O ye leaders of religion!  Who is the man amongst you that can rival Me in vision or insight?  Where is he to be found that dareth to claim to be My equal in utterance or wisdom?  No, by My Lord, the All-Merciful!  All on the earth shall pass away; and this is the face of your Lord, the Almighty, the Well-Beloved.

We have decreed, O people, that the highest and last end of all learning be the recognition of Him Who is the Object of all knowledge; and yet, behold how ye have allowed your learning to shut you out, as by a veil, from Him Who is the Dayspring of this Light, through Whom every hidden thing hath been revealed.  Could ye but discover the source whence the splendour of this utterance is diffused, ye would cast away the peoples of the world and all that they possess, and would draw nigh unto this most blessed Seat of glory.

Say:  This, verily, is the heaven in which the Mother Book is treasured, could ye but comprehend it.  He it is Who hath caused the Rock to shout, and the Burning Bush to lift up its voice, upon the Mount rising above the Holy Land, and proclaim:  ’The Kingdom is God’s, the sovereign Lord of all, the All-Powerful, the Loving!’

We have not entered any school, nor read any of your dissertations.  Incline your ears to the words of this unlettered One, wherewith He summoneth you unto God, the Ever-Abiding.  Better is this for you than all the treasures of the earth, could ye but comprehend it.

“O concourse of divines!  When My verses were sent...”

O concourse of divines!  When My verses were sent down, and My clear tokens were revealed, We found you behind the veils.  This, verily, is a strange thing....  We have rent the veils asunder.  Beware lest ye shut out the people by yet another veil.  Pluck asunder the chains of vain imaginings, in the name of the Lord of all men, and be not of the deceitful.  Should ye turn unto God, and embrace His Cause, spread not disorder within it, and measure not the Book of God with your selfish desires.  This, verily, is the counsel of God aforetime and hereafter....  Had ye believed in God, when He revealed Himself, the people would not have turned aside from Him, nor would the things ye witness today have befallen Us.  Fear God, and be not of the heedless....  This is the Cause that hath caused all your superstitions and idols to tremble....  O concourse of divines!  Beware lest ye be the cause of strife in the land, even as ye were the cause of the repudiation of the Faith in its early days.  Gather the people around this Word that hath made the pebbles to cry out:  ’The Kingdom is God’s, the Dawning-Place of all signs!’...  Tear the veils asunder in such wise that the inmates of the Kingdom will hear them being rent.  This is the command of God, in days gone by, and for those to come.  Blessed the man that observeth that whereunto he was bidden, and woe betide the negligent.

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