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Happy is the man who will arise to serve My Cause, and glorify My beauteous Name. Take
hold of My Book with the power of My might, and
cleave tenaciously to whatsoever commandment thy
Lord, the Ordainer, the All-Wise, hath prescribed
therein. Behold, O Muhammad, how the sayings and
doings of the followers of Shí'ih Islám have dulled
the joy and fervor of its early days, and tarnished the
pristine brilliancy of its light. In its primitive days,
whilst they still adhered to the precepts associated
with the name of their Prophet, the Lord of mankind,
their career was marked by an unbroken chain
of victories and triumphs. As they gradually strayed
from the path of their Ideal Leader and Master, as
they turned away from the Light of God and corrupted
the principle of His Divine unity, and as they
increasingly centered their attention upon them who
were only the revealers of the potency of His Word,
their power was turned into weakness, their glory
into shame, their courage into fear. Thou dost witness
to what a pass they have come. Behold, how they
have joined partners with Him Who is the Focal-Point
of Divine unity. Behold how their evil doings
have hindered them from recognizing, in the Day of
Resurrection, the Word of Truth, exalted be His
glory. We cherish the hope that this people will
henceforth shield themselves from vain hopes and idle
fancies, and will attain to a true understanding of
the meaning of Divine unity. |
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The Person of the Manifestation hath ever been
the representative and mouthpiece of God. He, in
truth, is the Day Spring of God's most excellent
Titles, and the Dawning-Place of His exalted
Attributes. If any be set up by His side as peers, if
they be regarded as identical with His Person, how
can it, then, be maintained that the Divine Being is
One and Incomparable, that His Essence is indivisible
and peerless? Meditate on that which We have,
through the power of truth, revealed unto thee, and
be thou of them that comprehend its meaning. |