to justify your persecution of Him Who,
at your bidding, hath presented Himself before you, your rejection of Him,
and your infliction on Him every day of grievous injury? Hath He ever,
though it be for one short moment, disobeyed you? All the inhabitants of
'Iraq, and beyond them every discerning observer, will bear witness to the
truth of My words.

Be fair in your judgment, O ye Ministers of State! What is it that We have
committed that could justify Our banishment? What is the offense that hath
warranted Our expulsion? It is We Who have sought you, and yet, behold how
ye refused to receive Us! By God! This is a sore injustice that ye have
perpetrated--an injustice with which no earthly injustice can measure. To
this the Almighty is Himself a witness....

Know ye that the world and its vanities and its embellishments shall pass
away. Nothing will endure except God's Kingdom which pertaineth to none
but Him, the Sovereign Lord of all, the Help in Peril, the All-Glorious,
the Almighty. The days of your life shall roll away, and all the things
with which ye are occupied and of which ye boast yourselves shall perish,
and ye shall, most certainly, be summoned by a company of His angels to
appear at the spot where the limbs of the entire creation shall be made to
tremble, and the flesh of every oppressor to creep. Ye shall be asked of
the things your hands have wrought in this, your vain life, and shall be
repaid for your doings. This is the day that shall inevitably come upon
you, the hour that none can put back. To this the Tongue of Him that
speaketh the truth and is the Knower of all things hath testified.

LXVI: FEAR GOD, YE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY (CONSTANTINOPLE),...

Fear God, ye inhabitants of the City (Constantinople), and sow not the
seeds of dissension amongst men. Walk not in the paths of the Evil One.
Walk ye, during the few remaining days of your life, in the ways of the
one true God. Your days shall pass away as have the days of them who were
before you. To dust shall ye return, even as your fathers of old did
return.

Know ye that I am afraid of none except God. In none but Him have I placed
My trust; to none will I cleave but Him, and wish for naught except the
thing He hath wished for Me. This, indeed, is My heart's desire, did ye
but know it. I have offered up My soul and My body as a sacrifice for God,
the Lord of all worlds. Whoso hath known God shall know none but Him, and
he that fear