And further We have said: "More grievous became Our plight from day to
day, nay, from hour to hour, until they took Us forth from Our prison and
made Us, with glaring injustice, enter the Most Great Prison. And if
anyone ask them: ‘For what crime were they imprisoned?’ they would answer
and say: ‘They, verily, sought to supplant the Faith with a new religion!’
If that which is ancient be what ye prefer, wherefore, then, have ye
discarded that which hath been set down in the Torah and the Evangel?
Clear it up, O men! By My life! There is no place for you to flee to in
this day. If this be My crime, then Muḥammad, the Apostle of God,
committed it before Me, and before Him He Who was the Spirit of God (Jesus
Christ), and yet earlier He Who conversed with God (Moses). And if My sin
be this, that I have exalted the Word of God and revealed His Cause, then
indeed am I the greatest of sinners! Such a sin I will not barter for the
kingdoms of earth and heaven."
And further We have said: "As My tribulations multiplied, so did My love
for God and for His Cause increase, in such wise that all that befell Me
from the hosts of the wayward was powerless to deter Me from My purpose.
Should they hide Me away in the depths of the earth, yet would they find
Me riding aloft on the clouds, and calling out unto God, the Lord of
strength and of might. I have offered Myself up in the way of God, and I
yearn after tribulations in My love for Him, and for the sake of His good
pleasure. Unto this bear witness the woes which now afflict Me, the like
of which no other man hath suffered. Every single hair of Mine head
calleth out that which the Burning Bush uttered on Sinai, and each vein of
My body invoketh God and saith: ‘O would I had been severed in Thy path,
so that the world might be quickened, and all its peoples be united!’ Thus
hath it been decreed by Him Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Informed.
"Know of a truth that your subjects are God’s trust amongst you. Watch ye,
therefore, over them as ye watch over your own selves. Beware that ye
allow not wolves to become the shepherds of the fold, or pride and conceit
to deter you from turning unto the poor and the desolate. Arise thou, in
My name, above the horizon of renunciation, and set, then, thy face
towards the Kingdom, at the bidding of thy Lord, the Lord of strength and
of might."
And further We have said: "Adorn the body of Thy kingdom with the raiment
of My name, and arise, then, to teach My Cause. Better is this for thee
than that which thou possessest. God will, thereby, exalt thy name among
all the kings. Potent is He over all things. Walk thou amongst men in the
name of God, and by the power of His might, that thou mayest show forth
His signs amidst the peoples of the earth."
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