devices, that He is supreme over His
servants, that He is equal to His Purpose, that He doth what He wisheth,
that He shall not be asked of whatever He willeth, that He ordaineth what
He pleaseth, that He is the Most Powerful, the Almighty? If ye believe
this to be the truth, wherefore, then, will ye not cease from troubling
and be at peace with yourselves?

95 Ye perpetrate every day a fresh injustice, and treat Me as ye treated
Me in times past, though I never attempted to meddle with your affairs. At
no time have I opposed you, neither have I rebelled against your laws.
Behold how ye have, at the last, made Me a prisoner in this far-off land!
Know for a certainty, however, that whatever your hands or the hands of
the infidels have wrought will never, as they never did of old, change the
Cause of God or alter His ways.

96 Give heed to My warning, ye people of Persia! If I be slain at your
hands, God will assuredly raise up one who will fill the seat made vacant
through My death, for such is God's method carried into effect of old, and
no change can ye find in God's method of dealing. Seek ye to put out God's
light that shineth upon His earth? Averse is God from what ye desire. He
shall perfect His light, albeit ye abhor it in the secret of your hearts.

97 Pause for but a little while and reflect, O Minister, and be fair in
thy judgement. What is it that We have committed that could justify thee
in having slandered Us unto the King's Ministers, in following thy
desires, in perverting the truth, and in uttering thy calumnies against
Us? We have never met each other except when We met thee in thy father's
house, in the days when the martyrdom of Imam Husayn was being
commemorated. On those occasions no one could have had the chance of
making known to others his views and beliefs in conversation or in
discourse. Thou wilt bear witness to the truth of My words, if thou be of
the truthful. I have frequented no other gatherings in which thou couldst
have learned My mind or in which any other could have done so. How, then,
didst thou pronounce thy verdict against Me, when thou hadst not heard My
testimony from Mine own lips? Hast thou not heard what God, exalted be His
glory, hath said: "Say not to everyone who meeteth you with a greeting,
'Thou art not a believer'."(102) "Thrust not away those who cry to their
Lord at morn and even, craving to behold His face."(103) Thou hast indeed
forsaken what the Book of God hath pre