91 And when ye took away His life, one of His followers arose to avenge His death.  He was unknown of men, and the design he had conceived was unnoticed by anyone.  Eventually he committed what had been preordained.  It behoveth you, therefore, to attach blame to no one except to yourselves, for the things ye have committed, if ye but judge fairly.  Who is there on the whole earth who hath done what ye have done?  None, by Him Who is the Lord of all worlds!

92 All the rulers and kings of the earth honour and revere the descendants of their Prophets and holy men, could ye but perceive it.  Ye, on the other hand, are responsible for such acts as no man hath, at any time, performed.  Your misdeeds have caused every understanding heart to be consumed with grief.  And yet, ye have remained sunk in your heedlessness, and failed to realize the wickedness of your actions.

93 Ye have persisted in your waywardness until ye rose up against Us, though We had committed nothing to justify your enmity.  Fear ye not God Who hath created you, and fashioned you, and caused you to attain your strength, and joined you with them that have resigned themselves to Him?(101) How long will ye persist in your waywardness?  How long will ye refuse to reflect?  How long ere ye shake off your slumber and are roused from your heedlessness?  How long will ye remain unaware of the truth?

94 Ponder in thine heart.  Did ye, notwithstanding your behaviour and the things your hands have wrought, succeed in quenching the fire of God or in putting out the light of His Revelation—­a light that hath enveloped with its brightness them that are immersed in the billowing oceans of immortality, and hath attracted the souls of such as truly believe in and uphold His unity?  Know ye not that the Hand of God is over your hands, that His Decree transcendeth all your devices, that He is supreme over His servants, that He is equal to His Purpose, that He doth what He wisheth, that He shall not be asked of whatever He willeth, that He ordaineth what He pleaseth, that He is the Most Powerful, the Almighty?  If ye believe this to be the truth, wherefore, then, will ye not cease from troubling and be at peace with yourselves?

95 Ye perpetrate every day a fresh injustice, and treat Me as ye treated Me in times past, though I never attempted to meddle with your affairs.  At no time have I opposed you, neither have I rebelled against your laws.  Behold how ye have, at the last, made Me a prisoner in this far-off land!  Know for a certainty, however, that whatever your hands or the hands of the infidels have wrought will never, as they never did of old, change the Cause of God or alter His ways.

96 Give heed to My warning, ye people of Persia!  If I be slain at your hands, God will assuredly raise up one who will fill the seat made vacant through My death, for such is God’s method carried into effect of old, and no change can ye find in God’s method of dealing.  Seek ye to put out God’s light that shineth upon His earth?  Averse is God from what ye desire.  He shall perfect His light, albeit ye abhor it in the secret of your hearts.