iating justice.

72 Thou art God's shadow on earth. Strive, therefore, to act in such a
manner as befitteth so eminent, so august a station. If thou dost depart
from following the things We have caused to descend upon thee and taught
thee, thou wilt, assuredly, be derogating from that great and priceless
honour. Return, then, and cleave wholly unto God, and cleanse thine heart
from the world and all its vanities, and suffer not the love of any
stranger to enter and dwell therein. Not until thou dost purify thine
heart from every trace of such love can the brightness of the light of God
shed its radiance upon it, for to none hath God given more than one heart.
This, verily, hath been decreed and written down in His ancient Book. And
as the human heart, as fashioned by God, is one and undivided, it behoveth
thee to take heed that its affections be, also, one and undivided. Cleave
thou, therefore, with the whole affection of thine heart, unto His love,
and withdraw it from the love of anyone besides Him, that He may aid thee
to immerse thyself in the ocean of His unity, and enable thee to become a
true upholder of His oneness. God is My witness. My sole purpose in
revealing to thee these words is to sanctify thee from the transitory
things of the earth, and aid thee to enter the realm of everlasting glory,
that thou mayest, by the leave of God, be of them that abide and rule
therein.

73 Hast thou heard, O King, what We have suffered at the hands of thy
ministers and how We have been treated by them, or art thou of the
negligent? If indeed thou hast heard and known, wherefore didst thou not
forbid thy ministers to commit such deeds? How didst thou desire for Him
Who hath complied with thy command, and been obedient to thy behest, that
which no king would desire for any of his subjects? And if thou knowest
not, this indeed is a more grievous error, wert thou of the God-fearing.
Wherefore shall I recount to thee that which We have suffered at the hands
of these oppressors.

74 Know, then, that We came unto thy city at thine own behest, and entered
therein with conspicuous honour. They expelled Us, however, from thy city
with an abasement with which no abasement on earth can compare, if thou be
of them that are well-informed. They made Us journey until We reached the
place(95) which none entereth except such as have rebelled against the
authority of the sovereign, and as are numbered with the transgressors.
All this, notwit