In the Name of God, the Most Inaccessible, the Most Holy!
Holy, holy, holy (quddus, quddus, quddus)!
The glory from God, no other God is there but He, rest upon thy heart and
the heart of whomsoever is in thy heart, and upon thy spirit and the spirit of
whomsoever is in thy spirit, and upon thy soul and whomsoever is in thy soul,
and upon thy body and whomsoever is in thy body. Then, the exaltation from God
rest upon thy heart and the heart of whomsoever hath been created from the
light of thy praise, and upon thy spirit and whomsoever hath been created from
the spirit of thy benediction, and upon thy soul and whomsoever hath been
created from the soul of thy unification,[4]
and upon thy body and whomsoever hath been created from the light of thy
glorification. Thou hast been raised up, nor is there above thee anyone
possessed of exaltation like unto thee; thou hast come near, nor is there
anyone possessed of proximity like unto thine. All created things have given
praise in unison out of the essence of thy praise, and all atoms have rendered
glorification out of the camphor of thy glorification, and all the psychic
entities have extolled the oneness of God in unison out of the substance of
thine extolling of His unity, and all the individual realities have lauded the
greatness of God in unison out of the absolute reality of thy glorification of
His greatness. All render praise unto God through thee, and all sanctify God
through thee, and all extol God's singleness through thee, and all magnify God
through thee. So great hath been thine affliction that the afflictions of all
created things are cut off from any connection with it; the calamity that hath
overwhelmed thee hath reached so high a station that no other calamity of any
created thing may be mentioned in the same breath as it. By thy glory, there
is nothing in existence apart from God that weepeth not sore over thee, that is
not established under thy shadow, that doth not praise God with the praise thou
didst offer, that doth not sanctify His name with the sanctification thou didst
render, that doth not extol the unity of God with the praise of His unity that
thou didst utter, and that doth not magnify God with the magnification whereby
thou didst honour His greatness. From all eternity and unto all eternity thou
hast been in the exaltation of holiness and majesty, and unto all eternity thou
shalt be in the height of sanctity and beauteousness. Thou art he that hath
become manifest through the manifestation of thy Lord, and kept hidden through
the concealment of thy Lord, and thou art the First, for there is no first save
thee, and the Last, for there is no last other than thee. Thou hast ascended
through the degrees of creation unto that horizon where none hath gone before
thee; and thou hast been raised upon the throne of thy glory on the highest
horizon of paradise, higher than which there is nothing whatever in the
knowledge of God. I call upon thee and upon all things as witnesses that thy
blood is pure, untainted and unsullied, and that through the residue of its
very mention the realities of all created things have been made manifest . . .
I call upon God and upon all things as witnesses that God hath sanctified thee
from all likenesses and hath given unto thee what He hath given unto no one in
His creation - not the dominion of earth and all that is on it, but the
dominion of Paradise and all that dwell therein. Thus, there shall not come
into the heart of anyone a mention of grandeur or might, save that he shall
come unto thee with a mention of humility and shall descend to the door of thy
courtyard in the utmost degree of abasement . . . Verily, I call to witness the
angels of the Throne and the Seat and the heavens and the Most Exalted Paradise
and the most glorious garden, that circle about thy grave, and ask that they
may take the water that poureth from the eyes of whomsoever exhibiteth love for
thee and may bring it into the presence of God, thy Lord, and that God may look
upon him that hath performed that act of grace and that His paradise may lament
over him, and that He may single him out for all His grace and all that He may
fashion, for there is no drop of water more loved by God than that which hath
flowed out over thy tribulations and hath appeared on the cheek by reason of
thy sufferings ...
(From text in Muhammad `Alí Malik Khusraví, Tarikh-i-shuhadá-yi Amr, I [Tíhrán 130 B.E./1973-4], pp. 412-14).