d the countenance of security. There can be
no doubt whatever that if the day star of justice, which the clouds of
tyranny have obscured, were to shed its light upon men, the face of the
earth would be completely transformed.

CXIII: DOST THOU IMAGINE, O MINISTER OF THE _SH_AH...

Dost thou imagine, O Minister of the _Sh_ah in the City (Constantinople),
that I hold within My grasp the ultimate destiny of the Cause of God?
Thinkest thou that My imprisonment, or the shame I have been made to
suffer, or even My death and utter annihilation, can deflect its course?
Wretched is what thou hast imagined in thine heart! Thou art indeed of
them that walk after the vain imaginings which their hearts devise. No God
is there but Him. Powerful is He to manifest His Cause, and to exalt His
testimony, and to establish whatsoever is His Will, and to elevate it to
so eminent a position that neither thine own hands, nor the hands of them
that have turned away from Him, can ever touch or harm it.

Dost thou believe thou hast the power to frustrate His Will, to hinder Him
from executing His judgment, or to deter Him from exercising His
sovereignty? Pretendest thou that aught in the heavens or in the earth can
resist His Faith? No, by Him Who is the Eternal Truth! Nothing whatsoever
in the whole of creation can thwart His Purpose. Cast away, therefore, the
mere conceit thou dost follow, for mere conceit can never take the place
of truth. Be thou of them that have truly repented and returned to God,
the God Who hath created thee, Who hath nourished thee, and made thee a
minister among them that profess thy faith.

Know thou, moreover, that He it is Who hath, by His own behest, created
all that is in the heavens and all that is on the earth. How can, then,
the thing that hath been created at His bidding prevail against Him? High
is God exalted above what ye imagine about Him, ye people of malice! If
this Cause be of God, no man can prevail against it; and if it be not of
God, the divines amongst you, and they that follow their corrupt desires
and such as have rebelled against Him will surely suffice to overpower it.

Hast thou not heard what a man of the family of Pharaoh, a believer, hath
said of old, and which God recounted unto His Apostle, Whom He hath chosen
above all human beings, and entrusted with His Message, and made the
source of His mercy unto all them that dwell on earth? He said, and He,
verily, speaketh the truth: