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justice of His Majesty the King that, for the fault of one
person, a number of persons should become the objects of the
scourges of wrath. God (glorious is His mention) saith: `None
shall bear the burden of another.' (34) And this is sufficiently
evident, that in every community there have been and will be
learned and ignorant, wise and foolish, sinful and pious. And
to commit abominable actions is far from the wise man. For
the wise man either seeketh the world or abandoneth it. If he
abandoneth it, assuredly he will not regard aught save God,
and, apart from this, the fear of God will withhold him from
committing forbidden and culpable actions. And if he seeketh
the world, he will assuredly not commit deeds which will
cause and induce the aversion of [God's] servants and produce
horror in those who are in all lands; but rather will he practice
such deeds as will cause the adhesion of mankind. So it hath
been demonstrated that detestable actions have been and will
be [wrought only] by ignorant persons. We ask God to keep
His servants from regarding aught but Him, and to bring them
near to Him: verily He is potent over all things.
"Glory be to Thee, O God! O My God, Thou hearest My
groaning, and seest My state and My distress and My
affliction, and knowest what is in My soul. If My cry be
sincerely for Thy sake, then draw thereby the hearts of Thy
creatures unto the horizon of the heaven of Thy recognition,
and turn the King unto the right hand of the throne of Thy
Name the Merciful; then bestow on him, O My God, the
blessing which hath descended from the heaven of Thy favor
and the clouds of Thy mercy, that he may sever himself from
that which he hath and turn toward the region of Thy bounties.
O Lord, help him to support the oppressed amongst [Thy]
servants, and to raise up Thy Word amidst Thy people; then
aid him with the hosts of the unseen and the seen, that he may
subdue cities in Thy Name and rule over all who are upon the