Thus with steadfast steps we may tread the Path of certitude, that
perchance the breeze that bloweth from the meads of the good-pleasure of
God may waft upon us the sweet savours of divine acceptance, and cause us,
vanishing mortals that we are, to attain unto the Kingdom of everlasting
glory. Then wilt thou comprehend the inner meaning of sovereignty and the
like, spoken of in the traditions and scriptures. Furthermore, it is
already evident and known unto thee that those things to which the Jews
and the Christians have clung, and the cavilings which they heaped upon
the Beauty of Muḥammad, the same have in this day been upheld by the
people of the Qur’án, and been witnessed in their denunciations of the
“Point of the Bayán”—may the souls of all that dwell within the kingdom of
divine Revelations be a sacrifice unto Him! Behold their folly: they utter
the self-same words, uttered by the Jews of old, and know it not! How well
and true are His words concerning them: “Leave them to entertain
themselves with their cavilings!”(97) “As Thou livest, O Muḥammad! they
are seized by the frenzy of their vain fancies.”(98)
When the Unseen, the Eternal, the divine Essence, caused the Day-star of
Muḥammad to rise above the horizon of knowledge, among the cavils which
the Jewish divines raised against Him was that after Moses no Prophet
should be sent of God. Yea, mention hath been made in the scriptures of a
Soul Who must needs be made manifest and Who will advance the Faith, and
promote the interests of the people, of Moses, so that the Law of the
Mosaic Dispensation may encompass the whole earth. Thus hath the King of
eternal glory referred in His Book to the words uttered by those wanderers
in the vale of remoteness and error: “‘The hand of God,’ say the Jews, ‘is
chained up.’ Chained up be their own hands! And for that which they have
said, they were accursed. Nay, outstretched are both His hands!”(99) “The
hand of God is above their hands.”(100)
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