arning current amongst men I
studied not; their schools I entered not. Ask of the city wherein I dwelt,
that thou mayest be well assured that I am not of them who speak falsely.
This is but a leaf which the winds of the will of thy Lord, the Almighty,
the All-Praised, have stirred. Can it be still when the tempestuous winds
are blowing? Nay, by Him Who is the Lord of all Names and Attributes! They
move it as they list. The evanescent is as nothing before Him Who is the
Ever-Abiding. His all-compelling summons hath reached Me, and caused Me to
speak His praise amidst all people. I was indeed as one dead when His
behest was uttered. The hand of the will of thy Lord, the Compassionate,
the Merciful, transformed Me."

Now is the moment in which to cleanse thyself with the waters of
detachment that have flowed out from the Supreme Pen, and to ponder,
wholly for the sake of God, those things which, time and again, have been
sent down or manifested, and then to strive, as much as lieth in thee, to
quench, through the power of wisdom and the force of thy utterance, the
fire of enmity and hatred which smouldereth in the hearts of the peoples
of the world. The Divine Messengers have been sent down, and their Books
were revealed, for the purpose of promoting the knowledge of God, and of
furthering unity and fellowship amongst men. But now behold, how they have
made the Law of God a cause and pretext for perversity and hatred. How
pitiful, how regrettable, that most men are cleaving fast to, and have
busied themselves with, the things they possess, and are unaware of, and
shut out as by a veil from, the things God possesseth!

Say: "O God, my God! Attire mine head with the crown of justice, and my
temple with the ornament of equity. Thou, verily, art the Possessor of all
gifts and bounties."

Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are
revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the
well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.

These words have streamed from the pen of this Wronged One in one of His
Tablets: "The purpose of the one true God, exalted be His glory, hath been
to bring forth the Mystic Gems out of the mine of man--they Who are the
Dawning-Places of His Cause and the Repositories of the pearls of His
knowledge; for, God Himself, glorified be He, is the Unseen, the One
concealed and hidden from the eyes of men. Consider what the Merciful hath
revealed in t