them that,
without a tittle of evidence, have treated Us with manifest injustice. God
assuredly dominateth the lives of them that wronged Us, and is well aware
of their doings. He will, most certainly, lay hold on them for their sins.
He, verily, is the fiercest of avengers." "Wherefore," He graciously
exhorteth them, "hearken ye unto My speech, and return ye to God and
repent, that He, through His grace, may have mercy upon you, may wash away
your sins, and forgive your trespasses. The greatness of His mercy
surpasseth the fury of His wrath, and His grace encompasseth all who have
been called into being and been clothed with the robe of life, be they of
the past or of the future."

And, finally, in the Lawh-i-Ra'is we find these prophetic words recorded:
"Hearken, O Chief ... to the Voice of God, the Sovereign, the Help in
Peril, the Self-Subsisting... Thou hast, O Chief, committed that which
hath made Muhammad, the Apostle of God, groan in the Most Exalted
Paradise. The world hath made thee proud, so much so that thou hast turned
away from the Face through Whose brightness the Concourse on high hath
been illumined. Soon thou shalt find thyself in evident loss... The day is
approaching when the Land of Mystery (Adrianople) and what is beside it
shall be changed, and shall pass out of the hands of the King, and
commotions shall appear, and the voice of lamentation shall be raised, and
the evidences of mischief shall be revealed on all sides, and confusion
shall spread by reason of that which hath befallen these captives at the
hands of the hosts of oppression. The course of things shall be altered,
and conditions shall wax so grievous, that the very sands on the desolate
hills will moan, and the trees on the mountain will weep, and blood will
flow out of all things. Then wilt thou behold the people in sore
distress."

Thirteen hundred years had to elapse from the death of the Prophet
Muhammad ere the illegitimacy of the institution of the Caliphate, the
founders of which had usurped the authority of the lawful successors of
the Apostle of God, would be fully and publicly demonstrated. An
institution which in its inception had trampled upon so sacred a right and
unchained the forces of so distressful a schism, an institution which, in
the latter days, had dealt so grievous a blow to a Faith Whose Forerunner
was Himself a descendant of the very Imams whose authority that
institution had repudiated, deserved full well th