This charge of fomenting discord is the same as that imputed aforetime by
the Pharaohs of Egypt to Him Who conversed with God (Moses). Read thou
what the All-Merciful hath revealed in the Qur’án. He—may He be blessed
and glorified—saith: "Moreover We had sent Moses of old with Our signs and
with clear authority to Pharaoh, and Hamán, and Qarún: and they said:
‘Sorcerer, impostor!’ And when He came to them from Our presence with the
truth, they said: ‘Slay the sons of those who believe as He doth, and save
their females alive,’ but the stratagem of the unbelievers issued only in
failure. And Pharaoh said: ‘Let me alone, that I may kill Moses; and let
him call upon his Lord: I fear lest he change your religion, or cause
disorder to show itself in the land.’ And Moses said: ‘I take refuge with
my Lord, and your Lord from every proud one who believeth not in the Day
of Reckoning.’"
Men have, at all times, considered every World Reformer a fomenter of
discord, and have referred unto Him in terms with which all are familiar.
Each time the Daystar of Divine Revelation shed its radiance from the
horizon of God’s Will a great number of men denied Him, others turned
aside from Him, and still others calumniated Him, and thereby withheld the
servants of God from the river of loving providence of Him Who is the King
of creation. In like manner, they who, in this day, have neither met this
Wronged One nor associated with Him have said, and even now continue to
say, the things thou hast heard and hearest still. Say: "O people! The Sun
of Utterance beameth forth in this day, above the horizon of bounty, and
the radiance of the Revelation of Him Who spoke on Sinai flasheth and
glisteneth before all religions. Purge and sanctify your breasts, and your
hearts, and your ears, and your eyes with the living waters of the
utterance of the All-Merciful, and set, then, your faces towards Him. By
the righteousness of God! Ye shall hear all things proclaim: ‘Verily, He
the True One is come. Blessed are they that judge with fairness, and
blessed they that turn towards Him!’"
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