Persevere thou in helping His Cause through the strengthening power of the hosts of wisdom and utterance.  Thus hath it been decreed by God, the Gracious, the All-Praised.  Blessed is the believer who hath in this Day embraced the Truth and the man of fixed resolve whom the hosts of tyranny have been powerless to affright.

The glory which hath shone forth above the horizon of utterance be upon thee and upon such believers as have seized the chalice of His sealed wine through the power of His Name, the Self-Subsisting, and drunk deep despite those that have rejected the One in Whom they had formerly professed belief—­they that have disputed the truth of this Great Announcement whereunto God hath testified in His precious and ancient Book.

         “O MUHAMMAD HUSAYN!  Be thou prepared to receive the...”

O MUHAMMAD HUSAYN!  Be thou prepared to receive the outpourings of the loving-kindness of God, the Lord of the worlds.  The All-Merciful hath deigned to bestow upon thee pearls of knowledge from the Ocean of the grace of God, the Almighty, the Most Exalted.

Where is the man of insight who will recognize and perceive the truth?  Where is to be found the man of hearing who will hearken unto My wondrous Voice calling from the realm of glory?  Where is the soul who will set his face towards the Divine Lote-Tree in such wise that neither the overpowering might of the kings, nor the violent commotions of their subjects may frustrate him, lifting up his voice amidst the entire creation through the power of wisdom and utterance and testifying unto that whereunto hath testified God, that verily no God is there besides Him, the Powerful, the Invincible, the Omnipotent, the Knowing, the Wise.

O Husayn!  Thy name hath been mentioned in the Most Great Prison before this Wronged One and We have revealed for thee that with which none of the books of the world can compare.  Unto this beareth witness the King of eternity; yet the generality of mankind are numbered among the heedless.  From the dawning-place of testimony We have raised the Call unto all that dwell in the realm of creation.  Amongst men there are those who have been carried away by the fragrance of the utterance of their Lord in such manner that they have forsaken everything which pertaineth unto men in their eagerness to attain the court of the presence of God, the Lord of the mighty throne.  There are also those who are sore perplexed and wavering.  Others have made haste, winged their way to answer the Call of their Lord, the Ancient of Days.  Still others have turned aside, rejected the truth and eventually disbelieved in God, the Almighty, the All-Praised.  And there are yet others who have pronounced judgement against Him with such cruelty that every wise and discerning soul hath been moved to lament.  We have graciously summoned them unto the river that is life indeed, while they have, with manifest injustice, decreed the shedding of My blood.  Thus hath the Day-Star of wisdom shone forth from above the horizon of the utterance of thy Lord, the All-Merciful.  Shouldst thou attain unto its light, it behoveth thee to magnify the praise of thy Lord and say, I yield Thee thanks, O God of the worlds.