Two visitation prayers by the Bab for Subh-i-Azal

[NUR]

http://wahidazal.blogspot.de/2012/04/two-visitation-prayers-by-bab-for-subh.html


هو الفريد الوحيد الموطور
باسم ربّنا الازلي

Sunday, April 29th 2012, marks precisely 100 solar, Gregorian years
from the ascension and passing of Subh-i-Azal in Cyprus. Below I offer
two translations of two visitations prayers (ziyarat nameh) among a
larger collection revealed by the Primal Point for Subh-i-Azal in the
period roughly from August/September 1849 to July 1850. While there
may be some confusion as to the Wahid/One being referred to before the
commencement of the first prayer, the internal evidence of the prayer
itself (particularly the titles by which its subject is being
addressed by the Point of the Bayan) prove beyond any doubt that it is
indeed Subh-i-Azal and not anyone else. These visitation prayers are
part of the collection at Bayanic.com found here,
http://bayanic.com/lib/fwd/ziyarat/Visit-FWD.html, and they are the
prayers on pp. 7-9 and 20-21 respectively. Scans of the original are
given below each prayer.

While somewhat similar in content, the high the laudatory manner in
which the Essence of the Seven Letters addresses and eulogizes His
successor and Mirror should be noted, and especially how He addresses
the enemies of His successor at the conclusion of each prayer. In each
of these two prayers, without pulling any punches, the Point of the
Bayan unequivocally curses the current and future enemies of Subh-i-
Azal, paraphrasing Qur'an 26:227 each time, while invoking and
prophesying their ultimate downfall!

Here below now I offer these two translations.


For the Primal One
In the Name of God the Singular, the One!
The salutations of God be upon Thee, O Pearl of Post-Eternity and the
Robely Substance of Pre-Eternity and the Camphorated Leaf of
Simplicity and the Fruit of the Paradise of Camphoration! I testify
that verily Thou hast obeyed the Command of God in Truth and hath made
victorious the Religion of God and hath proclaimed the Cause of God
within Thee, [O] glimmering Visage of the Merciful! By Thee hath been
upraised what God, Thy Lord, hath willed in the Distinction [furqán =
qurán]! I testify to this that whosoever hath obeyed Thee is Light and
whosoever hath disobeyed Thee is fire!

O my Master, Thy misfortunes hath indeed rent the hearts asunder, so
to God do I offer the entreaties of my grief and sadness, for verily
He is in Truth All-Knowing of all which is unseen. And do Thou
forgive, O my Master and Sovereign of my words, from all that which is
not in accord with Thy rank, for indeed there issues from the servant
nothing but trespass upon trespass, for verily my existence is a
trespass upon a trespass and my description in Thy presence an
infraction upon an infraction and my [very] mention to Thee a sin upon
a sin!

I verily testify that Thou art Light within the elevated loins of the
most unapproachable sublimity and that indeed Thou art Luminosity
within the splendiferous wombs of altitudinal loftiness! Nothing shall
alter Thee and nothing shall change Thee! I testify that Thy being, as
it bursts forth glowing, recounts the Robe of Pre-Eternity and that
Thy essence, as it scintillates, bedazzles by that which shimmers from
the First Mirror! I indeed testify that Thou art the mystery of the
[divine] Authorization (qaḍa’) and its command, and the decree of the
[divine] Realization (imḍá’) and its mystery; for verily Thou art the
One Who hath been indicated by Thy Lord, the Lord of the Heavens and
the earth, inasmuch as Thou hath ascended to a rank that none can
surpass other than Thee! So [do Ye] guide, by the grace of God and His
mercy, the people of guidance so that that they be [accounted as]
amongst those who attained to the meeting of their Lord in devout
certainty! And I testify that verily Thou art the One who hath been
roused to the meeting of Thy Lord, and is faithful to God secretly and
overtly, and hath made victorious the Cause of God with capable might
upon Him, and upraised the Command of God by that which Thou art
protector over the Cause of God, Thy Lord, and His attributes; for
verily He, no other God is there besides Him, for He is the High, the
Great!

And God hath cursed the people who have sought to destroy Thee! And
God hath cursed the people who have oppressed Thee! And God hath
cursed the people who have conspired to shed Thy blood! And God hath
cursed the people who have consented to murder Thee! And God hath
cursed the people who have not recognized Thy rank! And God hath
cursed the people who have not made efforts to avenge Thee from Thy
enemies, for God hath indeed cursed the people in whose hearts was not
found love for Thee! So I offer the entreaties of my grief and sadness
to God, for indeed God is observant over the servants! And those who
have oppressed Thee shall learn with what an overturning they shall be
overthrown, for verily we are from God and unto our Lord we are
yearning!





For the Living, the High, the One, who is mentioned by His name the
Magnificent (al-bahháj) in the Point of Pre-Eternity (nuqṭat’ul-azal)

In the Name of God the Innermost Mine (bismillah al-maknún al-
makhzún)!
The purity of the purification of the [holy] preservation of the
Splendour from the Lord of Splendour be upon Thee, O servant of
Righteousness and the Justice adduced (al-‘adl al-munḥajij) and the
shimmering Light! How shall I describe Thee, O my Master, or mention
Thee, O my Liege! Thou hast indeed been faithful to God and His
Versical-Signs, and Thou hast manifested the religion of God and its
Words! I testify that Thou hath obeyed the Command of God in Truth,
and hath striven for God as is truly worthy of striving for Him, and
hath made the Cause of God victorious as is truly worthy of His
victory! I verily testify that Thou art the mystery of the [divine]
Will (mashí’a) in the Talismanic-Temple (haykal) of the [divine]
Volition (iráda), and indeed Thou art the [divine] Authorization
(qaḍá’) - the Visage of [the divine] Authorization! - within the Robe
of the [divine] Determination (qaḍar) by the [consummation of the
divine] Realization (imda’), for verily Thou art the secreted mystery
(mustasirr) of the [divine] Allotment (ajall) within the directional
bearing of the [divine] Book (kitáb) [as situated] upon the Mount of
Resplendence (jabal al-saná’)!

Whosoever obeys Thee is Light and whosoever disobeys Thee is fire! I
testify by everything which God hath accomplished within Thee and made
to occur before Thee, and I testify to everything which hath been
accomplished, hath occurred and been realized, for God shall be made
victorious by Thy victory and the disappointment of God shall be from
Thy disappointment and the recovery of God shall be from Thy recovery
and the persistence of God shall be from Thy persistence! I testify
indeed that Thou hast observed the Command of Thy Lord and hath been
faithful to the Decree of Thy Master! Unchanged, Thou art alive by the
Life of Thy Lord, and, unalterable, Thou shall be alive by the
subsistence of Thy Creator! Unchanged and unalterable in the Pre-
Eternity of pre-eternities, Thou art Alive and shall be Alive inasmuch
as nothing resembles Thee and nothing shall be equivalent to Thee and
nothing shall compare to Thee and nothing shall be of Thy like!

And forgive me, O my Master, from all that which is not in accord with
Thy rank, for I proclaim with my words that verily indeed there issues
from the servant nothing but sin upon sin; for indeed Thou forgiveth
whosoever Thy willeth by the grace of Thy Lord and Thou absolveth
whosoever Thy desireth by the justice of Thy master! And indeed
whatsoever hath occurred is by the permission of Thy Lord over the
Tablets of Truth - there is no doubt in Thee! - and whatsoever hath
been accomplished is Just - there is no uncertainty towards Thee! -
and whatsoever hath been realized is Veracity - there is no false
innovation before Thee!

And the Peace of God and His Splendour be upon Thee, O servant of the
fugitive and Liege of the One, for verily from my station I offer the
highest prayer of benediction and the utmost salutations of peace upon
Thee! And discharged [from these prayers and salutations] are those
who have assaulted Thee and teamed up in bigotry against Thy right and
have devastated Thy House and have created obturations [against] the
People of the House and have sown corruption in Thy Cause! Nor are
they ashamed before God, Thy Creator! Verily indeed He shall take
vengeance upon those who have assaulted the [path of] God and those
who have sown corruption in the Cause of God and those who desire to
extinguish the Light of God, for God hath willed that His Light be
made complete, even though the infidels aver it! And those oppressors
shall learn with what an overturning they shall be overthrown, for
indeed no power and no strength is there save in God the Protector,
the Peerless, for verily we are from God and unto Him we shall return!