He is God, exalted be His glory!

210 It is clear and evident that the one true God—­glorified be His mention!—­is sanctified above the world and all that is therein.  By “rendering assistance unto God”, then, it is not meant that any soul should fight or contend with another.  That Sovereign Lord Who doeth whatsoever He pleaseth hath entrusted the kingdom of creation, its lands and its seas, into the hands of the kings, for they are, each according to his degree, the manifestations of His divine power.  Should they enter beneath the shadow of the True One, they will be accounted of God, and if not, thy Lord, verily, knoweth and observeth all things.

211 That which God—­glorified be His Name!—­hath desired for Himself is the hearts of His servants, which are the treasuries of His love and remembrance and the repositories of His knowledge and wisdom.  It hath ever been the wish of the Eternal King to cleanse the hearts of His servants from the things of the world and all that pertaineth thereunto, that they may be made worthy recipients of the effulgent splendours of Him Who is the King of all names and attributes.  Wherefore must no stranger be allowed in the city of the heart, that the incomparable Friend may enter His abode.  By this is meant the effulgence of His names and attributes, and not His exalted Essence, inasmuch as that peerless King hath ever been, and shall eternally remain, sanctified above ascent and descent.

212 It followeth, therefore, that rendering assistance unto God, in this day, doth not and shall never consist in contending or disputing with any soul; nay rather, what is preferable in the sight of God is that the cities of men’s hearts, which are ruled by the hosts of self and passion, should be subdued by the sword of utterance, of wisdom and of understanding.  Thus, whoso seeketh to assist God must, before all else, conquer, with the sword of inner meaning and explanation, the city of his own heart and guard it from the remembrance of all save God, and only then set out to subdue the cities of the hearts of others.

213 Such is the true meaning of rendering assistance unto God.  Sedition hath never been pleasing unto God, nor were the acts committed in the past by certain foolish ones acceptable in His sight.  Know ye that to be killed in the path of His good pleasure is better for you than to kill.  The beloved of the Lord must, in this day, behave in such wise amidst His servants that they may by their very deeds and actions guide all men unto the paradise of the All-Glorious.

214 By Him Who shineth above the Dayspring of Sanctity!  The friends of God have not, nor will they ever, set their hopes upon the world and its ephemeral possessions.  The one true God hath ever regarded the hearts of men as His own, His exclusive possession—­and this too but as an expression of His all-surpassing mercy,