asmuch as ye have
failed to recognize the One upon Whom ye have been calling in the daytime
and in the night season, at even and at morn.... O ye leaders of religion!
Who is the man amongst you that can rival Me in vision or insight? Where
is he to be found that dareth to claim to be My equal in utterance or
wisdom? No, by My Lord, the All-Merciful! All on the earth shall pass
away; and this is the face of your Lord, the Almighty, the
Well-Beloved.... Say: This, verily, is the heaven in which the Mother Book
is treasured, could ye but comprehend it. He it is Who hath caused the
Rock to shout, and the Burning Bush to lift up its voice, upon the Mount
rising above the Holy Land, and proclaim: 'The Kingdom is God's, the
sovereign Lord of all, the All-Powerful, the Loving!' We have not entered
any school, nor read any of your dissertations. Incline your ears to the
words of this unlettered One, wherewith He summoneth you unto God, the
Ever-Abiding. Better is this for you than all the treasures of the earth,
could ye but comprehend it."

"O concourse of divines!" He moreover has written, "When My verses were
sent down, and My clear tokens were revealed, We found you behind the
veils. This, verily, is a strange thing.... We have rent the veils
asunder. Beware lest ye shut out the people by yet another veil. Pluck
asunder the chains of vain imaginings, in the name of the Lord of all men,
and be not of the deceitful. Should ye turn unto God, and embrace His
Cause, spread not disorder within it, and measure not the Book of God with
your selfish desires. This, verily, is the counsel of God aforetime and
hereafter.... Had ye believed in God, when He revealed Himself, the people
would not have turned aside from Him, nor would the things ye witness
today have befallen Us. Fear God, and be not of the heedless. ...This is
the Cause that hath caused all your superstitions and idols to tremble....
O concourse of divines! Beware lest ye be the cause of strife in the land,
even as ye were the cause of the repudiation of the Faith in its early
days. Gather the people around this Word that hath made the pebbles to cry
out: 'The Kingdom is God's, the Dawning-Place of all signs!'... Tear the
veils asunder in such wise that the inmates of the Kingdom will hear them
being rent. This is the command of God, in days gone by, and for those to
come. Blessed the man that observeth that whereunto he was bidden, and woe
betide the negligent."

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