-- provisional translation by Moojan Momen
(please see some
background information at the end of the Tablet)
He is the All-
Glorious!
Praise be to
Thee, O Lord! O my God! Out of Thy Bounty and Mercy, Thou hast caused the
waters of existence to descend from the heaven of Thy Oneness and Thou hast
caused the showers of Thine Eternal Bounties to rain down from the clouds of
the heaven of Thy Mighty Oneness until, through this most mighty Beneficence,
the rivers of Thy most wondrous Grace flowed forth upon the soil of all
possible existent realities in Thine act of Creation. All lands and regions were
watered by these streaming, heavenly rivers. Every hill and city was inundated
by these torrential celestial floods. And then there shone forth upon them the
sun of Thy Mercy from the horizon of Thy holy Might. And the grains, O my God,
of Thine Exalted Word and Thy Most Mighty Verses were sown in the earth of human
capacity by Thy great Grace and Favour.
These existent
realities, however, became differentiated and diverged through the effulgences
of the Sun of Thy most great Name. Some of them, O my God, just as Thou hast
reckoned according to Thy secret knowledge, are pure and refined hearts upon
which that Sun imprinted its signs and from which there appeared traces of its
effulgence. It hath stirred up and fertilized their soil and there hath grown forth
from them the myrtles of love and knowledge of Thee. They have been adorned by
the sacred blossoms of yearning for and attraction towards Thee as like a
blessed and fertile land. Some, however, O my God, were soiled hearts obscured
by the rust of their vain imaginings, veiled from their Lord by the veils of
darkness. No trace appears among them of the effulgences of that sun nor of the
signs of the One Who hath created and ordained it. Upon their soil, the grain
of the mention of their Lord is as upon desolate and barren land. Thou art not,
however, O my God, neglectful in Thine effulgences upon the creation and the
appearance of Thy signs among existent realities, as Thou hast said, and Thy
word is the truth: “No fault canst thou see in the creation of the All-Merciful”
(Qura’n 67:3) and “Your creation and your resurrection is but as a single soul (Qur’an
31:28).
