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all behind your backs, and set your faces towards the
Most Sublime Word through which the Scriptures
and the Books and this lucid Tablet have been distinctly
set forth. Cast away, O people, the things
ye have composed with the pen of your idle fancies
and vain imaginings. By God! The Daystar of
Knowledge hath shone forth above the horizon of
certitude.
"O thou who art gone astray! If thou hast any
doubt concerning Our conduct, know thou that We
bear witness unto that whereunto God hath Himself
borne witness ere the creation of the heavens and
of the earth, that there is none other God but Him,
the Almighty, the All-Bounteous. We testify that
He is One in His Essence, One in His Attributes.
He hath none to equal Him in the whole universe,
nor any partner in all creation. He hath sent forth
His Messengers, and sent down His Books, that they
may announce unto His creatures the Straight Path.
"Hath the Sháh been informed, and chosen to close
his eyes to thine acts? Or hath he been seized with
fear at the howling of a pack of wolves who have
cast the path of God behind their backs and followed
in thy way without any clear proof or Book? We
have heard that the provinces of Persia have been
adorned with the adornment of justice. When We
observed closely, however, We found them to be the
dawning-places of tyranny and the daysprings of
injustice. We behold justice in the clutches of tyranny.
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