Ever-Blessed, the Sublime, the Most August, the Most
Glorious, the Most Bountiful, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed.

LAWH-I-BURHAN (TABLET OF THE PROOF)

_This Tablet was revealed after the martyrdom of the King of
Martyrs and the Beloved of Martyrs (see God Passes By pages
200-201) and was addressed to Shaykh Muhammad Baqir, denounced by
Baha'u'llah as the 'Wolf'. In this Tablet Baha'u'llah refers to
Mir Muhammad Husayn, the Imam Jum'ih of Isfahan, surnamed the
'She-Serpent', who was Shaykh Muhammad Baqir's accomplice in the
persecution of the Baha'is. (See God Passes By, pages 198, 200-201
and 219). The Epistle to the Son of the Wolf was addressed to
Shaykh Muhammad Taqiy-i-Najafi, the son of Shaykh Muhammad Baqir._

HE is the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise! The winds of hatred
have encompassed the Ark of Batha,(66) by reason of that which the hands
of the oppressors have wrought. O Baqir! Thou hast pronounced sentence
against them for whom the books of the world have wept, and in whose
favour the scriptures of all religions have testified. Thou, who art gone
far astray, art indeed wrapt in a thick veil. By God Himself! Thou hast
pronounced judgement against them through whom the horizon of faith hath
been illumined. Unto this bear witness They Who are the Dawning-Places of
Revelation and the Manifestations of the Cause of thy Lord, the Most
Merciful, Who have sacrificed Their souls and all that They possessed in
His straight Path. The Faith of God hath cried everywhere, by reason of
thy tyranny, and yet thou disportest thyself and art of them that exult.
There is no hatred in Mine heart for thee nor for anyone. Every man of
learning beholdeth thee, and such as are like thee, engulfed in evident
folly. Hadst thou realized that which thou hast done, thou wouldst have
cast thyself into the fire, or abandoned thine home and fled into the
mountains, or wouldst have groaned until thou hadst returned unto the
place destined for thee by Him Who is the Lord of strength and of might. O
thou who art even as nothing! Rend thou asunder the veils of idle fancies
and vain imaginings, that thou mayest behold the Day-Star of knowledge
shining from this resplendent Horizon. Thou hast torn in pieces a remnant
of the Prophet Himself, and imagined that thou hadst helped the Faith of
God. Thus hath thy soul prompted thee, and thou art truly one of the
heedless