the Merciful! His honor
Ameen(180) hath mentioned you with the highest praise and commendation,
saying that, thank God, the believers in all parts of the cities and towns
are the manifestations of bounties and the dawning-places of justice and
equity; are mindful, obedient, kind-hearted and steadfast; are engaged in
reading the verses and occupied with spreading the signs; are in the
utmost ecstasy and exhilaration and intoxicated with the pure wine; are
active in praising and adoring the Most Great Name and intimate in paying
homage to the Holy Threshold; are living in accord with the divine
teachings and exhortations and are in every way endowed with all human
excellences and attributes; that they are in the utmos unity and agreement
and in great zeal and enthusiasm; are kind to every soul and treat all the
communities with exceeding joy and fragrance; that they have sympathy even
for the enemies and are faithful friends even to the unjust; that to the
outsiders they are as relatives and to the strangers they are a
swift-healing antidote instead of a poisonous sting; are the servants of
the world of humanity and manifestors of the attributes of the Merciful
One! Blessed are they for this testimony, which is expressive of the
beauty of their characters and the merit of their virtues! Truly, I say,
his honor Ameen is the well-wisher of all. In the day of the Manifestation
he was the Ameen (Faithful) of the Blessed perfection(181) and in the days
of the Covenant(182) he is the confidant of this yearning one. Therefore,
his testimony is heard and accepted and his evidence is praised and
beloved.

O ye beloved of God! According to what is heard, some of the ulemas of the
Sheite sect (Persian moslem mullas), as well as some leaders of the
Shekhei school, are engaged constantly in instigating revolts and have
arisen against the government with enmity and opposition, confusing the
affairs of the state more than before.

Praise be to God!(183) What is this heedlessness and ignorance and what is
this antagonism and insubordination! Verily, the Persian empire hath been
at all times deprived of every bounty on account of the encroaching
influence of the ritualistic mullas! Whenever that just government
conceived a good intention to introduce reforms and amelioration of
conditions, these ignorant leaders raised vehement opposition, protested
severely and prevented the introduction of measures which would better
conditions and spr