"Will ye slay a man because he saith my Lord
is God, when he hath already come to you with proofs of his mission? And
if he be a liar, on him will be his lie, but if he be a man of truth, part
at least of what he threateneth will fall upon you." This is what God hath
revealed unto His Well-Beloved One, in His unerring Book.

And yet, ye have failed to incline your ears unto His bidding, have
disregarded His law, have rejected His counsel as recorded in His Book,
and have been of them that have strayed far from Him. How many those who,
every year, and every month, have because of you been put to death! How
manifold the injustices ye have perpetrated--injustices the like of which
the eye of creation hath not seen, which no chronicler hath ever recorded!
How numerous the babes and sucklings who were made orphans, and the
fathers who lost their sons, because of your cruelty, O ye unjust doers!
How oft hath a sister pined away and mourned over her brother, and how oft
hath a wife lamented after her husband and sole sustainer!

Your iniquity waxed greater and greater until ye slew Him Who had never
taken His eyes away from the face of God, the Most Exalted, the Most
Great. Would that ye had put Him to death after the manner men are wont to
put one another to death! Ye slew Him, however, in such circumstances as
no man hath ever witnessed. The heavens wept sore over Him, and the souls
of them who are nigh unto God cried out for His affliction. Was He not a
Scion of your Prophet's ancient House? Had not His fame as a direct
descendant of the Apostle been spread abroad amongst you? Why, then, did
ye inflict upon Him what no man, however far ye may look back, hath
inflicted upon another? By God! The eye of creation hath never beheld your
like. Ye slay Him Who is a Scion of your Prophet's House, and rejoice and
make merry while seated on your seats of honor! Ye utter your imprecations
against them who were before you, and who have perpetrated what ye have
perpetrated, and remain yourselves all the time unaware of your
enormities!

Be fair in your judgment. Did they whom you curse, upon whom ye invoke
evil, act differently from yourselves? Have they not slain the descendant
of their Prophet as ye have slain the descendant of your own? Is not your
conduct similar to their conduct? Wherefore, then, claim ye to be
different from them, O ye sowers of dissension amongst men?

And when ye took away His life, one of His followers arose