Although the outward meaning of “Whom God causeth to err through a knowledge” is what hath been revealed, yet to Us it signifieth those divines of the age who have turned away from the Beauty of God, and who, clinging unto their own learning, as fashioned by their own fancies and desires, have denounced God’s divine Message and Revelation.  “Say:  it is a weighty Message, from which ye turn aside!"(167) Likewise, He saith:  “And when Our clear verses are recited to them, they say, ’This is merely a man who would fain pervert you from your father’s worship.’  And they say, ‘This is none other than a forged falsehood.’"(168)

Give ear unto God’s holy Voice, and heed thou His sweet and immortal melody.  Behold how He hath solemnly warned them that have repudiated the verses of God, and hath disowned them that have denied His holy words.  Consider how far the people have strayed from the Kawthar of the divine Presence, and how grievous hath been the faithlessness and arrogance of the spiritually destitute in the face of that sanctified Beauty.  Although that Essence of lovingkindness and bounty caused those evanescent beings to step into the realm of immortality, and guided those destitute souls to the sacred river of wealth, yet some denounced Him as “a calumniator of God, the Lord of all creatures,” others accused Him of being “the one that withholdeth the people from the path of faith and true belief,” and still others declared Him to be “a lunatic” and the like.

In like manner, thou observest in this day with what vile imputations they have assailed that Gem of Immortality, and what unspeakable transgressions they have heaped upon Him Who is the Source of purity.  Although God hath throughout His Book and in His holy and immortal Tablet warned them that deny and repudiate the revealed verses, and hath announced His grace unto them that accept them, yet behold the unnumbered cavils they raised against those verses which have been sent down from the new heaven of God’s eternal holiness!  This, notwithstanding the fact that no eye hath beheld so great an outpouring of bounty, nor hath any ear heard of such a revelation of lovingkindness.  Such bounty and revelation have been made manifest, that the revealed verses seemed as vernal showers raining from the clouds of the mercy of the All-Bountiful.  The Prophets “endowed with constancy,” whose loftiness and glory shine as the sun, were each honoured with a Book which all have seen, and the verses of which have been duly ascertained.  Whereas the verses which have rained from this Cloud of divine mercy have been so abundant that none hath yet been able to estimate their number.  A score of volumes are now available.  How many still remain beyond our reach!  How many have been plundered and have fallen into the hands of the enemy, the fate of which none knoweth.