osition in your country, and who have instigated
no revolution against the government; nay, rather, by day and by
night they have been peacefully engaged in the mentioning of God.
You have pillaged their properties, and through your tyrannical
acts, all that they had was taken from them.... Before God, a
handful of dust is greater than your kingdom, glory, sovereignty
and dominion, and should He desire, He would scatter you as the
sand of the desert. Erelong His wrath shall overtake you,
revolutions shall appear in your midst and your countries will be
divided! Then you will weep and lament and nowhere will you find
help and protection. ... Be ye watchful, for the wrath of God is
prepared, and erelong you shall behold that which is written by
the Pen of Command.

And to 'Ali Pa_sh_a He wrote:--

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. Thou
didst unite with the Ruler of Persia for doing Me harm, although I
had come to you from the Dawning-place of the Almighty, the Great,
with a Cause which refreshed the eyes of the favored ones of
God....

Didst thou think that thou could put out the fire which God hath
enkindled in the Universe? No! I declare by His True Soul, wert
thou of those who understand. More than that, by what thou hast
done its blaze and flame have been increased. Soon it will
encompass the world and its inhabitants.... 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 [Baha'u'llah and His companions] at the
hands of the hosts of oppression. The course of things shall be
altered, and conditions shall wax so grievous, that the very sand
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