of God! I was at all
times thankful unto Him, uttering His praise, engaged in remembering Him,
directed towards Him, satisfied with His pleasure, and lowly and
submissive before Him. So passed My days, until they ended in this Prison
(Akka) which hath made the earth to tremble and the heavens to sigh. Happy
that one who hath cast away his vain imaginings, when He Who was hid came
with the standards of His signs. We, verily, have announced unto men this
Most Great Revelation, and yet the people are in a state of strange
stupor."

Thereupon, a Voice was raised from the direction of Hijaz, calling aloud
and saying: "Great is thy blessedness, O Akka, in that God hath made thee
the dayspring of His Most Sweet Voice, and the dawn of His most mighty
signs. Happy art thou in that the Throne of Justice hath been established
upon thee, and the Daystar of God's loving-kindness and bounty hath shone
forth above thy horizon. Well is it with every fair-minded person that
hath judged fairly Him Who is the Most Great Remembrance, and woe betide
him that hath erred and doubted."

Following upon the death of some of the martyrs, the Lawh-i-Burhan (Tablet
of the Proof) was sent down from the heaven of the Revelation of Him Who
is the Lord of Religions:

"He is the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise! The winds of hatred
have encompassed the Ark of Batha (Mecca), by reason of that which the
hands of the oppressors have wrought. O thou who art reputed for thy
learning! Thou hast pronounced sentence against them for whom the books of
the world have wept, and in whose favor 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 judgment 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 discernment 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 unto the mountains, or would