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True resurrection from the sepulchres means to be quickened in conformity with His Will, through the power of His utterance. (158:1) Paradise is attainment of His good-pleasure and everlasting hell-fire His judgement through justice. (158:2) The Day He revealeth Himself is Resurrection Day which shall last as long as He ordaineth. (158:3) Everything belongeth unto Him and is fashioned by Him. All besides Him are His creatures. (158:4) In the Name of God, the Most Exalted, the Most High. (158:5) Verily I am God, no God is there but Me, and aught except Me is but My creation. Say, worship Me then, O ye, My creatures. (158:6) I have called Thee into being, have nurtured Thee, protected Thee, loved Thee, raised Thee up and have graciously chosen Thee to be the manifestation of Mine Own Self, that Thou mayest recite My verses as ordained by Me, and may summon whomsoever I have created unto My Religion which is none other than this glorious and exalted Path. (158:7) I have fashioned all created things for Thy sake, and I have, by virtue of My Will, set Thee sovereign Ruler over all mankind. Moreover, I have decreed that whoso embraceth My religion shall believe in My unity, and I have linked this belief with remembrance of Thee, and after Thee the remembrance of such as Thou hast, by My leave, caused to be the 'Letters of the Living', and of whatever hath been revealed from My religion in the Bayan. This, indeed, is what will enable the sincere among My servants to gain admittance into the celestial Paradise.
(158:8)
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