Gleanings — Paragraph 282
Source (Arabic)
هل تعرفون من أيّ أفق يناديكم ربّكم الأبهى وهل علمتم من أي قلم يأمركم ربّكم مالك الأسماء لا وعمري لو عرفتم لتركتم الدّنيا مقبلين بالقلوب إلى شطر المحبوب وأخذكم اهتزاز الكلمة على شأن يهتزّ منه العالم الأكبر وكيف هذا العالم الصّغير كذلك هطلت من سمآء عنايتي أمطار مكرمتي فضلا من عندي لتكونوا من الشّاكرين...
Translation
Know ye from what heights your Lord, the All-Glorious is calling? Think ye that ye have recognized the Pen wherewith your Lord, the Lord of all names, commandeth you? Nay, by My life! Did ye but know it, ye would renounce the world, and would hasten with your whole hearts to the presence of the Well-Beloved. Your spirits would be so transported by His Word as to throw into commotion the Greater World — how much more this small and petty one! Thus have the showers of My bounty been poured down from the heaven of My loving-kindness, as a token of My grace; that ye may be of the thankful.…