Tablet 201: Tablet of Visitation from 'Abdu'l-Bahá to be read at the burial place of the heads of the martyrs of Nayriz, in Abadih
Provisional Translation
- He is God!
- O Divine Breezes, wafting over that Most Luminous Spot,
- convey the fire of the love of my heart,
- the longing of my soul, the deep attachment of my spirit
- and the ardent desire of my heart yearning to be at that place
- where the fallen heads were crowned with the greatest martyrdom
- adorned with jewels shedding light upon the ages and centuries past as they were separated from their bodies in the Path of God.
- Say:
- May the bright lights shining from the Abha Kingdom
- Illuminate that brilliant sepulcher.
- May the soft breezes blowing from the gardens
- of the Most Sublime Paradise waft over that Most Luminous Spot.
- That verdant garden,
- that sublime meadow was honored by you.
- O heads severed in the Path of your Lord!
- O faces illuminated by the light of the Sun of Guidance!
- O eyes brightened by turning towards
- the Splendor of the Daystar of Thy Revelation!
- O ears made receptive by listening to the Call of the Lord!
- O nostrils invigorated by inhaling
- the pure breath of the Guidance of God !
- O palates refreshed by tasting every bitterness
- yet sweetened in the path of the Love of God!
- May my spirit be a sacrifice for you !
- May my being be a sacrifice for you !
- May my reality be a sacrifice for you !
- O brilliant faces!
- O heavenly souls!
- O celestial severed heads!
- O orbs of oneness!
- O divine soldiers!
- Blessed are ye!
- Well done!
- Glory be upon you!
- Blessed are you for what you have done.
- You offered up your possessions, your kindred
- and your souls in the path of the Glory of God
- for the love of His Most Exalted Beauty.
- Praised be Thy Most Glorious Lord
- as He hath created you,
- and hath called you into being
- and hath raised you up
- from the tombs of self and desire
- and hath enlisted you under the banner
- of the Praise of God at the hour
- when the Most Great Resurrection came to pass.
- Then they were gladdened
- when the earth was shaken by the great quake
- and they were cheered by the Glad Tidings.
- They were delighted
- when the Call of God rose from the Highest Pinnacle
- and they heard: “Am I not your Supreme Lord?”
- and they responded: “Yes, our Lord !”
- and they sacrificed their possessions
- and they gave whatever was due to them
- in this bright and luminous path.
- They were torn to pieces by the hands of the ruthless.
- Their bodies were scattered on the earth.
- Their heads were severed from their bodies,
- and hurled to the ground.
- Then their heads were speared and carried aloft.
- Their families were exiled to the town
- where the birth of the Primal Point had taken place,
- where the heads were raised aloft on spears
- and were sent to this blessed and verdant land.
- May my spirit be a sacrifice for you!
- May my being be a sacrifice for you!
- May my self be a sacrifice for you!
- May my essence be a sacrifice for you!
- O ye, noble heads of men,
- martyrs in the Path of God,
- O happy and blissful in this world
- and in the world to come!
- Upon you be His Glory.
- Upon you be His Praise
- Upon you be the assistance
- and the bounty of your Supreme Lord.
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