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(Tihrán). No sooner had the former heard that he
had been called a Bábí than he became so perturbed
that his poise and dignity forsook him. He ascended
the pulpits and spoke words which ill befitted him.
From time immemorial the clay clods of the world
have, wholly by reason of their love of leadership,
perpetrated such acts as have caused men to err.
Thou must not, however, imagine that all the faithful
are such as these two. We have described unto thee
the constancy, the firmness, the steadfastness, the certitude,
the imperturbability and the dignity of the
martyrs of this Revelation, that thou mayest be well-informed.
My purpose in citing the passages from the
Tablets to the kings and others hath been that thou
mayest know of a certainty that this Wronged One
hath not concealed the Cause of God, but hath proclaimed
and delivered, in the most eloquent language,
before the face of the world, the things He had been
commissioned to set forth. Certain faint-hearted
ones, however, such as Hádí and others, have tampered
with the Cause of God and have, in their concern
for this fleeting life, said and done that which
caused the eye of justice to weep and the Pen of Glory
to groan, notwithstanding their ignorance of the
essentials of this Cause; whereas this Wronged One
hath revealed it for the sake of God.
O Hádí! Thou hast gone unto My brother and
hast seen him. Set now thy face towards the court
of this Wronged One, that haply the breezes of Revelation
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