To the legitimate DAVID / From Citizen MAYFLY

“Now that we are poor … we are free!”

                                                                                                SITTING BULL upon entering Canada [1]

 

The demand for ‘a sign’ spells out the end of faith.

                                                                                                SCHWEIZER

 

Das Böseste ist notig zu des Übermenschen Bestem.

(The greatest evil is necessary for the Superman’s best.)

                                                                                                ZARATHUSTRA, (Nietzsche, Friederich)

 

He who knows not how to rule his inner self

would gladly rule his fellow men

according to his own arrogant conceit.

                                                                                                GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von

 

In vain doth Valour bleed

while Avarice, & Rapine share the land.

MILTON

 

Every man is the son of his own works.

                                                                                                Don Quixote

 

These common, vulgar people who know not the LAW

be damned![2]

                                                                                                GOSPEL of St. JOHN the DIVINE 7:49

 

 

“UNDE MALUM”

 

(Whence[3] & Why[4] Evil?)

 

 

THE FIRST PART:

 

being ‘Concerned with the Parable of the Rich Man

Dives Nimeusis, called Liberalis the Libertine;

& On the circumstance of the Death of the beggar Freedom.’

                                                                                                GOSPEL OF LUKE  16:19 – 31.

 

 

 

Lazar & Dives lyveden diversly,

& divers gerdon hadden they therby.

                                                                                                CHAUCER, The Summoner’s Tale, 1877, 78.

 

 

INVOCATION

 

In the Name of the One True GOD,

Most Gracious, Ever Merciful.

 

O Hear :  The Lord Our GOD, the Lord is One.

 

Proclaim :  GOD is Most Great!  GOD is Most Great!

 

Testify :  There is no GOD but He - the Living, the Eternal, the Almighty,

the Immaterial, the All-Powerful, the All-Prevading & Benevolent,

the Omnipotent Lord of the Worlds, the Author of Heaven & earth

in accordance with the requirements of MA’Āt - truth, justice, righteousness, & wisdom.

Praise belongs to GOD, the Creator of Life & death

in Whose Hand is dominion & irresistible power,

Holy Is He, & Exalted far above that which we associate with Him:

the Peaceful, the Faithful,  the Guardian over His servants,

the Shelterer of the orphan & the widow, the Guide of the erring,

the Deliverer from every affliction, the Friend of the bereaved,

the Consoler of the broken-hearted & the Reliever of all distress;

in His Hand is good, & He Is the Generous Lord,

the Hearer, the Near-at-Hand, the Compassionate, the Very-forgiving,

whose love for man is more tender than that of a mother-bird for her young.

'Tis He we worship & He we ask for help.

Is He not closer than the vein of thy neck?  Thou needest not

raise thy voice, for He Knoweth the secret whisper, & what is yet more hidden.

He Knows what is in the land & in the sea; no leaf falleth but He Knoweth it;

nor is there a grain in the darkness under the earth,

nor a thing green or sere, but it is recorded :  in the sight of the Lord

All Men are Equal.  The Decree of God Is at hand, so seek ye not to hasten It.

He sends down His Angels with Revelation by His Command

on whomsoever He Pleases, directing :  Thou art man!

Cry - recite in the Name of thy Lord

Who Created everything!

Who created man from a clot of coagulated blood - from a drop of fluid.

Cry! for Thy Lord is Wondrous Kind & Most Beneficent,

Who by the pen hast taught mankind things they knew not (being blind).

Who points out the right way, for some ways are devious:  the straight path

of those whom He Hast Favored, not the crooked nor the corrupt path

of those whom have incurred His Anger nor of those whom have gone astray.

Had He enforced His Will, He would have guided us all.

 

ii

 

To everyone WE Have Given a Law & a Way ... & if WE Had Pleased,

WE Would Have Made you, all mankind, one people - but Have Done otherwise, that

WE Might Try you in that which WE Have Given unto thee :  wherefore

press forward unto good works.  Unto US thou shalt return,

& WE Shall Tell you that concerning which thou dost disagree.

WE have created man committed to toil.  Does he think

no one has power over him?  He says:  I have spent

enormous wealth.  Does he think no one watches him?

Have WE not given him two eyes, & a tongue & two lips,

& pointed out to him the two highways of good & evil?

 

Prostrate thyself & draw near to US.

 

Extol the perfection of GOD the Most Great.

 

All who are in Heaven & Faithful on the earth celebrate

OUR Praises - & the birds, too, spreading out their wings; each one knoweth its prayer

& praise.  Thanks be to OUR Lord; He Is the Adorable, and only to be adored.

OUR Lord, the Ever-Existing, the Cherisher, the True Sovereign

whose mercy & might overshadow the universe,

the Regulator of the world, & the Light of Creation.  His Is our worship;

He Existed before all things, & will exist after all that is living hast ceased.

 

iii

 

Thou Art to be adored, my Lord; Thou Art the Master, the Loving ... O my Lord,

Thou Art present everywhere to help & protect Thy servants ... O my Lord,

Thou Art & I it am only created, the beseecher, the sinner.  O my Lord,

grant me the Love of Thee, & Grant that I may Love Thee,

Grant that I may Love those that Love Thee.

Grant that I may do the deeds that win Thy Love.

Make Thy Love to be dearer to me than the love of self, family or than wealth.

 

 

                                    .                                   .                                   .

 

 

READ: EXODUS Ch. 3 & JOB Ch. 21.[5]

 

 

 

 

If there is no God, then the Citizen has no God-Given rights.

                                                                                                Albert Einstein

 

What can man do to me?

                                                                                                HEBREWS 13:6

 

I spread out my hands towards You – my body to You,

Like earth’s dust!

                                                                                                PSALMS 143:6

 

 

“UNDE MALUM”

 

Return to Dust, O sons of men.[6]

 

 

T’au-ba-ra’AT

 

In the beginning & at the Glory there was Divus Nimeusis, called Liberalis,

a certain rich man[7] with sheep, goats & cattle, as well as silver & gold,[8]

claiming to be Supreme

High Priest of the nation & an incarnation of god

whom the people had to obey in everything,

& upon whom was conferred a set of gold tableware

& the title "Friend[9] of the Crown," an honorary designation

for a companion who at times executed confidential orders,

with an authorization to drink[10] from gold cups,

all government contracts were drawn up[11] in his name;

& he had the right to wear royal robes of red[12]

& white & blue that reached to his feet,

a cloak of fine linen[13] dyed of a violet & purple hue,

woven by skilled weavers, costly & rare,

& a tunic of exceedingly fine & valuable textile,

flaxen fiber known to the ancients as Byssus,

clean shining fabric of dazzling whiteness

washed in a pool of sweet-water with frankincense

& exchanged for its weight in gold.

With it too the heathen idols[14] were clothed,

& with silver from Tarshish & with gold from Auphaz,

all the work of artists: a magnificent gold crown

& a gold chain of honor around his neck,

a belt of fine gold about his chest

& the gold shoulder buckle awarded to "Relatives of the Crown."[15]

Not so arrayed only on high day's feasts,

this pride & luxury he freely bestowed upon himself

as his ordinary apparel & he lived in luxury & mirth,

& sumptuous fare was his every day’s entertainment;

a figure of indolence & self-indulgence, feeding

on exotic & expensive gourmet dishes at ecstatic communal meals,

the image of gluttonous frenzy, lasting

all night, being furnished to the full with all things necessary

for a life of luxury :  a host of attendants[16] waiting on his every caprice.[17]

                                      GOD _Hā-Mīm.

^{‘Ain. Sin. Qāf.} IS the Source of Mercy

 

At the rich man's gate, in the vestibule

immediately between the entrance-door & the interior

ante-chamber to the porch of his palace,

a certain beggar named Simon al-Eazarus, which means Freedom, was flung;

brought tither by the last who took any care of him on earth

& whom with this released themselves of their charge,

counting they'd done enough, having cast him

under the eye & upon the pity of one so abundantly able

to relieve him: & Simon al-Eazarus, called Magus,[18] who lay there long enough

for Liberalis the Libertine, as he went in & out,

to have grown so familiar with him that he recognized him;

but he was proud & stubborn because he had plenty to eat

& lived in peace & quiet, though he did not

TAKE CARE OF THE POOR & THE UNDERPRIVILEGED

& did things that GOD _{A VOICE Speaking Out in the midst OF FIRE} did hate.  But he attempted not

the scaling of the height.  How shouldst thou know what

the scaling of the height is?  It is the freeing of a slave, or

feeding on a day of scarcity, an orphan near of kin, or

a poor person reduced to penury; & to be of those who believe

& exhort one another to steadfastness

& exhort one another to Mercy.  These are the People of MΩ’Ān.[19]

So woe to those who deny OUR Signs[20] are the people of 'the left'.

They will be chastised with furnace fire.  Ignorance

of the beggar's need he could ne'er plead

for his only crime having been the leisure of his wealth:

"Th'art none of my brother, Freedom, that lies begging at my door;

no meat nor drink will I give thee, nor bestow upon the poor."

(Then) which of the favours of your Lord will you deny?

 

He should not have remained unacquainted with the want

& woe at his doors ... shut out from human fellowship

& human pity, desiring, but in vain to be fed,

longing to eat what scraps fell from the rich man's table.

(At this time, there was neither cutlery nor napkins,

food was eaten with the hands &, in the very wealthy houses,

the hands were cleansed by wiping them on hunks of bread, & then

the bread was thrown away.  It was this bread that Simon al-Eazarus was waiting for.)

 

 

& it fell out upon a day, rich Divus Liberalis[21] ... he made a feast,[22]

& he invited all his friends, & gentry of the best.

Seventy-seven kings with their thumbs & big toes cut off,[23]

a large crowd who delighted in walking around in their long-flowing robes,

doing nothing to spread among the heathen[24]

True Knowledge of the Name _TA’Ωd

who picked up the scraps under the table & refused

the crumbs.  Strangers from the covenant of promise,[25]

they lied & shewed no kindness nor pity for others;

instead of sharing with those that needed it most,

no man gave: thinking, instead, of more ways to do evil

in disobedience & without conscience.

Loving to greet & address each other in the marketplace,

& secure the front seats & the places of honour at the banquets,

& gossip[26] & speak evil of one another,

exchanging the True Knowledge about GOD _DA’Ωt fo’eth a lie:[27]

so given over to corrupted minds … to worship & serve

what Immortal GOD _{I WAS a Hidden Treasure & Desired To Be Known} Hasth Created

instead of the Creator Himself, Whom Is to be Praised[28]

forever![29]  Amen.

So given over to do those filthy things

their hearts desired,

filled with all kinds of wickedness:

because they do this, GOD _{because Of Thy Pleasure} hasth given them over

to shameful, burning passions

perverting their nature by unnatural acts

of evil & greed & vice.  You know

GOD's _Nūn LAW [30] says that people who live in this way deserve death.[31]

Yet not only do they continue to do these very things,

but they even approve of others who do them.[32]

 

The neglect & cruelty of the rich man, Divus Nimeusis, had no alleviations

for Simon al-Eazarus' woe, exaggerating all the worst within himself & more

terrible ... he locked the door in the people's faces, but did not himself go in,

nor allow those who were trying to enter

in to the Kingdom of Heaven.  An hypocrite

who took advantage of widows & robbed orphan's

of their homes, making a show of saying[33] long prayers

& boasting[34] about GOD _{Behold! US … the sure reality} : he will be punished most severely.

 

Then Liberalis sent out his hungry dogs, to bite him as he lay.

The hungry lazar, fully covered with ulcerated sores over his body[35]

& in the extremity of weakness

to which disease & hunger had reduced him,

found sympathy only from the dumb, unclean animals who pestered him, snarling

dogs wandering about through the streets of the city,

roaming about for food & growling

as if they did not find enough[36]  But

they had no power to bite at all & licked the sores away,

their moist, smooth tongues assuaging

rather than exasperating the smart of the wounds:

the time came, as it fell out upon a day,

when the poor beggar, the picture of helplessness & abject poverty,

Freedom, sickened & died;

& a single blast of trumpet sounded,

& earth & mountain heaved up & crushed in a single crash,

on that day the great event came to pass;

& the heaven cleaved asunder & appeared very fragile on that day,

& the stars scattered, & the rivers diverted, & the grave was laid open:

the angels standing on its sides,

then came two angels out of Heaven,[37]

his soul therein to guide.  "Rise up, TĀbŪt.[38]

O rise up Brother Freedom, & go along with us; for you've a place

prepared in Heaven, for you to sit on an angels knee."

& his righteous soul was by the angels carried

& safely borne ... brought to sit down

at the chiefest of places of honor & fidelity,

to this haven of rest & consolation in the midst of lofty gardens,

the clusters of whose fruits will be within easy reach,

& springs, under the Throne of Glory

where the light of the sun reflected

by the Prophet's side -  "Salam.

Peace be upon You, O Prophet of God Almighty Most High" –

whom Our Father hadst prepared

in Paradise & made known at the Feast

where all those who worship & obey will have plenty

to eat & drink in the Kingdom of GOD _{Sieg und Hiel} in Heaven

where the faithful cast anchor & are in quietness

of an innermost communion of grace (& peace) & truth of MA'Āt,

& are at peace after all the small & temporary troubles

we suffer, the storms of life

brought to a tremendous & eternal glory,

much greater than the troubles, our belief encouraged

& strengthened, protected by GOD _{Blessed Be} & remaining true

to the faith.  Never suffering torment

having proclaimed GOD's _A.L.M.R. WORD & having been faithful

in witnessing to a sweet & joyful painless expectation

of blissful repose, giving thanks to GOD's _‘Taq-wāid Great Mercy

by raising from death.  Filled with living hope

& looking forward to possessing the rich blessings

GOD _IZ’KA keeps for His People in Heaven,

where they cannot decay or spoil or fade away;

they are for those who through faith are kept safe

by GOD's _ZIKR Power for the Salvation which is ready to be

filled at the end of time.  On that day you will be presented before GOD _Tā-Hā

& no secret action of yours will remain hidden from you.[39]

He who is given his record in his right hand will say: Come read

my record:  I knew I would meet my reckoning.

So he will have a delightful life.  Be glad about this,

even though it may be now necessary for us to be sad

for a while ... because of the many trials[40] we suffer -

their purpose is to prove that our faith is genuine.

Even silver is purified by fire, & gold,

which can be destroyed , is tested by fire, & so your faith,

which is more precious than gold, must also be tested,

so that it might endure & prove to be

as pure as refined gold.  Then you will receive praise

& glory & honor on the Day of Revelation.

You will be told: Eat & drink without care,

because of that which you did in days gone by.

You love GOD _{Tā. Sīn. Mīm.} though you have not seen Him[41]

& you believe in Him, although you do not now see Him:

so rejoice a great & glorious joy

which words cannot express, because you are receiving

the Salvation of your Souls,

which is the purpose of your faith in Him.  Then,

those who are now last will be first

& those who are now first will be last

& the wicked are afflicted with horrible & frightful dreams.[42]

But he who is given his record in his left hand will say:

Would that my death had made an end of me.

The wicked tell GOD _{Tā. Sīn.} to leave them alone;

they don't want to know His will for their lives.

They think there is no need to serve the ONE TRUE GOD _WORD [43]

nor any advantage in praying to Him.  They claim

they succeed by their own strength, but

their way of thinking I can't accept.

Was a wicked man's light ever put out?

Did one of them ever meet with disaster?

Did GOD _{Praise Be to GOD} ever punish the wicked in anger

& blow them away like straw in the wind, or

like dust carried away in a storm?  You claim

GOD _{O mankind!} punishes a child for the sins of a father.  No!

GOD _{seest thou} didst not bring disaster on their homes;

they never had to live in terror.  Yes,

all their cattle bred & gave birth without trouble.

Their children run & play like lambs & dance

to the music of harps & flutes.  They live out their lives

in peace & quietly die without suffering.

Let GOD _{whatever IS} punish the sinners themselves;

let Him show that He does it because of their sins.

Let sinners bear their own punishment:

let them feel  the Wrath of Almighty GOD _ar-Rahimām

The Inevitable.  What is the Inevitable?

What has made thee know what the Inevitable is?

When a man's life is over

does he really care whether his children are happy?

Can a man teach GOD _{O Prophet – ‘alyhi salām} who judges[44]

even those in high places?

 

With many other words He warned & pleaded with them :

"Save yourselves from this corrupt[45] generation."

But alas! they rejected the warning of the calamity & will be destroyed

with a violent blast, by a fierce roaring wind

which I caused

to blow against them

for seven nights & eight days in succession,

so that thou mightest have seen Divus Liberalis, laying prostrate ...guilty

of sins, & he disobeyed the Messenger of the Lord,

He therefore inflicted a severe punishment on him.

The rich man also died & was buried:

there was not wanting: with great pomp & regal splendor

the long procession of the funeral solemnities

through the streets of  the Holy City of Two-Fold Peace,

the crowd of hired mourners, those newly-wed & those nearly-dead,

the spices & ointments very precious

wrapping the body; nor yet the costly sepulcher,

on which the genial virtues of the departed were recorded.[46]

The splendid carrying of the forsaken tenement of clay

to the grave: awakening[47]

from his flattering dream of ease & self-enjoyment

upon the stern & terrible realities of eternity.

 

Then came two serpents out of hell,

his soul therein to guide, commanded:  Seize him & fetter him;

& bind him with a chain of seventy-seven links, & cast him into hell.

He did not believe in GOD _{Kāf. Hā. Yā. ‘Ain. Sād.} of vast power,

& did not urge the feeding of the poor.  He has, therefore, no friend

here today; nor any food except the corruption

that flows from the bodies of the damned, which none but sinners eat.

In hell, the place of painful restraint

where devils & demons prayed they might not be sent

to be imprisoned in the depths of the abyss until final judgment

to be cast with death to the Devouress in the Lake of Fire,

where his wicked soul was in torments, judged

according to what he had done & punished

with sufferings stored up for him, grown old

& prosperous, enough for his children & some

left over for his children's children.

Stripped of all wherein his soul delighted,

his purple robe, a garment of fiery flame,

the rich man with hungry longing & unsatisfied desire

of the soul, having planted in the field of his natural desires

& gathering from it the harvest of  second-death,

lifted his eyes & looked up to seeth the Prophet -   "Salam.

Peace be upon You, O Prophet of God Almighty Most High" -

afar off, with the beggar Simon al-Eazarus, called Magus, by his side,

who planted in the field of the Spirit

& from the Spirit gathered the harvest of Eternal Life:

happy & humble in His bosom, comforted,

a child of GOD _al-Hāqqa pure in heart.  Saved

from those who in this life have all they want

& with death, an eternal separation

of natural affinity in this world mingled & confounded.

 

He who sowed the perfectly good seed is the Son of Man;

the field is the World; the perfectly good seed is the people

who belong to the Kingdom; while the weeds are the people

who belong to the Evil One; & the enemy

who sowed the weeds is the Devil.

The harvest is the completion of the age

& the harvest reapers are the Angels.

Just as the weeds are gathered up & burned in the fire,

so the same thing will happen at the end of the age:

the Son of Man will send out his angels to gather

up out of the fire his Kingdom.

All those who cause people to sin

& all others who do evil things

will be thrown into the fiery furnace,

where they will cry weeping & gnash their teeth.[48]

Then GOD's _Iz-zikr People Will Shine out like the sun

in their Father's Kingdom like the light of the stars

that never die.  Listen, then, if you have ears:[49] but

how terrible for Divus Nimeusis, calling himself Magus,

who had an easy life; thinking to escape punishment,

called out & said to Him, "O father: O prophet ... mercy.

Have pity on me." – for he still clung to the hope

that his fleshy privileges would profit him,[50]

not perceiving that this, which was his glory once, was

now the very stress of his guilt.

So shrunken were his desires, so low his highest hope

& he cried, "Send Freedom to dip the tip of his finger[51]

in water & cool my tongue, because I am in great anguish

because of my punishment, & in agony

tormented in this fiery flame." (A purifying fire

purging away the drossity of his abundance.)

 

But the Prophet – “Salam.

Peace be upon You, O Prophet of God Almighty Most High” - replied,

"Son, remember doing those things showing you had turned from your sins:

that in your lifetime you received your reward, & enjoyed

those few good things with temporal benefits; but

did not acknowledge Our Father who always rescued us

for whom in His Justice He Reserveth eternal damnation,

as due wages, by that Justice, of their graceless impenitency.

 

Spawn of Vipers,[52]

you thought it perfectly natural & inevitable that a beggar shouldst lie at thy door

in pain & hunger, accepting him as part of the landscape,

whilest thou didst wallow in luxury; &, although, thou wert not deliberately cruel

to him ... it was what you did not do that got you into thine goal, hell.

Thou didst look upon the world's suffering & need, & feel no answering

sword of grief & pity pierce thine heart.

Our LORD gave us just One Commandment _TAO [53] but thou didst disobey it,

& Our LORD immediately hast made thee & thine descendants subjects to death.

 

From Adam[54] were born out of number … nations, tribes, clans, & families.

 

He created everything[55] so that it might continue to exist,

& everything He created is wholesome & good.

There is no deadly poison within them.  No,

death does not rule[56] ... this World is for GOD _{Zi-ka’uthar}

justice does not die.

Ungodly people have brought death on themselves

by the things they have said & done.

They yearn for death as if it were a lover.

They have gone into partnership with death

& it is just what they deserve.[57]  It is just ... what you deserve!

The LORD is not slow to do what He has promised,

as some think.  Instead, He was patient with you,

because He does not want anyone to be destroyed,

but wants all to turn away from their sins.

He punisheth those remnants of sin that are in godly men[58]

with those temporal afflictions, for whom yet in His Mercy

only He Reserveth Eternal Salvation, as the due wages,[59]

yet by that Mercy only, the good things

of thine, Divus Liberalis were temporal felicities.

GOD _AΏm did not invent death & when living creatures die

it gives Him no pleasure.

"I do not want anyone to die," says the Sovereign LORD,

the Living GOD _{Us – a life containing souls} -  "the greater death of the Spirit.

I do not enjoy seeing a sinner die.

I would rather see him stop sinning & live – therefore[60]

turn & live!”[61]

 

Stop the evil you are doing.  Why do you want to die?

You depend on the Law & boast about GOD _{Alif, Lām, Mīm, Sād} :

you know what GOD _Yā-Sin wants you to do,

you have learned from the Law to do what is right

& are certain in the Law you have full content

of knowledge & of truth.  You preach, but

do you yourself practice what you preach?

You are doing what your father did.

 

GOD _Sād Iself is the only Father

we have & we are His True Children.

 

If GOD _EVER-LIVING really were your Father, you would love me,

because I IT AM NOW HERE Quickly Became

from GOD _EVER-LOVING. I did not come on my own authority, but He sent me.

Why do you not understand what I say?[62]

Is it because you cannot bear to … Listen

to My Messenger!  You are the children of your father,

the Devil.  Is it your desire to practice the lusts of your father.

It was the Devil's jealousy that brought death

into the World, & those who belong to the Devil

are the Evil Ones who will die.  Don't think you can escape punishment.[63]

Divus Nimeusis, calling ye yourself Magus –

whom in like manner suffered & received bad things, but

now is comforted

here, returned from the place where souls are judged

to testify of the greatness of the rewards of the just,

& to the dreadfulness of the doom of sinners:

you whom are in agony, tormented: 

& besides all this, betwixt US & you a great chasm has been fixed,

so that those who want to go from here to you cannot,

nor can anyone cross over from there to US.

Then Divus Nimeusis,[64] answered, "Then I beg you, prophet.

I pray you send Freedom to my father's house

inasmuch as I have FIVE brothers [65] that he may so testify

so that they will not also come to this place of torment.

Let him warn them."

 

But the Prophet -  Salam.

Peace be upon You, O Prophet of Our Father in Paradise - replied,

"My son, they have the legitimate king & the prophets; let them hear them."[66]

& then answered the Libertine:

"No.  No, father! but if one go to them from the dead, they will repent."

& then said the Prophet - Salam.

Peace be upon You, O Prophet of Our Father in Paradise -

"It is the plain fact

that if men possess the truth of GOD's _A.L.M. WORD,

& if, wherever they look, there is

sorrow to be comforted, need to be supplied, pain to be relieved, & if

it moves them to no feeling & to no action, nothing will change them;

they will not believe GOD's _A.L.R. WORD

as spoken by the legitimate king & the prophets,

neither would they be persuaded even if one were to rise from the dead."

 

 

& why would they believe[67]

messages from fortune tellers & mediums who chirp & mutter. 

 

They will say, in their hearts, that there is no god,[68]

 "After all, people should ask for messages from the spirits

& consult the dead on behalf of the living.

 

 

Hearken ye who disbelieve![69]

I do not worship as you worship, nor do you worship as I worship.

I do not worship those that you worship, nor do you worship Him Whom I worship;

that is because you follow one faith & I follow another Faith.[70]

 

 

But when GOD _{I It Am Jealous} I  Raised him from death three days later

& caused him to appear not to everyone, but

only to witnesses that God _{I It Am What I It Am} had already chosen,

that is, to us who ate & drank

with him after he rose from death.  And

He did commandeth us to preach the gospel

to the people & to testify that He is the ONE [71]

whom GOD _{quickly become} Has Appointed judge

of the quick & the dead.[72]  All

the prophets spoke about Him, saying,

"It was intended,[73] everyone whoever so believeth in Him,

though dead,[74] will have his sins forgiven

through the power of His Name _{jalla jalāluh} & have eternal life.”

 

 

Jesus wept [75]

 

 

So be it: "Would that I had not been given my record, nor known

what my reckoning was.  My wealth is of no avail to me,

& my power has perished."

 

Woe unto me! would that I were [mere] dust.

 

 

 

Shall we receive good at the hand of GOD, _{the IRRESISISTABLE}

& shall we not receive evil?

                                                                                                Ay’yu-bh’um the Huzite

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Epilogue

 

O Lord!  Grant me firmness in faith & direction.

Assist me in being Grateful to Thee & in Adoring Thee in every good way.

I ask Thee for an innocent heart, which shall not incline to wickedness.

I ask Thee for a true tongue.

I pray Thee to defend me from that vice which Thou Knowest,

& for forgiveness of those faults which Thou Knowest.

O my Defender! assist me in Remembering Thee & being Grateful to Thee,

& in Worshipping Thee with an excess of my strength.

Forgive me out of Thy Loving Kindness, & have Mercy on me; for verily

Thou Art the Forgiver of offences & the Bestower of Blessings on Thy servants.

 

Forgive me Lord of lords of mankind - pity a poor sinner.

Forgive me King of kings of mankind - pity a poor beggar.

Forgive me GOD _Falaq of gods of mankind against the mischief of every sneaking whisperer,

the accuser, who whispers into the minds of Thine Chosen People, the Faithful

& the True Believers

 

Osanna.  Osanna.  Osanna.

Kodesh.  Kodesh.  Kodesh.

S’al-a’men.  S’al-a’men.  S’al’amen.

 

 

 

 

GRACE & PEACE BE WITH YOU

 

 

 

 

MA’Āt