O CONCOURSE of archbishops! He Who is the Lord of... O CONCOURSE of bishops! Trembling hath seized all the... O CONCOURSE of bishops! Ye are the stars of the heaven... O CONCOURSE of priests! Leave the bells, and come... O CONCOURSE of priests! The Day of Reckoning hath... O CONCOURSE of monks! Seclude not yourselves in... O CONCOURSE of monks! If ye choose to follow Me, I... CONSIDER, likewise, how numerous at this time are the... READ ye the Evangel and yet refuse to acknowledge the... PERUSED ye not the Qur’án? Read it, that haply ye may... BY Him Who is the Great Announcement! The All-Merciful... O CONCOURSE of Persian divines! In My name ye have... O YE divines of the City! We came to you with the... BECAUSE of you the Apostle (Muḥammad) lamented,... OF all the peoples of the world, they that have suffered... IN this day the world is redolent with the fragrances of the... O CONCOURSE of divines!... Lay aside that which ye... O HIGH priests! Ears have been given you that they may... WHATSOEVER hath been announced in the Books hath... THIS is not the day whereon the high priests can command... O HIGH priests! The Hand of Omnipotence is stretched... THE GREAT ANNOUNCEMENT TO MANKIND THE time fore-ordained unto the peoples and... VERILY I say, this is the Day in which mankind can behold... O YE children of men! The fundamental purpose animating... O CONTENDING peoples and kindreds of the earth! Set... THE Great Being, wishing to reveal the prerequisites of... THE All-Knowing Physician hath His finger on the... O PEOPLES of the earth! God, the Eternal Truth, is My... THE world’s equilibrium hath been upset through the... O YE peoples of the world! Know assuredly that My... THIS is the Day in which God’s most excellent favours... INTRODUCTION _We desire but the good of the world and the happiness of the nations; yet they deem Us a stirrer up of strife and sedition worthy of bondage and banishment.... That all nations should become one in faith and all men as brothers; that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened; that diversity of religion should cease, and differences of race be annulled—what harm is there in this?... Yet so it shall be; these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the ‘Most Great Peace’ shall come.... Yet do We see your kings and rulers lavishing their treasures more freely on means for the destruction of the human race than on that which would conduce to the happiness of mankind.... These strifes and this bloodshed and discord must cease, and all men be as one kindred and one family.... Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind...._