--- Provisional translation by Khazeh Fananapazir
[“… revealed as far back as the year 1863, on the very first day of His arrival
in the garden of Ridvan …" (Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Baha'u'llah) “…
the ‘Suriy-i-Sabr’ (Surih of Patience), revealed on the first day of Ridvan
which extols Vahid and his fellow-sufferers in Nayriz …” (Shoghi Effendi, God
Passes By)]
This is the City of Patience. Strive ye to enter it, O concourse of the patient
ones!
In His name, the Exalted One, He Who is the Most Exalted.
This is the remembrance of God in the City of Patience regarding Job, Our
servant, Whom We sheltered under the shade of that Holy Tree planted in His
heart, to Whom We demonstrated the fire ignited in His Own Essence, and to
Whose Self We revealed Our Own Self by His Own Self. We called Job from this
sacred Spot whose environs are sanctified with this call, "Verily, He is
God, Thy Lord and the Lord of all things. He is All-Powerful over all things,
the Self-Subsisting One." When Job's face was illumined by the fire
burning in the sacred Tree, We clothed Him with the garment of Prophethood and
commanded Him to instruct men in the essence of graciousness and bounty and to
invite the people to the holy and beloved Shore. We established Job on earth
and caused the waters of divine munificence to descend on Him so that through
riches He became independent of all the inhabitants of the earth. We conferred
on Him a bounteous fortune and made Him very wealthy in the kingdom. We caused
Him to receive a portion of all wealth and strengthened His back with great
power. We gave Him sons from his loins and established an exalted station for
Him in all the lands.
