un of the Muhammadan Dispensation? What law could
be their stay and guide? How could such people be made the victims of the
avenging wrath of God, the omnipotent Avenger? How could they be afflicted
with the scourge of chastisement by the heavenly King? Above all, how
could the flow of the grace of the All-Bountiful be stayed? How could the
ocean of His tender mercies be stilled? We take refuge with God, from that
which His creatures have fancied about Him! Exalted is He above their
comprehension!

Dear friend! Now when the light of God's everlasting Morn is breaking;
when the radiance of His holy words: "God is the light of the heavens and
of the earth"(67) is shedding illumination upon all mankind; when the
inviolability of His tabernacle is being proclaimed by His sacred
utterance: "God hath willed to perfect His light;"(68) and the Hand of
omnipotence, bearing His testimony: "In His grasp He holdeth the kingdom
of all things," is being outstretched unto all the peoples and kindreds of
the earth; it behooveth us to gird up the loins of endeavour, that haply,
by the grace and bounty of God, we may enter the celestial City: "Verily,
we are God's," and abide within the exalted habitation: "And unto Him we
do return." It is incumbent upon thee, by the permission of God, to
cleanse the eye of thine heart from the things of the world, that thou
mayest realize the infinitude of divine knowledge, and mayest behold Truth
so clearly that thou wilt need no proof to demonstrate His reality, nor
any evidence to bear witness unto His testimony.

O affectionate seeker! Shouldst thou soar in the holy realm of the spirit,
thou wouldst recognize God manifest and exalted above all things, in such
wise that thine eyes would behold none else but Him. "God was alone; there
was none else besides Him." So lofty is this station that no testimony can
bear it witness, neither evidence do justice to its truth. Wert thou to
explore the sacred domain of truth, thou wilt find that all things are
known only by the light of His recognition, that He hath ever been, and
will continue for ever to be, known through Himself. And if thou dwellest
in the land of testimony, content thyself with that which He, Himself,
hath revealed: "Is it not enough for them that We have sent down unto Thee
the Book?"(69) This is the testimony which He, Himself, hath ordained;
greater proof than this there is none, nor ever will be: "This proof is
His Word; His own Self, t