The Hidden Words — Paragraph 95

Source (Arabic)

(٢٠) ﴿ ای مردگان فراش غفلت ﴾ قرنها گذشت و عمر گرانمايه را بانتها رسانده‌ايد و نَفَس پاکی از شما بساحت قدس ما نيامد * در ابحر شرک مستغرقيد و کلمه توحيد بر زبان ميرانيد * مبغوض مرا محبوب خود دانسته‌ايد و دشمن مرا دوست خود گرفته‌ايد و در ارض من بکمال خرمی و سرور مشی مينمائيد و غافل از آنکه زمين من از تو بيزار است و اشيای ارض از تو در گريز * اگر فی الجمله بصر بگشائی صد هزار حزن را از اين سرور خوشتر دانی و فنا را از اين حيات نيکوتر شمری *

Translation

(20) O YE THAT ARE LYING AS DEAD ON THE COUCH OF HEEDLESSNESS! Ages have passed and your precious lives are well-nigh ended, yet not a single breath of purity hath reached Our court of holiness from you. Though immersed in the ocean of misbelief, yet with your lips ye profess the one true faith of God. Him whom I abhor ye have loved, and of My foe ye have made a friend. Notwithstanding, ye walk on My earth complacent and self-satisfied, heedless that My earth is weary of you and everything within it shunneth you. Were ye but to open your eyes, ye would, in truth, prefer a myriad griefs unto this joy, and would count death itself better than this life.