"He is the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise! The winds of hatred
have encompassed the Ark of Bathá (Mecca), by reason of that which the
hands of the oppressors have wrought. O thou who art reputed for thy
learning! Thou hast pronounced sentence against them for whom the books of
the world have wept, and in whose favor the scriptures of all religions
have testified. Thou, who art gone far astray, art indeed wrapt in a thick
veil. By God Himself! Thou hast pronounced judgment against them through
whom the horizon of faith hath been illumined. Unto this bear witness They
Who are the Dawning-Places of Revelation and the Manifestations of the
Cause of thy Lord, the Most Merciful, Who have sacrificed Their souls and
all that They possessed in His straight Path. The Faith of God hath cried
everywhere, by reason of thy tyranny, and yet thou disportest thyself and
art of them that exult. There is no hatred in Mine heart for thee nor for
anyone. Every man of discernment beholdeth thee, and such as are like
thee, engulfed in evident folly. Hadst thou realized that which thou hast
done, thou wouldst have cast thyself into the fire, or abandoned thine
home and fled unto the mountains, or wouldst have groaned until thou hadst
returned unto the place destined for thee by Him Who is the Lord of
strength and of might. O thou who art even as nothing! Rend thou asunder
the veils of idle fancies and vain imaginings, that thou mayest behold the
Daystar of knowledge shining from this resplendent Horizon. Thou hast torn
in pieces a remnant of the Prophet Himself, and imagined that thou hadst
helped the Faith of God. Thus hath thy soul prompted thee, and thou art
truly one of the heedless. Thine act hath consumed the hearts of the
Concourse on high, and those of such as have circled round the Cause of
God, the Lord of the worlds. The soul of the Chaste One (Fátimih) melted,
by reason of thy cruelty, and the inmates of Paradise wept sore in that
blessed Spot.
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