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Selections From the Writings of the Báb
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Pages 42-43
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"BE thou content with the commandment of God, the ..."
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BE thou content with the commandment of God, the
True One, inasmuch as sovereignty, as recorded in the
Mother Book by the hand of God, is surely invested in Him
Who is His Remembrance...
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O Minister of the Sháh! Fear thou God, besides Whom
there is none other God but Him, the Sovereign Truth, the
Just, and lay aside thy dominion, for We, by the leave of
God, the All-Wise, inherit the earth and all who are upon
it,
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and He shall rightfully be a witness unto thee and unto
the Sháh. Were ye to obey the Remembrance of God with
absolute sincerity, We guarantee, by the leave of God, that
on the Day of Resurrection, a vast dominion shall be yours
in His eternal Paradise.
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Vain indeed is your dominion, for God hath set aside
earthly possessions for such as have denied Him; for unto
Him Who is your Lord shall be the most excellent abode,
He Who is, in truth, the Ancient of Days....
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O concourse of kings! Deliver with truth and in all haste
the verses sent down by Us to the peoples of Turkey and of
India, and beyond them, with power and with truth, to
lands in both the East and the West.... And know that if ye
aid God, He will, on the Day of Resurrection, graciously
aid you, upon the Bridge, through Him Who is His Most
Great Remembrance...
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O people of the earth! Whoso obeyeth the Remembrance
of God and His Book hath in truth obeyed God and His
chosen ones and he will, in the life to come, be reckoned in
the presence of God among the inmates of the Paradise of
His good-pleasure. Chapter I.
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Notes
1. [cf. Qur'án 19:41]
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