In Me resides the Hope and I am the One to be hoped for.

In Me resides the Hope and I am the One to be hoped for. I am the One that standeth upon the Two Gulfs! (tutunj) I am the One that looketh unto the Twin Rising-Places [or “Orients”] and the Twin Setting Places [or “Occidents”]. I did see with My own eyes [the Bounty of] God and the Paradise! And this was as the seventh Heaven was moving in its orbit and there in the great surging seas were the stars and their own orbits.

I saw also the earth rolled up as a short garment would be rolled up and it was within a shell on the right sided Gulf which faces the East and the Twin Gulfs. Further out there are the Twin Bays (khalij) of water as if they are to the left of the Twin Gulfs. I saw that the Circle that embraces these and the Paradise and all that there is therein were naught but a ring on the finger of Thy Lord. I saw the Sun when it was setting and it was like unto a bird that seeketh its nest.

And if it were not for the friction of the head of Paradise and the mixing up of the Twin Gulfs and the sound of the spheres all that are in heavens and the earth would hear the ebullition of heat caused by the Sun’s descent into the Black water – and that is the Warm Fountain. I know of the wonders of God’s(swt) Work what no one knows but God(swt) I know what has been and what will be and what has been in the First Sprinkling with those who preceded the First Adam(a.s).

All was disclosed for Me and I knew and all was taught Me and I have learnt. So hearken and do not raise a clamour. Were it not for My fear that you might say “‘Ali has become possessed or apostatised from His Faith” I shall disclose unto you what and whereat they are and what you shall encounter on the day of Resurrection.

All that knowledge was entrusted unto Me and thus I knew and the knowledge of all this was hidden from all the Prophets(a.s) except the Lord of this Dispensation (Shari’ah) of yours (Peace be upon Him and His Family). He taught Me His knowledge and I taught Him My knowledge. Verily We are the Warner’s from immemorial times and We shall be unto everlasting Warner’s from God.

Through Us will perish He that is going to perish and by Us have obtained salvation all that have obtained salvation and you shall not encompass that ability that is Ours. By the righteousness of Him Whose power causeth the seed to germinate and Who breatheth the spirit of life into all things, by Him Who alone hath power and grandeur!