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    "n": 1,
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    "bookCode": "HW-WOH",
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    "title": "The Arabic Hidden Words",
    "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.0.0-rc1","sourceText":"Arabic Hidden Words (Kalimát-i-Maknúnih, Part I), fully vocalized (tashkīl) Ocean of Lights e-text; witness header cites Majmūʿa-yi alwāḥ-i mubāraka (Cairo printing), pp. 17–36","sourceLicense":"Original text Public Domain (Bahá'u'lláh, d. 1892). Machine-readable transcription via oceanoflights.org used as collation witness; English translation original to this project.","sourceUrl":"https://oceanoflights.org/bahaullah-st-013-2-ar/","sourceAccessedVia":"Ocean of Lights e-text (OL), collated verse-by-verse against the Bahá'í World Centre authoritative original-language edition (BWC) on 2026-07-02; see source-ar-1.json collationNotes","verificationStatus":"collated-against-bahai-world-centre-2026-07; English is a first-pass draft translated directly from the Arabic, independent of and unaffiliated with the authorised Bahá'í World Centre translations","glossaryVersion":"2.69.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-4-8 (translator)"],"reviewer":"approved — all 71 aphorisms + prologue defensible; zero lens-leakage; glossary sound (aea8df77). Gated on 3 human items: baha-root pun ruling, pre-1930 lithograph verification of 4 variants, central-glossary appliesTo extension.","reviewedAt":"2026-07-03","status":"reviewer-approved","humanRuling":"Human ratified 2026-07-03: Bahā-root pun kept NEUTRAL (speculative entry not committed); 4 source variants accepted as retain-and-flag for RC; pre-1930 lithograph verification remains a flagged follow-up, not a sign-off blocker."},
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "HWA-prologue",
        "text": "He is the Glorious, the Most Glorious. This is that which was sent down from the omnipotent realm of glory, by the tongue of power and might, upon the prophets of old. And We have taken the gems of its meaning and clothed them in the garment of brevity, as a favour unto the learned, that they may fulfil the covenant of God and render up His trusts within their own souls, and that, through the essence of piety, they may be numbered in the realm of the spirit among them that have attained."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "HWA-1",
        "text": "O Son of the Spirit! First of all sayings: possess a heart that is good, comely, and luminous, that thou mayest possess a dominion enduring, everlasting, from all eternity, ancient."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "HWA-2",
        "text": "O Son of the Spirit! The best-beloved of all things in My sight is equity. Turn not away from it if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not, that I may confide in thee. By it thou shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and know by thine own knowledge and not through the knowledge of any in the lands. Ponder this in thy heart: how it behoveth thee to be. Verily, equity is of My gift to thee and of My loving care for thee; keep it, then, before thine eyes."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "HWA-3",
        "text": "O Son of Man! In the eternity of My essence and the everlastingness of My being I knew My love for thee; therefore I created thee. Upon thee I have cast My image, and to thee I have revealed My beauty."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "HWA-4",
        "text": "O Son of Man! I loved thy creation, therefore I created thee. Love Me, then, that I may make mention of thee, and in the spirit of life establish thee."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "HWA-5",
        "text": "O Son of Being! Love Me, that I may love thee. If thou lovest Me not, I shall never love thee. Know this, O servant."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "HWA-6",
        "text": "O Son of Being! Thy paradise is My love, and thy heaven is reunion with Me. Enter therein and tarry not. This is what hath been ordained for thee in Our most exalted kingdom and Our most sublime realm of omnipotence."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "HWA-7",
        "text": "O Son of Mortal Man! If thou lovest My self, turn away from thine own; and if thou seekest My good pleasure, close thine eyes to thine own. Thus wilt thou be effaced in Me, and I everlasting in thee."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "HWA-8",
        "text": "O Son of the Spirit! No rest is ordained for thee save by renouncing thyself and turning unto Me; for it behoveth thee that thy glorying be in My name and not thine own, and that thy reliance be upon My face and not upon thine; for I alone desire to be loved above all things."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "HWA-9",
        "text": "O Son of Being! My love is My fortress; he that entereth therein is saved and secure, and he that turneth away goeth astray and perisheth."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "HWA-10",
        "text": "O Son of Utterance! Thou art My fortress; enter therein, that thou mayest abide in safety. My love is within thee; know it from thine own self, that thou mayest find Me near."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "HWA-11",
        "text": "O Son of Being! Thou art My lamp-niche, and My lamp is within thee. Draw thy light from it and seek none other than Me; for I have created thee rich and made My bounty upon thee abundant."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "HWA-12",
        "text": "O Son of Being! I made thee with the hands of might and created thee with the fingers of power, and within thee I laid the essence of My light. Be content with it, above all things; for My work is perfect and My decree is inexorable. Doubt it not, nor be of them that waver concerning it."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "HWA-13",
        "text": "O Son of the Spirit! I created thee rich — how is it thou makest thyself poor? I fashioned thee mighty — how is it thou abasest thyself? Out of the essence of knowledge I brought thee forth — why seekest thou knowledge of any beside Me? Out of the clay of love I kneaded thee — how is it thou busiest thyself with another? Turn thy gaze upon thyself, that thou mayest find Me within thee, standing, mighty, all-powerful, self-subsisting."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "HWA-14",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Thou art My dominion, and My dominion perisheth not — why dreadest thou thy perishing? Thou art My light, and My light is not quenched — why art thou troubled at thine extinction? Thou art My glory, and My glory fadeth not; thou art My robe, and My robe weareth not away. Abide, then, in thy love for Me, that thou mayest find Me in the highest horizon."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "HWA-15",
        "text": "O Son of Utterance! Turn thy face toward My face and turn away from all besides Me; for My sovereignty endureth and passeth never away, and My dominion abideth and is never overthrown. Shouldst thou seek any other than Me, thou wouldst not find him, though thou shouldst search through all being, everlastingly, eternally."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "HWA-16",
        "text": "O Son of Light! Forget all save Me, and take intimacy with My spirit. This is of the essence of My Cause; turn, then, unto it."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "HWA-17",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Let Me suffice thee in place of all else, and seek no helper besides Me; for naught but Me shall ever suffice thee."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "HWA-18",
        "text": "O Son of the Spirit! Ask not of Me that which We desire not for thee; then be content with what We have decreed for thy countenance; for that is what profiteth thee, if therewith thou be content."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "HWA-19",
        "text": "O Son of the Supreme Vision! I deposited within thee a spirit from Me, that thou mightest be a lover unto Me. Why hast thou forsaken Me and sought a beloved other than Me?"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "HWA-20",
        "text": "O Son of the Spirit! My right over thee is great and not to be forgotten; My grace toward thee is abundant and not to be veiled; My love within thee is present and not to be concealed; My light unto thee is manifest and not to be hidden."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "HWA-21",
        "text": "O Son of Mortal Man! From the tree of most-glorious splendour I have ordained for thee the purest of fruits. How is it thou hast turned away from it and contented thyself with that which is baser? Return, then, unto that which is better for thee in the highest horizon."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "HWA-22",
        "text": "O Son of the Spirit! I created thee lofty, yet thou hast made thyself lowly. Ascend, then, unto that for which thou wast created."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "HWA-23",
        "text": "O Son of the Cloud! I summon thee unto abidingness, yet thou seekest evanescence. Wherefore hast thou turned from what We love and inclined unto what thou lovest?"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "HWA-24",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Overstep not thy bounds, and lay not claim to that which beseemeth thee not. Prostrate thyself before the countenance of thy Lord, the Lord of might and power."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "HWA-25",
        "text": "O Son of the Spirit! Vaunt not thyself over the poor by the pride of thyself; for I walk before him, and I behold thee in thine evil plight, and I condemn thee for evermore."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "HWA-26",
        "text": "O Son of Being! How is it thou hast forgotten thine own faults and busied thyself with the faults of My servants? Whoso doeth so, upon him is a curse from Me."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "HWA-27",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Breathe not the sin of any so long as thou art thyself a sinner. Shouldst thou do otherwise, accursed art thou, and to this I bear witness."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "HWA-28",
        "text": "O Son of the Spirit! Know for a certainty that he who biddeth men be just yet himself committeth iniquity is not of Me, even though he bear My name."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "HWA-29",
        "text": "O Son of Being! Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which thou doest not. This is My command unto thee; act upon it."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "HWA-30",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Deny not My servant should he ask aught of thee, for his face is My face; be then abashed before Me."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "HWA-31",
        "text": "O Son of Being! Bring thyself to account each day, ere thou art brought to account; for death shall come upon thee unawares, and thou shalt be called to reckon for thine own self."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "HWA-32",
        "text": "O Son of the Cloud! I made death for thee a herald of joy — why grievest thou at it? I made the light for thee a radiance — why veilest thou thyself from it?"
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "HWA-33",
        "text": "O Son of the Spirit! With the glad-tidings of light I give thee joy: rejoice, then, therein. And unto the abode of holiness I summon thee: take refuge therein, that thou mayest find rest for ever and ever."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "HWA-34",
        "text": "O Son of the Spirit! The Spirit of holiness bringeth thee tidings of intimacy — why grievest thou? The spirit of the Cause strengtheneth thee in the Cause — why veilest thou thyself? The light of the countenance goeth before thee — how canst thou go astray?"
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "HWA-35",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Grieve not save in thy remoteness from Us, and rejoice not save in thy nearness unto Us and thy return unto Us."
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "HWA-36",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Rejoice in the gladness of thy heart, that thou mayest be worthy to meet Me and a mirror unto My beauty."
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "HWA-37",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Divest not thyself of the fair robe of My grace, and deprive not thyself of thy portion from the wondrous fountains of Mine, lest thirst seize thee in the everlastingness of My essence."
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "HWA-38",
        "text": "O Son of Being! Observe My statutes out of love for Me, then restrain thy soul from what it craveth, in seeking My good pleasure."
      },{
        "n": 40,
        "refId": "HWA-39",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Forsake not My commandments out of love for My beauty, and forget not My counsels in thy longing for My good pleasure."
      },{
        "n": 41,
        "refId": "HWA-40",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Race across the wilderness of the Cloud, then speed into the field of heaven. Thou shalt find no rest save in submission to Our Cause and lowliness before Our countenance."
      },{
        "n": 42,
        "refId": "HWA-41",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Magnify My Cause, that I may unveil to thee the mysteries of grandeur and shine upon thee with the lights of eternity."
      },{
        "n": 43,
        "refId": "HWA-42",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Be humble before Me, that I may be gracious unto thee; and be a helper of My Cause, that thou mayest be made victorious in the dominion."
      },{
        "n": 44,
        "refId": "HWA-43",
        "text": "O Son of Being! Remember Me upon My earth, that I may remember thee in My heaven, that thine eye may be solaced thereby and Mine eye be solaced thereby."
      },{
        "n": 45,
        "refId": "HWA-44",
        "text": "O Son of the Throne! Thy hearing is My hearing; hear thou therewith. Thy sight is My sight; see thou therewith, that in thine inmost being thou mayest bear witness unto an exalted sanctity of Me, and I may bear witness for thee, within Mine own self, unto a lofty station."
      },{
        "n": 46,
        "refId": "HWA-45",
        "text": "O Son of Being! Seek martyrdom in My path, well-pleased with Me and thankful for My decree, that thou mayest rest with Me beneath the canopies of majesty behind the pavilion of glory."
      },{
        "n": 47,
        "refId": "HWA-46",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Ponder thy state and reflect upon thy deeds. Desirest thou to die upon thy bed, or to be martyred in My path upon the dust, and to become the dawning-place of My Cause and the manifestation of My light in the highest Paradise? Be just, then, O servant."
      },{
        "n": 48,
        "refId": "HWA-47",
        "text": "O Son of Man! By My beauty! To dye thy hair with thy blood were greater in My sight than the creation of the two worlds and the radiance of the two weighty ones. Strive, then, to attain it, O servant."
      },{
        "n": 49,
        "refId": "HWA-48",
        "text": "O Son of Man! For everything there is a sign; and the sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patient endurance under My trials."
      },{
        "n": 50,
        "refId": "HWA-49",
        "text": "O Son of Man! The true lover yearneth for tribulation as the rebel yearneth for forgiveness and the sinner for mercy."
      },{
        "n": 51,
        "refId": "HWA-50",
        "text": "O Son of Man! If tribulation befall thee not in My path, how shalt thou tread the ways of them that are content in My good pleasure? And if hardship touch thee not in thy longing to meet Me, how shall the light reach thee in thy love for My beauty?"
      },{
        "n": 52,
        "refId": "HWA-51",
        "text": "O Son of Man! My tribulation is My providence: outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten unto it, that thou mayest become an eternal light and an everlasting spirit. This is My command; know it."
      },{
        "n": 53,
        "refId": "HWA-52",
        "text": "O Son of Mortal Man! If blessing befall thee, rejoice not in it; and if abasement touch thee, grieve not at it; for both shall pass away in their time and vanish in their hour."
      },{
        "n": 54,
        "refId": "HWA-53",
        "text": "O Son of Being! Should poverty overtake thee, grieve not; for in the fullness of days the sovereign of wealth shall descend upon thee. And fear not abasement, for glory shall alight upon thee in the fullness of time."
      },{
        "n": 55,
        "refId": "HWA-54",
        "text": "O Son of Being! If thou lovest this abiding, everlasting dominion and this ancient, eternal life, then forsake this fleeting, perishing dominion."
      },{
        "n": 56,
        "refId": "HWA-55",
        "text": "O Son of Being! Busy not thyself with the world; for with fire We test the gold, and with gold We test Our servants."
      },{
        "n": 57,
        "refId": "HWA-56",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Thou desirest gold, and I desire thy detachment from it. Thou hast deemed thy wealth to lie in possessing it, and I have known thy wealth to lie in thy sanctification from it. By My life! This is My knowledge, and that is thy fancy; how can My way accord with thine?"
      },{
        "n": 58,
        "refId": "HWA-57",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Bestow My wealth upon My poor, that in heaven thou mayest draw from treasures of imperishable glory and stores of unfading splendour. Yet, by My life! To offer up thy spirit is fairer still, couldst thou but behold with Mine eye."
      },{
        "n": 59,
        "refId": "HWA-58",
        "text": "O Son of Mortal Man! The temple of being is My throne; cleanse it of all things, that I may be established therein and take My rest upon it."
      },{
        "n": 60,
        "refId": "HWA-59",
        "text": "O Son of Being! Thy heart is My dwelling; sanctify it for My descent. Thy spirit is My vista; purify it for My manifestation."
      },{
        "n": 61,
        "refId": "HWA-60",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Put thy hand into My bosom, that I may rise above thy bosom, resplendent and luminous."
      },{
        "n": 62,
        "refId": "HWA-61",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Ascend unto My heaven, that thou mayest behold reunion with Me and drink of the pure wine that hath no like, and from the cups of glory that shall never pass away."
      },{
        "n": 63,
        "refId": "HWA-62",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Many a day hath passed over thee wherein thou hast busied thyself with the fancies and vain imaginings of thine own desire. How long wilt thou lie slumbering upon thy couch? Lift up thy head from sleep, for the sun hath risen to the zenith; haply it may shine upon thee with the lights of beauty."
      },{
        "n": 64,
        "refId": "HWA-63",
        "text": "O Son of Man! I caused the light to dawn upon thee from the horizon of the Mount, and breathed the spirit of splendour into the Sinai of thy heart. Empty thyself, then, of the veils and vain imaginings, and enter upon the carpet, that thou mayest be worthy of abidingness and fit for the meeting, that neither death nor toil nor weariness may overtake thee."
      },{
        "n": 65,
        "refId": "HWA-64",
        "text": "O Son of Man! My eternity is My creation; I have created it for thee — make it, then, a robe for thy temple. My oneness is My handiwork; I have fashioned it for thy sake — make it, then, the garment of thy self, that thou mayest be, unto all eternity, the dawning-place of My self-subsistence."
      },{
        "n": 66,
        "refId": "HWA-65",
        "text": "O Son of Man! My grandeur is My gift unto thee, and My majesty is My mercy upon thee. That which beseemeth My self none can grasp, nor can any soul encompass it. I have treasured it up in the storehouses of My mystery and the coffers of My Cause, as a tenderness unto My servants and a mercy unto My creatures."
      },{
        "n": 67,
        "refId": "HWA-66",
        "text": "O Sons of the Divine Essence in the unseen! Ye shall be barred from My love, and souls shall be troubled at the mention of Me; for minds cannot withstand Me and hearts cannot contain Me."
      },{
        "n": 68,
        "refId": "HWA-67",
        "text": "O Son of Beauty! By My spirit and My providence, by My mercy and My beauty! All that I have sent down upon thee by the tongue of power and inscribed with the pen of might, We have sent down according to thy capacity and thy measure, and not according to My station and My mode."
      },{
        "n": 69,
        "refId": "HWA-68",
        "text": "O Sons of Men! Know ye wherefore We created you all from one same dust? That none should exalt himself above another. Ponder at all times how ye were created. Since We created you from one same substance, it behoveth you to be as one soul — to walk with one foot, to eat from one mouth, and to dwell in one land — that from your inmost beings and your works and your deeds the signs of oneness and the essences of detachment may be made manifest. This is My counsel unto you, O concourse of light: heed it, that ye may gather the fruits of holiness from the tree of impregnable glory."
      },{
        "n": 70,
        "refId": "HWA-69",
        "text": "O Sons of the Spirit! Ye are My treasuries, for within you I have stored the pearls of My mysteries and the gems of My knowledge. Guard them, lest the strangers among My servants and the wicked among My creatures uncover them."
      },{
        "n": 71,
        "refId": "HWA-70",
        "text": "O Son of Him who arose in the kingdom of His own self! Know that I have wafted unto thee all the fragrances of holiness, have fully proclaimed unto thee My word, perfected through thee My bounty, and desired for thee that which I have desired for Mine own self. Be, then, well-pleased with Me, and render thanks unto Me."
      },{
        "n": 72,
        "refId": "HWA-71",
        "text": "O Son of Man! Write all that We have imparted unto thee with the ink of light upon the tablet of thy spirit. Shouldst thou be unable to do so, then make thine ink of the essence of thy heart. And if thou canst not even this, then write with the crimson ink that hath been shed in My path; for sweeter is it in My sight than all else, that its light may endure for ever."
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