246 Were a detailed account of all the Prophets to be given here, We fear that it might lead to weariness.  The doctors of the Torah in particular assert that no independent Prophet will come after Moses with a new Law.  They maintain that a Scion of the House of David shall be made manifest Who will promulgate the Law of the Torah, and help establish and enforce its commandments throughout the East and the West.

247 The followers of the Gospel, likewise, hold as impossible that the Bearer of a new Revelation should again shine forth from the dayspring of the Will of God after Jesus, Son of Mary—­peace be upon Him!  In support of this contention, they adduce the following verse from the Gospel:  “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the words of the Son of Man shall never pass away."(48) They maintain that neither the teachings nor the commandments of Jesus—­peace be upon Him!—­may ever be altered.

248 At one point in the Gospel, He saith:  “I go away, and come again."(49) Again in the Gospel of John, He hath foretold the advent of a Comforter who shall come after Him.(50) In the Gospel of Luke, moreover, a number of signs and portents have been mentioned.  Certain divines of that Faith, however, have interpreted these utterances after their own fancy, and have thus failed to grasp their true significance.

249 O would that thou wouldst permit Me, O Shah, to send unto thee that which would cheer the eyes, and tranquillize the souls, and persuade every fair-minded person that with Him is the knowledge of the Book.  Certain persons, incapable of answering the objections raised by their opponents, claim that the Torah and the Gospel have been corrupted, whereas in reality the references to such corruption pertain only to specific cases.(51) But for the repudiation of the foolish and the connivance of the divines, I would have uttered a discourse that would have thrilled and carried away the hearts unto a realm from the murmur of whose winds can be heard:  “No God is there but He!” For the present, however, since the season is not ripe, the tongue of My utterance hath been stilled and the wine of exposition sealed up until such time as God, through the power of His might, shall please to unseal it.  He, verily, is the Almighty, the Most Powerful.

250 Praise be unto Thee, O Lord My God!  I ask Thee by Thy Name, through which Thou hast subdued all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth, to protect the lamp of Thy Cause within the globe of Thine omnipotence and Thy bountiful favour, lest it be exposed to the blasts of denial from those who remain heedless of the mysteries of Thy name, the Unconstrained.  Increase, then, by the oil of Thy wisdom, the radiance of its light.  Thou, verily, hast power over all the dwellers of Thine earth and of Thy heaven.