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And further We have said: "More grievous became
Our plight from day to day, nay, from hour to hour,
until they took Us forth from Our prison and made
Us, with glaring injustice, enter the Most Great
Prison. And if anyone ask them: `For what crime
were they imprisoned?' they would answer and say:
`They, verily, sought to supplant the Faith with a
new religion!' If that which is ancient be what ye
prefer, wherefore, then, have ye discarded that which
hath been set down in the Torah and the Evangel?
Clear it up, O men! By My life! There is no place
for you to flee to in this day. If this be My crime,
then
And further We have said: "As My tribulations multiplied, so did My love for God and for His Cause increase, in such wise that all that befell Me from the