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O people of the Bayan! Abandon your idle fancies and vain imaginings, then with the eye of fairness look at the Dayspring of His revelation and consider the things He hath manifested, the words He hath divinely revealed and the sufferings that have befallen Him at the hands of His enemies. He is the One Who hath willingly accepted every manner of tribulation for the proclamation of His Cause and the exaltation of His Word. At one time He suffered imprisonment in the land of Ta (Tihran), at another in the land of Mim (Mazindaran), then once again in the former land, for the sake of the Cause of God, the Almighty, the All-Bountiful, He was subjected there to chains and fetters. (104:1) O people of the Bayan! Have ye forgotten My exhortation, which My Pen hath revealed and My tongue hath uttered? Have ye bartered away My certitude in exchange for your idle fancies and My Way for your selfish desires? Have ye cast away the precepts of God and His remembrance and have ye forsaken His laws and ordinances? Fear ye God and abandon vain imaginings to the begetters thereof and leave superstition s to the devisers thereof and misgivings to the breeders thereof. Advance ye then with radiant faces and stainless hearts towards the horizon above which the Day-Star of certitude shineth resplendent at the bidding of God, the Lord of Revelations.
(104:2)
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