to avenge His
death. He was unknown of men, and the design he had conceived was
unnoticed by any one. Eventually he committed what had been preordained.
It behoveth you, therefore, to attach blame to no one except to
yourselves, for the things ye have committed, if ye but judge fairly. Who
is there on the whole earth who hath done what ye have done? None, by Him
Who is the Lord of all worlds!

All the rulers and kings of the earth honor and revere the descendants of
their Prophets and holy men, could ye but perceive it. Ye, on the other
hand, are responsible for such acts as no man hath, at any time,
performed. Your misdeeds have caused every understanding heart to be
consumed with grief. And yet, ye have remained sunk in your heedlessness,
and failed to realize the wickedness of your actions.

Ye have persisted in your waywardness until ye rose up against Us, though
We had committed nothing to justify your enmity. Fear ye not God Who hath
created you, and fashioned you, and caused you to attain your strength,
and joined you with them that have resigned themselves to Him (Muslims)?
How long will ye persist in your waywardness? How long will ye refuse to
reflect? How long ere ye shake off your slumber and are roused from your
heedlessness? How long will ye remain unaware of the truth?

Ponder in thine heart. Did ye, notwithstanding your behavior and the
things your hands have wrought, succeed in quenching the fire of God or in
putting out the light of His Revelation--a light that hath enveloped with
its brightness them that are immersed in the billowing oceans of
immortality, and hath attracted the souls of such as truly believe in and
uphold His unity? Know ye not that the Hand of God is over your hands,
that His irrevocable Decree transcendeth all your devices, that He is
supreme over His servants, that He is equal to His Purpose, that He doth
what He wisheth, that He shall not be asked of whatever He willeth, that
He ordaineth what He pleaseth, that He is the Most Powerful, the Almighty?
If ye believe this to be the truth, wherefore, then, will ye not cease
from troubling and be at peace with yourselves?

Ye perpetrate every day a fresh injustice, and treat Me as ye treated Me
in times past, though I never attempted to meddle with your affairs. At no
time have I opposed you, neither have I rebelled against your laws. Behold
how ye have, at the last, made Me a prisoner in this far-off land! Know
for a certainty, how