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wouldst weep with a great weeping, and wouldst bewail day and night Our
plight. Oh, would that a discerning and fair-minded soul could be found
who would recognize the wonders of this Revelation--wonders that proclaim
the sovereignty of God and the greatness of its power. Would that such a
man might arise and, wholly for the sake of God, admonish, privately and
openly, the people, that haply they may bestir themselves and aid this
wronged One Whom the workers of iniquity have so sorely afflicted.

Methinks that I hear the Voice of the Holy Spirit calling from behind Me
saying: Vary Thou Thy theme, and alter Thy tone, lest the heart of him who
hath fixed his gaze upon Thy face be saddened. Say: I have through the
grace of God and His might besought the help of no one in the past,
neither will I seek the help of any one in the future. He it is Who aided
Me, through the power of truth, during the days of My banishment in 'Iraq.
He it is Who overshadowed Me with His protection at a time when the
kindreds of the earth were contending with Me. He it is Who enabled Me to
depart out of the city, clothed with such majesty as none, except the
denier and the malicious, can fail to admit.

Say: My army is My reliance on God; My people, the force of My confidence
in Him. My love is My standard, and My companion the remembrance of God,
the Sovereign Lord of all, the Most Powerful, the All-Glorious, the
Unconditioned.

Arise, O wayfarer in the path of the Love of God, and aid thou His Cause.
Say: Barter not away this Youth, O people, for the vanities of this world
or the delights of heaven. By the righteousness of the one true God! One
hair of Him excelleth all that is in the heavens and all that is on the
earth. Beware, O men, lest ye be tempted to part with Him in exchange for
the gold and silver ye possess. Let His love be a storehouse of treasure
for your souls, on the Day when naught else but Him shall profit you, the
Day when every pillar shall tremble, when the very skins of men shall
creep, when all eyes shall stare up with terror. Say: O people! Fear ye
God, and turn not away disdainfully from His Revelation. Fall prostrate on
your faces before God, and celebrate His praise in the daytime and in the
night season.

Let thy soul glow with the flame of this undying Fire that burneth in the
midmost heart of the world, in such wise that the waters of the universe
shall be powerless to cool down its ardor. Make, then, mentio