BB00667: Ziyarat for the Point

The Glory from God be upon thee, O hallowed Dust! Then the Majesty be upon thee, O unapproachable Dust! Then the Beauty from God be upon thee, O exalted Dust! Then the Greatness from God be upon thee, O resplendent Dust! Then the Light from God be upon thee, O illumined Dust! Then the Mercy from God be upon thee, O magnified Dust! Then the Words from God be upon thee, O glorified Dust! Then the Names from God be upon thee, O perfected Dust! Then the Might from God be upon thee, O adorned Dust! Then the Will from God be upon thee, O witnessing Dust! Then the Knowledge from God be upon thee, O lofty Dust! Then the Power from God be upon thee, O manifest Dust! Then the Good-pleasure from God be upon thee, O well-pleased Dust! Then the Honor from God be upon thee, O all-ruling Dust! Then the Sovereignty from God be upon thee, O proud Dust! Then the Dominion from God be upon thee, O foremost Dust! Then all the verses, every one of them, from God be upon thee, O bountiful Dust!

Thy being hath soared to such a height that all things have fallen low before thy rank; and thy very self hath been sanctified in such wise that all things have bowed down before the dwellers in the realm of thy will. By thy might! thou wast not abased—nay, God hath ever exalted thee, and hath caused honor to descend upon thee. I testify that thou wast pure and made pure, through a purity that is itself pure and purifying. Thou didst glorify God with thy whole being; thou didst sanctify God in thy very essence; thou didst affirm the unity of God in thy reality; thou didst magnify God in thy inmost self; thou didst extol God in thy simplicity; and thou didst ascend and wast uplifted, and none is above thee in loftiness.

All are servants of God at thy dawning; all are prostrate before God at thy direction; all are lamps for God through the light of thy radiant being; all are dwellers for God by reason of the might thou hast opened through thy will; all are rememberers of God through that primal decree thou hast ordained from thy presence. Thou art He from whose knowledge nothing can escape, and whose knowledge hath encompassed all things. Thou art He Who, by thy turning unto God, brought into being the creation of all things; and Who, by thy returning unto God, gathered again the creation of all things.

May God’s blessings be upon thee, and upon him who visiteth thee first, before all things, after that God, thy Lord, had visited thee ere any thing could visit thee; and upon thyself in the Most Exalted Paradise; and upon the Letters of thine own being; and upon the guides of thy names and thy likenesses. And may He chastise with every affliction whoso bowed not down through thee unto God, though the life of his religion was through thee, and he wrought, concerning thee, that which he wrought. God, and His angels, and the believers, are all quit of such as these, from the First that hath no beginning unto the Last that hath no end. Sufficient for them is what they have earned in thee. God shall take vengeance upon them through the sovereignty of His conquering might, the kingship of His compelling power, the dominion of His self-subsisting authority, the independence of His all-glorious holiness, and the unassailability of His grandeur. Verily, He is the Powerful, the All-Powerful; the Subduer, the Most Subduing; the Manifest, the Most Manifest; the Prevailing, the Most Prevailing; the Seizer, the Most Seizing.

How, then, can my sorrow be stilled in thee, O sanctified Dust? For when I look unto the utmost height of the Bayan, and unto the loftiness of what was revealed aforetime in the Furqan, I behold that this beginning is through thee, inasmuch as thou wast the first who recognized God, thy Lord. I shall bear witness unto thee and unto all things that thou art the gathering-place of the beginnings and the endings. How shall I gaze upon thy dust after I have gazed upon thy countenance? How shall I behold thy stillness before mine eyes, when thou wast moving before mine eyes? From whence could God, thy Lord, refrain from loving thee, when I loved thee before all things?

May God bless thee from thy Lord—thy first and thy last, thy outward and thy inward, thy hidden and thy manifest, thy secret and thy proclaimed. All favor shall ever descend upon thy dust until the Day of Resurrection. No soul returneth unto God without having with it a portion of thy dust, but God refuseth to look upon him, or to be pleased with him. Blessed, then, and purified, and exalted, and supremely exalted is thy dust—thy first and thy last, thy outward and thy inward, thy eternal dust—as though I hearken, from every atom thereof, unto the cry: Verily, I am the first who called upon God, my Lord, in the worlds of command and creation; I took from the virgin fruits of the gardens of His everlasting Paradise ere He created. Through thee hath been brought into being whatsoever hath been brought into being, and shall yet be brought into being.

Is there anything that loveth thee not, seeing that it was created aforetime through thy manifestation, and shall be created hereafter through thy concealment? I testify that thou art the First in the might of eternity, and before thee, in the knowledge of God, there was nothing; and that thou art the Last in the majesty of ancientness, and after thee, in His knowledge, there shall be nothing; and that thou art the Manifest in the loftiness of everlastingness, and with thee is no manifest save thine own self; and that thou art the Hidden, and there is none hidden besides thee.

My soul hath known thee, and through thee the heavens and the earth and all that lieth between them have been made weighty through the word of thy recognition; and through the sublimity of thy proof have been magnified all who are in the kingdom of command and creation, and all beneath them. When shall the might of the All-Subduer be quieted within thee, while upon the earth there remaineth a spirit that hath not known thee? And when shall God be pleased with His creatures, while in His knowledge there is a thing that is not joined to thee—preceding thee in existence above every existent, and intended for other than thee as a manifestation in any thing, or as a concealment?

I shall ever make mention of thee: that every manifestation is created by the Will; and is there anything besides thee that bowed down before God before all things? And every concealment speaketh by the Will; and is there anyone besides thee that believed in God before all things? Be thou, then, at rest in God; be patient in God; be well-pleased with God; ascend unto God; and be rich through God above all things. For all have put on the garment of existence through thee.

God shall suffice thee and me through Him Whom God shall make manifest on the Day of Resurrection, and He shall cause those who are veiled from thee to desist. Verily, He is the All-Subduing, the Terrible; and verily He is the All-Compelling, the Mighty. And even as He hath revealed unto thee in thy dust, so shall He reveal unto the guides of thine own self, and unto the letters of those who bowed down to God before all things, and were raised up through thee unto God after all things, and were exalted through thee above all things—those who sought shelter beneath thy shadow. This is of the bounty of God, and His generosity, and His grace, and His mercy, which hath ever descended upon thee, and upon the guides of thyself, and upon those who love thee and alight within thy court, until the Day of Resurrection.

Seek thou the good-pleasure of God; for God shall suffice you in all things, while nothing can suffice in place of God, your Lord—neither in the heavens, nor on the earth, nor in all that lieth between them. Verily, He is the All-Knowing, the Powerful. And they who have wrought shall come to know that ye have entered Paradise, while they, in your shadow, bear witness to that which profiteth them not, and wherefrom there shall reach them no portion of God’s grace. For they that believe not in God and His verses shall have neither protector nor helper—save the Point and the Letters, if they but knew.