What pen can recount the things We beheld upon Our return!  Two years have elapsed during which Our enemies have ceaselessly and assiduously contrived to exterminate Us, whereunto all witness.  Nevertheless, none amongst the faithful hath risen to render Us any assistance, nor did any one feel inclined to help in Our deliverance.  Nay, instead of assisting Us, what showers of continuous sorrows, their words and deeds have caused to rain upon Our soul!  Amidst them all, We stand, life in hand, wholly resigned to His will; that perchance, through God’s loving kindness and His grace, this revealed and manifest Letter may lay down His life as a sacrifice in the path of the Primal Point, the most exalted Word.  By Him at Whose bidding the Spirit hath spoken, but for this yearning of Our soul, We would not, for one moment, have tarried any longer in this city.  “Sufficient Witness is God unto Us.”  We conclude Our argument with the words:  “There is no power nor strength but in God alone.”  “We are God’s, and to Him shall we return.”

They that have hearts to understand, they that have quaffed the Wine of love, who have not for one moment gratified their selfish desires, will behold, resplendent as the sun in its noon-tide glory, those tokens, testimonies, and evidences that attest the truth of this wondrous Revelation, this transcendent and divine Faith.  Reflect, how the people have rejected the Beauty of God, and have clung unto their covetous desires.  Notwithstanding all these consummate verses, these unmistakable allusions, which have been revealed in the “Most weighty Revelation,” the Trust of God amongst men, and despite these evident traditions, each more manifest than the most explicit utterance, the people have ignored and repudiated their truth, and have held fast to the letter of certain traditions which, according to their understanding, they have found inconsistent with their expectations, and the meaning of which they have failed to grasp.  They have thus shattered every hope, and deprived themselves of the pure wine of the All-Glorious, and the clear and incorruptible waters of the immortal Beauty.

Consider, that even the year in which that Quintessence of Light is to be made manifest hath been specifically recorded in the traditions, yet they still remain unmindful, nor do they for one moment cease to pursue their selfish desires.  According to the tradition, Mufaddal asked Sadiq saying:  “What of the sign of His manifestation, O my master?” He made reply:  “In the year sixty, His Cause shall be made manifest, and His Name shall be proclaimed.”

How strange!  Notwithstanding these explicit and manifest references these people have shunned the Truth.  For instance, mention of the sorrows, the imprisonment and afflictions inflicted upon that Essence of divine virtue hath been made in the former traditions.  In the “Bihar” it is recorded:  “In our Qa’im there shall be four signs from four Prophets, Moses, Jesus, Joseph, and Muhammad.