e Faith of Islam, that
thou mightest save the believers, yet thou didst cause thy followers to
descend into the fire, for when the verses of God were sent forth thou
didst deprive thyself therefrom and yet reckoned thyself to be of the
righteous... Nay, by the life of Him Whom God shall make manifest! Neither
thou nor any one among His servants can produce the slightest proof, while
God shineth resplendent above His creatures and through the power of His
behest standeth supreme over all that dwell in the kingdoms of heaven and
earth and in whatever lieth between them. Verily He is potent over all
created things.

Thou hath named thyself 'Abdu's Sahib [servant of the Lord]. Yet, while
God hath, in very truth, made thy Lord manifest, and thou didst set thine
eyes upon Him, thou didst not recognize Him, even though thou hadst been
called into being by God for the purpose of attaining His presence, didst
thou but truly believe in the third verse of the chapter entitled
'Thunder'.(8)

Thou contendest, 'How can we recognize Him when we have heard naught but
words which fall short of irrefutable proofs?' Yet since thou hast
acknowledged and recognized Muhammad, the Apostle of God, through the
Qur'an, how canst thou withhold recognition from Him Who sent thee the
Book, despite thy calling thyself 'His servant'? Verily He doth exercise
undisputed authority over His revelations unto all mankind.

Wert thou to come unto Us while divine revelation is descending upon Us,
haply God will change thy fire into light. Verily He is the
Ever-Forgiving, the Most Generous. Otherwise that which hath been revealed
is decisive and final and will be faithfully upheld by all until the Day
of Resurrection... If divine revelation ceaseth, thou shouldst write a
petition to Him Whom God shall make manifest, imploring that it be
delivered into His presence. Therein thou must beg pardon of thy Lord,
turn unto Him in repentance and be of them that are wholly devoted to Him.
Perchance God will transform thy fire into light at the next Resurrection.
He, of a truth, is the Protector, the Most Exalted, the Ever-Forgiving.
Unto Him bow down in worship all that are in the heavens and on the earth
and whatever lieth between them; and unto Him shall all return.

We enjoin thee to save thyself and all the inhabitants of that land from
the fire, then to enter the peerless and exalted Paradise of His
good-pleasure. Otherwise the day is approaching when thou sha