Selections From the Writings of the Báb
Excerpts from the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá’
follow not the steps of the
Evil One, for he prompteth you to walk in the ways of impiety and wickedness; he is, in truth, your declared enemy.
1 Chapter LI.BE Thou patient, O Qurratu’l-‘Ayn, for God hath indeed pledged to establish Thy sovereignty throughout all countries and over the people that dwell therein. He is God and verily He is powerful over all things. Chapter LIII.
BY My glory! I will make the infidels to taste, with the hands of My power, retributions unknown of any one except Me, and will waft over the faithful those musk-scented breaths which I have nursed in the midmost heart of My throne; and verily the knowledge of God embraceth all things.
O concourse of light! By the righteousness of God, We speak not according to selfish desire, nor hath a single letter of this Book been revealed save by the leave of God, the Sovereign Truth. Fear ye God and entertain no doubts regarding His Cause, for verily, the Mystery of this Gate is shrouded in the mystic utterances of His Writ and hath been written beyond the impenetrable veil of concealment by the hand of God, the Lord of the visible and the invisible.
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
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