alted,
the Sovereign Truth, the All-Glorious. Thus hath Thy Lord put thee to
proof in the Day of Resurrection. Verily He is the All-Knowing, the
All-Wise.

For hadst thou uttered 'Here am I' at the time We sent thee the Book, We
would have admitted thee to the company of such of Our servants as truly
believe, and would have graciously praised thee in Our Book, until the Day
when all men shall appear before Us for judgement. This is in truth far
more advantageous unto thee than all the acts of worship thou hast
performed for thy Lord during all thy life, nay, from the beginning that
hath no beginning. Assuredly this is what would have served and will ever
serve thy best interests. Verily We are cognizant of all things. Yet
notwithstanding that We had called thee into being for the purpose of
attaining Our presence in the Day of Resurrection, thou didst shut thyself
out from Us without any reason or explicit Writ; whereas hadst thou been
among such as are endowed with the knowledge of the Bayan, thou wouldst
have, at the sight of the Book, testified forthwith that there is no God
but Him, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, and wouldst have affirmed
that He Who hath revealed the Qur'an, hath likewise revealed this Book,
that every word of it is from God, and unto it we all bear allegiance.

However, that which was preordained hath come to pass. Shouldst thou
return unto Us while revelation still continueth through Us, We shall
transform thy fire into light. Truly We are powerful over all things. But
if thou failest in this task, thou shalt find no way open to thee other
than to embrace the Cause of God and to implore that the matter of thine
allegiance be brought to the attention of Him Whom God shall make
manifest, that He may graciously enable thee to prosper and cause thy fire
to be transformed into light. This is that which hath been sent down unto
Us. Should this not come to pass, whatever We have set down shall remain
binding and irrevocably decreed by God, the Help in Peril, the
Self-Subsisting, and We shall therefore banish thee from Our presence as a
token of justice on Our part. Verily we are equitable in Our judgement.

Address To A Muslim Divine

O 'Abdu's-Sahib! Verily God and every created thing testify that there is
none other God but Me, the Almighty, the Best Beloved...

Thy vision is obscured by the belief that divine revelation ended with the
coming of Muhammad, and unto this We have bor