ing from His resplendent and wondrous lips! And
unto whosoever desireth to be illumined by the splendours of His light,
say: Seek the court of His presence, for God hath verily granted you leave
to approach it, as a token of His grace unto all mankind.

58 Say: O people! We shall put to you a question in all truthfulness,
taking God for a witness between you and Us. He, verily, is the Defender
of the righteous. Appear, then, before His Throne of glory and make reply
with justice and fair-mindedness. Is it God Who is potent to achieve His
purpose, or is it ye who enjoy such authority? Is it He Who is truly
unconstrained, as ye imply when ye say that He doeth what He pleaseth and
shall not be asked of His doings, or is it ye who wield such power, and
who merely make such assertions out of blind imitation, as did your
forebears at the appearance of every other Messenger of God?

59 If He be truly unconstrained, behold then how He hath sent down the
Manifestation of His Cause with verses which naught in the heavens or on
the earth can withstand! Such hath been the manner of their revelation
that they have neither peer nor likeness in the world of being, as ye
yourselves beheld and heard when once the Daystar of the world shone forth
above the horizon of 'Iraq with manifest dominion. All things attain their
consummation in the divine verses, and these indeed are the verses of God,
the Sovereign Lord, the Help in Peril, the All-Glorious, the Almighty.
Beyond this, He hath been made manifest as the Bearer of a Cause whose
sovereign might is acknowledged by all created things, and this none can
deny save the sinners and the ungodly.

60 Say: O people! Is it your wish to conceal the beauty of the Sun behind
the veils of your own selfish desires, or to prevent the Spirit from
raising its melodies within this sanctified and luminous breast? Fear ye
God, and contend not with Him Who representeth the Godhead. Dispute not
with the One at Whose bidding the letter "B" was created and joined with
its mighty foundation.(6) Believe in the Messengers of God and His
sovereign might, and in the Self of God and His majesty. Follow not those
who have repudiated what they had once believed, and who have sought for
themselves a station after their own fancy; these, truly, are of the
ungodly. Bear ye witness unto that whereunto God Himself hath borne
witness, that the company of His favoured ones may be illumined by the
words that issue from you