Nay, too exalted is the station of God and
of His loved ones for any person's good or evil deed to reach their holy
threshold. Whatever reacheth Me is ordained to reach Me; and that which
hath come unto Me, to him who giveth will it revert. By the One in Whose
hand is My soul, he hath cast no one but himself into prison. For
assuredly whatsoever God hath decreed for Me shall come to pass and naught
else save that which God hath ordained for us shall ever touch us. Woe
betide him from whose hands floweth evil, and blessed the man from whose
hands floweth good. Unto no one do I take My plaint save to God; for He is
the best of judges. Every state of adversity or bliss is from Him alone,
and He is the All-Powerful, the Almighty.
In brief, I hold within My grasp whatsoever any man might wish of the good
of this world and of the next. Were I to remove the veil, all would
recognize Me as their Best Beloved, and no one would deny Me. Let not this
assertion astound Your Majesty; inasmuch as a true believer in the unity
of God who keepeth his eyes directed towards Him alone, will regard aught
else but Him as utter nothingness. I swear by God! I seek no earthly goods
from thee, be it as much as a mustard seed. Indeed, to possess anything of
this world or of the next would, in My estimation, be tantamount to open
blasphemy. For it ill beseemeth the believer in the unity of God to turn
his gaze to aught else, much less to hold it in his possession. I know of
a certainty that since I have God, the Ever-Living, the Adored One, I am
the possessor of all things, visible and invisible.
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