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hands of the oppressors have wrought. O thou who
art reputed for thy learning! Thou hast pronounced
sentence against them for whom the books of the
world have wept, and in whose favor the scriptures
of all religions have testified. Thou, who art gone
far astray, art indeed wrapt in a thick veil. By God
Himself! Thou hast pronounced judgment against
them through whom the horizon of faith hath been
illumined. Unto this bear witness They Who are
the Dawning-Places of Revelation and the Manifestations
of the Cause of thy Lord, the Most Merciful,
Who have sacrificed Their souls and all that They
possessed in His straight Path. The Faith of God
hath cried everywhere, by reason of thy tyranny,
and yet thou disportest thyself and art of them that
exult. There is no hatred in Mine heart for thee nor
for anyone. Every man of discernment beholdeth
thee, and such as are like thee, engulfed in evident
folly. Hadst thou realized that which thou hast done,
thou wouldst have cast thyself into the fire, or abandoned
thine home and fled unto the mountains, or
wouldst have groaned until thou hadst returned unto
the place destined for thee by Him Who is the Lord
of strength and of might. O thou who art even as
nothing! Rend thou asunder the veils of idle fancies
and vain imaginings, that thou mayest behold the
Daystar of knowledge shining from this resplendent
Horizon. Thou hast torn in pieces a remnant of the
Prophet Himself, and imagined that thou hadst
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