Provisional Summary Translation
Excerpt from a tablet from Bahá’u’lláh addressed to Mullá Muhammad Shafí:
- Reference is made to those who for twelve hundred years did say:
- ”There is no God but Him!”
- But with a word they slipped away from the Straight Path.
- The people of Bahá are they who have passed
- beyond this mortal world and desired the heaven of certitude.
- The whole world is powerless to change them.
- It is said that it is better for you to read one verse from Him
- than to inscribe the entire Bayán, for indeed in this Day
- that one verse will be your savior,
- but the Bayán will not be able to be thus.
- The people of Bahá must be well-informed so that they remain steadfast.
- Convey my greeting to all the friends,
- perchance the fragrance of these words may aid them
- to reach the station that is beyond the reach of any doubter.
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Bahá'u'lláh
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