Under all conditions, whether in adversity or at ease, whether honoured or afflicted, this Wronged One hath directed all men to show forth love, affection, compassion and harmony.  And yet whenever there was any slight evidence of progress and advancement, those concealed behind the veils would sally forth and utter calumnies more wounding than the sword.  They cling unto misleading and reprehensible words and suffer themselves to be deprived of the ocean of verses revealed by God.

If these obstructing veils had not intervened Persia would, in some two years, have been subdued through the power of utterance, the position of both the government and the people would have been raised and the Supreme Goal, unveiled and unconcealed, would have appeared in the plenitude of glory.  In short, sometimes in explicit language, at other times by allusion, We said whatever had to be said.  Thus, once Persia had been rehabilitated, the sweet savours of the Word of God would have wafted over all countries, inasmuch as that which hath streamed forth from the Most Exalted Pen is conducive to the glory, the advancement and education of all the peoples and kindreds of the earth.  Indeed it is the sovereign remedy for every disease, could they but comprehend and perceive it.

Recently the Afnans and Amin—­upon them be My glory and loving-kindness—­attained Our presence and beheld Our countenance; likewise Nabil, the son of Nabil and the son of Samandar—­upon them rest the glory of God and His loving-kindness—­are present and have drunk the cup of reunion.  We entreat God that He may graciously ordain for them the good of this world and of the next and that the outpouring of His blessings and grace may descend upon them from the heaven of His generosity and the clouds of His tender compassion.  Verily of those who show mercy He is the Most Merciful, and He is the Gracious, the Beneficent.

O Haydar-’Ali!  Thine other letter which thou hadst forwarded through him who beareth the title of Jud(18) (Bounty) hath reached Our holy court.  Praised be God!  It was adorned with the light of divine unity and of detachment and was ablaze with the fire of love and affection.  Pray thou unto God that He may grant keenness to the eyes and illumine them with a new light, perchance they may perceive that which hath no parallel nor peer.

In this day the verses of the Mother Book are resplendent and unmistakable even as the sun.  They can in no wise be mistaken for any of the past or more recent utterances.  Truly this Wronged One desireth not to demonstrate His Own Cause with proofs produced by others.  He is the One Who embraceth all things, while all else besides Him is circumscribed.  Say, O people, peruse that which is current amongst you and We will peruse what pertaineth unto Us.  I swear by God!  Neither the praise of the peoples of the world, nor the things that the kindreds of the earth possess are worthy of mention before the remembrance of His Name.  Unto this beareth witness He Who under all conditions proclaimeth, ’Verily He is God, the sovereign Ruler of the Day of Reckoning and the Lord of the mighty Throne.’