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they spread fresh calumnies. This Wronged One,
however, cleaveth to seemly patience. Would that
His Majesty the Sháh of Persia would ask for a report
of the things which befell Us in Constantinople,
that he might become fully acquainted with the
true facts. O Sháh! I adjure thee by thy Lord, the
God of Mercy, to look into this matter with the eye
of fairness. Is there to be found a just man who will
judge in this day according to that which God hath
sent down in His Book? Where is the fair-minded
person who will equitably consider what hath been
perpetrated against Us without any clear token or
proof?
O Shaykh! Ponder the behavior of men. The
inmates of the cities of knowledge and wisdom are
sore perplexed asking themselves why it is that the
Shí'ih sect, which regarded itself as the most learned,
the most righteous, and the most pious of all the
peoples of the world, hath turned aside in the Day
of His Revelation, and hath shown a cruelty such as
hath never been experienced. It is incumbent upon
thee to reflect a while. From the inception of this
sect until the present day how great hath been the
number of the divines that have appeared, none of
whom became cognizant of the nature of this Revelation.
What could have been the cause of this waywardness?
Were We to mention it, their limbs would
cleave asunder. It is necessary for them to meditate,
to meditate for a thousand thousand years, that haply
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