Provisional Translation
- He is the Most Great and the Most Holy.
- O Muhammad Shafi,
- thou who hast interceded on behalf of others,
- the Pardoner noticed thee from His most radiant habitat,
- the place wherefrom the Possessor of Destiny speaks
- regarding the mysteries of what is and what has been.
- We sent thee a tablet to which nothing equals.
- This is yet another tablet which hath issued forth from My guarded tablet.
- Art thou able to thank God appropriately?
- No, by My Hidden Knowledge
- in this praiseworthy abode We thank God on behalf of our loved ones.
- O Shafi!
- Today is the Day of the greatest bounty.
- The rain of compassion is falling continuously from the clouds of mercy.
- Happy is he who hath achieved the knowledge of God.
- O thou who hast turned toward this Cause,
- the Call of God hath been raised and the people have gone astray.
- In this Day, steadfastness in the Cause is the greatest deed.
- Blessed is the person who attaineth this.
- Remind the friends of this high and exalted station
- so that like the buzzing of insects, the enemies of God
- do not deprive them of the Lord of Repentance.
- Since we observed that a single word
- can deprive the soul of the entire Mother Book
- and that because of the screech of a cackle
- one can be deprived of the song of the nightingale.
- Say: O Ye divine saints,
- it is incumbent upon you to hold fast to wisdom
- and to that which is prescribed in the Book.
- I advise you to observe that which is in the Divine Book.
- Today everyone who obeys it is of the people of Bahá.
- Say: It is incumbent upon you to do that which is meet and seemly.
- It is incumbent upon you to do that which is good and worthy
- so that the Cause of God, the Protector,
- the Self-Subsisting will be manifest.
- Upon Ye and upon the servants
- and the handmaids of God be His Glory!
- Rejoice in this bounty!
- Say: Thanks be to Thee,
- O thou imprisoned one, who makes mention of God.
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Bahá’u’lláh
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