the views ye advance, for He Who is Our Remembrance in
your midst, and Who cometh from Us, is, in very truth, the Judge and
Witness. Turn away from that which ye lay hold of, and which the Book of
God, the True One, hath not sanctioned, for on the Day of Resurrection ye
shall, upon the Bridge, be, in very truth, held answerable for the
position ye occupied."

In that same Book the Bab thus addresses the _Sh_i'ihs, as well as the
entire body of the followers of the Prophet: "O concourse of _Sh_i'ihs!
Fear ye God, and Our Cause, which concerneth Him Who is the Most Great
Remembrance of God. For great is its fire, as decreed in the Mother-Book."
"O people of the Qur'an! Ye are as nothing unless ye submit unto the
Remembrance of God and unto this Book. If ye follow the Cause of God, We
will forgive you your sins, and if ye turn aside from Our command, We
will, in truth, condemn your souls in Our Book, unto the Most Great Fire.
We, verily, do not deal unjustly with men, even to the extent of a speck
on a date stone."

And finally, in that same Commentary, this startling prophecy is recorded:
"Erelong We will, in very truth, torment such as waged war against Husayn
[Imam Husayn], in the Land of the Euphrates, with the most afflictive
torment, and the most dire and exemplary punishment." "Erelong," He also,
referring to that same people, in that same Book, has written, "will God
wreak His vengeance upon them, at the time of Our Return, and He hath, in
very truth, prepared for them, in the world to come, a severe torment."

As to Baha'u'llah, the passages I cite in these pages constitute but a
fraction of the references to the Muslim divines with which His writings
abound. "The Lote-Tree beyond Which there is no passing," He exclaims,
"crieth out, by reason of the cruelty of the divines. It shouteth aloud,
and bewaileth itself." "From the inception of this sect [_Sh_i'ih]," He,
in His "Epistle to the Son of the Wolf," has written, "until the present
day, how great hath been the number of the divines that have appeared,
none of whom became cognizant of the nature of this Revelation. What could
have been the cause of this waywardness? Were We to mention it, their
limbs would cleave asunder. It is necessary for them to meditate, nay to
meditate for a thousand thousand years, that haply they may attain unto a
sprinkling from the ocean of knowledge, and discover the things whereof
they are oblivious in this day. I was walking in th