O people of God!  Great is the Day and mighty the Call!  In one of Our Tablets We have revealed these exalted words:  ’Were the world of the spirit to be wholly converted into the sense of hearing, it could then claim to be worthy to hearken unto the Voice that calleth from the Supreme Horizon; for otherwise, these ears that are defiled with lying tales have never been, nor are they now, fit to hear it.’  Well is it with them that hearken; and woe betide the wayward.

The word of God which the Supreme Pen hath recorded on the

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of the Most Exalted Paradise is the following:  O people of God!  Beseech ye the True One—­glorified be His Name—­that He may graciously shield the manifestations of dominion and power from the suggestions of self and desire and shed the radiance of justice and guidance upon them.

His Majesty Muhammad Shah, despite the excellence of his rank, committed two heinous deeds.  One was the order to banish the Lord of the Realms of Grace and Bounty, the Primal Point; and the other, the murder of the Prince of the City of Statesmanship and Literary Accomplishment.(15)

The faults of kings, like their favours, can be great.  A king who is not deterred by the vainglory of power and authority from observing justice, nor is deprived of the splendours of the day-star of equity by luxury, riches, glory or the marshalling of hosts and legions shall occupy a high rank and a sublime station amongst the Concourse on high.  It is incumbent upon everyone to extend aid and to manifest kindness to so noble a soul.  Well is it with the king who keepeth a tight hold on the reins of his passion, restraineth his anger and preferreth justice and fairness to injustice and tyranny.

The word of God which the Supreme Pen hath recorded on the

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of the Most Exalted Paradise is this:  Above all else, the greatest gift and the most wondrous blessing hath ever been and will continue to be Wisdom.  It is man’s unfailing Protector.  It aideth him and strengtheneth him.  Wisdom is God’s Emissary and the Revealer of His Name the Omniscient.  Through it the loftiness of man’s station is made manifest and evident.  It is all-knowing and the foremost Teacher in the school of existence.  It is the Guide and is invested with high distinction.  Thanks to its educating influence earthly beings have become imbued with a gem-like spirit which outshineth the heavens.  In the city of justice it is the unrivalled Speaker Who, in the year nine, illumined the world with the joyful tidings of this Revelation.  And it was this peerless Source of wisdom that at the beginning of the foundation of the world ascended the stair of inner meaning and when enthroned upon the pulpit of utterance, through the operation of the divine Will, proclaimed two words.  The first heralded the promise of reward, while the second voiced the ominous warning of punishment.  The promise gave rise to hope and the warning begat fear.  Thus the basis of world order hath been firmly established upon these twin principles.  Exalted is the Lord of Wisdom, the Possessor of Great Bounty.