God testifieth, and the world beareth Me witness that this Siyyid stood by
this Wronged One, and even wrote a detailed refutation against them that
turned aside from Me. Two communications, moreover, in which he hath borne
witness unto the Revelation of the True One, and in which the evidences of
his turning away from all else but Him, are clear and manifest, have been
sent by Us to Ḥaydar-‘Alí. The handwriting of the Siyyid is unmistakable,
and is known unto everyone. Our purpose in doing this was that perchance
they that have denied Us might attain unto the living waters of
acknowledgment, and such as have turned aside be illumined with the light
of conversion. God is My witness that this Wronged One hath had no purpose
except to convey the Word of God. Blessed are the fair-minded, and woe
betide them that have turned aside. They that have turned away from Me
have schemed many a time, and acted deceitfully in divers ways. They have,
on one occasion, secured a picture of this Siyyid, and pasted it on a
sheet with that of others, surmounted by the portrait of Mírzá Yaḥyá.
Briefly, they have seized upon every means in order to repudiate the True
One. Say: "The True One is come evident as the shining sun; O pity that He
should have come into the city of the blind!" The afore-mentioned Siyyid
admonished the deniers, and summoned them unto the Most Sublime Horizon,
but failed to impress these stones that can take no imprint. Concerning
him they have said things against which he sought refuge with God—exalted
be His glory. The supplications which he hath sent to this Holy Court are
now in Our possession. Happy are the fair-minded.
Ponder now upon the complaint of the Primal Point against the Mirrors,
that haply men may be awakened, and may turn from the left hand of idle
fancies and imaginings unto the right hand of faith and certitude, and may
be made cognizant of that wherefrom they are veiled. It is indeed for the
purpose of recognizing this Most Great Cause that they have come out of
the world of non-existence into the world of being. And likewise He saith:
"Consecrate Thou, O my God, the whole of this Tree unto Him, that from it
may be revealed all the fruits created by God within it for Him through
Whom God hath willed to reveal all that He pleaseth. By Thy glory! I have
not wished that this Tree should ever bear any branch, leaf, or fruit that
would fail to bow down before Him, on the day of His Revelation, or refuse
to laud Thee through Him, as beseemeth the glory of His all-glorious
Revelation, and the sublimity of His most sublime Concealment. And
shouldst Thou behold, O my God, any branch, leaf, or fruit upon Me that
hath failed to bow down before Him, on the day of His Revelation, cut it
off, O My God, from that Tree, for it is not of Me, nor shall it return
unto Me."
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