بند صد و پنجاه و پنج

This station is also one of the signs of the Day of Revelation; even as it is said: “The abased amongst you, He shall exalt; and they that are exalted, He shall abase.” And likewise, He hath revealed in the Qur’án: “And We desire to show favor to those who were brought low in the land, and to make them spiritual leaders among men, and to make of them Our heirs.” It hath been witnessed in this day how many of the divines, owing to their rejection of the Truth, have fallen into, and abide within, the uttermost depths of… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 68.85)

بند صد و هشتاد و چهار

Be fair: Were these people to acknowledge the truth of these luminous words and holy allusions, and recognize God as “Him that doeth whatsoever He pleaseth,” how could they continue to cleave unto these glaring absurdities? Nay, with all their soul, they would accept and submit to whatsoever He saith. I swear by God! But for the divine Decree, and the inscrutable dispensations of Providence, the earth itself would have utterly destroyed all this people! “He will, however, respite them until the appointed time of a known day.” “حال انصاف دهيد اگر اين عباد موقن به اين کلمات درّيّه و… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 68.85)

بند صد و پنجاه و نهم

…living at the time of Jesus and Moses, and those who lived in the days of Muhammad, be regarded as being actually one and the same people? Moreover, those whom they had formerly known were Moses, the Revealer of the Pentateuch, and Jesus, the Author of the Gospel. Notwithstanding, why did Muhammad say: “When He of Whom they had knowledge came unto them”—that is Jesus or Moses—“they disbelieved in Him”? Was not Muhammad to outward seeming called by a different name? Did He not come forth out of a different city? Did He not speak a different language, and reveal… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 68.85)

بند صد و شصت و چهارم

It is evident that nothing short of this mystic transformation could cause such spirit and behavior, so utterly unlike their previous habits and manners, to be made manifest in the world of being. For their agitation was turned into peace, their doubt into certitude, their timidity into courage. Such is the potency of the Divine Elixir, which, swift as the twinkling of an eye, transmuteth the souls of men! “باری، اين مطلب واضح است که بدون تغيير و تبديل الهی محال است اين قسم آثار و افعال که به هيچ وجه شباهت به آثار و افعال قبل ندارد از ايشان… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 68.85)

بند صد و شصت و پنجم

For instance, consider the substance of copper. Were it to be protected in its own mine from becoming solidified, it would, within the space of seventy years, attain to the state of gold. There are some, however, who maintain that copper itself is gold, which by becoming solidified is in a diseased condition, and hath not therefore reached its own state. “مثلاً در مادّه نحاسی ملاحظه فرمائيد که اگر در معدن خود از غلبه يبوست محفوظ بماند در مدّت هفتاد سنه به مقام ذهبی می رسد. اگر چه، بعضی خود نحاس را ذهب می دانند که به واسطه غلبه يبوست… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 68.85)

بند صد و هفتادم

…they preceded all the peoples of the earth in attaining unto His holy Presence—the Presence of God Himself—how they renounced the world and all that is therein, and sacrificed freely and joyously their lives at the feet of that Manifestation of the All-Glorious. And now, observe the “return” of the selfsame determination, the selfsame constancy and renunciation, manifested by the companions of the Point of the Bayán. Thou hast witnessed how these companions have, through the wonders of the grace of the Lord of Lords, hoisted the standards of sublime renunciation upon the inaccessible heights of glory. These Lights have… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 68.85)

بند صد و هفتاد و یکم

…be His sacrifice!—likened the Manifestations of God unto the sun which, though it rise from the “Beginning that hath no beginning” until the “End that knoweth no end,” is nonetheless the same sun. Now, wert thou to say that this sun is the former sun, thou speakest the truth; and if thou sayest that this sun is the “return” of that sun, thou also speakest the truth. Likewise, from this statement it is made evident that the term “last” is applicable to the “first,” and the term “first” applicable to the “last”; inasmuch as both the “first” and the “last”… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 68.85)

بند صد و هفتاد و دوم

…“I am the last Adam”? For even as He regarded Himself to be the “First of the Prophets”—that is Adam—in like manner, the “Seal of the Prophets” is also applicable unto that Divine Beauty. It is admittedly obvious that being the “First of the Prophets,” He likewise is their “Seal.” “و اين مطلب با اينکه چقدر واضح است نزد شاربان صهبای علم و ايقان، مع ذلک چه مقدار از نفوس که به سبب عدم بلوغ به اين مطلب به ذکر خاتم النّبيّين محتجب شده از جميع فيوضات محجوب و ممنوع شده‏اند با اينکه خود آن حضرت فرمود: “اَمَّا النَّبيّونَ فَاَنَا.”… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 68.85)

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…مردم دنیا به راحتی بر زبان رانند. گام‌های محتاطانه‌‌ای که به خصوص پس از جنگ جهانی دوم در جهت نظم جهانی برداشته شده بارقه‌هایی امیدبخش هستند. تمايل روزافزون گروه‌هایی از ملل به رسمی نمودن روابطی که آنها را قادر به هم‌کاری در امور مورد علاقۀ مشترک می‌کند بیان‌گر اين نکته است که مآلاً تمام ملل خواهند توانست بر این ضعف اراده فایق آيند. اتّحاديّۀ کشورهای جنوب شرقی آسيا (Association of South East Asian Nations)، جامعه و بازار مشترک کارائیب (Caribbean Community and Common Market)، بازار مشترک امريکای مرکزی (Central American Common Market)، شورای هم‌کاری متقابل اقتصادی (Council for Mutual Economic… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 68.85)