100 I know not the path ye have chosen and which ye tread, O congregation of My ill-wishers!  We summon you to God, We remind you of His Day, We announce unto you tidings of your reunion with Him, We draw you nigh unto His court, and send down upon you tokens of His wondrous wisdom, and yet lo, behold how ye reject Us, how ye condemn Us, through the things which your lying mouths have uttered, as an infidel, how ye devise your devices against Us!  And when We manifest unto you what God hath, through His bountiful favour, bestowed upon Us, ye say, “It is but plain magic.”  The same words were spoken by the generations that were before you and were what ye are, did ye but perceive it.  Ye have thereby deprived yourselves of the bounty of God and of His grace, and shall never obtain them till the day when God will have judged between Us and you, and He, verily, is the best of judges.

101 Certain ones among you have said:  “He it is Who hath laid claim to be God.”  By God!  This is a gross calumny.  I am but a servant of God Who hath believed in Him and in His signs, and in His Prophets and in His angels.  My tongue, and My heart, and My inner and My outer being testify that there is no God but Him, that all others have been created by His behest, and been fashioned through the operation of His Will.  There is none other God but Him, the Creator, the Raiser from the dead, the Quickener, the Slayer.  I am He that telleth abroad the favours with which God hath, through His bounty, favoured Me.  If this be My transgression, then I am truly the first of the transgressors.  I and My kindred are at your mercy.  Do ye as ye please, and be not of them that hesitate, that I might return to God My Lord, and reach the place where I can no longer behold your faces.  This, indeed, is My dearest wish, My most ardent desire.  Of My state God is, verily, sufficiently informed, observant.

102 Imagine thyself to be under the eye of God, O Minister!  If thou seest Him not, He, in truth, clearly seeth thee.  Observe, and judge fairly Our Cause.  What is it that We have committed that could have induced thee to rise up against Us, and to slander Us to the people, if thou be of them who are just?  We departed out of Tihran, at the bidding of the King,(105) and, by his leave, transferred Our residence to ’Iraq.  If I had transgressed against him, why, then, did he release Me?  And if I were innocent of guilt, wherefore did ye afflict Us with such tribulation as none among them that profess your faith hath suffered?  Hath any of Mine acts, after Mine arrival in ’Iraq, been such as to subvert the authority of the government?  Who is it that can be said to have detected anything reprehensible in Our behaviour?  Enquire for thyself of its people, that thou mayest be of them who have discerned the truth.