The evanescent is as nothing before Him Who is the Ever-Abiding.

His all-compelling summons hath reached Me, and caused Me to speak His praise amidst all people.

I was indeed as one dead when His behest was uttered.

The hand of the will of thy Lord, the Compassionate, the Merciful, transformed Me.

Can any one speak forth of his own accord that for which all men, both high and low, will protest against him?
Nay, by Him Who taught the Pen the eternal mysteries, save him whom the grace of the Almighty, the All-Powerful, hath strengthened .-- Lawh-i-Sultan (Tablet to the King of Persia), as quoted in The Promised Day Is Come, pp.