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people, with snow-white faces and radiant hearts,
unto the blest and crimson Spot, wherein the Tree
beyond which there is no passing is calling: `Verily,
there is none other God beside Me, the Omnipotent
Protector, the Self-Subsisting!' O ye leaders of religion
in Persia! Who is the man amongst you that can
rival Me in vision or insight? Where is he to be
found that dareth to claim to be My equal in utterance
or wisdom? No, by My Lord, the All-Merciful!
All on the earth shall pass away; and this is the face
of your Lord, the Almighty, the Well-Beloved. We
have decreed, O people, that the highest and last
end of all learning be the recognition of Him Who is
the Object of all knowledge; and yet behold how ye
have allowed your learning to shut you out, as by a
veil, from Him Who is the Dayspring of this Light,
through Whom every hidden thing hath been revealed.
Say: This, verily, is the heaven in which the
Mother Book is treasured, could ye but comprehend
it. He it is Who hath caused the Rock to shout, and
the Burning Bush to lift up its voice upon the Mount
rising above the Holy Land, and proclaim: `The
Kingdom is God's, the sovereign Lord of all, the All-Powerful,
the Loving!' We have not entered any
school, nor read any of your dissertations. Incline
your ears to the words of this unlettered One, wherewith
He summoneth you unto God, the Ever-Abiding.
Better is this for you than all the treasures of
the earth, could ye but comprehend it. Whoso interpreteth
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