Ridvan

“Since We have been expelled from our homeland and banished from Baghdad to a remote place, that the fire of the love of God might be quenched, the lamp of guidance extinguished, the banner of God hauled down, and the call of the True One silenced, We have therefore chosen to fully reveal the Cause, manifest the proof, raise the call, and hoist the banner of the Cause of God, that all may see that this persecution, enmity, banishment, and exile has only deepened the influence of the Word of God, that the fame of the Cause has been noised abroad, and that the tidings of the advent of the Kingdom of God have reached unto both East and West.” This universal declaration took place in the year 1280. Magnified, O Lord my God, be Thy Name, whereby the trees of the garden of Thy Revelation have been clad with verdure, and been made to yield the fruits of holiness during this springtime, when the sweet savors of Thy favors and blessings have been wafted over all things, and caused them to bring forth whatsoever had been preordained for them in the Kingdom of Thine irrevocable decree and the Heaven of Thine immutable purpose.  I beseech Thee by this very Name not to suffer me to be far from the court of Thy holiness, nor debarred from the exalted sanctuary of Thy unity and oneness. By Thy might, were kings to witness so great  a glory, they would assuredly rid themselves of their dominion and cleave to such of Thy subjects as have entered beneath the shadow of Thy immeasurable mercy. This is the day whereon naught can be seen except the splendors that shiners from the light that shiners from the face of thy Lord, the gracious, the bountiful. O son of Being! Thy paradise is My love. This is the day when the Star of Truth rose over the horizon of life. The first stirrings of Thy grace have appeared, and clothed Thine earth with verdure. Found ye spiritual assemblies, for these are the basis for spreading the sweet savors of God.