and guard
it from the remembrance of all save God, and only then set out to
subdue the cities of the hearts of others.

213 Such is the true meaning of rendering assistance unto God.
Sedition hath never been pleasing unto God, nor were the acts
committed in the past by certain foolish ones acceptable in His
sight. Know ye that to be killed in the path of His good pleasure
is better for you than to kill. The beloved of the Lord must, in
this day, behave in such wise amidst His servants that they may by
their very deeds and actions guide all men unto the paradise of
the All-Glorious.

214 By Him Who shineth above the Dayspring of Sanctity! The
friends of God have not, nor will they ever, set their hopes upon
the world and its ephemeral possessions. The one true God hath
ever regarded the hearts of men as His own, His exclusive
possession--and this too but as an expression of His all-surpassing
mercy, that haply mortal souls may be purged and sanctified from
all that pertaineth to the world of dust and gain admittance into
the realms of eternity. For otherwise that ideal King is, in
Himself and by Himself, sufficient unto Himself and independent of
all things. Neither doth the love of His creatures profit Him, nor
can their malice harm Him. All have issued forth from abodes of
dust, and unto dust shall they return, while the one true God,
alone and single, is established upon His Throne, a Throne which
is beyond the reaches of time and space, is sanctified above all
utterance or expression, intimation, description and definition,
and is exalted beyond all notion of abasement and glory. And none
knoweth this save Him and those with whom is the knowledge of the
Book. No God is there but Him, the Almighty, the All-Bountiful.

215 It behoveth the benevolence of the Sovereign, however, to examine all
matters with the eye of justice and mercy, and not to content himself with
the baseless claims of certain individuals. We beseech God to graciously
assist the King to fulfil that which He pleaseth, and, verily, that which
He desireth should be the desire of all the worlds.

216 Later this Servant was summoned to Constantinople, whither We arrived
accompanied by a poor band of exiles. At no time thereafter did We seek to
meet with anyone, as We had no request to make and no aim in view but to
demonstrate unto all th