e
Seal of the Prophets, a Book which He hath ordained to be His abiding
testimony, and His guidance and monition unto all mankind? This is but one
of the matters in which We have opposed the divines of Persia, inasmuch as
We have, according to the text of the Book, forbidden unto all men the
practice of usury. God Himself beareth witness to the truth of My words.
"Yet I hold not myself clear, for the soul is prone to evil."(93) We
intend only to impart unto you the truth, that ye might be informed
thereof and be of them that lead a godly life. Beware lest ye give ear to
the words of those from whom the foul smell of malice and envy can be
discerned; pay no heed to them, and stand ye for righteousness.

36 Know ye that the world and its vanities and its embellishments shall
pass away. Nothing will endure except God's Kingdom which pertaineth to
none but Him, the Sovereign Lord of all, the Help in Peril, the
All-Glorious, the Almighty. The days of your life shall roll away, and all
the things with which ye are occupied and of which ye boast yourselves
shall perish, and ye shall, most certainly, be summoned by a company of
His angels to appear at the spot where the limbs of the entire creation
shall be made to tremble, and the flesh of every oppressor to creep. Ye
shall be asked of the things your hands have wrought in this, your vain
life, and shall be repaid for your doings. This is the day that shall
inevitably come upon you, the hour that none can put back. To this the
Tongue of Him that speaketh the truth and is the Knower of all things hath
testified.

37 Fear God, ye inhabitants of the City, and sow not the seeds of
dissension amongst men. Walk not in the paths of the Evil One. Walk ye,
during the few remaining days of your life, in the ways of the one true
God. Your days shall pass away as have the days of them who were before
you. To dust shall ye return, even as your fathers of old did return.

38 Know ye that I am afraid of none except God. In none but Him have I
placed My trust; to none will I cleave but Him, and wish for naught except
the thing He hath wished for Me. This, indeed, is My heart's desire, did
ye but know it. I have offered up My soul and My body as a sacrifice for
God, the Lord of all worlds. Whoso hath known God shall know none but Him,
and he that feareth God shall be afraid of no one except Him, though the
powers of the whole earth rise up and be arrayed against him. I speak
naught except at