BB00468: Tawqi’ Khitab bih ahl-i-bait dar Shiraz

He is the Most Glorious

God testifieth that there is no God but He, the Mighty, the Well-Beloved.

The letter of Siyyid dated 662 from Rashid Lutf has not arrived that would reveal the reason for his movement. Verily it was for the purpose of trade. He will soon return.

Thereafter the word of truth was fulfilled—“Verily, We were recording that which ye were doing”—and another dispensation and the worlds of Return were made manifest. In consideration of safeguarding a certain ruling, no [change] was enacted—for He is the Most Pure.

Wearing silk and the use of gold and silver are permitted; congregational prayer is not incumbent.

As to the recitation of the hidden verse that was asked about: it is obligatory to purify the “earth of souls”—that is, that they neither hear, nor behold, nor utter, nor write aught save the words of the ʿIlliyyin. And even as the earth of the Book of God was filled with justice and equity, so must the earth of souls likewise be.

Whatsoever is put to use should bear the letters of His Name—the Name of God—pronounced upon it; for example, let it be said “Ya Qadir,” or “Ya Latif,” or “Ya Malik,” over the pen or whatever is employed; then may it be used.

We have no contention with the people, albeit their cry “Haste! Haste!” hath filled the world; yet they are not sincere—we have tried them.

At present, nothing is more meet in Our sight than that We leave them to recite the Prayer of the Covenant, the Tablet of the Testament, and the Supplication of Nudbah, while themselves remaining veiled from its Lord.

Aqa Mirza Aqa Mulla ʿAli-Rida came to the Land of Hayy.

Whenever the Sayyid, by His power, shall transmute his fire into light, the Sayyid of 1280 and the Sayyid of 92 shall be gathered in human form. Even the wolf of the age possessed a measure of wolfishness—this was the origin of this journey.

The righteous and the unrighteous are all distinguished in the Return.

I desire not that this be written for any save the people of truth; otherwise, let a sign be shown. Send it to the mulla and the sayyid.

As for the mistress/mother, let the guardian act with piety; let them change “water” into “air,” that they may find some ease. God willing, the end of all their kindred shall be good.