A Gift for Baghdad — Page 87
Reply to the Announcement & Letter 87 they will call down blessings on you. They will suppli- cate: ‘Our Lord we have heard a Caller, calling people unto faith and a Summoner to Allah. Our Lord, we have believed, then write us down among the witnesses. Your rank is wonderful and your reward is near. With you are the hosts of the heavens and of the earth. You are to Me as My Tau hi d and Tafr i d [Uniqueness]. The time has come that you should be helped and be made well known among people. You have been blessed, O Ahmad, and you alone deserved the blessing that Allah has bestowed upon you. You have a high station in My Presence. I have chosen you for Myself and you have a standing with Me of which people have no notion. Allah would not leave you till He separates the unclean from the clean. Look at Y u suf [ Joseph] and his glory. Allah is supreme over His commands, but most people know it not. I willed that I should create My Vicegerent, so I created Adam; so that he might establish the law and revive the Faith. The book of [My] friend is the dhulfiq ar [sword] of Ali. Had faith ascended to the Pleiades, a man from among the Persians would have brought it down. Its oil would well-nigh glow forth even though fire touched it not. The Champion of Allah in the mantle of Messengers. Say: If you love Allah, then follow me, Allah will then love you. Call down blessings on Muhammad and the people of Muhammad, the Chief of all mankind and the Seal of the Prophets. Your Lord will have mercy on you and will safeguard you Himself even if men will not safeguard