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dissension. Meditate on the world and the state of its
people. He, for Whose sake the world was called
into being, hath been imprisoned in the most desolate
of cities (Akká), by reason of that which the hands
of the wayward have wrought. From the horizon of
His prison-city He summoneth mankind unto the
Dayspring of God, the Exalted, the Great. Exultest
thou over the treasures thou dost possess, knowing
they shall perish? Rejoicest thou in that thou rulest
a span of earth, when the whole world, in the estimation
of the people of Bahá, is worth as much as
the black in the eye of a dead ant? Abandon it unto
such as have set their affections upon it, and turn
thou unto Him Who is the Desire of the world.
Whither are gone the proud and their palaces? Gaze
thou into their tombs, that thou mayest profit by
this example, inasmuch as We made it a lesson unto
every beholder. Were the breezes of Revelation to
seize thee, thou wouldst flee the world, and turn
unto the Kingdom, and wouldst expend all thou
possessest, that thou mayest draw nigh unto this
sublime Vision."
We bade a Christian dispatch this Tablet, and he
informed Us that he transmitted both the original
and its translation. God, the Almighty, the All-Knowing,
hath knowledge of all things.
One of the sections of the Súratu'l-Haykal is the
Tablet addressed to His Majesty, the Czar of Russia--
may God, exalted and glorified be He--assist him:
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