The time is at hand when whatsoever lieth hid in the souls and hearts of
men will be disclosed. This Day is the Day whereof Luqmán spoke unto his
son, the Day which the Lord of Glory announced and with which He
acquainted Him Who was His Friend (Muḥammad) through these, His
words—exalted be He:—"O my son! Verily, God will bring everything to
light, though it were but the weight of a grain of mustard-seed, and
hidden in a rock or in the heavens or in the earth; for God is Subtile,
informed of all." This Day the deceitful of eye, and all that men’s
breasts conceal, are made known and laid bare before the throne of His
Revelation. Nothing whatsoever can escape His knowledge. He heareth and
seeth, and He, in truth, is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing. How very
strange that they discern not between the trustworthy and the treacherous!
Would that His Majesty the _Sh_áh of Persia—may God perpetuate his
sovereignty—would inquire from the Consuls of the honored Persian
Government who have been in this country, that he might become acquainted
with the activities and behavior of this Wronged One. Briefly, they have
incited a great many such as A_kh_tar and others, and are busying
themselves in spreading calumnies. It is clear and evident that they will
surround with their swords of hatred and their shafts of enmity the one
whom they know to be an outcast among men and to have been banished from
one country to another. This is not the first time that such iniquity hath
been perpetrated, nor the first goblet that hath been dashed to the
ground, nor the first veil that hath been rent in twain in the path of
God, the Lord of the worlds. This Wronged One, however, remained calm and
silent in the Most Great Prison, busying Himself with His own affairs, and
completely detached from all else but God. Iniquity waxed so grievous that
the pens of the world are powerless to record it.
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