for Thy Most Great Covenant with pure truth, for Thou art the Lord of great bounty and Thou art powerful over all things.

Our Lord! Thou knowest in truth concerning it and whoso dwelleth therein, and nothing is hidden from Thee. And Thou art the Mighty, and Thou hast been independent of the worlds.

Verily the unbelievers desire not the truth save unto the Remembrance in their eyes and not their hearts, and God hath ordained for them on the Day of Reckoning a station wherein they shall be questioned concerning the truth by the truth.

And when the veil is removed from their eyes they shall say:

“Would that we had answered Thy call and followed the Remembrance from Thy presence, the Truth!”

And they shall have no helper besides God, the Most High.

Soon shall the believers behold on that day the dwelling place of the sinners in the fire, their garments of molten brass prepared, the fire covering their faces. Evil is their dwelling place, the coffin their abode, and verily God hath encompassed the worlds.

And verily God recompenseth every soul for what it hath earned, and verily God, He is the Truth, there is no God but He, and He is God, knowing of all things.

Verily this Remembrance—His judgment is the delivery of Truth that people might know of a certainty that He is but One God, there is nothing like unto Him, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

And We destroyed no city save at an appointed time by God’s leave—our Lord, the Truth—and verily God hath been knowing of all things.

And verily We have sent thee down in truth unto the sects of the ancients and the moderns, upon a letter from the mystery of the line that hath been concealed around the Fire, and verily God has power over all things.

O Solace of the Eye! We have preserved the earth above the water and the heavens beneath the air, for thy true mystery concerning the wondrous Cause from thy Lord, the True One, and the decree in the Mother Book was ordained. Hearken then unto that which thy Lord reveals unto thee.

Verily, there is no God but Him. Worship Him and place thy trust in Him. And when the matter is decreed, say:

“Verily we are God’s, and verily unto Him do we return in truth.”

O people of Eden! Hear My call from that purifying water, moving in that camphor-scented cup in the hands of youths from among the people of that Gate, who standeth before God, the True One. Verily, He is the Living One, there is no God but Him, and He is God, exalted from eternity.

Verily, I am God, there is no God but Me. O Concourse of Lights! My servants, go to the goodly land and seek out Joseph and his brother at that Gate, and his brother within that same Gate, and be not disheartened by the Most Great Word, the Spirit of God, for wheresoever ye may be, by the leave of God, your True Master, He is with you in truth, raising you through His verses to your homeland. And verily He is the Truth within the Most Exalted Gate, Who was sought around the Fire. And He is God, Who is witness unto all things.

Surah of the Proclamation [Iblagh]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“When they came before him [Joseph] again, they said: ʿO exalted one! Distress has befallen us and our family, and we have brought scanty merchandise. Give us full measure and be charitable unto us, for God rewards the charitable.”’ [Q12:88]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Sad, ʿAyn. God! There is no God but Him, the Truth. Nothing exists besides Him except what is created by His command in truth, and He is God, Who has knowledge of all things.

O believers! God has indeed revealed this Book unto Me with the Most Great Truth, and I have revealed it in truth to My Most Great Remembrance by God’s leave, and God is witness over all things.

By your Lord, the True God! Any soul who harbors in his heart anything other than servitude to Me and to this, My Most Great Remembrance, God will burn with fire on the Day of Return, and He has not ordained for him in the hereafter any refuge among the people of truth.

O people of the earth! This crimson Leaf, nourished with the oil of hearts, is a manifestation of the decreed Command by the Most Great Truth, which none can resist. Indeed, God’s Command in the Mother Book has been irrevocably ordained around the Fire through the wondrous Command.

O people of the earth! Hearken unto My call from the movements of these Birds upon that white Leaf. Verily, I am God, besides Whom there is no other God. Therefore, worship Me and establish prayer before the Remembrance for the Most Great Remembrance. Spend of that which God has given you in the path of the Remembrance, for death surely watches over His decreed Command, and God encompasses all things.

Know ye that this Remembrance, in the Holy Seat, has been recorded in truth as among the first of those who prostrate themselves before God, the Exalted.

Therefore, turn ye unto God before the day when death comes upon you suddenly, whereupon ye shall find no deliverance from death save through submission to God, the Truth.

The way of the ancients has passed regarding the transgressors, according to the decree of the Book, as God’s true Command concerning that Gate has been ordained.

Were We to open unto the believers a gate from heaven, they would still grow arrogant in their souls and think of the Remembrance as a mighty sorcerer.

We have ordained in heaven constellations upon the equinoctial point in two cycles around the center of the Gate in perfect symmetry, that the people of knowledge might judge by their configurations upon the point of equality for a little while.

We have preserved thee from every satan save those who steal away verses of the Book concerning the souls of the believers, for such shall remain hidden in the Fire.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Cast upon them meteors of verses, weighty stars against those verses which God has ordained in the Gate, made clear in truth in that Book.

There is nothing but that God has placed its treasuries in the Mother Book, and We send it down only in measure according to what God, the Truth, has willed.

We truly know the paths of journeying of the people of earth and heaven, and thou art stationed at the Gate of Knowledge before the All-Knowing, the Self-Subsisting.

O people of the earth! Convey Our true Command to all through a mystery of the Alif standing around the Truth. God has ordained for those who convey the Message gardens of moist ruby, wherein He has created heavens layer upon layer, and God hath created in the center of each heaven a sun formed for glorification, a moon fashioned for sanctification, and stars shaped for praise—all extolling God their Creator, the True One, from their orbital stations, beseeching God’s forgiveness for those who convey to humanity a command from this Most Great Word, by leave of God, the Most High; and verily God hath ever been mighty.

O people of the Throne! Hearken unto My call from around that Rod of Iron, heated by the fire concealed in the heart of the Remembrance, which was hidden in the Mother Book.

Verily God revealed unto Me on the First Mount, through the tongue of His Beloved, from the Most Hidden Mystery surrounding the Gate:

“Verily, I am God, there is no God but Him. This Remembrance is the Truth established by My Truth amongst all the worlds. I am the Truth, there is no God but Him, and verily the Truth from God hath ever encompassed all the worlds.”

O people of Paradise! Hearken unto My call from the radiant Sun in the depths of the seventh sea, upon the Greatest Line, above the Mystery of the Square Line. Verily, I am God, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting. No soul conceiveth aught of the Truth in his heart in the path of servitude regarding any aspect of this Most Great Word, but that We have forgiven his sins and planted for him in the Garden of Eden trees in the form of peacocks from among the birds of Paradise. And We have ordained at the Gate from their fruits maidens like hidden pearls. Verily God’s power to fulfill His promise is truth. Act according to the Truth, and soon shall ye witness God’s Cause in the distant gathering, upon the Truth, the Most Praiseworthy, drawing nigh.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Speak not to people according to the depths of reason lest they be led astray from the path of Truth. Rather, address them with familiar words containing the hidden, veiled mystery which hath been known among the unified ones.

Verily We have made the earth a name for the Most Great Word and have ordained therein your means of livelihood at the Gate. Do ye then believe in any provider for yourselves apart from God, the True One?

O Solace of Mine eyes! Send down upon the lands of verses the water of mercy, that people may drink thereof upon the straight path of the Most Great Word until the appointed time.

Verily We have created man from dried clay in the palm of the Wise One around the seas of water, by leave of God, the Most High; and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

We have decreed for the jinn the hidden fire from the green tree which was planted around the scorching heat. And when We created the angels around the Remembrance, We commanded them in truth at that Gate to prostrate before the Merciful, your True Lord, upon the path of love which was intended in the Mother Book.

The prostration of the angels was with the dust rising from this earth at a command from the Remembrance of God, the Ancient One; and He is God, Who in truth hath ever been worshipped.

And when Iblis grew proud through his denial of the Most Great Gate, he became through that association an outcast in God’s guarding Book.

“Get thee out, for thou hast been inscribed in the Book of the Wicked as fire destined for the fire!”

Verily We have raised up the Gate for the Gate by God’s leave in the Sacred Mosque through the question about the letter Ha in response to the word containing Lam, to attain the consciousness of the heart upon the Truth from that ink. And verily God hath power over all things.

There is no path save after severance from all save the Truth, in the Praiseworthy Gate, by the leave of God, the Most High, the Great, the Hidden.

This, verily, is a path exalted in the Mother Book, inscribed in the form of trinity around the Fire. God hath not in truth decreed the will of Satan over those who place their trust in the Gate, through the Most Great Truth, according to the judgment of the Book from the judgment of the Gate, which hath been decreed in the Mother Book.

God hath indeed, in His wisdom, made the gates of hell to be seven letters upon the shadow of Paradise, by the decree of the Twin Luminaries, the heat of the flames existing in the Point of Fire through fire.

Verily, for the God-fearing are gardens of holiness around the Gate, by the leave of God, the Most High, planted in truth through truth.

O ye believers! Enter them in peace, with clear consciousness, through the line drawn from the veil, through the truth by the truth which hath been known in the Mother Book.

O people of might from the mystery in the depths of the sea! Hear My call from that Whale stationed at the pole of that sea in its most holy habitation, for God hath given it a heart like the light of the Twin Luminaries, illuminating the sea with its light, and it standeth at the gate of servitude unto God at that Gate, stationed in truth.

Say: God hath revealed unto Me,

“Verily, I am God, there is no God but Me. I created thee that thou mightest say by God’s leave in the land of Egypt, when the whales come unto thee: Say at the Gate, ʿO mighty one! Distress hath befallen us and our people, and we have come with scant merchandise from the verse of the Gate, so give us full measure with the just balance, and be charitable unto us through the Most Great Verse, even as God was charitable unto us through the verse of Unity and His loved ones.’ For verily God doth reward those who are charitable at that Gate through the Most Great Truth.”

And He is God, the Most High, the Witness. Verily God encompasseth all things. He is God, the All-Knowing of all things.

Surah of Man [Insan]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said: ʿDo ye know what ye wrought with Joseph and his brother when ye were ignorant?”’ [Q12:89]

Alif Lam Mim. A Book from God, the True One. Indeed it hath been sent down unto Us with pure truth upon the Alif, established in the Most Great Word, concerning the truth around the First Veil. And verily God hath power over all things.

God knoweth the unseen of the heavens and earth by the truth, and verily the Remembrance possesseth knowledge of the Book, which hath been inscribed by the truth with the truth. And verily We have, by God’s leave, removed from the breasts of the believers among the people of the Gate the rancor of those who turned away, according to the decree of the Book which was ordained in the Tablet of Reward.

And these are they who, upon thrones facing one another, have been stationed around the Gate in pure truth. No weariness toucheth them therein save the remembrance of the Gate, and the love of the Gate occupieth them to the exclusion of all else. And verily God is knowing of all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Inform My servants that their Lord, the All-Merciful, hath been unto the believers a helper. And He is God Who, by the truth, hath been All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

O people of the earth! Hearken unto My call by the truth from the tongue of this human being, the wondrous Remembrance of God, upon the form of divine unity, by the truth and with clear utterance. God hath revealed unto Me that the path of Ali is with Me a truth founded upon the truth which hath been firmly established by the truth.

Verily I am God, there is no God but I, and I have been, by the truth, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting. No soul hath moved in truth around the House but that the word of divine good-pleasure hath been made binding upon it by the Most Great Truth, and verily God hath been witness over all things.

O Concourse of Lights! Draw forth your souls from the water of permanence after negation, and arise for God, the Most High, alone. And perform pure deeds around the established Alif upon the straight line that standeth from the presence of the Remembrance, and be ye for God, the Ancient, by the truth and upon the mighty truth, praiseworthy.

And verily We gave glad tidings of Our word to Abraham concerning his guest, through a word confirming what would come after him, and We have encompassed all things through God by the pure truth. And verily We delivered Lot by God’s leave and destroyed the wrongdoers through a letter of the Most Great Word, and verily God hath been witness over all things.

And the people of the city came unto the truth, so the Gate returned them to the Holy Land, and these are in truth My guests, and they have been inscribed in God’s Book around the water.

O people of the earth! God hath counseled you by the truth with the truth, so proceed upon the extended line from around the Gate toward the direction of heaven, and turn not unto anyone in anything.

By thy life! The ones who enter this Gate around the Most Great Balance have been, by the truth, stationed upon the truth. So when the cry cometh with truth, then shall your high be made low in that Gate, according to the decree of the Book which hath been ordained by the truth.

And verily in that Gate are signs for those of insight among the people of the hidden veil which hath been concealed around the Fire. When the companions of the Rocky Tract denied the truth, We took vengeance upon them through the Most Great Remembrance, and verily God wrongeth not mankind by the truth even to the extent of a date-stone.

And among the people are those who have hewn houses from the mountains, but when the Command cometh with truth, lo! their heights shall be brought low upon the earth. Verily, the decree of God cannot be averted, and God is witness over all things.

We created not the heavens and the earth and all between them save with truth centered around the Remembrance, and verily, by God the Truth, it is the Truth, and upon the Straight Path it standeth justly, stationed around the Fire.

The Hour hath verily been established around the Remembrance in truth, and none can avert it from God, so pardon with gracious pardon, by God, the Most High.

God hath made thy name seven from the Book and a letter from the second of the Qur’an, and thou art verily of exalted character in the Mother Book, created around the Command. O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Say: I am the Book in the scrolls of the heavens, and I was inscribed around the Fire. Work then as thou art commanded and turn away from the idolaters by leave of God, the Most High, for He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

Those who set up another god with God, in false imagination—by thy Lord, We shall surely question them about the Command and judge them with burning stones of fire, heaped up. We know indeed that thy breast is straitened by what people think about thy Cause, so place thy trust in God with truth, and glorify thy Lord with praise. Sufficient is God, the Praiseworthy, as One informed of His servants in truth.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Worship thy Lord until death cometh in truth. There thou art, above the Throne among the ranks of those who prostrate themselves from the people of the cloud-realm, appreciated in God’s presence. O Concourse of Lights! By God the Truth, God’s Command hath come in truth, so hasten it not. He sendeth down the angels with the Command upon whomsoever He willeth among His servants, saying: Warn ye the people, for I am responsible in truth for the revelation.

There is no God but He, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting, and He is God, worshipped in truth. We have created the heavens and earth by the Command concealed within the mystery from the line of the Gate in truth, and exalted is God above what the wrongdoers describe concerning the Remembrance. Verily He is the Truth in the Mother Book, commanded around the Truth.

God hath ordained the sperm for man from man, and decreed the Command between the two waters according to the decree of the Book, determined. We created cattle in the form of talisman for your benefit—in them is warmth and in them is profit, inscribed in truth in the Mother Book. God hath ordained horses from the center of the letter Ba, and mules in the form of Waw, and donkeys in the shape of earth, that ye may ride them in your journeys unto God, the Truth. He is God, ever-seeing His servants in truth.

Upon the Remembrance is the right path hoped for around the Gate. O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! The people of hearts have come unto thee in truth, so say: Know ye what ye did to the Sign of the Gate, this Most Great Light, sister of the Guardianship, when aforetime with Joseph and his brother ye were people of sobriety, inscribed in truth in the depth of the two annihilations? He is God, independent of all worlds.

Surah of the Threefold Division [Tathlith]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They said: Art thou indeed Joseph?’ He said: I am Joseph, and this is my brother. God hath shown favor unto us. Verily, whoso is righteous and patient—God will not suffer the reward of the doers of good to perish.”’ [Q12:90]

Alif Lam Mim ʿAyn Sad. God! There is no God but Him, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting. Lord of the heavens and earth and all that is between them, and He is God, exalted and great. Verily this Book is from God, the Wondrous, and hath been sent down in truth, though concealed. These verses are leaves from the Tree of the Friend in Abraham’s bosom, which hath been planted. This is a rod of ruby in the Holy Land which hath been implanted. This is the Word of glorification, springing from the Tree of magnification above the Mount, which hath been uttered.

And had God willed, He would have guided all mankind through the Remembrance to His mighty Book. And He is God, the Exalted, the Praiseworthy. The mention of this Servant in the Qur’an is upon the Word of truth which they know not, in truth upon truth, concealed within the Fire’s Point.

He it is Who hath sent down from heaven the water of mercy, whence groweth the Tree of the Heart and whence cometh its drink. Thus is it inscribed in the Mother Book, in truth and by truth, around the Gate.

We have subjected the waters to your hands that the plants might grow thereby—the elixir and the olive around the veiled line with the secret, and the palm trees above the most hidden secret of the line, and all fruits from around the veiled secret by the hands of the Remembrance, existing in truth and by truth.

Thus doth God expound His verses that perchance people might know the truth of the Remembrance in that line extended from the most hidden secret, albeit little. All things are subject to Our hands in truth, and there is naught but is commanded in truth around the Gate.

God hath subjected to you this sea that ye might partake of the flesh of attributes in the path of the Gate, praising the name of God, the Exalted. By My life! Thou art the Star of the Book, the Sun of heaven, and the Lightning of the cloud in the Mother Book. Thou wert, in thy Lord’s sight, concealed around the upright line about the Fire.

Is then he who sendeth down the Book in truth like unto him who hath no power over a single letter thereof? Nay! For God is the All-Knowing, and He is God, powerful over all things.

Creation hath indeed been filled in truth with the bounties of the Remembrance, yet people know naught of the Book’s grace save an alif after the most hidden secret upon the square line which was in the Mother Book inclined.

God hath encompassed all things in His knowledge, and He is God, ever-knowing, ancient. Those who call upon the Gate apart from the Gate are indeed as dead upon the earth, halted at the Pole of Fire.

O people of the earth! Your God is One God. There is no God but Him, and He is God, mighty, wise. We seal the hearts of the idolaters with denial in truth, and assuredly God knoweth what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and He is God, witness over all things.

Those who believed in the Book plotted and associated partners with the Remembrance, but soon shall the roof fall in upon them by the word of justice, by God’s leave, the Exalted, and nigh.

Those whom the angels take in death, the signs veil them from the Gate. Enter ye the gates of Hell, to abide therein so long as the heavens and earth endure, until such time as God your Lord, the Truth, willeth. And verily God is powerful over all things.

And when the people ask thee concerning what thy Lord hath sent down in the Book, say: Yea, by My life, the Most Great Word hath been revealed concerning My Self, and in the Mother Book that Word was destined to revolve around the Letter B as God’s true purpose.

The abode of the believers is the mansion of joy surrounding the Gate, according to the decree of the Book—this hath been irrevocably ordained in truth. God hath prepared therein for them whatsoever they desire, sanctified by His leave, His blessings being immutable, for God hath power over all things.

Say: Await ye the Most Great Day! The Truth hath come, and the angels surround Him. Satan hath been slain by the Most Great Sword, and the matter hath been decreed in truth concerning that Gate. Enter ye therein through all the gates of paradise, for the decree of fire hath been fulfilled regarding its cause, and verily God hath power over all things.

The ungodly among the people of the Furqan say:

“Had God willed, we would not have been content with aught besides the Gate.”

God hath cursed them for their unbelief. Is aught required of the Remembrance save clear delivery of the Message, which hath been inscribed by the Fiery Point?

O people of the earth! By the True God, the proof of the Remembrance is like unto the radiant sun which the All-Merciful hath fixed in the heaven upon the equatorial line at its zenith. O people of the Throne! Hear My call from around the Shrine upon the Temple of Divine Unity—verily there is no God but Him.

Hearken unto what is revealed unto thee in truth: No soul hath breathed a word in thy remembrance upon the Most Great Remembrance but We have ordained for it, in truth, the Most Great Paradise. This bounty is truly magnificent in the Mother Book. We have not sent down a verse save by God’s leave in truth concerning that Word—that ye shall worship none but God. This is the true and upright religion, and thus hath the Truth been inscribed in all the Tablets by the hands of the Remembrance in crimson ink.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Be not eager for the guidance of any soul, for God guideth not those who follow the path of the Evil One. God is the All-Praised in truth, and He is the Mighty, the Wise. Verily when We desire to ordain a matter in the Book, We but say unto it “Be!” and it is inscribed in the mystery of this Gate, and recorded on the Tablet in the mystery of fire by fire.

We have sent no Prophet but We took from him a covenant concerning the Remembrance and His Day. Verily the Remembrance of God and His Day have been witnessed in truth at the Most Exalted Prospect before the angels of the Throne.

O people of peace! Hear My call from this Point of Mysteries in the crimson Ruby, nurtured by the essences of the people of the cloud-realm, around which are engraved in diamond script Arabic verses from the Bedouin soul of the western wilderness—which were established upon a handful of the Gate’s clay in the atmosphere of the heaven of peace, firmly fixed by the Command.

Verily I am God, there is no God but Me. I have created the gardens of Paradise through My Word, this Noble Arab Youth, the True One in truth, and I have brought forth the fire from the shadow of Paradise for those who reject His Word and His Book sent down from God, the Truth. I am the Self-Subsisting, the Witness over all worlds, and I am the Most High in truth, independent of all worlds.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Soon will the people of the cloud-realm declare: “Thou art indeed the Joseph of Oneness!” Say: Yea, by my Lord! I am indeed the Square Form in the Joseph of the Beginning, and this my brother is the Triangular Form in the Image of the Seal.

God hath graced me with the twin mysteries in the twin Mounts, and with the twin names in the twin Luminaries. And whoso believeth in the Gate and remaineth patient after the Book—verily God will not suffer the reward of the righteous to be lost, not even by a date-spot, nor by the pellicle of a date-stone, in truth and by the truth. And verily God hath ever been the Reckoner of all things.

Surah of the Fourfold Division [Tarbi’]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

They said:

“By God, truly hath God preferred thee above us, and we have indeed been sinners.”

[Q12:91]

Alif. Lam. Ra. God, there is no God but Him, the Truth, and He is God Who hath ever been, in truth, the Object of all worship. Hearken thou to My call from all the precincts of the Gate, encompassing all directions from every direction. O Solace of Mine eyes! Speak thou in the melody of the Beloved beneath the depths of love, by the command of thy Ancient Lord, in wondrous wise.

Verily, I am God, the Holy One, Who hath ever been witnessed in the seventh sea of Paradise round about the Fire. And verily, I am the Manifest Mystery above the line of the Hidden One, beneath the yellow, lightning-like veil, inscribed round about the Throne.

O people of love! Hear ye My call from My heart’s light at the Most Remote Temple round about God’s exalted Throne—in truth, upon the Truth—and He is God Who hath ever been mighty and ancient.

Verily, I am God, besides Whom there is no other God. I have planted with Mine own hands gardens in the land of Paradise for My servant, from the moist piece of red gold, wherein nothing hath portion save His own Self. I warn you, O My servants, by His Self, and verily the Word of God is indeed the Truth, and He is God Who hath ever been exalted and great.

Thou shalt find therein naught but the Voice of God, the Most High, upon the straight path which hath ever been mentioned at the Point of the Heart. And verily thou art, at the Mount, the Point of the Gate round about the Tree planted in the land of Mystery by God, the Ancient—thou hast ever been speaking and praiseworthy.

Verily thou art the Form of the mystic figures for those at the Mount above the Light—thou hast ever been relating. And verily thou art the Word of the followers of Jesus in the Gospel and the Psalms, in the form of glorification—thou hast ever been inscribed.

Say: Verily I am the triangular Form in the holy Mystery, squared—I have ever been written. And verily I am the Exalted Name—I have ever been unified at the Point of Fire. And verily I am the Lofty Symbol—I have ever been multiplied round about the Water. And verily I am He Who hath ever been written in the Mother Book near the All-Merciful round about the Fire.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Look thou toward the couches of the Throne, for verily the Mystery and its people cry out at the voice of this Speaking Bird above this reddened Leaf grown from this Blessed Tree—with such a cry that their souls nearly expire beyond their dwelling places. And verily thy Lord, the Truth, is possessed of grace toward mankind, and He is God Who hath ever been self-sufficient and wise.

O Great Master! By God, the Truth, were the birds to adjure me by one of the crimson doves—and verily when Thou didst command me to answer the servants, I brought them forth in a flash from the chambers, for they had beaten upon my breast for eighty-seven thousand ancient cyclic years. And verily Thou art the Knower of Truth, and God, thy Lord, sufficeth as witness to the Hidden Mystery.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Observe them upon a drop of moisture, for death hath drawn nigh unto their souls, and were it not for thy glance, they would assuredly lie dead upon the earth in truth.

O people of Mystery! Hear ye My call! Verily I am the servant of God and His Most Great Remembrance. Is there aught besides God, your True Lord, to which I summon you? He is the Almighty, the Gracious unto His servants. What aileth you in the Great Thunderbolt? Return ye to the chambers wherein ye dwelt by the wondrous Command of God, the Truth, and await ye My bidding round about the Standing Alif in truth, for verily the victory of God and His days have ever been near in the Mother Book.

O people of the earth! Have ye not beheld that which God hath fashioned? Its shadows incline in the Mother Book at the approach of the Point, and at its withdrawal are cast down from the Truth. Thus doth God set forth similitudes for men, that ye may be thankful to God, the Most High, around the Gate, through His All-Praised Name.

O people of the earth! Hearken unto My call from around the Remembrance: Verily, I am God, there is no God but I. O My servants! Take not two gods. He is but one God. We forgive not the joining of partners with the Truth, but We forgive all else to whom We will. And verily the best outcome with Us is for the sincere ones around the Gate.

Follow ye this Remembrance in truth, for verily it standeth upon the exalted Path, upon the stationary Alif at the Pole of Fire. Unto God, the Most High, prostrate themselves all who are in the heavens and the earth in truth, and unto Him belongeth true religion. The Remembrance, and in the essence of that Gate, is verily most ardent.

No blessing cometh save from God, Who hath sent it down upon you through this Gate. Among you are believers and among you are those who join partners. And verily the Remembrance standeth firm upon the true Balance around the Fire.

Would ye know what none else knoweth? The Line hath not been ordained for anyone. By God, the Truth! Ye shall assuredly be questioned about what ye say concerning the Remembrance without truth. And verily your Lord, the Most Merciful, is witness over all things.

Do ye attribute falsely to God? When We create for you the female in truth, how do your faces darken? Do ye detest the creation of Truth while He is the Praiseworthy in His actions? Why believe ye not in the Truth and in His signs save little?

God hath ordained the worst example for those who join partners, while unto God and His friends belongeth the supreme example in the Mother Book, set forth in truth. The example of the Remembrance with God is as the sun at the zenith of heaven, unclouded in the expanse of air. And God is witness over all things.

For every atom there is a term inscribed in the Mother Book. When permission cometh, they delay not a ninth part of the tenth, nor do they advance. All repair to their nests beneath the air, halting at the Gate.

Among the people are those whose tongues speak falsehood concerning the Remembrance. By God! He hath ordained for them naught save the fire of hell as their promised destiny.

God hath not sent down the Book unto thee except that the people of the Book might know concerning that wherein they differed in religion without truth. And God is witness over all things.

Verily We have sent down this water from the heaven of the Throne that the believers might revive their dead souls through the truth. And verily life for the people of the heart hath been inscribed in the Mother Book.

O people of the earth! The example of this pure water is as pure milk between two seas—this one the depth of Power and that one the ocean of Delegation. These two are declared unbelievers in the Mother Book. And the upright Alif upon the line of equality is the Remembrance between them upon the pure Truth, and it standeth firm upon the straight Path in very truth.

Verily, We have ordained in the fruits of the date palm, and in certain stalks of cane and grapes, a goodly sugar, that the believers may partake of sweet sustenance through God’s bounty, for He is God and hath power over all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! The people of blindness have spoken as did the brothers of Joseph, and have acknowledged their supreme transgression. Say: No reproach shall be upon you this day. God shall soon forgive you, if ye stand firm in the land of war. Verily God, your Lord, hath ever been towards His servants All-Forgiving, All-Wise.

Surah of the Glorified One [Mujallal]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Let no reproach be upon you this day. May God forgive you, for He is the Most Merciful of the merciful ones.” [Q12:92]

Alif, Lam, Mim, ʿAyn, Sad. O people of the Ridvan! Hear My call from this Bird, permitted by God to hover at a point in the atmosphere of the divine cloud. Verily, I am the Truth within the Truth. I have ascended into the air; among all creation I found nothing save that I saw it standing before that Gate by God’s leave, the True One. And God is witness over all things.

Verily, I am the Tree on the Mount and the Speaking One manifesting the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting, Who gives His servants to drink from the fountain of camphor. Hear My call from God’s kindled Fire. Verily, I am the One rising in the mystery of hearts. God has revealed to Me:

“Verily, I am God, there is no God but Me, the Truth.”

I have chosen the Letters of the Remembrance for remembrance, just as I, the Truth, the Powerful, have ever been—there is no God but I, the Exalted, the Great.

O believers! If you believe in God and His verses, return to the earth and pray to God for Our Cause, for God’s victory is, in the Mother Book, nigh. God has witnessed today your discourse with the believers in the House, and verily I glory today in your verses among the angels of the heavens and earth. God has ordained for you a recompense of truth like unto Our own souls, and God is indeed cognizant of all things.

O believers! Why do you not remember the wondrous verses of God from your Lord? God has bestowed sovereignty over the heavens and earth upon His Most Great Remembrance, and God has made him oft-returning, merciful to the believers.

O concourse of companions! Does doubt befit God, the Originator of the heavens and earth, Who sends down verses from the orb of the sun? By your Lord, besides Whom there is no God, never has God desired for the believers, concerning this Arabian Youth, the Most Great Name of God, a gate more magnificent.

Say to the five souls from the men of the Holy Land: God has chosen you by His grace from among the people. You are the forerunners in God’s Book, and in the hereafter you shall have an exalted kingdom in the Garden of Eden, established in truth by the truth.

Verily, We have made these believers witnesses over the people of the City. Say: Return to your dwellings around the House and ask God of His grace for the relief of the Remembrance, for God’s Cause is, in truth by truth, nigh.

And say to the fourth among them: God has ordained for you a double portion of the greatest mercy as recompense for your wearing the two sandals for My Most Great Remembrance, and verily you have in the hereafter an honored station.

By your Lord! It befits not to hesitate concerning such a Youth Who recites unto you the wondrous verses of God from your Lord, purifies you by His grace, teaches you the Book and wisdom through His verses—He Who is comely and pure in truth by truth, and Who has been concealed in the Mother Book around the Fire.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Say to the Arabian youth from Qazvin: God has accepted your arrival at the Most Great Gate. Fear not, for you are among the people of peace, already inscribed in the Mother Book.

God has witnessed your discourse at the House with those whom We made to journey in the evil land, who make false claims about the remote soul by moving mountains untruthfully. By your Lord! They shall have no power over even a staff or an atom without God’s leave. Soon We shall judge in the land of gathering those who fabricate lies against God.

Verily, God has made the Remembrance from His presence a witness unto all the worlds, a beloved unto the believers, and mighty unto the infidels. We have given today, by God’s leave, unto the water-bearer a cooling draught from the Camphor Spring, in recompense for his love of the Most Great Remembrance of God.

Verily God doth not suffer to be lost the reward of one who giveth water for the sake of God, the Most High, and God is well-aware of what ye do.

Verily God hath today caused a soul from the Holy Land to enter the Sacred House, and God hath written for him the reward of the martyrs. We do not suffer to be lost the reward of one who performeth a pure and praiseworthy deed for God’s sake. Verily God is witness over all things.

O people of the earth! Enter ye the Holy Land by leave of the Remembrance, and enter ye the Gate through the Gate, for verily he was the first to believe in the True Remembrance of God. Therefore, in the Mother Book, round about the Gate hath it been written.

Verily the Remembrance hath accepted the repentance of a soul that came from the Holy Land, and God hath written for him the reward of the believers. We do not suffer to be lost the reward of one who performeth a good deed before the Remembrance, and verily God is witness over all things.

Recite unto thy brother the true account of the sons of Adam, when they each offered up an offering: it was accepted from one but not accepted from the other. God shall soon guide those who believe unto the truth by the truth, upon His Most High and Praiseworthy Path.

Verily God hath guided His servant in the night unto His mighty path, and He is God Who hath been merciful unto the believers. God hath written for the believers, through His grace, that which He hath ordained for the people of Paradise, and verily God encompasseth all things.

God hath witnessed thy discourse in the Two Sacred Precincts with that distant soul among those who came from the Holy Land, and God’s proof hath been completed after the Book unto all the worlds. God shall soon guide those who desire God and His friends from before the Gate, through the decree of the Book, according to what God hath ordained concerning the mystery of the Return.

Verily God hath completed His proof against him who stood upon the Path, after the descent of verses from God, the True One, through the truth with wondrous truth. God hath saved him through His grace and caused him to enter upon the spacious Path, and verily God watcheth over all things.

God hath turned in forgiveness unto those who preceded, who went forth from the Holy Land unto the Gate for the Most Great Remembrance, and who followed thee in the hour of solitude after none knew of thy greatest matter. God shall soon reward the believers with the most excellent reward, and He hath prepared for them in the Mother Book a recompense.

As for that single soul who stood upon the Path, God’s decree is the truth, and he hath known of a certainty that there is no refuge save unto the Remembrance, and verily God hath been merciful unto the believers.

Verily God hath written mercy for those who follow thee in the hour of hardship in the Purified City, and verily God knoweth all things.

God hath not ordained for the people of the City of the Remembrance, nor for those round about it, that they should hold back from the Most Great Remembrance of God, nor should they prefer their own selves to His Self. For verily thou art, in the Mother Book, the Self of the Remembrance, and wast inscribed, before the creation of the heavens and earth, through the truth with the truth, round about the Fire.

Verily God hath enjoined upon the believers who have written that which God caused to flow upon the Pen of the Remembrance with black ink, that they should efface it with the waters of the Euphrates. God hath forbidden the believers from keeping that page for themselves. Fear ye God and make no distinction between that which God hath caused to flow from the Pen of the Bab.

Gather it in pure truth and inscribe it in the finest hand with clarifying ink, for every soul shall most surely be questioned at the appointed station on the Path.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Verily have I found the people of the Ridvan beseeching the Bab, taking refuge in God with truth, and verily God, thy Lord, hath ever been bountiful unto all the worlds. Therefore sprinkle upon them drops of camphor water that their hearts may find repose in that Gate, as a grace from God, the Most High. And He, verily, is the Most High, the Great.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Say: Are ye in doubt concerning God’s Cause? Who is it that createth you from dust, then from a drop, then from a clot, then from a morsel of flesh? Is there any creator besides God in truth? Glory be unto Him! He is the Truth, there is no God but Him, and He is verily the All-Knowing, the All-Informed.

Exalted is God above what the infidels say regarding the mystery of Our Most Great Name. This We have decreed for them from their own description naught but the fire, and verily the remembrance of God is the Most High in truth. He is God and is verily witness unto all things.

O ye believers! Fear God and think not of God, the Truth, with vain imaginings, for God hath decreed for the deniers the fire of the coffin, and verily God’s decree hath ever existed in the souls of the deniers.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Speak forth from thy tongue with truth upon wondrous truth, for the Book hath fulfilled its term, and He is God, powerful over all things.

O peoples of the heavens and the earth! I call you to witness for Myself, and God sufficeth, and His trusted ones before Me, as witness unto the truth by the Most High Truth. I am the servant of God and the Word of Truth. I have desired naught in a single letter of that Book save as God, my Lord, hath willed. He is the Truth and hath ever been Most High, All-Wise.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Verily the people of blindness have spoken as did the brothers of Joseph and have confessed to the greatest shortcoming. Say: No reproach shall be upon you this day. God shall soon forgive you if ye remain steadfast in the field of battle. Verily God, your Lord, hath ever been Forgiving, All-Wise.

Surah of the Bee [Nahl]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Take this my shirt and cast it upon my father’s face, he will recover his sight; and bring me all your family.” [Q12:93]

Kaf, Ha, Mim, ʿAyn. Verily We have revealed unto the bee, saying: Take thou from the mountains palaces for a sanctified dwelling—this is the lightning-like sign—and from the trees a station for Divine Unity—this is the eastern sign—and from that which they build on the path of Oneness—this is the western grindstone—for God, the Most High, and God hath knowledge of all things.

Then eat of all signs submissively in the path of this Gate of Remembrance. There issueth from their bellies a fluid, the elixir, unified in its blessings and diverse in its colors, wherein is healing for the believers. Verily God hath power over all things.

God is the Creator of all things through His power, and God is verily well-informed of what men do in truth. O ye believers! Fear God regarding this Most Great Word heated by the fire of truth, for verily it is in truth a witness before God, the Most High.

O people of the veils! Hear the call of God from the tongue of the Most Great Remembrance—Verily I am God, there is no God but Him. Verily the likeness of the Remembrance is as molten gold in fire, flowing to all hidden things by God’s leave, and God is the Mighty, the Ancient.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from around the shrine, from the tongue of this Tree planted on the exalted Mount, adorned with impregnable golden leaves—Verily I am God, there is no God but Him.

No soul hath borne in the path of the Remembrance any matter of war or wealth but We have ordained for it the Garden of Paradise and good pleasure in truth, and verily God hath power over all things.

Verily We cause the earth to quake in the Hour by the command of the Remembrance, and We hold it back in truth through his prayer; else would the earth in truth have swallowed its inhabitants, and God hath power over all things.

God hath preferred some over others in knowledge of the Remembrance—do ye then deny His favor falsely? Verily it is the truth from God and shall in truth be questioned. God hath made for you mates from among yourselves in truth, and verily God hath made believing women as leaves of the Lote Tree around the Gate, and verily God hath knowledge of all things.

O ye believers! Fear God and speak not concerning God’s veiled mystery around the unveiled solution save the truth, for God hath made the mystery of the Dove witness over the people of the cloud, and verily God is witness over all things.

O Solace of the Eyes! Speak in the melody of the Beloved at the Throne and clothe the words in the garment of breezes, for God hath loved thy call in the crimson Dove unclothed, and God is thy Guardian.

O Concourse of Lights! Hear My call from around the Point of Water at the center of earth—God, there is no God but Him, Lord of the worlds—and God is the Mighty, the Wise.

Verily I am the Fire around the Mount, speaking in truth, praiseworthy. Verily I am the Light above the Mount, exalted. Verily I am the crimson circular Point revolving around God its Creator, sealed in truth. Verily I am the Most Great Glorious Plant in truth, purposed above the dawning-place of the flowing ruby above the Mount.

I am verily the effulgence of praise; none can comprehend this effulgence save the very essence of praise, single and unique.

O people of the earth! By the true God, God hath made the mystery of this Gate profound, and in its Arabic description there can be found naught save that which is elegant and manifest. And in these verses are examples for those possessed of understanding, who circle round the Gate, bowing in prostration to the truth through the truth.

Do ye worship, besides God, that which possesseth nothing, while sovereignty belongeth unto God, the Most High, before and after, having been inscribed in the Mother Book in truth concerning the station of the Gate? Strike not similitudes for God, for He is the Truth: there is nothing like unto Him, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.

God hath given the example of two men: one standing firm in the Cause, commanding justice and goodness, and the other standing in the fire, calling with fire unto the fire. Which of these two is upon the truth, if ye can read a single letter of the Book? Verily your Lord, the All-Merciful, is ever cognizant of what ye do.

God hath ordained today for His servant a recompense upon the line—a truth from the white ruled page—and verily God hath knowledge of all things. And for the servant who acteth with equity are two gardens upon the line of equity, and for him who beareth the cup of water, a cup from the pure water of Kawthar, and verily God is witness over all things.

With God are the hidden mysteries manifest in truth, and God hath not ordained the matter of the Remembrance more distant than the Command, and He is powerful over all things.

We have brought you forth from the wombs to aid the truth on the Day of the Remembrance, and We have endowed you with hearing, sight and hearts that ye might give thanks to the true Remembrance in the upright Balance.

We have subjected the birds in the atmosphere of heaven—is there any that can withhold them save God in truth? And verily God is witness over all things.

O Dayspring! Remember the name of thy Lord, besides Whom there is no God, for verily He is the Most High, the All-Wise. O Hour of Dawn! Remember before the rising of the sun from the Dawning-Place of the Gate, for verily the Day of God is nearer than the twinkling of an eye, and the decree in the Mother Book hath been accomplished.

O people of the earth! Hearken unto the call of this Soul standing in the atmosphere of the divine cloud:

“Praise be to God Who hath caused me to know, through this Gate, the paths of the unitarians through the word of justice—this is of God’s grace upon me, and verily He is independent of all worlds.”

O people of ʿArafat! Arise from around the tomb and hearken to My call from this Shirt stained with My blood and pierced by four thousand arrows from the people of misbelief from among My servants.

Verily I am the One Slain between the Two Rivers, I am the One Sacrificed by Two Swords, I am the One Cast upon Two Lands, I am the Speaker in Two Stations, testifying that there is no God but God, alone, there is no God but Him, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.

And verily God hath revealed to a thread of that Shirt reddened with purified blood: “Verily I am God, besides Whom there is no God.”

O people of Paradise! Take My Shirt, the sign of this Most Great Remembrance, and cast it upon the face of the Proof, your Leader, that he may look upon you with your sight, and your sight today, God willing, concerning that Gate hath become penetrating in truth through the truth.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Say: Verily I am the Hour—do ye not know that the Hour in truth upon the truth hath drawn nigh in the Mother Book? Say: I am the Mystic Fane which the Hand of Omnipotence hath reared.

I am the Lamp which the Finger of God hath lit within its niche and caused to shine with deathless splendor. I am the Flame of that supernal Light that glowed upon Sinai in the gladsome Spot, and lay concealed in the midst of the Burning Bush.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Say to the believers among the peoples of earth and heaven: Bring unto Me your kindred from among the people of effacement in the Gathering, by leave of God, the Exalted. For God hath desired to recompense you in this Gate with the Most Great Truth. And He is God, Who hath ever been knowing of all things.

Surah of Proclamation [Ishhar]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“When the caravan departed, their father said: ʿVerily I perceive the fragrance of Joseph, even though ye may think me a dotard.”’ [Q12:94]

Alif Lam Mim. God hath sent down unto thee the Book as an exposition of all things, and as guidance and mercy unto those possessed of understanding who have been standing around the Gate.

O people of the Throne! Circle ye round about the House. Hear ye My call from that crimson chamber of moist carnelian, devoid of any intimation to any soul, if ye be of them that prostrate themselves around the Throne.

Verily I am God, there is no God but Him, your Creator, established upon the straight line around these waters, and I have been in truth a witness unto all the worlds. Verily this Remembrance is the path of them that are detached unto Me in all the Tablets, inscribed in truth by hands.

O peoples of earth and heaven! I bear witness before God and call you to witness that neither I nor this servant is aught but the servant of God and His Word, calling you unto the pure Faith by God’s leave, the Praiseworthy. God and His loved ones suffice as witnesses unto Me and unto this My Remembrance, in truth, by the truth.

By God the Truth! Whosoever claimeth otherwise regarding Us, God shall curse him, as shall all the angels and believers among the people of the earth, and God hath ordained for him in the Hereafter no portion save the heat of the fire.

Verily the likeness of certain verses in this Book is as the Word of Sinai from God in the Furqan, and We send down naught save by the truth from God, the One, the Single, the Alone; and He is the One besides Whom there is no God, and He is God Who hath ever been All-Knowing of all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Say: I am the servant of God and His Most Great Word. No soul conceiveth aught concerning Me save that the All-Merciful and His angels and the believers have verily blessed him, in truth, by the truth, and God hath ever been merciful unto the believers. And whoso imagineth aught falsely—verily We shall rend him to pieces on the Day of Resurrection, and God hath ever been observant of what ye do.

And God hath ordained from the skins of cattle an established station for mankind, inscribed in truth; and from their wool and their fur and their hair, knowledge for the people of the world until that appointed time. And God hath created naught save that He hath created its like in the Throne, witnessed in shadow; and there is nothing save it existeth in the Book as two pairs, irrevocably ordained in truth by the truth.

And upon thee is only to deliver the truth unto him who accepteth it, and God hath ever been thy helper and witness.

And people have recognized the favor of God like the sun at its zenith, then deny it according to Satan’s desire. What have I to do with these idolaters among the infidels? God shall soon judge in truth between them and this solace of Mine eyes, this Persian Youth, the Truth apart from man, and God, the All-Knowing, sufficeth as One having power.

Verily on the Day of Decision God shall raise up from every nation a witness over the people of the earth, and this Remembrance is a witness from God over creation concerning what ye used to do in your secret and public acts; and verily God is the Truth Who hath ever been knowing of all things.

On that Day shall the guilty behold their partners whom they called upon besides God, and they shall say:

“Our Lord! These are our partners whom we called upon besides Thee; so send upon them double the punishment for having turned us away from God’s path”

—this One Who hath ever been standing upright upon the Throne before God, the Ancient of Days.

We have answered their prayer and have sent down upon them double the chastisement, for verily God doth not wrong mankind by so much as a whit.

O ye who believe! This Remembrance, in truth, commandeth you naught save justice and goodness and return in truth to the Paradise of His good-pleasure. By God! He hath indeed forbidden you in many passages of the Book from indecency, evil and transgression, and He is, before God your Lord, the All-Knowing of the stations of command and prohibition.

Fear ye God in His Cause, for verily He hath been, in all the Tablets, All-Knowing and All-Wise. Fulfill ye God’s covenant concerning His Remembrance, and break not the sign of His oneness after its confirmation, for verily the mystery of God concerning His right hath been difficult and supremely great.

Had God willed, He would have made you one community around the Remembrance, but God leadeth astray whom He willeth and guideth whom He willeth, and He is the All-Wise in truth, and God hath power over all things. Purchase not God’s covenant for the price of referring to idols and false deities, for verily God’s covenant concerning this Most Great Gate hath been, in the Mother Book, severe.

By God! That which ye possess shall perish, while that which is with the Remembrance shall endure with God, and verily God is witness over all things.

And no soul, whether male or female, who hath acted in the path of the Remembrance in truth, but We have written their reward in this Book in truth, and the decree concerning that Gate hath been accomplished. Verily We have elevated the stations of the Gates through the power of God, the Most Great, in truth, and verily this Remembrance is He Who is intended by the All-Knowing before the All-Wise, and He is God Who hath been, in truth, praised.

And verily this Remembrance is a truth from God, the True One, and God hath written for his visitor that he visiteth Us, the People of the House. Verily He is the All-Praised, and God encompasseth all things.

This is a Book whose verses have been detailed from One All-Wise, Whose power over the worlds hath been equal. Verily God hath ordained parables for those who know not the Remembrance through the Gate; there have they devised for themselves a similitude from parables, and verily God is witness over all things.

Verily those who do evil in the paths of falsehood—We have ordained for them repentance from the Truth, and soon shall ye find God, your True Master, All-Forgiving and All-Generous.

This indeed is the straight line established upon the paths of the Way in the thread of justice. This religion is the faith of Abraham which, in the Mother Book, hath been upright in truth upon the truth, and verily the Remembrance in truth standeth firm upon the eternal religion round about the Fire, upright upon the Most Great Truth.

Verily We have ordained the Sabbath for those who differed concerning the Remembrance, and God shall soon judge between them on the Day of Resurrection in truth, and He is God Who is witness over all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Call thou unto the Most Great Path of God with pure wisdom and leave the paths of difference upon the straight line in truth, for verily God, thy Lord, is the Truth, and God is witness over the believers.

Verily We have ordained counsel for the people of the sea from among the people of water in truth, and We have decreed disputation for the people of the land from among the people of submission, with pure truth upon the Most Great Truth. And verily the Remembrance, as He willeth, by God’s leave, hath been commanded in truth.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Be patient, and be not patient save through God, and grieve not at their evil deeds, for verily I am the Truth, the All-Encompassing, behind thee, and God thy Lord hath been witness over all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! By God, thy Lord will assuredly reward thee for thy patience in God with a goodly reward, and verily God thy Lord hath been witness over all things.

O Solace of Mine eyes! By the Truth, We have sufficed in thy Cause with the testimony of God, His angels, and those endowed with knowledge among His creation, and verily God hath been cognizant of His believing servants.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from the dawning-place of the sun and its setting-place, and from the zenith point at its center, and from the line that gloweth white in the blackness of night with its rays.

Verily I am God, there is no God but Me, the Ever-Living, Who hath been the Self-Subsisting.

When the caravan of spirits from the people of the Gate departed in death unto your father, the Most Great Lord, the Truth speaketh in truth: Verily I perceive the fragrance of the Remembrance from your hearts, and ye shall verily abide today beneath the shadow of the Throne, by leave of God, the Most High.

Surah of Knowledge [ʿIlm]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They said: ʿBy God, thou art indeed in thine old wandering mind.”’ [Q12:95]

Ta, Ya, ʿAyn. God, besides Whom there is no other God, the Truth, and He is God, the Lord of all worlds, Who hath ever been established upon Truth through Truth.

God hath never decreed for His servants any authority from Satan over Truth.

O people of the earth! Doth not the All-Merciful suffice you as a true Guardian of Truth? Do ye feel secure from the most grievous chastisement if ye take any besides the Gate as your guardian contrary to Truth? Do ye feel secure from the punishment of the Hereafter, or the raging tempest in this world?

Fear ye God, and be not deceived by your own selves, for death is truth, and unto God, your true Lord, shall be your final return—Who hath ever been the true destination through Truth.

Whoso is blind in the Dispensation of the Remembrance shall, in the Hereafter, be debarred from attaining the presence of God, the Truth. Verily We shall call mankind on that Day through their Leader.

Whoso is not given his book shall be reckoned among the foremost ones in the Mother Book; and whoso is given the Book of Remembrance in his right hand—these shall be among the companions of the Gate, round about the Gate, who have ever been mentioned in Truth through Truth.

But as for him who is given his book in his left hand, he shall cry out for destruction, and shall be made to drink from the waters of Zaqqum by the hands of stern angels in the Fire, from the essence of Fire, by God’s leave, the Most High—and He is God, powerful over all things.

By God the Truth! No soul hath transgressed regarding this Youth beyond a letter of servitude, except that God hath cursed him in truth, and the angels and those possessed of knowledge among creation disavow such a soul; and by the decree of the Gate his abode hath assuredly been fixed as the Fire in truth through Truth.

Verily this Book is an exposition based on interpretation from God, the All-Wise—and He is God, Who hath ever been mighty and ancient. None knoweth its interpretation save God and whom We will in truth.

Ask ye the Remembrance concerning its interpretation, for God hath taught him, in a handful of dust, the knowledge of the Book—all of it—in truth through Truth.

This is God’s way for those Whom We sent before thee among the Gates, and thou shalt find no change in Our way regarding thine own true self through Truth.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Say: The Truth hath come in truth from God, the Truth, and God hath caused falsehood to perish through justice, and God is witness over all things.

God hath sent down verses in truth upon the Most Great Truth, wherein there is naught for the believers save healing and submission. And We have decreed naught therein for the idolaters save the Fire, in a valley that hath been ordained in the Mother Book as scalding.

Verily We have ordained deeds for souls, each according to its capacity, and thy Lord God is in truth witness over all things.

God hath ordained exaltation through His Cause round about the Gate in truth, yet the All-Merciful bringeth you but little of the knowledge of the Remembrance.

Say: By God the Truth! Were the two worlds to gather together to produce the like of this Book from God, they would never be able, even were We to send unto them the like of themselves for everything that hath been named with the name of that thing, thousands upon thousands of times.

Glorified be God, the Truth! Can any besides God bring forth the like of this Criterion? Nay, by the Truth, nay! And God is witness over all things.

And when the idolaters question thee concerning ornate speech and the transformation of things in their form, say: My Lord, if He willeth, is powerful over all things.

Am I aught but a mortal—from the Truth unto creation—who hath been, by God’s leave, an upright Gate round about justice?

Whomsoever God guideth, he is guided concerning the Gate; and whomsoever God leadeth astray, he is fire, from fire unto fire, and he shall enter the fire—what an evil destination to arrive at!

God hath created the heavens and earth through His power and hath sent down the Book in truth through His wisdom, yet man hath ever been miserly regarding the decree of the Book. We have indeed given the Remembrance all the verses in that Gate, from the Gate to the Book, from the presence of the Truth. Verily I know the Pharaoh of the Gate, for he hath been far removed from the Gate.

O people of the earth! Fear God on the Day We shall gather you in truth around the Path in throngs. We have decreed to the people of the Cloud that ye shall strike twice in your chambers concerning the Two Names who were, in truth and through truth, Ali and Hamid.

When the promise comes to pass, We shall send against you servants with pure knowledge from the Truth. Verily Our promise hath been ordained in the Mother Book. God hath destined for Our servant return upon return, and soon shall they witness God’s Cause in the latter return, witnessed through penetrating vision, in truth and through truth.

We have, by God’s leave and in truth, caused you to enter the Mosque as We caused you to enter the first time, that ye might utterly destroy what they had exalted. Verily the fire hath been, in truth, by leave of God the Exalted, as a prison for the unbelievers.

This is a Book from God through the Most Great Truth, that people might attain the summit of knowledge through God’s grace—and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise. Knowledge with God hath ever been the knowledge of Truth, and His verses on the straight path surround the Remembrance.

As for those who deny the Remembrance after the Book, We have prepared for them, in the land of iron through the new truth, a great fire.

O people of the Cloud! Hear My call from the Snow-Point at the pole of the Mountain of Cold, which was upon the fire that was held fast in the heart of the Remembrance.

Say: Both he who is blessed and he who is in the fire—there is no God but He, and He is God, the Exalted, the Wise.

O Snow-Point in My heart! Say: O people of the Morning! Fear God and say not concerning the Remembrance that he was held back in the shadow of the Ancient One.

By God the Truth! God created him for Himself, and the shadow hath been lifted from his temple. He is God’s Light in the heavens and earth of hearts, and God hath not ordained for His light in that station any likeness among the multitude of likenesses.

Surah of the Battle [Qital] I

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“When the bearer of glad tidings arrived, he cast it upon his face and his sight returned. He said: ʿDid I not tell you that I know from God that which ye know not?”’ [Q12:96]

Alif. Lam. Mim. Sad. O ye who believe! God hath prescribed for you warfare in the path of this Most Great Remembrance, in truth, a command above all commands, and this command was, in the Mother Book, momentous.

O ye who believe! When ye encounter a host of unbelievers, strengthen your hearts for the meeting of the hereafter and its delights. Remember God and trust in Him, for God is the Truth, and God hath ever been predominant in His Cause, though people read not even a few letters of the knowledge of the Book inscribed in that Gate.

O ye who believe! Be not like those who left their homes to champion the Truth, but when they reached the Cause, Satan turned them from the path of God, and they said: “No victor have we today.” When they beheld the host of the idolaters, they retreated from battle, saying: “We have seen of the Truth what ye see not; verily we fear God, the Lord of all worlds, the All-Glorious.”

These shall behold how the angels smite their faces with the sword, for the decree hath been fulfilled, and the decree in that Gate was destined.

Verily, the worst of souls in God’s sight is he who breaketh his covenant after making it, and who violateth His command after accepting it. God, verily, is independent of all worlds.

Whoso desireth aught, desireth it for himself. Glory belongeth unto God and His loved ones, and this decree hath been inscribed in the Mother Book.

Verily, many among the people desire not the Truth save through deception. Sufficient unto thee is God, besides Whom there is no God. He it is Who hath confirmed thee with His word, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

God hath united the hearts of the believers for His remembrance, and these idolaters shall never prevail in aught, for judgment belongeth to God, the Truth, and He is God, the Mighty, the Powerful.

O Solace of Mine eyes! God sufficeth thee, and His angels, and those who have followed thee among the sincere believers, though they be few. O Solace of Mine eyes! Urge the believers to battle in Our presence, for God hath guaranteed them Paradise in truth, and God’s promise hath ever been fulfilled in that Gate with compelling power.

O ye who believe! Why do ye fear death when God, Who is the Truth, is with you? Wheresoever ye may be, desire ye the supreme recompense of God and the meeting with your Lord, the Truth, for the abode of the hereafter with God, your Lord, hath ever been, in supreme truth, praiseworthy.

Those who have believed and emigrated with the Remembrance, and striven with their wealth and their lives in God’s path—these are recorded eternally in the firm covenant as companions of Paradise.

The believers are protectors, one of another, according to the Covenant in the Most Great Remembrance. Fear ye God regarding its violation, for God is witness over all things.

This is a decree from God unto the Remembrance in truth: Slay not the idolaters during the four sacred months, that people may know the sanctity of the Remembrance in truth after the Book. Verily, God hath ever been compassionate with the believers.

O People of the Book! Slay not the idolaters in the sacred month, nor at the Sacred House of the Ka’bah, nor in what the Remembrance hath forbidden you after the Book, for God hath desired justice in truth upon truth for you.

O peoples of the earth! By God the Truth, the Book hath not been revealed except with truth, that ye may bear witness to the truth of the Remembrance through the Remembrance, and that ye may aid Him in the Cause on the day of battle. Know ye in truth that God will question you concerning His Cause on the Day of Judgment with manifest truth, and verily God hath ever been witness over all things.

O people of the Remembrance! Be ye believers in God and content with His decree in truth, for God hath ordained death as the portion of every soul, and there can be no averting the decree of God, your True Lord.

Verily those who fight in the path of God the Truth are alive with God, and God sustaineth them in the Garden of Eden with abundant flowing waters. Therein shall they have whatsoever their souls desire, and they shall look to none save God their True Lord, and verily He hath power over all things.

O ye who believe! When the Remembrance calleth you from God the Truth unto battle, then gather ye round about the Truth and be ye content with His decree, that ye may be written in the Mother Book as companions of the Gate. Reject not Our command unto you from Our presence, for verily God is witness over all things. If ye answer not Our Remembrance, then await Our chastisement in truth, for We have power over all things in truth.

Soon shall We gather the rejecters on the Day of Resurrection upon the path around the Fire, blind. O peoples of the East and West! Come forth from your homes to aid God in truth, for verily God’s victory is nigh in the Mother Book. We have made Our Remembrance your guardian in truth from Our own Self. Turn ye therefore unto God in truth, for God is aware of what ye do.

O people! Why do ye fear when God the Truth is your Protector and is with you wheresoever ye turn? There is the face of God, and verily God encompasseth all the worlds. God hath preferred those who strive above those who sit still with a bounty none can encompass save He, and God is witness over all things.

O servants of the All-Merciful! Fear ye the day when Our servant shall call you in truth as an offering unto God the Truth. Whoso is slain in God’s path in truth, his reward falleth upon God, and His decree hath been ordained in the Book of God round about the Gate.

O ye believers! Be patient with God’s hosts in the army of truth, for God is your helper in truth. Follow not your vain desires after the Book hath come unto you from your Lord regarding the station of the Remembrance with manifest and mighty truth.

Fear ye, O servants of God, the day when Our servant shall call you with the word of magnification in truth, with a voice of truth made weak. O people of the Heights! Arise from your holy seats, for the Most Great Remembrance desireth to walk in the land of your knowledge, and He is the Proclaimer from before God, the Exalted, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

O servants of the All-Merciful! God hath revealed unto Me in the white line from the dawning-place of the morn:

“Verily I am God, there is no God but I. Hearken unto the call of this My Most Great Self from your Lord God, the True Protector, for verily He encompasseth the worlds.”

And no soul hath come with the crimson shirt from among the shirts of the Gate upon the face of his heart, but his eyes have turned back toward God, seeing the Truth by the Truth. At that moment the people gaze toward the hem of the shirt, making no reference to God, the True One, by any means, and therefore they are recorded as being among the people of the Gate round about the Fire.

And He is God, the Witness unto all things. Verily God hath ever been the All-Knowing, encompassing all worlds.

Surah of the Battle [Qital] II

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said: ʿDid I not tell you that I know from God what ye know not?”’ [Q12:96]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Sin. O people! Answer ye the Call of God in truth, and gather around the Most Great Word at the Mention, for God hath in truth ordained it as irrevocable in the Mother Book.

Slay ye the idolaters—save during the four sacred months; but when these ordained months have passed, then slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, take them captive, and besiege them in truth. Ye shall surely find your deeds with God, all praised in the dominion of the Land of Eden.

And if any of the believers seek thy protection, grant it until he heareth the Word of God in this Book, for thus hath it been decreed in the Mother Book. God hath not granted the idolaters any covenant with Our followers to enter the Sacred Territory. These are infidels who believe not in God and His signs, and God is witness over all things.

O thou beloved! Urge the believers to battle. If there be among you ten steadfast men, they shall, by God’s leave, overcome a thousand; for God strengtheneth them through Our prayers with mighty strength from before the Gate.

These are they whose hearts God hath created from bars of iron, and in each soul hath He placed the strength of forty men who were brave upon earth and mighty in truth.

Be patient, O people of patience, for God is with you at that Gate as a watchful Guardian. Ye shall not attain unto righteousness until ye sacrifice yourselves for Our sake in God’s path, the Exalted, the Mighty, with complete devotion.

Let not Satan’s whisperings grieve you, for God hath blocked his path for those who trust in Him, and God is ever vigilant over His believing servants. Let not knowledge of God in this Book delude you falsely from the truth.

Slay ye the idolaters in God’s path wherever God hath permitted you through the tongue of the Gate, and turn not away from God’s command; for if ye turn away, ye shall have no power over anything in truth, nor shall ye find, on the Day of Resurrection, any helper besides God, the Exalted, the Faithful.

Verily God defendeth those who believe from the word of misbelief, and God, your Lord, the Merciful, loveth not any treacherous one who, in the Mother Book, was ungrateful.

Those who have left their homes without God’s permission have indeed rendered their deeds void without knowledge, nor have they read from the knowledge of the Book a single light letter.

Were it not for God’s causing men to repel one another in truth, the souls of the believers would have been altered, and none would remember God’s Name at the Gate of the Mention in faithful truth; and God is ever aware of His servants.

God hath prescribed for you, in truth, that when ye are established in the land, ye shall perform the prayer, give the alms, and fight against the idolaters in God’s path with pure truth, desiring the religion of God, the Most High; and God is Mighty, Wise.

O believers! Strive in God with the striving due unto Him, and be ye helpers and maintainers of the religion. God hath chosen you, and He is your Protector; so hold ye fast, all together, to God’s Most Great Cord in mighty truth. He is God, the Mighty, the Praised.

God hath indeed ordained from among the believers men who have been true to what We covenanted with them. Some of them have fulfilled their pledge, and some still wait, and thou shalt never find any alteration in the decree of God, your Lord, established in truth.

God hath sufficed the believers in battle, and verily God is, concerning what ye have earned, All-Knowing and Ever-Helpful.

No believing man or woman, when God and His Remembrance have decreed a matter, hath any choice in their affairs, for God is Mighty, Powerful. Those who obey God concerning Our Remembrance and fear God, fearing none save Him—God shall suffice them in truth, for God hath power over all things. Is not God sufficient for His servant? God sufficeth as a Reckoner in truth.

O people! Fear God on the day when the Remembrance shall call unto you from God in distress and with mighty authority. Gather ye at the Corner and circle the House, unified in devotion to God, the Most High, for He is God, the Most Exalted, the Great.

Deprive not yourselves of what God hath ordained for you in the Mother Book concerning this exalted Gate. Choose not the calf instead of God, for if ye do as they did before you, ye shall find no helper besides God, the Most High, on the Day of Resurrection, nor shall ye find any protector on the Day of Overwhelming besides God in truth.

Know ye that God hath prescribed battle for you in truth—a mighty command ordained in the Mother Book. Those who fight in God’s path fear none save God, the True One, and the matter concerning the believers hath been decreed by God, the Most High.

Verily God hath purchased from the believers their souls, for they shall have in that Gate a soul which is, in truth, praiseworthy. Those who bear witness in Our path shall surely meet God, their Lord, in the Garden of Eternity, well-pleased and joyous.

When the Herald calleth to battle, answer ye God and His Remembrance, for We shall aid you with victory such as ye have not seen. Hasten to God’s greatest good-pleasure and dwell not in this vain, fleeting life, for this Most Great Gate is, with God, the True One, the best of destinations.

O concourse of believers! Conquer ye the lands and their people for the pure religion of God. Accept no tribute from the unbelievers, for religion belongeth unto God in the Mother Book and hath been inscribed in truth.

O ye believers! Whether ye die or are slain in God’s path by leave of the Remembrance, unto God your Creator shall ye be gathered, and He is the Self-Sufficient, the Powerful, and God is cognizant of all things.

O people of the earth! Fight in the path of God’s exalted Remembrance against those who fight you. Turn not aside in the midst of battle from the truth, and be ye steadfast helpers of His religion through God, the True One.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Say: Did I not reveal unto you in the Book of Remembrance that I know from God, concerning the Most Great Remembrance and Our Word, that which nothing knoweth? And verily God hath power over all things.

Surah of Jihad I

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“They said: ʿO our father! Ask forgiveness for our sins, for we have indeed been at fault.”’ [Q12:97]

Alif, Lam, Mim, ʿAyn, Qaf. O people of the earth! Hearken unto My call! The Truth, by the truth, declareth: Were men to know what God hath prepared for them in the path of this Remembrance, they would not accept for themselves the earth and all that is therein, even were God to create for them seven thousand like unto it apart from His command. Verily God is the Truth, and all else besides Him is falsehood. God hath prepared for those martyred in His path gardens vast indeed in truth, wherein ye shall find no mention save the pure remembrance of God. Therein shall ye have pure companions and whatsoever your souls desire and what your minds cannot encompass—a bounty from God unto you. This indeed is the supreme bounty in the Book of God, which was inscribed by the hands of the Remembrance with crimson ink.

O people of the Remembrance! If ye obey those who disbelieve, they will turn you back upon your heels in battle. Then blame none but yourselves. God hath detailed His ordinances unto you. Fear God and be the best helpers of God, the Single One, the Praised. For those who strive in the path of tyranny, God hath ordained naught in the Hereafter save the fire as their portion.

O servants of the All-Merciful! Answer the call of God’s herald from near the Gate. Fear ye the Day when He shall summon you with your souls and wealth, alone in truth. Verily God hath power over all things, and God is indeed knowing of all things. God is the Protector of the believers. Do ye seek bounty from other than God? Glory be to God, the Great! Say: The bounty is in Our hands; We bestow it upon whom We will and withdraw it from whom We will. He is God, powerful over all things.

O hosts of Truth! When ye encounter the idolaters in battle, fear not their numbers, for We have inscribed terror of you upon their hearts. Slay the idolaters and leave not upon the earth any trace of the unbelievers, until the earth and all thereon be purified for the awaited Remnant of God. Work for God, the Praiseworthy, in the path of the Gate in a praiseworthy manner.

O people of the earth! Fear God and turn not away from the Remembrance after the victory of the idolaters over you, for God hath ordained for you after grief an enduring joy. Think not of God thoughts of ignorance unlike the truth, and say not concerning the Remembrance: “Have we any part in the matter?” Know ye not that all authority belongs to God? Were ye not to fight in the path of the Remembrance, We would create another people who would fight in God’s path, the True One, hoping for His reward. God knoweth while ye know but little of the knowledge of the Book.

O concourse of lovers! Fear God on the day when the Remembrance shall arise at the meeting of the two hosts, and a herald shall cry out with the takbir:

“O people of the Sacred Place! Hasten unto God and slay those who place the Book upon their forms. By your Lord! I am indeed the True Book, and these idolaters know not even a small portion of a letter of the knowledge of the Book.”

Think not of those who are slain or die in the path of the Remembrance as dead. God, the True One, by the truth, declareth: They are alive with God, and God provideth them, from Our presence, with fresh meat and pure water from the Camphor Spring.

Verily, those who answer the Remembrance after His call and aid Him until the appointed time—these are the companions of Paradise, wherein they shall abide forever and ever, according to the decree of the Book.

O ye believers! Shun the idolaters altogether and say:

“Sufficient is God for us, and excellent is He as Guardian, and excellent is the Supreme Remembrance as Helper and Protector.”

When thou didst call the believers to battle, thou didst see the hypocrites turning the believers away from thee wrongfully, through Satan’s vain imaginings. How then will it be when calamity befalleth them from the Remembrance because of what their hands have wrought, and they come unto thee swearing by God, the Most High: “We desired naught but good and conciliation”? God knoweth what their hearts have concealed of hypocrisy in truth.

Be forbearing toward mankind through thy grace, and warn them of God’s Most Great Remembrance; and give them glad tidings of the Most Great Name, and speak unto them face to face words of compelling justice, that perchance they may remember God’s wondrous verses in truth, though it be but little.

When they wronged their own souls, make known to them that when they come unto thee seeking God’s forgiveness, and thou dost ask forgiveness of God for them, they will surely find God forgiving and merciful unto truth.

Nay, by thy life! the idolaters will not believe in thee until thou judgest concerning themselves according to the Book’s decree—there will they find no protector save in complete submission.

When We prescribed for the believers, saying:

“Slay yourselves in the path of this Most Great Remembrance for God, your True Lord,”

none carried it out save a few among the foremost.

Know ye not that God hath made grace to reside in this Path? And We do verily ordain, from His presence, for the believers a mighty recompense in truth.

O people of the earth! Fear God, your Lord, and follow the Light of God which He hath sent down with Me in truth, for it is the Straight Path with the All-Merciful and hath been established at the Point of Fire.

Those who follow God’s Most Great Remembrance—these are the companions of Paradise, in the Mother Book, together with the Prophets, the truthful ones, the martyrs, and the righteous. How excellent is God’s reward, and how lofty the station!

This is God’s supreme grace for those who desire God and His friends in truth upon the Most Great Truth. Sufficient is God as One Who knoweth His believing servants in truth.

O people of the earth! God writeth no affliction for any soul except for what its hands have earned through remoteness from the Remembrance. Ask ye of God, through the Remembrance, that ye may be numbered with the believers as witnesses in God’s path.

Verily those who fight in the path of the Remembrance in truth, whether they be slain or whether they be victorious—We shall surely grant them, by God’s leave, a mighty recompense from the presence of the Remembrance on the Day of Resurrection.

God hath not prescribed fighting for the helpless among men, nor for children, nor women, nor the sick, nor the blind, nor the deaf. God desireth ease for you; so turn ye unto the Truth and purchase Paradise through martyrdom in the path of the Remembrance.

Be content with God, the All-Praised, and patient. Those who fight in Thy path—they are in truth the friends in God’s Book; but as for those who fight in the path of the Evil One—these are the people of the Fire.

Slay ye the party of Satan, for Satan’s stratagem is ever weak, according to the decree of the Book.

O people of the earth! Fear God, and press not hard upon the Remembrance in the heat of battle, for a small remembrance sufficeth. Indeed, the goods of this world are few, and God hath prepared for you, in the hereafter, a goodly destination; for He is powerful over all things.

Fight in the path of God, for God has ordained upon the peoples of the East and West to aid thee, until the lands and all who dwell therein are purified. Verily God, your Lord, the Most Merciful, is witness over all things.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Should some among the unbelievers fail to help thee, grieve not, for I have been with thee as a witness to the truth by the truth.

Verily God has prepared for the unbelievers the heat of steel and severe chastisement.

O peoples of the earth! If you claim the abode of the hereafter exclusively for yourselves apart from the people of the Remembrance, then seek proof from God if you are confident in your own testimony before the Remembrance, and be content with God, the Most High, both witnessing and witnessed.

O peoples of the earth! Associate nothing with God and submit your faces to God, besides Whom there is no other god. Those who are slain in the path of God by leave of the Remembrance are deemed virtuous at the Gate, and their reward is with their Lord. No sorrow shall touch them, nor has God ordained for them any fear on the Day of Resurrection, in truth, by the truth. And in that Gate they are indeed praised in truth, by the truth.

O people of the surging, tempestuous crimson sea! Take hold of the helm of the ships by the hands of God, the Truth, for the Remembrance desires to join you through the word of justice by Our leave. He is the Fire that has been ordained in the pole of water.

O Most Great Sea of God and all that are upon it! Hear My call from every direction at the center of the water, and efface all directions through the negation of allusions, for God has revealed to Me at that White Point that, verily, I am God, there is no God but I, and I have ever been, in truth, the One Worshipped.

Surah of Jihad II

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“He said: ʿSoon shall I ask forgiveness for you from my Lord, for verily He is the All-Forgiving, the All-Merciful.”’ [Q12:98]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ra. O people of the earth! Say not of those who are slain in the path of God’s Remembrance, the Most High, that they were not upon the truth. Nay, by your Lord! They are alive in Our presence, and We shall surely grant them a reward far greater than their deeds. They are the living ones in the true religion of God, pure and mighty.

We have revealed unto thee their martyrdom. Say: “We are God’s and unto Him do we return.” These are they upon whom are blessings from their Lord, and forgiveness, and divine good-pleasure from God, the Most Great. God hath inscribed their names in the Preserved Tablet with His own hands, hidden and treasured, veiled round about the Gate.

O ye believers! Turn ye unto God’s Remembrance that is within you, for God hath guaranteed forgiveness through this Gate, and God is witness unto all things. Deprive not yourselves of that which God hath ordained for you in the Book until an appointed time. When God’s promise cometh, ye shall not be able to secure for yourselves any good whatsoever, for the decree in the Mother Book hath been irrevocably fixed by leave of the Gate.

Were these two Dispensations from other than God, they would surely have found therein many contradictions. God hath commanded justice and benevolence, and that ye consume not the substance of others save in proper measure. This decree hath been irrevocably fixed in the Mother Book.

Verily God loveth those who struggle in His path. He is God, the All-Powerful over all things. He is God, the Vigilant over the believers. He is God, encompassing all things. Verily God is independent of all worlds. He is God, the All-Knowing of all things. God’s punishment for those who hold back is grievous. God hath ordained Paradise for His servant in truth, and the decree in the Mother Book hath been irrevocably fixed in truth.

O Qurratu’l-Ayn! Say unto Siyyid Husayn-i-Alavi: Fear not, for thou art indeed witnessed before the Gate in truth. Slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, except at the Sacred Mosque and the sanctuaries of your true Imams. If they attack you to slay you, then slay them, for such is their recompense from God, their Lord, for their rejection of the signs of God, the Most High. Persecution is more grievous than slaying in thy Lord’s sight. Therefore slay the idolaters until persecution ceaseth and religion is wholly for God, the Most High, pure and unsullied.

Spend your wealth in God’s path and do good, for God is ever watchful over the God-fearing. Whatever good ye do, ye shall find it recorded in God’s presence in the Mother Book. God hath prescribed for you fighting in His Cause, sincere for God in truth, mighty and powerful.

Think ye that ye will enter Paradise after turning away from martyrdom? Nay, by your Lord! None shall enter Paradise save those who in the Covenant were foremost in remembering Us, and the decree in the Mother Book hath been fixed. When the herald calleth you to battle, hasten ye to Paradise, for it and its people yearn for you. Soon shall ye find in Paradise God’s eternal, everlasting, and magnificent kingdom.

O believers! Ye know not in this world your stations which God hath ordained for you in the eternal Paradise. By your Lord! God hath prepared for the sincere among you a mighty spirit of truth.

O people of the earth! Mount your marked steeds and beasts and march forth to join the army of Truth. How often has a small force, by God’s leave, vanquished a mighty host. Let the believers put their trust in God, for He has power over all things.

O people of the lands of Persia! Turn eagerly to the remembrance of God, the Truth, and give one another glad tidings of Paradise before there comes a Day wherein there shall be no bargaining, nor friendship, nor intercession, and wherein the Fire shall encompass the wrongdoers.

God—there is no God but He, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting. Nothing is like unto Him, and He alone is worshipped in truth. Neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him. There is no God but He, and He is knowing of all things.

Verily, We shall intercede on the Day of Resurrection, by God’s leave, for those who have borne witness before this Remembrance of Ours and have been among His vicegerents on earth. None encompasses any portion of Our knowledge save those whom We will, as God has willed concerning His servant and His Remembrance. His dominion encompasses the heavens and the earth, and their preservation wearies Him not. He is the Most High in God’s Book in truth, and He is the Most High, the Most Great.

There is no compulsion in this upright and steadfast Faith. The horizons and the souls of men have been filled with its guidance. Whoso, therefore, renounceth the Taghut and believeth in this Our remembrance hath, verily, believed in God and in His signs, and hath laid hold on the Most Firm Handle—no severance shall ever befall it. He, of a truth, is God, the Hearing, the Knowing.

And We have made thee the Guardian of the believers, that thou mayest lead them forth from the land of unbelief unto Our sovereignty; and as for those who have disbelieved in Our servant, God hath appointed Satan to be their patron, and they are indeed of the inmates of the Fire—even as they were created for the Fire, unto the Fire, in wondrous wise.

And We, verily, have preferred thee above many of Our servants by the leave of God the Most Great. Wherefore fight in the path of God, the True. And We have confirmed thee, by God’s leave, in thine actions, in very truth. Were God to lift the veil from all created things, it would not add unto thy portion in God by so much as a mote. He, verily, is God, Who hath been witness over thee.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Magnify thine own self, and say unto the believers:

“Cleanse ye your garments for your own sakes until the day of battle; for the appointed hour of God is surely coming.”

And He, verily, is God, Powerful over all things.

Say: When the Trumpet is sounded, that shall be the Day of the going forth; and that day hath, in the Mother Book, been witnessed in truth and by the truth. That, indeed, is a day which, in very truth, shall be easy for the faithful; but for the idolaters shall it, in other than truth, be grievous.

Say: Await ye the Most Great chastisement of God on the Day of Decision; for the Fire, in its entirety, shall be yours—in truth and by the truth. God hath appointed for it, in truth and by the truth, nineteen gates. O angels of the Fire! Make these idolaters to taste the fruit of the Fire from the Tree of Fire; and God hath not decreed for them therein any deliverance nor escape—abiding therein, in truth and by the truth, for ever and ever.

And thou shalt have hosts of angels in truth; and the True One, around the battle, hath, in truth and by the truth, been witness.

Surih of Jihad III

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“When they went in unto Joseph, he took his parents into his shelter and said: ʿEnter ye into Egypt, God willing, in security.”’ [Q12:99]

Alif, Lam, Mim, ʿAyn, Ha, Lam. O ye who believe! Prostrate yourselves before your Lord—beside Whom there is no God—and enter wholly into peace, and place your trust in God; for verily the Remembrance is Truth, and God is the vigilant Observer of all things.

O ye who believe! Purify the Holy Land of its corruptions, for it hath been solely for God, apart from all men; and slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, by leave of the Remembrance. Take not from among these idolaters a protector for yourselves, for God hath willed their misguidance through their unbelief; and whomsoever God leadeth astray, no protector hath he, nor hath God ordained for him, in the Mother Book, any helper.

O people of the Remembrance! Fear ye God on the Day when the Remembrance shall arise with the cry of “God is Most Great” in the midst of war at the meeting of the two hosts. Grieve not, but rejoice in Paradise. Turn not away from God, the Truth, for God hath inscribed, for those who turn away, a mighty Fire on the Day of Judgment—kindled from their own selves and encompassing them about—and they shall find for themselves no helper besides God, the Most High.

O people of the earth! Why do ye think that he who greeteth you with peace from the presence of the Remembrance is not a believer? Verily God hath made the tongues of the believers mirrors of their hearts, and God, your True Lord, is well aware of what the wrong-doers do.

God hath not ordained for the one who striveth the like of him who sitteth still. God hath preferred those who strive above those who sit still by a bounty which none knoweth save God; and verily the bounty of your Lord, the Most Merciful, is, in the Book of God, the Most High, most great.

O people of the earth! Let not Satan deceive you by causing you to sit still rather than ascend unto God, your Worshipped Lord; for the goods of this world are vain, and the reward of the Hereafter with God is, in the Mother Book, most great.

Whosoever desireth to go forth from his house as an emigrant unto the Remembrance, for God alone—We, by God the Truth, shall write for him the reward of the Hereafter; and God is powerful over all things.

O people of the earth! Observe ye the middle prayer with the Most Great Remembrance, for the Remembrance forbiddeth you from idolatry and evil, and calleth you unto God, the Truth; and He is the Most High, and He is God, the Witness over all things.

O ye who believe! When the Book cometh unto you from the Remembrance, then turn ye unto God, the Truth, and purchase weapons for yourselves for the Day of Gathering; for fighting hath been ordained for the believers by God’s leave in this His Most Great Book, contingent upon truth through truth.

O ye who believe! Whoso among you turneth back from this Most Great Remembrance—God will surely bring a people whom He loveth as they love God, the Truth, mighty against the unbelievers, who strive in God’s path upon the Straight Line, fearing naught in truth through truth. This is God’s most great bounty, which He bestoweth on whom He willeth, and He is God, the Witness over all things.

O people of the earth! When the Herald calleth to prayer with the Remembrance, then turn ye unto God, the Truth; for God hath prepared for the sincere among you a boundless reward with Him, and God increaseth His bounty for whomsoever He willeth; and He is God, powerful over all things.

O Concourse of Light! Yearn for the Most Great Paradise, and consent to martyrdom in the path of the Remembrance, that ye may find your Master to be true to His promise, and, in truth, gracious by virtue of the truth.

O people of the earth! Slay the idolaters according to the decree of the Book after the permission of the Gate, for God shall soon judge between you and the Remembrance in the gathering place of Resurrection, with justice ordained.

By My glory and majesty! No soul hath been slain in His path but its recompense hath been recorded in the Book—concealed in truth by the truth. And verily I shall not suffer to be lost the reward of those who strive in the path of truth.

I have indeed planted, with Mine own hands, trees in the form of glory, and upon their branches birds of crimson pearl that glorify God night and day; and verily God is cognizant of all things.

And verily many among the people of the Book dispute with thee after the verses, as if they were being driven to the Fire. Turn away from them and trust in God, thy Lord; verily He is cognizant of all things.

God desireth, through the Remembrance, to establish truth and nullify falsehood through truth; and verily God is the Truth, and He is well-informed of His believing servants.

O ye believers! Seek no help in the field of battle save from God, and trust in Him; for God hath prescribed for Himself your assistance in truth, and hath commanded thousands of angels to descend in truth for your aid.

Say: All victory is in the hand of God, and He is God, the One, Who hath power over all things.

And verily We have sent down upon you from heaven purifying water, that ye may cleanse yourselves from satanic desires, and drink, through the remembrance of the Most Great Martyr, this cool and pleasant draught.

And verily We command the angels to cast terror into the hearts of the idolaters, and to strengthen the believers upon the pure path with the upright line of the standing Alif.

O angels of God! Strike the necks of these idolaters by God’s leave, for they have opposed the Remembrance through falsehood, and these are the companions of the Fire, recorded in truth by the truth.

O ye believers! When ye meet the idolaters in the field of battle, turn not your backs to them; and whoso turneth his back to them save for strategic reasons hath indeed incurred God’s wrath, and his abode shall be hell—a wretched destination.

And thou didst not will when thou didst will, but God willed. Say to the believers: Ye fight not the idolaters, but God hath slain them through His power; and He is God, the One, Who encompasseth all things.

O Concourse of Lights! Hear God’s call from around the Throne: Verily I am God, there is no God but Him.

No soul hath been slain in the path of this Most Great Soul but We record for it the slaying of all souls in God’s path—the True One—all together, in truth, by the truth.

So yearn for God’s most great reward, and obey the Remembrance at the time of glorification; and verily God, your Lord, the Merciful, is cognizant of all things.

The worst of creatures in the sight of God, in the Mother Book, are the deaf and dumb who, when they hear these verses, understand not, and falsely imagine lies about the Most Great Remembrance in vain.

O Concourse of Believers! Answer God in the call of the Remembrance from My presence, for God cometh between man and his soul, and verily God is watchful over all things.

O people of the earth! Betray not God and His Remembrance, for should ye do so, ye will have betrayed your own selves. Verily God is the Self-Sufficient, the All-Merciful.

Your wealth and your children are but a trial for your souls; therefore fear ye God, for the gathering unto God, the Most High, hath been inscribed in truth, by the truth.

O people of bounty! Hearken unto this verdant Leaf, sprung from the Divine Tree of eternity in the breast of the Remembrance—this, in the name of God, the Most Great.

Verily I am God, there is no God but I, the Most High; and verily I have ever been the All-Knowing over the worlds.

O people of high station! Enter, God willing, the Egypt of Oneness; for Joseph sitteth upon the throne of the heart, hidden yet established in truth upon the truth, and in the heart of the Fire hath he been witnessed.

O God, our Lord! Verily my father hath died in truth and beheld me not upon the Most Great Word. Therefore inspire him, O my Lord, with my Cause in his resting-place among the angels of the Throne, and make him steadfast in the Most Great Word through Thy bounty, and inscribe his name among those who have been praised around the Gate in the Balance of the Remembrance.

And write, O God, for him and for my mother, what befits Thee; for Thou art worthy of bounty in truth, and Thou hast ever been powerful over all things.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Say, by God’s leave, unto thy parents and unto the people of the Gate: Enter the Land of Egypt, God willing, in truth, that ye may be secured from the Fire in truth. And He is God, Who hath ever been witness over all things.

Surah of Worship [ʿIbadat]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And He raised his parents upon the throne, and they fell down in prostration before him, and he said: ʿO my father! This is the interpretation of my vision of old. My Lord hath made it come true. He was indeed good to me when He took me out of prison and brought you from the desert after Satan had stirred up strife between me and my brothers. Verily my Lord is gracious to whom He willeth. He is indeed the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.”’ [Q12:100]

Alif. Lam. Mim. God is He besides Whom there is no god, and He is the One Who encompasseth all things. O Solace of Mine Eyes! When those who have associated partners with God plot against thee in thy Cause, turn away from them, for verily We have decreed for them the Greater Fire on the Day of Gathering, and God is witness over all things. Soon will the infidels say:

“O God! If this Remembrance be indeed the truth from Thee, then rain down upon us a chastisement from heaven in truth upon truth, that we might witness it.”

God hath cursed them for their unbelief. Know they not that God would not chastise them while the Greater Path is among them, nor while they seek forgiveness of God? And verily God hath power over all things.

Those who have emigrated with the Remembrance for the Greater Holy War—God hath ordained for them their true Protector, goodly provision in this world, and in the Hereafter a great reward with God, preserved in the Mother Book in truth upon truth within this Gate. O ye who believe! Fight against the infidels collectively after the Remembrance’s permission, until religion is wholly for God alone. And if they desist, then verily God your true Lord is well-aware of what they do.

O ye who believe! When ye meet a company of unbelievers, strengthen your hearts by remembering the Hereafter and its delights. Remember God and trust in Him, for God is the Truth and ever-prevailing in His Cause, though people read not even a portion of the letters inscribed in the Book. Obey the Remembrance in all things and dispute not concerning any matter in His presence, lest your strength depart from you. Be patient, for God is the Truth, and God watcheth over the patient ones.

O ye who believe! Be not like those who left their homes to champion the Truth, but when they arrived Satan turned them from God’s path and they said: “None can overcome us this day.” Yet when they beheld the infidel host, they turned back from battle saying: “Truly we see what ye see not—we fear God, the Lord of the worlds, exceedingly.” These are they who behold how the angels smite their faces with swords. The matter is decreed, and in the Mother Book was it ever decreed.

Verily We alter not Our grace toward any people until they first alter their condition toward Our favors. Therefore taste ye the torment of fire. Verily your Lord, the True God, is Strong, Severe. Soon shall We destroy the wrongdoers as We destroyed the people of Pharaoh, with justice and grievous chastisement. The worst of souls before God is he who breaketh his covenant after pledging it, and violateth His command after accepting it. Verily God is independent of all worlds.

Whosoever willeth aught, willeth in truth for his own self. Verily might belongeth to God and His loved ones, as hath been written in truth upon truth in the Mother Book. Grieve not at the suspicions of the deniers in thy presence, but trust in God. He is the All-Hearing, and He is God, the Mighty, the All-Knowing. O people of the earth! Whatsoever ye spend in the path of God, the Truth, ye shall surely find it preserved in the hands of the Preservers. Many among the people desire not the Truth except through deception. Sufficient unto thee is God, besides Whom there is no God. He it is Who hath strengthened thee through His Word, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

God hath united the believers in His remembrance, and these shall not prevail in aught, for authority belongeth to God, the Truth, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

O Solace of Mine eyes! God sufficeth thee, and His angels, and those believers who follow thee, though they be few. Urge the believers to fight before thee, for God hath guaranteed them Paradise in truth, and verily God’s promise hath been recorded in the Mother Book as one that must needs be fulfilled, according to the Most Great Covenant.

O ye believers! Why do ye fear death, when God, the Truth, is with you wheresoever ye may be? Set your hearts upon the supreme reward of God and meeting your True Lord, for verily the abode of the Hereafter is praiseworthy in the sight of God, your Lord, the All-Merciful.

Verily, they who have believed and emigrated with the Remembrance, and striven with their wealth and their lives in God’s path—these are they who abide by the Most Great Covenant and are the companions of Paradise, wherein they shall dwell forever, inscribed in truth by the truth.

The believers are protectors one of another according to the Covenant of the Remembrance. Fear God regarding its violation, for verily God is witness over all things.

God hath ordained for the believing emigrants the forgiveness of the Remembrance and the supreme good-pleasure, decreed in the Book.

We have ordained for blood relations precedence over each other, according to what God hath prescribed in the Mother Book.

This is a Book from God to the Remembrance in truth: Slay not the idolaters during four months, that men may know the sanctity of the Remembrance after the Book. Verily God is compassionate to the believers.

O People of the Book! Slay not the idolaters in the Sacred Month, nor at the Sacred House of the Kaaba, nor in what the Remembrance hath forbidden you after the Book. God desireth justice in truth for you, though ye know naught of the knowledge of the Book, save a little.

O ye believers! God hath not sent down a verse in the Book or in the horizons save that men might know of a truth that the Remembrance is truth from God, and He is God Who knoweth all things.

O people of the Remembrance! Be believers in God and content with His decree in truth. God hath ordained for every soul to taste of death, and there is no averting the decree of God, the Truth, in very truth.

O people of the earth! By your Lord, the Truth, besides Whom there is no God, He hath left no argument for any soul after the Remembrance. Be ye therefore patient in God, the Praiseworthy, the True, the Faithful.

O ye believers! If ye are steadfast in your claim to the Most Great Relief in truth, then follow this Most Great Remembrance in truth. For the helper in His Cause is as the helper in My Cause, and verily God is informed of all things.

O ye believers! When the True Remembrance permitteth in truth, then hasten to the day of the Most Great Pilgrimage and turn not aside from any matter of truth, for verily God and His angels and His Messengers are quit of those who turn aside, and verily God is the Truth, and verily this is the exalted Remembrance, and He is the Truth upon the straight path, and hath ever been known.

God hath not ordained any covenant for the idolaters after the Book, and verily God wrongeth not mankind in aught.

When the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters for the straight religion, and follow not the footsteps of Satan, for God hath truly prepared in the Day of Resurrection a great fire for those who turn away. Verily these souls, if they repent and turn unto the Remembrance and establish prayer and aid the Truth with their wealth and their lives, God will forgive them, for God doth ever watch over all things. He desireth not that the idolaters should maintain the houses of remembrance, for God is in truth independent of all the worlds.

We do prescribe unto the believers that they should maintain the houses of God through their aid of the Remembrance. Is then he who aideth the Remembrance like unto him who buildeth a house upon the Truth? Nay, by no means! He who aideth the Remembrance is as one who hath believed in God and the Last Day, and in the hereafter shall dwell beloved upon verdant cushions of Paradise.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Say by Our leave, and fear not, for thy word before God, the Most High, hath ever been greatly exalted in truth. O people of sobriety! Behold Me in the depths of effacement. God hath revealed unto Me: “Verily I am God, there is no God but Me.” When I raised thy parents upon the throne, I said unto them: “Fall ye down in prostration at the Gate in praiseworthy manner,” for in the Mother Book he was inscribed among the foremost of those who prostrate themselves before God, the Most High.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! Say unto thy first parents, the two Luminaries, the two Lights in the mystery of the latter ones from the first two lines in the two Names:

“O my father! This is the interpretation of the vision of mankind in my true vision, and my Lord hath made it a reality, and God hath shown favor unto my followers when He delivered them from prison after the setting of the moon, and after Satan had sown discord between me and them without indicating the Holy Land here. Praise be to God Who hath lifted sorrow from them through His power, as He willeth for whatsoever He willeth. Verily He is the All-Knowing, and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.”

Surah of the Battle [Qital] III

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“O Lord! Thou hast given me of sovereignty and hast taught me the interpretation of events. Creator of the heavens and earth! Thou art my Guardian in this world and the next. Make me to die a Muslim and join me with the righteous.” [Q12:101]

Kaf, Ha, Ya, ʿAyn, Sad. O people of remembrance! Strive in the path of the Most Great God. This remembrance is God’s truth, for God hath prepared degrees of mercy for those among you who strive, and God’s grace upon the strivers hath been abundantly recorded in the Mother Book.

O ye believers! Do ye love women and children and riches more than martyrdom in the path of the Remembrance? Know ye that God’s remembrance is truth and that this world is perishable, and God hath not ordained for it lasting permanence forever. And verily the abode of the hereafter, for those who desire God and His chosen ones, endureth through the eternity of the All-Merciful. This is God’s supreme grace which was recorded as mighty in the Mother Book.

God hath aided you through many trials, then hath He sent down the tranquility of the Remembrance upon your hearts that ye might be thankful to God, the Most High, through the power of the Gate.

O people of faith! By God the Truth, the idolaters are unclean, so permit them not to approach the Sacred Mosque nor the Sacred House unless they believe in God, besides Whom there is no God, and follow the path of truth with sincere words. Then may they enter with God’s leave, for God doth take account of all things.

Fight those who believe not in God nor His chosen ones, nor prohibit what God and His chosen ones have prohibited. Such are they who stand at the boundary of misbelief and are recorded thus in the Mother Book.

Many among the people consume the wealth of the believers unjustly and hoard gold and silver for themselves rather than spending in the path of holy war for the sake of the Remembrance. These are they who are truly recorded among the people of the pit.

The number of months with God in God’s Book is twelve months, whereof four are sacred. This decree in God’s Book hath been concealed within the sphere of fire. God hath written in the Mother Book that among the sacred months is the month of Muharram, preserved and treasured for thyself in truth.

By God’s decree hath the decree of God, the Most High, been irrevocably ordained.

O ye believers! Fight the idolaters collectively even as they reject the Remembrance collectively. Purify the earth for the Proof and fear God, for the Remembrance taketh account of the believers.

When thou sayest to the believers “Go forth in God’s pure path,” they cling heavily to earth with its ornaments. Are ye content with this world’s life in preference to the Most Great Remembrance? Why ponder ye not the Criterion with true understanding?

God strengtheneth with His remembrance whomsoever He willeth among His servants. The second of the two was an unbeliever in the cave. God hath made the evil word the lowest and God’s Word the highest. God prevaileth in His purpose and God knoweth all things.

O ye believers! By God the Truth, did ye but know what I know concerning this Remembrance, ye would not hesitate to sacrifice yourselves before Him. Know ye that God’s kingdom in the hereafter is, in God’s sight, supreme in truth.

When believers ask thy leave to remain behind, say:

“My covenant with God is truth and He is God, the Most High, the Most Great.”

O ye believers! Attribute not any deed unto God or unto yourselves, for verily dominion resteth uniquely in His hands, in truth. Say: Nothing shall befall us save what God hath prescribed for us in truth. He is our Protector, and He is God Who hath ever been the Guardian over all things. And this is indeed one of the two most excellent things that, in the Mother Book, hath been inscribed round about the Fire.

O ye who believe! Were ye to expend all the treasures of the earth in the path of God, without the Covenant of the Remembrance, God would not accept aught from you, and ye shall, on the Day of Distinction, enter into the Fire—and evil indeed is the Fire as a destination.

Marvel not at the abundance of wealth and children among the idolaters, for God desireth to chastise them in this earthly life and in the life to come, and God hath prepared for them, in truth and by the truth, a grievous punishment.

The idolaters rejoice in their wealth, turning away from the Most Great Remembrance of God within their souls, and they are loath to strive in the path of the Remembrance with love. They have gathered for war to manifest their idolatry against God within themselves, against the Remembrance, in ways hidden from the truth.

Say unto these idolaters: By your Lord! The fire of the Fire is more intense in heat than the deed of idolatry in the path of the Remembrance. Wait ye therefore, for God hath ever been a witness over all peoples.

Those who go not forth with the Remembrance and sit with those who sit in the Fire, and who reject the Book and the Remembrance—God will not accept their plea. And should one of them die, pray not over him, neither stand at his grave, for he hath been inscribed in this Book as one of the idolaters.

O people of the earth! Marvel not at the abundance of wealth and children among some of the unbelievers, for God hath ordained in truth and by the truth that were the world to possess any value with God, even as much as a trifle, the unbelievers would not obtain even a drink of water. God desireth to chastise them in this world and the next, and He is God Who hath ever been knowing of all things.

O Solace of Mine Eyes! When the Command cometh from My presence, summon the people to battle, for God hath stored up for thy day men mighty as mountains in strength, and these have been witnessed in the Mother Book as bearing the name of the Remembrance of God, the Most High.

When any of the believers cometh unto thee seeking leave to remain behind, say: My Lord hath covenanted with me concerning battle, and God accepteth no excuse from anyone save those among you who are weak. Yearn ye for the Most Great Paradise, for this world is transient, while the abode of the Hereafter with God, the Ancient of Days, hath been great in the Mother Book, in truth and by the truth.

Should they desire sedition, grant them leave to remain behind, and impose not upon those of kinship save with most proper consent. Make them understand that the Word of God is indeed the Most Great, and that those who strive in God’s path have ever been steadfast upon the straight path.

O people of the earth! By the True God! God hath sent down the Book only in truth, that ye might bear witness to the truth of the Remembrance through the Remembrance, and that ye might aid Him in the Cause on the day of battle. Know ye in truth that God will question you concerning His Cause on the Day of Resurrection, by the witnessed truth, and God hath ever been witness over all things.

Those who have emigrated with the Remembrance for holy war—God, their True Lord, hath ordained for them provision in this world, while the reward of the Hereafter with God, the Great One, hath been established in the Mother Book, in truth and upon the truth, within this Gate.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from above the Throne: Verily, I am God; there is no God but Me. By My glory I declare that no soul hath been slain in the path of this Remembrance but its reward hath fallen upon Me; and God will surely recompense it with the most excellent reward and a goodly return. Its decree hath been, in the Mother Book, by the truth and upon the truth, upraised.

And when those who make excuses among the Arabs come seeking permission to remain behind, say: “Unto God belongeth the conclusive argument of the truth.”

And God hath not exempted from fighting save the helpless among men and those who are unable to go forth in the path of truth; and for the sick there is a right to be excused from fighting. Thus doth God make plain unto you the ordinances of the Book, that ye may be thankful unto God, the Praiseworthy.

And God hath written for those who desire to go forth with the Remembrance to aid the Cause but are unable, through lack of means, the reward of those who strive; and God is ever watchful over all things.

And God hath written for the foremost among the emigrants and the helpers, who followed the Remembrance with goodly submission in the hour of its inception, gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they shall abide forever. This is the supreme triumph. And this decree hath been written, in the Mother Book, in the name of the Gate.

O Solace of Mine eyes! Purchase the souls of the believers with Paradise; for God hath indeed purchased the souls of the strivers through the Most Great Name aforetime, and God’s promise, in the Mother Book, hath been fulfilled. How excellent is the transaction with God, with the Most Great Remembrance! And God’s covenant, in the Mother Book, shall be questioned.

O people of the earth! Fight the worshippers of idols and of Lat and ʿUzza, and leave not on earth any of the unbelievers, by the truth and upon the truth. And God hath willed to purify the earth and all upon it for His truth alone, according to the knowledge of the Book, by the truth and upon the truth—soon to come. And He is God, the Witness over all things. And He is God, Who encompasseth all the worlds. And verily God is independent of all the worlds.

Surah of Pilgrimage [Hajj]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“That is among the tidings of the unseen which We reveal unto thee. Thou wast not with them when they resolved upon their stratagem.” [Q12:102]

Alif, Lam, Mim, ʿAyn. God—beside Whom there is no other God—hath sent down the Book unto mankind, wherein lieth the exposition of all things: a mercy and glad tidings to those who believe in God and His signs in supreme truth. Verily, God is powerful over all things.

He it is Who created man from an extract of clay, and breathed into him His spirit in truth, that men might be remembered in the Mother Book according to the Word of the Most Exalted Remembrance.

We have indeed sent down the Remembrance on the Night of Power, that mankind might witness that God is powerful over all things. On that night every matter that hath been decreed by God in the Mother Book is made distinct. God hath created for you the Night of Power as a mystery of the Gate, destined to revolve around the Fire. In the Mother Book it is better than a thousand months, which hath been inscribed in truth around the Gate.

God hath caused the Day of Ghadir and the Night of Power to be remembered in the sea of love around the Fire by the Remembrance. God hath prescribed for you the prayer of Ghadir and its fast in supreme truth, and the deeds on that day are inscribed in the Mother Book as the decree of ages according to the judgment of the Gate.

O people of the East and of the West! Go forth from your homes to visit the Greater House of God, according to the irrevocable decree of your Lord, that ye may be inscribed in the Mother Book around the Gate upon the supreme covenant.

O ye who believe! Visit Our forefather Husayn in the land of Taff, for God accepteth from his visitors their visitation in truth unto Himself. This is the supreme triumph, and permission hath been inscribed in all the Tablets by the hands of the All-Merciful.

God hath forbidden you to enter the Sacred Precinct save through the Gate, and this decree is truth in the Book of God, and hath been inscribed in the Mother Book around the Fire.

Know ye the Word of your life in this Gate, and seek good in truth, and earn not sin by taking the calf instead of God, for verily the Cause of God hath been mighty in the Mother Book.

Spend, therefore, of manifest refinements and of pure wealth in the path of God unto His loved ones.

Whoso concealeth a testimony from himself against a soul hath been rejected in the Mother Book from around the Gate.

God hath forbidden giving to those who associate partners with the Most High, except in cases of kindness; for that hath been lifted by God’s leave in His Book, and He is witness over all things.

O company of jinn and men! Await the supreme Cause of God from this Arab Youth—Our servant—who hath been named ʿAli by God, the Most High, in the Mother Book. Seek deliverance from God, your True Lord, for God is powerful over all things.

O people of the earth! God hath made trade lawful for you in His Book, and hath forbidden usury. Whoso taketh even an atom’s weight of usury from a soul, God will cause him to taste the heat of the Fire on the Day of Resurrection equal to a mighty mountain, and he shall have no helper in the Hereafter, nor shall he find for himself on that Day any protector or helper besides God—save those who repent and return to their source.

God will forgive whom He willeth among His servants, for verily He is the Mighty; and He is God, Who hath ever been merciful unto the believers.

O ye who believe! God hath prescribed for you prayer with remembrance on Friday in truth, by the Most Great Truth, that ye might be recorded in the Mother Book as among those who pray around the Gate.

Remember God on the night of Friday with praise, in truth and by the truth. Verily God hath accepted your deeds on Friday night and its day from each of your weeks, through the truth of the Gate, by God’s leave, the Most High, the Praised One.

O servants of the All-Merciful! Verily God and His angels and His messengers pray for our followers, therefore pray ye for them at the dawning of their remembrance and submit their cause unto God, the Most High, the Praised One.

O ye who believe! Eat of the good things wherewith God hath provided you, and draw not near unto usury, nor that which God hath forbidden in His Book aforetime and in this Book. Whoso doeth this hath borne in the days of the Gate, according to the decree of the Book, a manifest sin.

O ye who believe! Make not yourselves, while on earth, without valid excuse in truth, to be separate from the truth, for that is not praised in the Mother Book before God, your True Creator.

Marry believing women whom God hath made chaste according to the covenant of the Book by the pure truth. Verily your Lord God hath ever been merciful to the believers. God hath decreed divorce in the Book for those who love women outside obedience to the All-Merciful. Verily God hath ever been aware of His believing servants.

Verily We have ordained discord between those who understand not the true religion of God and read not the Book of God in the way of the Gate. These are the people of the Fire, according to what God hath irrevocably decreed in the Mother Book.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Say to the believers: If ye divorce women before having touched them, then there is no waiting period prescribed by God for them. Provide for them according to the Book’s decree, as praised in the Criterion.

Verily God and His angels and His chosen ones among creation have prayed for our early followers who were among those who turned repeatedly to the Two Ancient Names through that Gate, in truth and by the truth, according to the Book’s decree.

O ye who believe! Pray for our followers at the mention of their remembrance, for the good of your souls in truth, after the words of magnification to God, the Truth, with beautiful remembrance in truth and by the truth.

Know ye that in your spoils a fifth belongeth to God and to His Messenger and to the kindred, according to the decree of the mystery of the letter Ha in the Mother Book, which hath been inscribed around the Fire in truth and by the truth.

What aileth you that ye return not the right of God and our right to this our Most Great Word among you? Verily God hath made the Remembrance from Himself and from our souls a guardian over the worlds in truth, and the decree hath been determined in the Preserved Tablet.

O Center of the letter Kaf in the Word of Command! Hearken unto My call from around the Gate in that Sacred Land: Verily I am God, there is no God but I, and there is nothing but I have created for it a likeness in the heavens and earth, that creation might testify that their True Lord—nothing is like unto Him, and He is God, the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.

Verily this interpretation is from the tidings of the divine cloud, inscribed upon the leaf of the heart by God’s leave, the Most High, and hath been written round about the Fire. God hath revealed unto thee from the tidings of the unseen, and verily thou art, in their midst, upon the Most Great Truth, whilst they have become separated from their word upon falsehood and vanity. And verily God hath ever been, in truth upon truth, thy witness.

Surah of Ordinances [Hudud]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“And most of the people, though thou ardently desire it, will not believe, yet thou askest no recompense of them for this. Verily it is naught but a reminder unto all mankind.” [Q12:103-104]

Ya, Ha. O ye who believe! Turn your faces toward the Ka’bah by the leave of God, the Most Praiseworthy, the Most Great—from the mystery of the Fire—in uprightness and in a praiseworthy manner.

And when people come to thee to learn knowledge, say:

“Nullify not God’s decree for yourselves according to the truth by the truth from the Point of Fire, as ordained.”

And ask of God His bounty at the Gate in pure truth; soon shall ye find God as your teacher, according to truth by truth, in the wondrous creation, powerful.

Fear ye God concerning a Day when ye shall be questioned about your vain wickedness contrary to truth. Know ye not that God hath ever encompassed all things?

O people! When ye desire purification but find no water, then take pure earth for purification in a praiseworthy manner. God hath not laid upon you in religion any hardship. Soon will God question you concerning what your hands have earned, and ye shall find for yourselves on the Day of Judgment no helper besides God, the Most High.

And eat of what ye have gained as lawful and good for God, the Truth, from your Lord by God’s leave. And fear ye God’s might according to the Most Great Truth, for verily God’s might hath ever been severe in the Mother Book.

Do ye desire the goods of this world, while God desireth the Hereafter? What aileth you that ye believe not with certainty in God, the Truth, when He is God, powerful over all things?

O ye who believe! Establish prayer and give the alms-tax as God hath ordained in His Book aforetime. Verily, God hath made this Book the interpretation of the Book, and what God hath ordained in them both is naught but the ordinances of the Gate, that perchance men might come unto Us from God’s path of truth, by the Most Great Truth, in multitudes.

Verily, God hath prescribed for the wine-drinker eighty lashes according to truth; and after that, if he repeat it, and a third time likewise, and the fourth time—his execution according to truth. That is God’s decree in the Mother Book, according to truth by truth, ordained from the Gate. We have decreed for the slave half the punishment of the free person, and God hath prescribed execution the eighth time according to the Most Great Truth. That decree hath ever been inscribed with God in the Mother Book.

O servants of the Most Merciful! Shun the abomination of idols, and shun false speech, that ye may be knowing of God’s verses, the Most High, in that Gate, according to the Strong Truth, according to the Faithful Truth.

Verily, God hath forbidden vain amusement and play, and chess and backgammon, as an irrevocable decree of the Book. For each one God hath set a limit in the Mother Book, according to truth by truth; and for its doer there shall be, on the path in God’s Book, a questioning station, according to truth by truth.

Verily, God hath forbidden the execution of punishment by the rightful ruler upon one who hath upon his neck a punishment from God in truth, even if it be concealed in the Mother Book.

Verily, God hath prescribed for a soul who hath many punishments upon his neck that the executor begin with the lesser until the decree reacheth execution according to pure truth by truth; and the decree hath been ordained in the Mother Book.

And those who know their wickedness and seek God’s forgiveness in their secret hearts upon the paths of the Gate—for what they have manifested of unseemly acts that God had concealed through the grace of that Most Great Gate—God is ever Forgiving and Merciful toward His servants who seek forgiveness.

God has ordained for the adulterer and adulteress, after four testimonies by God, one hundred lashes in truth upon truth. Let not the judge show compassion to either of them. For men the judgment shall be executed while standing, and for women behind a veil, concealed. This judgment from God is truth for the believers, and this command has been irrevocably decreed in truth upon truth in the Mother Book.

God has ordained for the male and female thief that the judge shall cut off their hands as recompense for their deeds, in truth upon truth, and God is witness over His servants in truth upon truth.

We have detailed some of the laws in this Book concerning which some people have differed without right, that you may have knowledge of God’s verses and His laws through that Gate in pure and mighty truth.

God has made the laws from Muhammad and His chosen ones binding and decreed in mighty truth until the Day of Resurrection in all conditions.

Know that God has forbidden all deeds save after His remembrance, so remember God your Creator with abundant remembrance through the Gate in truth upon truth.

Glorify Him through the Gate morning and evening. We have appointed for every community rites of worship that they may remember the name of their Lord through the paths of the Gate in mighty truth abundantly.

Seclude yourselves in the Sacred House upon the Most Great Word and be well-pleasing to God, the Most High, in all conditions, and praiseworthy in truth upon truth.

Know that God, there is no god but He, has prescribed for the believers pilgrimage to this House in the Sacred Month which has been written as one of the sacred months with God.

God has ordained circumambulation around the House according to a mystery of the letters of the Gate, as God has ordained in the Mother Book, seven circuits to be praised.

God has forbidden to the pilgrim in the state of consecration those things that would veil him from the Most Great Gate, and all this has been rejected in the Book of God.

Magnify God at Mash’ar and Mina through the paths of the Gate as God has ordained in the Mother Book with mighty magnification in truth upon truth.

Raise your voices in remembrance of the All-Merciful during the pilgrimage in pure truth, for God is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.

O believers! Remember God at ʿArafat and during the days of Tashriq upon the Most Great Word, as God has decreed in the Mother Book from the Point of Fire.

Remember your Creator during the appointed days and at the Station in the earth through the paths of the Gate from God’s Most Great Word in the Mother Book—this has been written with God.

We have detailed the laws in this Book according to the mystery of the Furqan by God’s leave, the Most High, and He is God, witness over all things.

God has permitted trade and forbidden usury in truth, that you may be witnessed in His laws in these two gates established upon fire and water.

O servants of the All-Merciful! Fear ye concerning the property of the orphan and whatsoever God hath forbidden from the Point of the Gate as inviolable. And verily We have ordained the Most Great Word upon most of mankind, but the people believe not in Our verses in truth with the truth, save a few.

And verily We have been zealous for the believers in the Most Great Truth, and We have not asked of them any recompense besides this Remembrance, for verily it is a remembrance upon the Fire in the Fire for all the worlds together.

Surah of Laws [Ahkam]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“How many a sign in the heavens and earth do they pass by, turning away from it!” [Q12:105]

Alif, Lam, Mim, ʿAyn, Ra, Alif. O servants of the Most Merciful, seek forgiveness from your Lord, the Most Merciful, besides Whom there is no god, by night and by day, upon the paths of the Gate, in truth upon truth, praiseworthy. And eat not save a little.

O ye who believe! Fast during the Most Great Month of God as God hath ordained for you in the Mother Book, in truth and by truth, unto completion. Think not concerning that which ye know not, for God your Master is indeed well-informed of what ye know.

God hath forbidden you to eat of that over which God’s name hath not been mentioned, for in the Mother Book it hath been written as a transgression from Satan’s command. God hath permitted you what ye are compelled to in times of stillness for yourselves, for God desireth ease for you, and He is independent of all worlds.

God hath ordained for the poor a share in the wealth of the rich, as decreed in the judgment of the Book. God hath forbidden the believers to backbite one another, even a little, in truth upon truth. Fear God, for hearts are between His two fingers, and the decree in the Mother Book is fixed.

God hath detailed His laws in this Book that perchance people might be well-pleased with God and His signs in this Most Great Gate, in sublime truth. We have placed barriers in the breasts of those who believe not in Our signs, in very truth, and God’s command in the Mother Book is decreed.

God hath prescribed for you the Pilgrimage and the Lesser Pilgrimage. Complete your works as God hath defined in His Book aforetime, and ye shall find no variation in Our ways in this or that, in truth upon truth.

Whoso transgresseth God’s bounds in His Book, God’s bounds are set for him in the Book according to the greatest measure, in pure truth upon truth, and God is powerful over all things.

God hath forbidden you wine, gambling, idols and divining arrows—all these are an abomination of Satan’s handiwork. Avoid them, for they are rejected in truth upon truth in the Mother Book. Eat not raisins after they have boiled, whether by sun or fire, for this decree is fixed in the Mother Book.

O ye who believe! Take game in God’s path according to the way of the Book, in truth upon truth, with excellence. Say: O ye who believe! Slaughter animals with God’s permission, in remembrance, submission, and facing toward the Kaaba, the House of God, upon the Word of the Gate, as God hath decreed in the Mother Book.

God hath permitted people seafood that hath scales, and all fish God hath created whose belly is not level with its head—this hath been made lawful in the Mother Book according to the Book’s decree for some, as prescribed. God hath decreed concerning the alms for fish that it be taken from the water alive—this is a firm decree, sealed in the Book’s judgment. And the decree in the Mother Book hath been written in truth upon truth in that Gate.

God hath permitted unto you the hunting of land animals as long as they are alive. But draw not nigh unto the game of the Sacred Territory, for God hath rendered it secure in the precincts of His House.

God hath forbidden the flesh of dogs and swine, and whatsoever among animals are predatory according to the decree of the Gate.

We have indeed expounded unto you in this Book the ordinances of the Book, that ye may be endowed with insight concerning the religion of God in that Gate, according to the Truth.

Slay ye whatsoever animals God hath designated as harmful to man, wheresoever ye find them, whether they be from among the small creatures of the earth or from among the beasts of prey, as ordained in the Book.

We have indeed elucidated Our signs in this Book, and We have set forth therein holy parables upon parables, as God hath ordained to be witnessed in this Gate.

Observe ye the creation of the heavens and the earth, and your own creation, that ye may become knowledgeable of Our signs in that exalted Gate, according to the perfect Truth.

We have indeed made this Book a sign of Our Most Great Word, that your souls may find tranquility in its supreme days, and that ye may acquire from God’s bounty, according to the Truth, that which is praiseworthy in the religion of God, the Most High.

We have indeed prescribed unto you prayer at the decline of the sun on Friday, as an obligatory decree according to the pure Truth.

Therefore worship ye your Lord, the Most Merciful, at the sun’s decline and after its setting, and before it riseth upon the people of the earth from that mighty Gate.

Offer ye for yourselves from the supererogatory prayers, during each night and day, thirty-five prostrations along the paths of the Gate upon the equinoctial line, as is praised in the decree of the Book. And fear ye God concerning the Friday prayer, for whoso abandoneth it after God hath appointed for it a way -

God will never accept from him his deeds according to the Truth, even if they be but little.

It behooveth God to burn him with the Most Great Fire, and this decree hath been irrevocably ordained in the Mother Book.

God hath prescribed for you in the Friday prayer two prostrations according to the Most Great Truth, and the decree concerning the recitation is the decree of the Gate in the Mother Book, this being according to the Truth most diligently observed.

God hath prescribed for the Imam a sermon describing the Gate, according to the exalted Truth that is witnessed. O people of the depths of Oneness! Hearken unto My call from the Fire-Point that hath dawned upon your hearts from this inscribed, hidden and treasured Mystery, wherein hath appeared the secret of the Prophets and the most concealed mystery of the Successors. For by God, the Truth, He is a Youth the like of whom time hath never witnessed among the Points of the Gates. Glorified be God, the Most High, and He is God, the Witness over all things.

Say: By the tongue of thy Lord, besides Whom there is no God, in this Mount Sinai, upon that crimson Word from the most exalted Tree: Verily I am God, besides Whom there is none other God. I have created the signs in the kingdoms of earth and heaven according to the form of the Twin Names from that Most Great and Most High Word, and He is God, powerful over all things.

Say: The idolaters pass not by save that thou findest them in idolatry concerning this Gate, which hath been concealed in the Mother Book. We found not most of the servants prostrating themselves before the Word of the Gate for God, the Most High. And He is God, the Witness over all things.

Surah of the Day of Friday [Jum’ah]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Most of them believe not in God save that they join partners with Him.” [Q12:106]

Alif Lam Mim Sad. O servants of the All-Merciful! Fulfill the ordinances of God and His law, for ye shall surely find your deeds with God preserved at the Gate in the Garden of Eden. And in your prayers, follow what hath been prescribed regarding what is to be recited aloud and what is to be uttered in silence, according to the Greater Word of God, for thus hath it been irrevocably ordained in the Mother Book.

Seek assistance in your prayers from God, besides Whom there is no other God, for verily He alone is worthy of worship. Worship God alone and associate not with Him in His worship even the weight of an atom. Allow not Satan to find any way over your souls. And when he approacheth you in your prayers, place your trust purely in God, veiled and hidden at that Most Great Gate.

Turn away from Satan and make not your souls his pasture, for this is forbidden unto the chosen ones of God, and verily God watcheth over all things. God hath prescribed for you in the first two cycles of the obligatory prayer to purify your souls from whatsoever He hath ordained in the decree of the Book—from Satan’s promptings, both small and great, as God hath ordained for the believers in the Mother Book.

Be at peace after the two cycles and after the prayer, content with what ye have offered therein. After the prayer, prostrate yourselves before God in compensation for any heedlessness or imperfection in your prayer, with a pure prostration unto God, the Ancient, according to what He hath firmly decreed in the Mother Book.

Verily We have detailed for you in this Book whatsoever ye have need of in the true Faith of God. Magnify the Greater Days of God on Friday according to the Most Great Truth, and act for God, your Lord, on all days as though they were feast days that are acclaimed great in the Mother Book.

Purify your souls from Satan’s defilements through the remembrance of Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, both in secret and openly, in ways that are praiseworthy at the Gate of Truth. Fear God regarding the Greater Prayer on Friday, which hath been prescribed in the Mother Book.

O servants of God! Be ye among the believers in observing God’s rites at that Most Great Gate, a mighty support of Truth. If ye turn away, God will turn away from you on the Day of Resurrection, and ye shall have no helper besides the All-Merciful. Turn away from commerce and diversion at the noon hour on Friday for the prayer that God hath firmly decreed in the Mother Book for the believers.

Verily God hath prescribed this decree for you as an irrevocable command from your Lord—there is no God but He—through the Gate and at the Gate. Perform the supererogatory prayers on Friday before noon for God, the Most High, around the water from the Point of Fire, as a great reward of Truth. And increase the supererogatory prayers on Friday by four cycles before noon, as God hath ordained in the Mother Book out of love for the Gate.

O poor among the Muslims, ask not anything of the infidels, but ask God of His bounty and seek forgiveness from your Lord, the All-Merciful, besides Whom there is no God; you shall find God, your true Lord, the All-Bountiful, the Ever-Forgiving.

O people of the earth! Fear God and relinquish what remains of usury in your possessions, if you believe in God alone. Whosoever withholds even an atom’s weight of usury in his wealth hath indeed waged war against the Remembrance and shall be deprived of meeting God in the Hereafter.

O people of commerce! Fear God in your measuring, for your measure is inscribed before God in the Mother Book according to truth, and God is witness over all things. O people of commerce! Fulfill your covenants and fear God regarding your contracts, for whosoever withholds even a date-stone’s weight from a believer’s wealth, God will detain him at the Bridge for a thousand years.

Be patient, O people of commerce, for We shall judge between you on the Day of Resurrection with truth. Rejoice not overmuch in trade among all occupations, for God is witness to what ye do. If ye believe in God, the Truth, and His verses, then trade with the Most Great Remembrance of God for Paradise, and turn away from your desires that prevent you from the truth.

By thy life! We shall surely seize the wrongdoers from among the people of the earth around the Shrine until they acknowledge thy greater right in the Most Great Cause, even though thou hast pardoned them through grace with the Most Great Truth. And verily God is witness over all things.

Fear God and conceal not testimony among yourselves, for whoso concealeth testimony regarding a Muslim, God shall record against him a manifest sin.

O people of the earth! Speak not among yourselves of your own base qualities, but cover yourselves with God’s covering, your Lord, the Most High. If ye turn unto God in the path of this Most Great Gate, then the Pens have been lifted from you by the decree of the Gate, and God will change your evil deeds to good ones for whomsoever He willeth, for He is the Truth, and He, God, hath ever been possessed of great bounty.

O ye who believe! Fear God regarding the property of orphans. Exchange not the good for the evil, and give unto each his due. Hold fast unto God, the Praiseworthy, your true Lord, and He, God, is witness over all things.

God hath made lawful for the believers marriage with up to four women, or with those whom their tongues have contracted according to the decree of the Book. Give women their due portions as a gift according to God’s Book of Truth, for this hath been ordained as a command from God, the Ancient of Days.

Give not unto the foolish of your good possessions, but provide for them according to custom by the decree of the Book, with God’s permission, the Most High, from the decree of this Gate in a fitting manner.

Give unto orphans their due when they reach maturity, and take as witness two just men from among you, or one man and two believing women. Reckon with yourselves with the most precise measure, and God sufficeth as Reckoner for mankind.

God hath ordained for men a share of women and for women a share of men. Judge in matters of inheritance with pure justice from the decree of the Book. Whoso transgresseth by even a mustard seed’s weight, it is as though he hath purchased hellfire for himself. And God shall judge between you on the Day of Separation with the Most Great Truth, atom for atom, so fear Him, for God is witness over all things.

God hath prescribed for you regarding your children that the male should receive the portion of two females. If there be females only, numbering more than two, they shall have two-thirds of what he left, according to the Book of God. If there be but one, she shall have the half, as ordained. For his parents, by decree of the Book, each shall have a sixth of what he left if he had a child. If he had no child and his parents are his heirs, then his mother shall have the third if he had no brothers; but if he had brothers, she shall have the sixth, as prescribed. This decree was aforetime inscribed in the Book of Truth.

And for you is half of what your wives leave if they have no child. But if they have a child, then for you is one-fourth of what they leave. And for them is one-fourth if you have no child. But if you have a child, then for them is one-eighth, as a right ordained in the Book of God. And this decree was inscribed in the Mother Book.

If a man or woman leaves neither ascendants nor descendants but has a brother or a sister, then for each one of them is a sixth. But if they are more than that, they share a third. This decree hath been determined in the Mother Book.

O Thou Light of Mine Eyes! Say: Most of them believe not in God alone, for We have found them, concerning this Gate, to be infidels according to the Truth, as inscribed in the Mother Book. Say: I am the Great Thunderbolt when I mentioned My attributes to yourselves—I found you thus described in that verse of the Furqan. And when God alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who believe not in the Hereafter shrink with aversion, while thou art indeed the Truth, established upon the Straight Path, and art witnessed in truth. Verily God encompasseth all things.

Surah of Marriage [Nikah]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Do they then feel secure from the overwhelming punishment of God coming upon them, or from the Hour coming upon them suddenly while they perceive not?” [Q12:107]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ha. O people of the earth! Fear God in what you counsel one another. It is incumbent upon you to pay the debts of the deceased according to your means. Fear God, your Lord, rely upon Him, and ask God of His bounty, for verily He has power over all things.

Do not bear witness to indecency except after you have ascertained it through four witnesses from among you. And if you bear witness with three, then in the Book of God, according to the decree of the Book, you are counted among the liars.

We have ordained repentance for those who commit indecencies through ignorance, and for those who knowingly commit evil there is a firm decree. And if God willed, He would forgive them, for He is the Mighty, the Wise.

Verily God has set a limit for repentance, and for the one who abandons it there is a limit. God has not created anything except that He has ordained for it a decree in His Book, and We have indeed enumerated it in that perspicuous Book.

Marry the believing women according to the decree of the Book of God, your Lord, for Muhammad will glory in your numbers on the Day of Resurrection. Turn not away from women who possess great wealth in gold and silver, and ask God of His bounty, for God is ever watchful over you and takes account of all things.

God has made lawful for the believers to marry believing women except their mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, and those of similar relation, and the daughters of brothers and sisters. And He has forbidden unto them through nursing those mothers and sisters who nursed them, and the wives of their sons who are from their loins. This is a decree in the Book of God according to the word of the Criterion of Truth, and the decree in the Mother Book has been accomplished.

Do not marry two Fatimid sisters together, nor two sisters except what has already transpired. God will soon forgive you, for He is the All-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.

Fear God in marrying virgin women who are under protection without their permission and the permission of their families. Seek what is right according to the decree of the Book regarding their condition, and harm them not with anything disagreeable, for they are leaves from the camphor tree. God has decreed between all with truth, and He encompasses all things.

God desires to guide you to the ways of those before you and to turn unto you with mercy according to the decree of the Book, as a bounty from that Most Exalted and Wondrous Gate.

I desire to make known to you the ways of the truthful ones and the martyrs, and God is indeed knowing of all things.

Those who follow the lusts of Satan have departed from the authority of the Most Merciful, and the angels shall bind them with chains of iron in the fire, and God has not ordained for them in the Hereafter any helper in truth, except those who repent and turn unto God, the True One, and acknowledge their shortcomings in secret before themselves at this Gate, the Most Great and Exalted Name of God, and God is witness over all things.

Soon will God forgive them and admit them into gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they shall abide eternally in the presence of the Remembrance. God will perpetually give them glad tidings of the Remembrance above the Remembrance, and thou shalt see no interruption in the bounties from God.

Observe the prayers at their appointed times and preserve especially the middle prayer, this Remembrance, and be praised by God, the Most High, in the paths of the Gate. Consume not your wealth among yourselves unjustly, but fulfill your covenants after your contracts through the remembrance of God, your Lord. Invalidate not commerce through usury, but rely upon God, your Lord, the Most Merciful, for He is indeed Self-Sufficient, Praiseworthy.

Whosoever does this in enmity to God’s Remembrance, We shall cause him to drink from water issuing from beneath the Zaqqum tree, by the decree of the Book and by leave of the Gate. This decree is indeed easy for God, the Truth.

O peoples of the earth! If ye avoid the grave sins and that which is vain, concerning which the Most Merciful hath forbidden you in His Book, the Remembrance will surely cause you to enter, by God’s leave, an honorable entrance unto the Truth.

Covet not that which God hath bestowed in bounty upon others. For those who have preceded there is a portion of what they have earned, and for those who follow, of what they earn. Ask of God through the Remembrance, for God hath made him a witness over all the worlds.

Verily the Men of the Heights are they who have preceded in God’s Book. These are they who are the guardians over the earth, and God doth verily encompass them from all sides in truth. He is God, the Most High, the Great.

O peoples of the earth! Make peace in matters of the true Faith between your brethren, for God loveth the peacemaker above the mischief-maker, and God is indeed All-Knowing, All-Informed of His servants.

O peoples of the earth! Worship God upon the straight path, associating naught with His worship in truth. Show kindness unto parents, kinsfolk, orphans, and the needy among the people of the earth, spending in the cause of truth.

Verily God loveth not any among you who is proudly boastful apart from truth. Say to those who conceal the bounty of the Remembrance and bid people to conceal it:

“Wait! We have truly prepared for the unbelievers in the Day of Resurrection a great chastisement in truth.”

By thy Lord! God will not wrong anyone by so much as the weight of an atom. Whoso performeth a good deed, God will multiply it manifold in truth. And whoso committeth an evil deed, God will requite it with exact justice in truth.

We shall bring forth on the gathering ground from every nation a witness, and We shall bring thee as a witness against these predecessors.

O ye who believe! Draw not nigh unto the Remembrance, nor unto prayer, nor unto the Book while ye are intoxicated, until ye know what ye are saying. Touch not the Book save in a state of purity. But if ye find no water, then have recourse to pure earth and wipe your faces and the palms of your hands and the backs thereof. This is God’s decree in His Book, and God is indeed Kind, Merciful to the believers.

God hath prescribed for you purification with earth when water is not found for ablutions and prayer. God desireth ease for you in this Book, and religion with God, the Truth, is naught but pure devotion.

O peoples of the earth! God hath forbidden you in His previous Book the eating of carrion, blood, swine flesh, and that over which any name other than God’s Supreme Name has been invoked. But whosoever is compelled by necessity, We have permitted it by God’s leave, only to the extent required to preserve life. Therefore depart from the abodes of misbelief, for God’s earth is vast and wholesome provisions are abundant in every land.

O people of the earth! We have prescribed for you retaliation in cases of murder: a free person for a free person, a slave for a slave, and a female for a female. But if anyone is forgiven by his brother for any part of what is due, then his reward with God is great in the Mother Book.

We have ordained in retaliation life according to truth, and in life retaliation through the Most Great Truth. O people of understanding! Therefore give thanks abundantly to God, your Lord, the Most Merciful, in the paths of this Praiseworthy Gate, according to the powerful truth.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from these melodious letters in this Greatest Commentary, upon the tune of truth from this Arabian Youth, the cherubic one, upon the Mount of Glory. Verily I am the Truth, there is no God but I, the Most High, and I have ever encompassed all the worlds through truth.

O servants of God! Do you feel secure from that Day when the Hour shall come suddenly and the overwhelming event from God shall appear openly? Fear God and be conscious of the Most Great Word, for God’s command, the Most High, has ever been severe in the Mother Book.

Surah of Remembrance [Dhikr]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Say: This is my path. I summon unto God with clear vision, I and whosoever followeth me. Glory be to God! I am not of those who join partners with Him.” [Q12:108]

ʿAyn, Lam, Ya. There is no God but Him, Lord of the Throne and of the heavens, and He is God, the Most High, the Most Great. He it is Who hath sent down mysteries in lines of spirit with truth unto His servant, that all may know that He, concerning that Most Great Word, hath been, in truth, cut off from the worlds.

O people of the cloud! Hear My call from this luminous Moon, for whose countenance I desired no eclipse upon the face of this Youth, the Eastern and the Western One, Whom ye shall find in all the Tablets as a hidden mystery, inscribed upon the crimson line, verily concealed by truth.

Say: God hath revealed unto Me:

“Verily, I am God, there is no God but I, the Worshipped One. Among the gates I have created none like the Remembrance, the Most Great Word—this Remembrance whom all have found prosperous in the Tablet of the Heart around the Fire.”

O people of the earth! The Point hath reached its place. Hearken unto My call from that Arabian Youth, the Muhammadan, the Alawite, Whom ye shall find in all the Tablets as the Most Great Mystery, witnessed around the Fire.

O ye believers! God hath ordained for you, after the Book, that ye write it in the most excellent script with golden ink. Therefore give thanks unto God, your Lord, for the creation of the heavens and the earth and what lieth between them, and prostrate yourselves before God Who created them, if it be Me ye worship in truth. And He is God, the All-Seeing of what ye do.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Say: When I desired the House, I found tranquility upon the four pillars, raised up before the Gate. And when I desired to circle round the House, I found the obligation in the Mother Book to be seven circuits, in very truth. And when I desired to remember upon the earth, I found the Sacred Place and Arafat, both answering the call around the Gate.

O Concourse of Lights! By God the Truth! The Most Great Word of God is assuredly a hidden truth, and He is God, the Ancient, the Mighty. Verily the mystery of this Gate is of tremendous import. Were all the oceans of the heavens and earth to become ink, and all things to become pens, ye would not attain nor be capable save of an unconnected Alif, even as now the Command is thus in truth, in the form of heaven and the temple of earth, existent with God, the Lord of all worlds.

O people of attraction from the Temple of Unity! Hear My call from that yellowed Leaf, severed with crimson oil from the Moving Tree in the atmosphere of the cloud—that for whose root God hath ordained nothing upon earth, yet by God’s command it is planted in the air of the cloud by the hands of the Remembrance.

This indeed is thy Lord’s straight path in the Mother Book. This indeed is the mystery within the innermost mystery, inscribed upon the line beneath the cloud and above the heaven. This indeed is the Arabian form in the Two, witnessed in truth around the Fire. This indeed is the truth, the right-sided temple in the Seventy—two paths mentioned in truth around the Fire, that the believers might be mentioned in that Book by the name of Truth upon the Truth. This indeed is the Light upon Sinai, the One manifest through the Names in the Concourse of Revelation. He is the Truth; none knoweth Him as befitteth Him save He Himself, and He is God, ever exalted and ancient.

This indeed is the Truth expressed in the melody of Batha, the Secret made manifest from the form of the exalted one, the treasured Light in the form of the Dove in the heart of the Fatimid. Exalted be God, His Creator, far above what the wrongdoers ascribe unto Him!

This indeed is the Secret of secrets that was inscribed round about the Water. This indeed is the Pole in the oceans of light that was concealed round about the Fire. This indeed is the Light of lights in the midst of mountains, on the right hand of the Throne behind the Qaf, that was hidden and treasured.

This indeed is the Garment of Manifestation and the Hidden Secret in the heavenly Books that was inscribed round about the Mystery. This indeed is the Tree of the Heart upon Mount Sinai that was witnessed by God, the Truth. These indeed are the sacred Leaves in the pavilions of the spheres of attributes that were written round about the Fire.

This indeed is the Truth in the Mother Book that was decreed round about the Fire. This indeed is the Point at the Beginning that appeared at the Center of the Seal, by the truth, by God’s leave, the Ancient, the Praised One.

This indeed is the Secret in the praise of the Book concerning the mysteries of glory from the decree of Fire and Water that was made equal. This indeed is a portion from the Secret—the Secret of the Arabian Ahmad, the center of the Throne in the Water, who by the truth, for God, the Ancient, was both prostrate and beloved.

This indeed is the Secret inscribed in the heart of the Prophet that was by the truth of the Most High concealed. This indeed is the Hidden Mystery in the breast of the brilliant Arabian Friend that was inscribed round about the Fire.

This indeed is the Glorious Pearl in the shell of the Friend in the ocean of the cloud around Paradise that was preserved by God, the Praiseworthy. This indeed is the One Who flees from every refuge by the truth, and He is God Who was ever a witness over thee by the truth.

Thou wert indeed the holy corner of glorification by the truth and the very essence of magnification upon the truth by the truth, with great magnification.

This indeed is the Western Release by the truth upon the exalted hair for crushing after dissolution that was concealed in the Point of Fire. This indeed is the Buraq in the Supreme Concourse, naught resembleth it among the lightning, and it is the Supreme Example in the dissolution of the cloud that was witnessed round about the Fire.

O people of Paradise! Learn the path of servitude from this Bird, verdant in the atmosphere of the cloud and immersed in the sea of crimson musk. Crush yourselves with this white Fire by God, the Truth, if ye be able, that ye may possess the East and the West by the leave of God, the Sovereign of earth and heaven. He is indeed the All-Knowing by the truth, and He is God, powerful over all things.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Say: I am the Glory and this is the path of God. I call unto God alone and unto the Expected Remnant. I am indeed the Observer in the two Easts, with clear vision by the truth—I and those who follow me were questioned by the truth round about the Fire.

O Concourse of Lights! Hear My call from this singing Bird in the atmosphere of heaven, in the lofty melody of David the Prophet.

Unto Me, unto Me belongs the decree of the two waters in the two heavens, and unto Me, unto Me belongs the decree of the two airs in the two earths, and unto Me, unto Me belong the four letters in the two names, and unto Me, unto Me belong the four airs in the two lines from two mysteries, and unto Me, unto Me belongs the Bearer of the Throne, seven and one, and unto Me, unto Me belong the eight Paradises, both manifest and hidden, and unto Me, unto Me belongs the decree of the two primal Lights in the two Mounts, and unto Me, unto Me belongs the decree of the two Luminaries in the two latter lines from those two depths, and unto Me, unto Me belongs the decree of the heavens in eight from the Gate as two gates, and unto Me, unto Me belongs the decree of the earth in seven from the Gate with two letters, and unto Me, unto Me belongs all command and judgment, and there is no God but Him, our Lord, the One, the Peerless, and He is God, the Most High, the Most Great.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Say: Whatsoever God hath caused to flow from My Pen in this Book was solely by God’s leave, the True One, and I have not borne the Book in the mystery of that Gate save as a letter from the Gate which hath ever been witnessed round about the water.

Glorified be God, the True One, there is no God but Him, and He is God, the All-Powerful over all things. And He is God, Independent of all worlds.

Surih of the Servant [ʿAbd]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

“And We sent none before thee but men from among the people of the towns, to whom We revealed Our Message. Have they not journeyed in the land to see what was the end of those before them? And surely the abode of the Hereafter is best for those who fear God. Will ye not then understand?” [Q12:109]

Mim, Ha, Mim, Dal. O people of the Throne! Hearken unto the call of your Lord, the All-Merciful, beside Whom there is no other God, through the tongue of this Remembrance, this Youth, the son of Ali, the Arabian, Who was witnessed in the Mother Book. Listen then to what is revealed unto thee from thy Lord: Verily, I am God, there is no God but Me. Nothing is like unto Him, and He is the Most High, the Most Great.

O people of the earth! Hearken unto the call of the birds upon the tree, verdant with the camphor of the Divine Manifestation, in description of this Arabian Youth, the Muhammadan, the Alid, the Fatimid, the one of Mecca and Medina, of Abtah and Iraq, through that which the All-Merciful hath revealed upon their leaves. Verily, He is the Most High, and He is God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy.

This is a Youth, fair in complexion, with striking eyes beneath level brows, of balanced form like molten gold, with shoulders like purified silver inclined as goblets, whose majesty hath appeared above the majesty of those gone before, and whose mercy hath spread throughout creation like the mercy of the two Hasans.

O people of the Throne! The Pole-Star of Heaven hath seen none like unto Him in justice, like the two just ones; and in grace like the two Luminaries—gathering in His two names from among the most exalted Beloved Ones: the isthmus between the two Commands, in the mystery of the two depths; standing, like the letter Alif, between two lines at the centre of the two worlds; the Ruler, by God’s leave, in the two latter creations; the mystery of the ʿAlawites and the delight of the Fatimids; an ancient fruit from the blessed Tree, reddened by the two Fires; a portion from the quintessence of the two luminous veils, shimmering with the two pulsations; standing around the Fire in the two seas, from the zenith of heaven unto the depths of the earth; a handful of the clay of earth upon the people of these two gardens, dark green in hue, at the point of the two wests—and these two are the mystery of the two names behind the two easts.

Born in the two sanctuaries, gazing toward the two Qiblihs from beyond the two Ka’bahs; praying upon the Throne of the All-Glorious twice; Master of the two Commands and the pure Water in the two gulfs; speaking in the two stations, knowledgeable of the two Imams; the letter Ba coursing through the water of the two letters, and the Point standing at the gate of the two Alifs; revolving around God in the two cycles and speaking on behalf of God in the two spheres—the servant of God and the Remembrance of His Proof unto all the worlds.

This is a Youth whose grandfather is called Abraham, and he is the Spirit in the first ones, and he is the Gate after the two latter Gates. And praise be to God, the Lord of all the worlds; and He is God, Who hath encompassed all the worlds.

This is a Youth whom the people of the cloud call a divine mystery; and the people of the veil, a luminous symbol; and the people of the pavilion, a western attribute; and the people of the Throne, an eastern name; and the people of the Seat, an exalted designation; and the people of heaven, an Arabian truth; and the people of Paradise, a Fatimid spirit; and the people of earth, an angelic servant; and the people of the water, an eternal fish.

He is the One in the atmosphere of heaven—luminous; and He is the multiplied One among similitudes—solar. Verily, this is the lightning One—western; and verily, this is the thunder One—eastern. And He is the mystery in the Gospel—Syriac; and He is the line in the Torah—divine; and He is the hidden mystery in the Furqan—Muhammadan.

Glory be unto God, the Wondrous, the Ancient—beside Whom there is no God! None can comprehend His subtle handiwork save whom He willeth; and He is God, Who hath ever been exalted and praiseworthy.

Praise be to God Who hath bestowed upon the solace of Mine eye, in his tender years, Ahmad; and We have exalted him unto God in truth, upon a letter from the knowledge of the Book. The decree concerning his affair hath been ordained according to the knowledge of the Tablet from God, the Truth.

O solace of Mine eye! Be patient under the decree of thy Lord concerning thee, for verily God doeth in truth whatsoever He willeth; and He is the Wise in justice; and He is God, thy Ancient Lord, Who hath ever been in decree praiseworthy.

I have obeyed the command of God, the Truth, by God, and I am well-pleased with God, my Lord, beside Whom there is no God. I desire naught save what God, my Lord, desireth in truth, and He is God, Who hath ever been a witness over all things.

O our Lord! Forgive me and my parents, and whomsoever loveth the Most Great Remembrance of God in pure truth—from among the believing men and believing women—for verily Thou art the Lord of grace and bounty, and verily Thou hast ever been, in truth, powerful over all things.

And verily We have established upon the Most Great Throne the Word of Love, in truth and with the truth, for Our servant. Verily God and His angels and His loved ones have been witnesses, in truth and with the truth, concerning him at the Point of Fire in all matters, according to what God hath decreed in the Book and what permission decreeth.

And verily We have exalted Our Remembrance above all the worlds, by virtue of what God, the Truth, hath answered for Himself. He is the One, the Peerless, the Eternal, beside Whom there is no God; and He is God, Who hath ever been a witness over all things.

O solace of Mine eye! Let not the words of the infidels grieve thee:

“What aileth this Persian Youth of truth? He eateth food and walketh in the markets.”

Yet the people know Him by the word of truth upon truth, in the mighty word, in the weighty truth, but little. And this is a word that preceded concerning Muhammad, the Messenger of God, aforetime; and ye shall never find for Our established way, aforetime or hereafter, any alteration—in truth and with the truth—in any respect.

O people of the earth! Give thanks unto God, for verily We have delivered you from the divines of conjecture and have brought you to the nearer side of the Mount—this comely Arabian Youth, in Whose grasp God hath placed the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, in a handful of dust upon the earth, folded up in truth upon truth.

O people of the cloud! Hearken unto My call from My Remembrance at the Point of Fire: This is God; beside Whom there is no God! Worship Him, then, upon the upright Alif around the Gate, for it is the Path before God, the Truth, which hath been, in truth, outstretched.

O solace of Mine eye! Proclaim then at the Mount, the mystery of Light: “Verily I am the servant,” in truth at the Centre of Revelation, from the Dayspring of Light. There is no God but Him; and He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

O people of the cloud! Know ye that this is an Arabian Youth Who speaketh with truth at the Pole of Water, from the Centre of Fire. There is no God but Him, the Mighty; and He is God, the Ancient and Mighty.

This indeed is the Light in the Fire above the Water. There is no God but Him; and He is God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

When He ascendeth to the atmosphere of heaven from the Throne, He speaketh from the mystery of dust—God’s mighty secret—in the concourse of air from the most exalted cloud; and He is God, the Witness over all things.

When He sitteth upon the dust, He speaketh of the mystery of the Beloved, like unto a fish writhing upon the ground—as though He had been slain upon the earth by the sword of men, alone, in truth and by the truth. And I behold Him performing ablutions with His blood for the hidden secret between the lines at the time of manifestation.

When those who are veiled from meeting the Beloved see Him, they imagine Him to be like snow settled upon the peak of the greatest cold mountain. And when those who have rent asunder the veils of attributes see Him, they confess before God, the Truth, that they know not even a little concerning His reality.

When is He cast down upon the earth? When is He prevented from the Throne? Glory be to God, the Most High! This indeed is the mystery sanctified above the description of attributes—severed.

God is Most Great! God is Most Great, with a most exalted greatness! None knoweth how to mention Him save He Himself; and He is God, the Mighty, the Wise.

Verily, this is a Youth of the essence of clay at the dawning-place in the Muhammadan Sun, Who was, in the Mother Book, in the mystery of light, dawning upon the Point of Fire, stationed. And verily this is a Youth of salt and the greatest mercury—the Persians say: “This is a king of Shiraz.” Yet it was not, nor shall it be thus; for verily, in the Mother Book, He was from the fruit of the Arabs and the noblest of nobles—from the eloquent company around the Fire—recorded.

He is the Light in the Mount and the Mount in the dawning-place of manifestation, which was, by God’s leave, concealed upon the mountain of the snow of manifestation, at the point of joy. Verily, this is an Arab Youth in creation, but non-Arab in truth before the Lord and creation—Who was, around the Fire, concerning the mystery of dust at the point of attributes, witnessed.

O concourse of lights! Hearken unto My call from this refined, snow-white Leaf:

“Verily I am God, there is no God but Me. Say: None believe in Our signs save those who, when reminded of them, fall down in prostration to God, the Truth, and glorify their Lord with praise, and they are not proud.”

In truth, He is God, your True Lord, and is witness over all things.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Speak by God’s leave in the melody of the two Beloveds, and say:

“Verily I am the Truth with the two Lights in the two years; and verily I am the Speaker from God in the two Mounts; and verily I am the One Who sendeth down, by God, these two Furqans upon the two Beloveds in the two Names—this unto the Beloved Muhammad, advanced in years in the two years—wherein are two Furqans from the Lord of the worlds unto the people of the two paths from among the people of East and West. And verily God was witness over the worlds.”

O people of the earth! God hath testified to the truth, and His angels and the believers are witnesses, with justice, that this Remembrance is the servant of God and Our Word of truth.

Verily, God hath sent down the verses unto His awaited Proof, and I, by God’s leave, have sent them down with the angels of the divine cloud unto the heart of My Greatest Remembrance, that people might believe in God and His words, and that they might assist the Remembrance in My Greatest Cause. And He is God, the Witness over all things.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Establish prayer in truth upon a line of the equator at the declining of the sun, by God’s leave, in the realm of glory, and remember God, thy Lord, until the darkness of night, according to the decree of the Book from the mystery of the Gate, as prescribed.

And pray for the Dawning-Place of the Light in the horizon of darkness, for verily this is the Book of Dawn, which hath been witnessed in the Mother Book.

And arise from the night for the Ancient Remembrance of thy Lord, Who is none other than He, for verily thou art, in truth, the Station of the Praised One in the Mother Book, and thou wert, of a truth, the object of His purpose with God.

And say:

“O Lord! Cause me to enter into an ocean of wonderment in the station of Thy love; and forgive those who have entered this Gate in truth, in the places of the Command of Thy attributes; and make me a sovereign over the Command from Thy presence, for verily Thou art powerful over all things.”

O Solace of the Eyes! Say:

“I am naught but the Sign of the Divine Identity in the Ocean of Oneness; and verily misbelief, at the time of turning away from the Most Great Word—which God hath made to be with me in truth—was found to exist above the earth.”

O people of the Divine Cloud! Hearken unto My call from the Lamp within the Lamp that maketh white this Glass within the crimson Glass—this that is the saffron earth in the House of the Gate which was, in truth, made to speak.

Verily I am God; there is no God but Him. I have raised up the heavens and the earth around that Word from a letter like unto it. Therefore obey My Word, for verily I am the Truth; there is no God but Him. I am the Most High, and I have ever encompassed all the worlds through God, the Truth.

And hearken unto this Most Great Interpretation from the tongue of this Most Great Human Being, whom I have reared with My hands, whom no air of human nature hath ever touched. Verily, He is the Truth upon the Truth, and in the Mother Book His station hath been inscribed as the decree of Fire.

And say in truth:

“We sent not before thee any but men unto whom We revealed: ʿBe ye of the people of that blessed City, and journey in the land of the heart with His aid.’ And know ye that for those who join partners with Him is the punishment of the Hereafter—with Fire in Fire—which hath been inscribed with Fire.”

And He is God, the Witness over all things. And verily God hath ever encompassed all the worlds. And verily thou art, through God, independent of all the worlds.

Surah of the Foremost [Sabiqin]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Until when the Messengers despaired and thought they had been denied, Our help came to them, delivering whomsoever We willed; and Our might shall not be turned back from people who are sinners.” [Q12:110]

Alif, Lam, Mim, Ta, ʿAyn. The remembrance of God in the Blessed Tree—hearken thou to the call of God:

“Verily, I am God, there is no God but I, and I am the Most High, ever have I been great.”

We have verily ordained for the first believer in Our Servant, from the greatest of blessings, that which had been decreed in the Mother Book round about the Fire. And We have made him to be recorded in the Point of the Line among the lines of them that came before.

O thou Gate! Take this and fill thyself with the camphor water of manifestation, and be thou, for God’s sake, like unto a purified piece of iron heated by the ancient Fire, a mighty helper of the Truth through the Truth, by the wondrous permission.

Ask ye the Remembrance concerning the paths of the Gate, for verily the Gates to the knowledge that draweth near, in the straight and distant Line, have ever been, in truth and by the truth, accountable before the Gate. God is with them who enter the Gate through the Gate, and with them who believe in the Book and in the Most Great Remembrance round about the Gate in this Most Great Path—these have ever been, in truth and by the truth, well-pleasing.

God hath this day guided His servant upon His exalted path in the circuit of that most exalted Gate, praised in truth and by the truth. We have verily ordained for him in the hereafter, in truth and by the truth, in the Garden of Eden round about the sanctuary, an exalted kingdom wherein is mentioned the Most Great Name of God—there is no God but He, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting—and He is God, powerful over all things.

We have verily ordained for the second believer in Our Servant, and for the third, and for those who followed him among the others, a book of the greatest mercy which hath ever been, round about the Gate, inscribed in truth upon the truth. We have ordained between thee and the believers manifest villages, and have ordained therein journeying by God’s leave, in truth upon the truth. Let them journey therein by night and by day, looking unto God, the Truth, through the decree of the Book, according to that which God hath ordained round about the Gate.

That ye may seek of Our bounty that which God hath ordained for you in this Gate from blessed villages, treasured round about the Fire in the Most Great Truth upon the Mighty Truth, concealed. And verily there have come down to you this day men from the Holy Land. Say: Return ye to your dwellings and ask God of His grace, for verily the help of God hath ever been nigh unto the believers in that Gate, in truth and by the truth.

Follow not what Satan casteth into your souls. God hath promised you Paradise while Satan calleth you to the Fire. Which of these two stations is more worthy of security, if ye be praised in the religion of God, the Most High, in truth and by the truth?

The Remembrance of God among you is like unto none of your divines. By your Lord! He is the Truth from God, and hath ever been a pure Muslim, steadfast in the true religion at the Point of Fire round about the Water.

O ye believers! Why do ye clothe the Remembrance with denial? Will ye not ponder the interpretation of the Book? Verily your Lord God is the Truth, and verily the Remembrance from God, the Most High, is the Truth, and the Command of God hath ever been written in the Mother Book round about the Fire by the hands of the Remembrance.

O people of the Book! None among you believe in the Remembrance of God save those for whom grace hath preceded from their Lord. Verily, guidance is God’s guidance, and God hath placed grace within your hands. We bestow Our mercy upon whomsoever We will—for God is the Truth, the Lord of surpassing bounty—and He is God, the Witness over all things.

O people! God hath placed between you and Our verses, regarding this Gate, a veil of justice, wrapped in truth, encompassing the waters, concealed. Verily ye have an appointment, on the Day of Resurrection, upon the Most Great Path—in truth—around the Fire, where ye shall be questioned. God shall teach you the remembrance of Our servant on that Day, in very truth, at the heart of the Fire, witnessed.

By thy Lord! Ye shall cry out and swoon and say: “Would that we had been as naught upon the earth!” Verily, Our distance upon this Path is beyond the two Easts, and today thou seest none besides the mention of God, the Exalted One, as a helper before God, the Self-Sufficient, in truth.

There shall God, your True Lord, say: “O My servants! Did not the Truth and His verses come unto you from every direction from Our presence—in truth, lofty and mighty?” By thy Lord, the All-Merciful! Ye shall surely say: “We were indeed heedless of this, even after the snow came to us from the mountain of hail, in truth, by the leave of God, the Exalted One.” And He is God, the All-Knowing of all things.

We have indeed removed from you, by the leave of God, the Exalted One, on that Day, your covering; and your sight today, God willing, is as iron around the Gate in the Mother Book.

And verily these believers, when they come unto thee that thou shouldst seek forgiveness of God for them—they shall find God, their True Lord, Oft-Returning, Merciful at the Gate.

The unbelievers shall say:

“Lord! Return us to the world upon a remembrance from Thy true covenant, in the hands of the Remembrance, renewed in truth. We shall surely believe in Him and aid Him in truth, for we were, in the worldly life, deprived of His Cause contrary to truth.”

There shall the Exalted God say:

“Did they not read Our Book in the Most Great Truth among you: ʿTake not two gods’? He is but one God—so taste ye the heat of your misbelief regarding God, the Exalted One. In truth, this is the Great Fire, as hath been decreed in the judgment of the Book from the judgment of the Gate.”

The Fire shall burn their foreheads and their sides, and the angel shall proclaim among them:

“This is what ye hoarded for yourselves, withholding from the True Self of God contrary to truth.”

And God is well aware of what ye do.

Did not God warn you regarding His Self in the House? What aileth you that ye believe not in God, the All-Praised, and in His wondrous verses in very truth? And verily God is witness to what ye do.

We have indeed warned you by Our own selves, that ye might be discerning of the mention of God, the Exalted One, in the mystery of this Gate.

O servants of the All-Merciful! Know ye that God created you not, nor raised you up, save as a single soul. So turn ye unto the Cause of God, which We have sent down among you in the Most Great Truth.

Soon shall ye behold Our signs in the land of Return—in very truth, nigh at hand. We have indeed commanded you to return to your dwellings, that ye might know that God knoweth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on earth. Yet those on earth understand but little of the knowledge of the Book—in truth, in very truth.

Verily, those who hear the verses from God, blessed in the Most Great Truth, yet perceive not Our signs in any degree—We shall soon inform you of what ye have wrought for yourselves on the Day of Resurrection. There shall ye find, apart from Our Command—in truth and in very truth—no great authority.

O people of the Throne! Hear My call from this Arabian Youth Who speaketh not from desire, but from the revelation of His Lord, the Most High. God hath indeed brought Him to a station of nearness, or nearer still, and hath elevated Him upon His Word as the Mystery of Response from Himself unto Himself. And verily God is witness over all things.

O Word of God! Hearken unto My call. I am the Truth, there is no God but Him. I was thy hearing when there was no hearing but Mine hearing, and I was thy sight when there was no sight but Mine sight, and I was thy hand when there was no hand but Mine hand. And I was thy outward manifestation upon the inward, and thy inward reality upon the Truth, when there was no outward or inward save Mine own Self, the Truth. I am indeed the Truth, there is no God but I, the Exalted One Who hath ever been supremely great in truth.

Hearken then to My call, that Most Great Interpretation from the Ancient One, thy Lord, the Almighty, in truth and very truth, wondrous to behold. And verily the people had despaired of the Gates regarding the Most Great Word, and they thought they had been denied the Remembrance, when Our help came to them through this Arabian Youth, of the valley of Batha, of Mecca and Medina, Who standeth upon the Path in truth, in pure truth, steadfast.

Through Him We deliver whomsoever We will, and Our might cannot be stayed by those who turn away from Our Word. Verily the Remembrance, in truth and very truth, hath been praised at the heart of the Fire. And He is God, the Reckoner over all things. Verily God hath power over all things.

Surah of the Believers [Mu’minin]

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

“Verily in their stories is a lesson for men of understanding. It is not a tale invented, but a confirmation of what went before it, a detailed exposition of all things, and a guide and a mercy to those who believe.” [Q12:111]

Alif Lam Mim. We have placed between you and the blessed cities, after this Gate, pure souls who call the people to the Most Great Religion of God and who fear naught save God, the True One. These are they who have been inscribed in the Mother Book as the companions of Paradise. We have made this Book as signs for those possessed of understanding, who glorify God night and day and who swerve not from the command of God, the Truth, from the Gate, even to the extent of a date-stone.

O ye who are endowed with insight among the people of the Gate! This is Our Book which speaketh unto you with truth. Do ye imagine that God hath placed beyond it any blessed cities? By God, the Truth! Ye have no protector besides it. Why do ye not behold the wondrous signs of God, the Most High? By God! After your denial We shall cause you to taste severe chastisement from God, according to the decree of the Book concerning the ordinance of the Gate—a mighty fire. Soon shall ye find your deeds on the Day of Resurrection upon the gathering place reduced to scattered dust.

Verily men have come to thee from this Holy Land, and have hastened towards the Cause of God contrary to the decree of the Book regarding the Gate. Say: Return ye to your dwellings and remember God in your private and public moments according to the ways of the Gate, with truth upon truth, from the Point of Fire abundantly. By God! The Cause hath come to you suddenly from Us in the purified land, through the Most Great Word, with truth upon truth, drawing nigh. There shall the people behold God, the Most High, through the paths of the Gate, with intense truth upon truth. God shall soon forgive you for what ye do without His leave, contrary to the Gate and against the truth, for God is verily oft-returning, merciful to the believers.

Who among you hath believed in God, the Most High, apart from this Gate, concerning which mankind shall be questioned? God shall soon torment you on the Day of Resurrection with the heat of the tree that groweth in the land of prison, which hath been decreed in the Mother Book as the Zaqqum tree of the Gate.

Do We not cause you to fluctuate night and day? How is it that ye walk in God’s earth without truth and believe not in Our signs with pure and sufficient truth? He is God, there is no God but Him. God hath appointed none in this your day other than His servant as a witness unto the worlds, with truth upon truth from His presence.

Say: O people of the Euphrates! There is no abiding place for you, so return to your dwellings and await the Most Great Cause of God with truth upon truth, which draweth nigh. By your Lord! The Truth hath come to you from before you and from your left with the most great evidences, repeatedly with weighty truth upon truth. Yet ye perceive not Our signs with truth upon truth, while the All-Merciful calleth you through His remembrance in that Most Great Gate, and the matter hath been decreed in the Mother Book.

If ye rest assured in truth concerning yourselves, why are ye not able to acquire a little good from that Most Great and Most High Gate?

O thou beloved! Hearken unto My call from God, thy True Lord, concerning thy most great self. God! There is no God but He. O My servants! Prostrate yourselves before God and worship Him in the path of this Most Great Gate, and use pure fragrance in your prayers and at other times to the extent ye are able, and send the finest thereof to the Most Great Remembrance, and take for yourselves a ring of red carnelian inscribed with the name of the Gate, that ye may be remembered before God, the Ancient, in the precincts of that Exalted Gate.

Verily We guide from among Our servants whomsoever hath believed in God and His signs in truth, and he hath indeed been well-pleasing before that Gate in very truth. Woe unto those who write Our names with their own hands yet call upon naught but idols besides God, the Exalted, in very truth. Then when the Remembrance cometh unto them with the Remembrance, Satan veils them from the Remembrance after they have heard the wondrous Word of God from the tongue of the Gate as witnessed.

Verily the believers are they who say:

“Indeed He is the Truth from God, and He is God, the All-Knowing of all things.”

O people of the Divine Cloud! Hearken unto My call from this Luminous Moon, for which I desired no eclipse upon the countenance of this Youth of East and West, whom ye shall find in all the Tablets as a mystery mysteriously hidden, inscribed in crimson lines, concealed in truth around the Fire.

Say: God hath revealed unto Me:

“Verily, I am God, there is no God but I, the Worshipped One. I have created none among the Gates like unto the Most Great Word of Remembrance.”

And all have come unto Him on the Day of Return around the Fire as was promised. Verily have We sent down this Book in truth, that in its stories may be a lesson for those of understanding among the people of the Gate, who have been witnessed around the Fire.

O people of the earth! The Point hath reached its zenith, so hearken unto My call from this Arabian Youth, the Muhammadan, the Alid, whom ye shall find in all the Tablets as the Most Great Mystery, witnessed around the Fire. O Most Great Word! Say: I am not a tale falsely devised concerning mankind, but I have stood before God on a Day that hath neither bound nor description, and verily God, my Lord, hath been in truth a witness unto Me.

O people of the earth! This Book is an exposition of all things, a guidance and mercy for those who seek God through the Gate, bowing in truth, praiseworthy. O concourse of creation! Hearken unto My call from the Point of the Heart through this Most Great Arabian Youth, the Eloquent One. Verily, I am God, there is no God but I. I have not revealed in this Book concerning the Most Great Remembrance save letters exemplifying the letter, like unto the disconnected point that was around the letter Ba, and the Truth was “in truth” conjoined.

No soul hath changed a letter of this Book or interpreted it according to his own opinion but We have decreed for him in the Mother Book the fire of the coffin in the depths of hell, abiding therein forever in very truth, eternally. We shall not forgive him, nor shall We ordain for him on the Day of Resurrection any helper, not even to the measure of a speck or the husk of a date-stone.

Read from this Book as much as ye are able, and after its recitation remember God upon the word of truth in His Book of truth. Glorified be thy Lord, Who is none other than He, far above that which they attribute unto Him, and exalted be the description of His Word above all that they associate with Him. He is God Who hath ever been, in truth and of a truth, praiseworthy. The peace of God be upon the Most Great Word, as beseemeth Him. He is the Truth, there is no God but Him, and He is God, powerful over all things. Enter not the Houses of Remembrance except by His leave, for verily they prostrate themselves before God at the Gate, and God is indeed aware of all things.

O Qurratu’l-Ayn! Say: I am Solomon in sovereignty; follow Me and follow not the footsteps of Satan, for verily sovereignty over Ali hath, by God’s leave, been inscribed in the Mother Book.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Say: God hath not ordained for Mine own self, nor for the People of the House from Mine own self, the like of what God hath ordained for you, and God hath willed to purify the House and its people from all defilement, and verily God is powerful over all things.

O Qurratu’l-ʿAyn! Say: I ask of you no recompense, for it is with God, my Lord, in the Mother Book, and hath ever existed, in truth and of a truth. And verily My recompense is with God, in truth and of a truth, and was decreed on the Day of Beginning. Verily God and His angels pronounce blessings upon the Prophet and His family.

O ye who believe! Invoke blessings upon them as God hath blessed them and their followers, and He is God, Who hath ever been, in truth, witness unto all things. And He is God Who hath ever encompassed all things.