st 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
Daystar 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. Thine act hath consumed the hearts of the
Concourse on high, and those of such as have circled round the Cause of
God, the Lord of the worlds. The soul of the Chaste One (Fatimih) melted,
by reason of thy cruelty, and the inmates of Paradise wept sore in that
blessed Spot.

"Judge thou fairly, I adjure thee by God. What proof did the Jewish
doctors adduce wherewith to condemn Him Who was the Spirit of God (Jesus
Christ), when He came unto them with truth? What could have been the
evidence produced by the Pharisees and the idolatrous priests to justify
their denial of Muhammad, the Apostle of God when He came unto them with a
Book that judged between truth and falsehood with a justice which turned
into light the darkness of the earth, and enraptured the hearts of such as
had known Him? Indeed thou hast produced, in this day, the same proofs
which the foolish divines advanced in that age. Unto this testifieth He
Who is the King of the realm of grace in this great Prison. Thou hast,
truly, walked in their ways, nay, hast surpassed them in their cruelty,
and hast deemed thyself to be helping the Faith and defending the Law of
God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. By Him Who is the Truth! Thine
iniquity hath made Gabriel to groan, and hath drawn tears from the Law of
God, through which the breezes of justice have been wafted over all who
are in heaven and on earth. Hast thou fondly imagined that the judgment
thou didst pronounce hath profited thee? Nay, by Him Who is the King of
all Names! Unto thy loss testifieth He with Whom is the knowledge of all
things as recorded in the preserved Tablet.

"O thou who hast gone astray! Thou hast neither seen Me, nor associated
with Me, nor been My companion for the fraction of a moment. How is it,
then, that thou hast bidden men to curse Me? Didst thou, in this, follow
the promptings of thine own desires, or didst thou obey thy Lord? Produce
thou a sign, if thou art one of the truthful. We testify that