Twenty years have passed, O Kings, during which We have, each day, tasted the agony of a fresh tribulation.  No one of them that were before Us hath endured the things We have endured.  Would that ye could perceive it!  They that rose up against Us, have put Us to death, have shed Our blood, have plundered Our property, and violated Our honour.  Though aware of most of Our afflictions, ye, nevertheless, have failed to stay the hand of the aggressor.  For is it not your clear duty to restrain the tyranny of the oppressor, and to deal equitably with your subjects, that your high sense of justice may be fully demonstrated to all mankind?

God hath committed into your hands the reins of the government of the people, that ye may rule with justice over them, safeguard the rights of the down-trodden, and punish the wrong-doers.  If ye neglect the duty prescribed unto you by God in His Book, your names shall be numbered with those of the unjust in His sight.  Grievous, indeed, will be your error.  Cleave ye to that which your imaginations have devised, and cast behind your backs the commandments of God, the Most Exalted, the Inaccessible, the All-Compelling, the Almighty?  Cast away the things ye possess, and cling to that which God hath bidden you observe.  Seek ye His grace, for he that seeketh it treadeth His straight Path....

The day is approaching when God will have exalted His Cause and magnified His testimony in the eyes of all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth.  Place, in all circumstances, Thy whole trust in Thy Lord, and fix Thy gaze upon Him, and turn away from all them that repudiate His truth.  Let God, Thy Lord, be Thy sufficing Succourer and Helper.  We have pledged Ourself to secure Thy triumph upon earth and to exalt Our Cause above all men, though no king be found who would turn his face towards Thee.

“O kings of the earth!  We see you increasing every year...”

O kings of the earth!  We see you increasing every year your expenditures, and laying the burden thereof on your subjects.  This, verily, is wholly and grossly unjust.  Fear the sighs and tears of this Wronged One, and lay not excessive burdens on your peoples.  Do not rob them to rear palaces for yourselves; nay rather choose for them that which ye choose for yourselves.  Thus We unfold to your eyes that which profiteth you, if ye but perceive.  Your people are your treasures.  Beware lest your rule violate the commandments of God, and ye deliver your wards to the hands of the robber.  By them ye rule, by their means ye subsist, by their aid ye conquer.  Yet, how disdainfully ye look upon them!  How strange, how very strange!

Now that ye have refused the Most Great Peace, hold ye fast unto this, the Lesser Peace, that haply ye may in some degree better your own condition and that of your dependents.

O Rulers of the earth!  Be reconciled among yourselves, that ye may need no more armaments save in a measure to safeguard your territories and dominions.  Beware lest ye disregard the counsel of the All-Knowing, the Faithful.