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01 اگر افق اعلی از زخرف دنیا خالیست ولکن در خزائن توکّل و تفویض از برای ورّاث میراث مرغوب لا عدل له گذاشتیم گنج نگذاشتیم و بر رنج نیفزودیم ایم اللّه در ثروت خوف مستور و خطر مکنون انظروا ثمّ اذکروا ما انزله الرّحمن فی الفرقان ویل لکلّ همزة لمزة الّذی جمع مالاً و عدّده ثروت عالم را وفائی نه آنچه را فنا اخذ نماید و تغییر پذیرد لایق اعتنا نبوده و نیست مگر علی قدر معلوم

01 Agar ofoq-e aʿlā az zokhrof-e donyā khālīst valīken dar khazāʾen-e tavakkol o tafvīż az barā-ye vorrās mīrās-e marghūb lā ʿadla lah goẕāshtīm ganj nagoẕāshtīm o bar ranj nayafzūdīm īm Allāh dar servat khowf mastūr o khaṭar maknūn onẓorū somma oẕkorū mā anzalah al-Raḥmān fī al-Furqān wayl li-kulli humazatin lumazatin alladhī jamaʿa mālan wa-ʿaddadah servat-e ʿālam rā vafāʾī na ānche rā fanā akhz namāyad o taghyīr paẕīrad lāyeq-e eʿtenā nabūde o nīst magar ʿalā qadr-e maʿlūm

01 Though the Most Exalted Horizon is devoid of the adornments of the world, We have left in the treasuries of trust and surrender an incomparable and cherished inheritance for the heirs. We have left no treasure and added no burden. By God, fear lies hidden in wealth, and danger is concealed within it. Look, then remember what the All-Merciful revealed in the Qur’an: “Woe to every slanderer and backbiter who amasses wealth and counts it.” The wealth of the world has no constancy. That which perishes or is subject to change has not been, and is not, worthy of attention, except to a known measure.

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02 مقصود این مظلوم از حمل شداید و بلایا و انزال آیات و اظهار بیّنات اخماد نار ضغینه و بغضا بوده که شاید آفاق افئدهٴ اهل عالم بنور اتّفاق منوّر گردد و بآسایش حقیقی فائز گردد و از افق لوح الهی نیّر این بیان لائح و مشرق باید کل بآن ناظر باشند ای اهل عالم شما را وصیّت مینمایم بآنچه سبب ارتفاع مقامات شما است بتقوی اللّه تمسّک نمائید و بذیل معروف تشبّث کنید براستی میگویم لسان از برای ذکر خیر است او را بگفتار زشت میالائید عفا اللّه عمّا سلف از بعد باید کل بما ینبغی تکلّم نمایند از لعن و طعن و ما یتکدّر به الانسان اجتناب نمایند مقام انسان بزرگست چندی قبل این کلمهٴ علیا از مخزن قلم ابهی ظاهر امروز روزیست بزرگ و مبارک آنچه در انسان مستور بوده امروز ظاهر شده و میشود مقام انسان بزرگست اگر بحقّ و راستی تمسّک نماید و بر امر ثابت و راسخ باشد انسان حقیقی بمثابهٴ آسمان لدی الرّحمن مشهود شمس و قمر سمع و بصر و انجم او اخلاق منیرهٴ مضیئه مقامش اعلی المقام و آثارش مربّی امکان

02 Maqṣūd-e īn maẓlūm az ḥaml-e shadāyed o balāyā o enzāl-e āyāt o eẓhār-e bayyenāt ekhmād-e nār-e żaghīne o baghżā būde ke shāyad āfāq-e afʾede-ye ahl-e ʿālam be-nūr-e ettefāq monavvar gardad o be-āsāyesh-e ḥaqīqī fāʾez gardad o az ofoq-e lowḥ-e elāhī nayyer-e īn bayān lāyeḥ o moshreq bāyad koll be-ān nāẓer bāshand ey ahl-e ʿālam shomā rā vaṣīyat mīnamāyam be-ānche sabab-e ertefāʿ-e maqāmāt-e shomā ast be-taqvā Allāh tamassok namāyīd o be-ẕayl-e maʿrūf tashabbos konīd be-rāstī mīgūyam lesān az barā-ye ẕekr-e kheyr ast ū rā be-goftār-e zesht mayālāyīd ʿafā Allāh ʿammā salaf az baʿd bāyad koll bi-mā yanbaghī takallom namāyand az laʿn o ṭaʿn o mā yatakaddar bih al-insān ejtenāb namāyand maqām-e ensān bozorg ast chandī qabl īn kalame-ye ʿolyā az makhzan-e qalam-e abhā ẓāher emrūz rūzīst bozorg o mobārak ānche dar ensān mastūr būde emrūz ẓāher shode o mīshavad maqām-e ensān bozorg ast agar be-ḥaqq o rāstī tamassok namāyad o bar amr sābet o rāsekh bāshad ensān-e ḥaqīqī be-masābe-ye āsemān ladā al-Raḥmān mashhūd shams o qamar samʿ o baṣar o anjom-e ū akhlāq-e monīre-ye możīʾe maqāmash aʿlā al-maqām o āsārash morabbī-ye emkān

02 The purpose of this Wronged One in bearing hardships and afflictions, revealing verses, and making clear proofs manifest has been to extinguish the fire of rancor and hatred, so that the horizons of the hearts of the people of the world might be illumined by the light of concord and they might attain true peace. From the horizon of the divine Tablet, the sun of this utterance shines forth: All must turn toward it. O people of the world, I counsel you to do what will raise your stations. Hold fast to the fear of God and cling to what is right. I tell you truly: the tongue is meant for speaking well of others; do not defile it with ugly speech. God has forgiven what is past. Henceforth all must speak as is fitting and refrain from curses, reproaches, and anything that grieves a person. The station of the human being is great. Some time ago, these exalted words issued from the treasury of the Most Glorious Pen: “Today is a great and blessed day. What was hidden within the human being has become, and is becoming, manifest. The station of the human being is great, provided one holds fast to truth and honesty and remains steadfast and firm in the Cause. In the sight of the All-Merciful, a true human being appears like the heavens: hearing and sight are their sun and moon, and their radiant, luminous qualities are their stars. Their station is the highest of stations, and their works nurture the realm of existence.”

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03 هر مقبلی الیوم عرف قمیص را یافت و بقلب طاهر بافق اعلی توجّه نمود او از اهل بها در صحیفهٴ حمرا مذکور خذ قدح عنایتی باسمی ثمّ اشرب منه بذکری العزیز البدیع

03 Har moqbelī al-yawm ʿarf-e qamīṣ rā yāft o be-qalb-e ṭāher be-ofoq-e aʿlā tavajjoh namūd ū az ahl-e Bahā dar ṣaḥīfe-ye ḥamrā maẕkūr khuḏ qadāḥa ʿināyatī bi-ismī thumma ishrab minhu bi-dhikrī al-ʿazīz al-badīʿ

03 Whoever today has turned toward God, perceived the fragrance of the garment, and directed a pure heart toward the Most Exalted Horizon is numbered among the people of Bahá in the Crimson Scroll. Take the cup of My favor in My name, then drink from it in remembrance of Me, the Mighty, the Wondrous.

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04 ای اهل عالم مذهب الهی از برای محبّت و اتّحاد است او را سبب عداوت و اختلاف منمائید نزد صاحبان بصر و اهل منظر اکبر آنچه سبب حفظ و علّت راحت و آسایش عباد است از قلم اعلی نازل شده ولکن جهّال ارض چون مربّای نفس و هوسند از حکمتهای بالغهٴ حکیم حقیقی غافلند و بظنون و اوهام ناطق و عامل

04 Ey ahl-e ʿālam maẕhab-e elāhī az barā-ye maḥabbat o etteḥād ast ū rā sabab-e ʿadāvat o ekhtelāf manamāyīd nazd-e ṣāḥebān-e baṣar o ahl-e manẓar-e akbar ānche sabab-e ḥefẓ o ʿellat-e rāḥat o āsāyesh-e ʿebād ast az qalam-e aʿlā nāzel shode valīken johhāl-e arż chon morabbā-ye nafs o havasand az ḥekmathā-ye bāleghe-ye ḥakīm-e ḥaqīqī ghāfeland o be-ẓonūn o owhām nāṭeq o ʿāmel

04 O people of the world, divine religion exists for love and unity. Do not make it a cause of enmity and division. To those with insight and those who behold the Most Great Vision, it is evident that what preserves God’s servants and brings them comfort and peace has been revealed by the Most Exalted Pen. But the ignorant of the earth, nurtured by selfish desire, are heedless of the consummate wisdom of the true Wise One; they speak and act according to suspicions and vain imaginings.

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05 یا اولیآء اللّه و امنائه ملوک مظاهر قدرت و مطالع عزّت و ثروت حقّند در بارهٴ ایشان دعا کنید حکومت ارض بآن نفوس عنایت شد و قلوب را از برای خود مقرّر داشت

05 Yā awliyāʾ Allāh va omanāʾeh molūk maẓāher-e qodrat o maṭāleʿ-e ʿezzat o servat-e Ḥaqqand dar bāre-ye īshān doʿā konīd ḥokūmat-e arż be-ān nofūs ʿenāyat shod o qolūb rā az barā-ye khod moqarrar dāsht

05 O friends of God and His trusted ones, kings are manifestations of God’s power and dawning places of His might and wealth. Pray for them. The government of the earth has been entrusted to those souls, while He has reserved hearts for Himself.

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06 نزاع و جدال را نهی فرمود نهیاً عظیما فی الکتاب هذا امر اللّه فی هذا الظّهور الأعظم و عصمه من حکم المحو و زیّنه بطراز الاثبات انّه هو العلیم الحکیم

06 Nezāʿ o jedāl rā nahy farmūd nahyan ʿaẓīman fī al-kitāb hādhā amr Allāh fī hādhā al-ẓuhūr al-aʿẓam wa-ʿaṣamahu min ḥukm al-maḥw wa-zayyanahu bi-ṭirāz al-ithbāt innahu huwa al-ʿalīm al-ḥakīm

06 He has emphatically forbidden conflict and contention in the Book. This is God’s command in this Most Great Revelation. He has protected it from abrogation and adorned it with the distinction of permanence. He is, indeed, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

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07 مظاهر حکم و مطالع امر که بطراز عدل و انصاف مزیّنند بر کل اعانت آن نفوس لازم طوبی للأمرآء و العلمآء فی البهآء اولئک امنائی بین عبادی و مشارق احکامی بین خلقی علیهم بهائی و رحمتی و فضلی الّذی احاط الوجود در کتاب اقدس در این مقام نازل شده آنچه که از آفاق کلماتش انوار بخشش الهی لامع و ساطع و مشرقست

07 Maẓāher-e ḥokm o maṭāleʿ-e amr ke be-ṭerāz-e ʿadl o enṣāf mozayyanand bar koll eʿānat-e ān nofūs lāzem ṭūbā li-l-umarāʾ wa-l-ʿulamāʾ fī al-Bahāʾ ulāʾika umanāʾī bayna ʿibādī wa-mashāriq aḥkāmī bayna khalqī ʿalayhim bahāʾī wa-raḥmatī wa-faḍlī alladhī aḥāṭa al-wujūd dar Ketāb-e Aqdas dar īn maqām nāzel shode ānche ke az āfāq-e kalamātash anvār-e bakhshesh-e elāhī lāmeʿ o sāṭeʿ o moshreq ast

07 All must assist those who manifest authority and serve as dawning places of command, when they are adorned with justice and fairness. “Blessed are the rulers and the learned among the people of Bahá. They are My trusted ones among My servants and the dawning places of My commandments among My creation. Upon them rest My glory, My mercy, and My grace, which encompass all existence.” On this subject, words have been revealed in the Most Holy Book from whose horizons the lights of divine generosity shine and radiate.

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08 یا اغصانی در وجود قوّت عظیمه و قدرت کامله مکنون و مستور باو و جهة اتّحاد او ناظر باشید نه باختلافات ظاهره از او

08 Yā aghṣānī dar vojūd qovvat-e ʿaẓīme o qodrat-e kāmele maknūn o mastūr be-ū o jehat-e etteḥād-e ū nāẓer bāshīd na be-ekhtelāfāt-e ẓāhere az ū

08 O My Branches, a great strength and a perfect power lie concealed within existence. Turn your attention to it and to the unity it brings, not to the apparent differences arising from it.

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09 وصیّة اللّه آنکه باید اغصان و افنان و منتسبین طرّاً بغصن اعظم ناظر باشند انظروا ما انزلناه فی کتابی الأقدس اذا غیض بحر الوصال و قضی کتاب المبدإ فی المآل توجّهوا الی من اراده اللّه الّذی انشعب من هذا الأصل القدیم مقصود از این آیهٴ مبارکه غصن اعظم بوده کذلک اظهرنا الأمر فضلاً من عندنا و انا الفضّال الکریم قد قدّر اللّه مقام الغصن الأکبر بعد مقامه انّه هو الآمر الحکیم قد اصطفینا الأکبر بعد الأعظم امراً من لدن علیم خبیر

09 Vaṣīyat Allāh ānke bāyad aghṣān o afnān o montasebīn ṭorran be-Ghoṣn-e Aʿẓam nāẓer bāshand unẓurū mā anzalnāhu fī kitābī al-Aqdas idhā ghīḍa baḥr al-wiṣāl wa-quḍiya kitāb al-mabdaʾ fī al-maʾāl tawajjahū ilā man arādahu Allāh alladhī inshaʿaba min hādhā al-aṣl al-qadīm maqṣūd az īn āye-ye mobārake Ghoṣn-e Aʿẓam būde ka-dhālika aẓharnā al-amr faḍlan min ʿindinā wa-anā al-faḍḍāl al-karīm qad qaddara Allāh maqām al-Ghoṣn al-Akbar baʿda maqāmihi innahu huwa al-āmir al-ḥakīm qad iṣṭafaynā al-Akbar baʿda al-Aʿẓam amran min ladun ʿalīm khabīr

09 God’s testament is that the Branches, the Afnán, and all relatives must turn toward the Most Great Branch. Consider what We have revealed in My Most Holy Book: “When the ocean of My presence has ebbed and the Book of My Revelation has reached its end, turn toward Him whom God has intended, who has branched from this Ancient Root.” This blessed verse refers to the Most Great Branch. Thus have We made the matter clear as a favor from Us, and I am the Bountiful, the Generous. God has ordained the station of the Greater Branch to follow his station. He is, indeed, the Ordainer, the All-Wise. We have chosen the Greater after the Most Great, by command of One who is All-Knowing, All-Informed.

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10 محبّت اغصان بر کل لازم ولکن ما قدّر اللّه لهم حقّاً فی اموال النّاس

10 Maḥabbat-e aghṣān bar koll lāzem valīken mā qaddara Allāh lahum ḥaqqan fī amwāl al-nās

10 All must love the Branches, but God has assigned them no right to the property of others.

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11 یا اغصانی و افنانی و ذوی قرابتی نوصیکم بتقوی اللّه و بمعروف و بما ینبغی و بما ترتفع به مقاماتکم براستی میگویم تقوی سردار اعظمست از برای نصرت امر الهی و جنودی که لایق این سردارست اخلاق و اعمال طیّبهٴ طاهرهٴ مرضیّه بوده و هست

11 Yā aghṣānī va afnānī va dhawī qarābatī nūṣīkum bi-taqwā Allāh wa-bi-maʿrūf wa-bi-mā yanbaghī wa-bi-mā tartafiʿu bihi maqāmātukum be-rāstī mīgūyam taqvā sardār-e aʿẓam ast az barā-ye noṣrat-e amr-e elāhī o jonūdī ke lāyeq-e īn sardār ast akhlāq o aʿmāl-e ṭayyebe-ye ṭāhere-ye marżīye būde o hast

11 O My Branches, My Afnán, and My relatives, We counsel you to fear God, to do what is right and fitting, and to do what will raise your stations. I tell you truly: the fear of God is the supreme commander in the service of His Cause, and the troops worthy of this commander have always been, and remain, pure and goodly qualities and deeds that are pleasing to God.

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12 بگو ای عباد اسباب نظم را سبب پریشانی منمائید و علّت اتّحاد را علّت اختلاف مسازید امید آنکه اهل بها بکلمهٴ مبارکهٴ قل کلّ من عند اللّه ناظر باشند و این کلمهٴ علیا بمثابهٴ آبست از برای اطفاء نار ضغینه و بغضا که در قلوب و صدور مکنون و مخزونست احزاب مختلفه از این کلمهٴ واحده بنور اتّحاد حقیقی فائز میشوند انّه یقول الحقّ و یهدی السّبیل و هو المقتدر العزیز الجمیل

12 Begū ey ʿebād asbāb-e naẓm rā sabab-e parīshānī manamāyīd o ʿellat-e etteḥād rā ʿellat-e ekhtelāf masāzīd omīd ānke ahl-e Bahā be-kalame-ye mobārake-ye qul kullun min ʿind Allāh nāẓer bāshand o īn kalame-ye ʿolyā be-masābe-ye āb ast az barā-ye eṭfā-ye nār-e żaghīne o baghżā ke dar qolūb o ṣodūr maknūn o makhzūn ast aḥzāb-e mokhtalefe az īn kalame-ye vāḥede be-nūr-e etteḥād-e ḥaqīqī fāʾez mīshavand innahu yaqūlu al-ḥaqq wa-yahdī al-sabīl wa-huwa al-muqtadir al-ʿazīz al-jamīl

12 Say: O servants, do not turn the means of order into a cause of turmoil, or a source of unity into a cause of division. It is hoped that the people of Bahá will heed the blessed words “Say: All is from God.” These exalted words are like water for extinguishing the fire of rancor and hatred hidden and stored in hearts. Through these single words, differing groups can attain the light of true unity. He speaks the truth and guides the way; He is the All-Powerful, the Mighty, the Beautiful.

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13 احترام و ملاحظهٴ اغصان بر کل لازم لاعزاز امر و ارتفاع کلمه و این حکم از قبل و بعد در کتب الهی مذکور و مسطور طوبی لمن فاز بما امر به من لدن آمر قدیم و همچنین احترام حرم و آل اللّه و افنان و منتسبین و نوصیکم بخدمة الأمم و اصلاح العالم از ملکوت بیان مقصود عالمیان نازل شد

13 Eḥterām o molāḥeẓe-ye aghṣān bar koll lāzem li-iʿzāz al-amr wa-irtifāʿ al-kalima o īn ḥokm az qabl o baʿd dar kotob-e elāhī maẕkūr o masṭūr ṭūbā li-man fāza bi-mā umira bihi min ladun āmir qadīm o hamchenīn eḥterām-e ḥaram o āl Allāh o afnān o montasebīn wa-nūṣīkum bi-khidmat al-umam wa-iṣlāḥ al-ʿālam az malakūt-e bayān-e Maqṣūd-e ʿālamiyān nāzel shod

13 All must show respect and consideration for the Branches, for the honor of the Cause and the exaltation of its Word. This command has been recorded in the divine Books, both before and since. Blessed is whoever has attained what was commanded by the Ancient Ordainer. Likewise, respect must be shown to the Holy Household, the family of God, the Afnán, and the relatives. “We counsel you to serve the nations and work for the betterment of the world” was revealed from the realm of the utterance of the Desire of all peoples.

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14 آنچه که سبب حیات عالم و نجات اممست نصایح قلم اعلی را بگوش حقیقی اصغا نمائید انّها خیر لکم عمّا علی الأرض یشهد بذلک کتابی العزیز البدیع

14 Ānche ke sabab-e ḥayāt-e ʿālam o najāt-e omam ast naṣāyeḥ-e qalam-e aʿlā rā be-gūsh-e ḥaqīqī eṣghā namāyīd innahā khayrun lakum ʿammā ʿalā al-arḍ yashhadu bi-dhālika kitābī al-ʿazīz al-badīʿ

14 Listen attentively to the counsels of the Most Exalted Pen, which bring life to the world and salvation to the nations. They are better for you than anything on earth. My mighty and wondrous Book bears witness to this.