mmanded you in Our Tablets to strive, at the
time of the promised Revelation, to sanctify your souls from all names,
and to purify them from all that hath been created in the heavens or on
the earth, that therein may appear the splendours of the Sun of Truth
which shineth forth above the horizon of the Will of your Lord, the
Almighty, the Most Great. We have, moreover, commanded you to cleanse your
hearts from every trace of the love or hate of the peoples of the world,
lest aught should divert you from one course or impel you towards another.
This, verily, is among the weightiest counsels I have vouchsafed unto you
in the perspicuous Book, for whoso attacheth himself to either of these
shall be prevented from attaining a proper understanding of Our Cause. To
this beareth witness every just and discerning soul.

93 Ye, however, have broken the Covenant of God, forgotten His Testament,
and at last turned away from Him Whose appearance hath solaced the eyes of
every true believer in the Divine Unity. Lift up the veils and coverings
that obscure your vision, and consider the testimonies of the Prophets and
Messengers, that haply ye may recognize the Cause of God in these days
when the Promised One hath come invested with a mighty sovereignty. Fear
God, and debar yourselves not from Him Who is the Dayspring of His signs.
This shall, in truth, but profit your own selves; as to your Lord, He,
verily, can afford to dispense with all creatures. From everlasting was He
alone; there was none else besides Him. He it is in Whose name the
standard of Divine Unity hath been planted upon the Sinai of the visible
and invisible worlds, proclaiming that there is none other God but Me, the
Peerless, the Glorious, the Incomparable.

94 Behold, however, how those who are but a creation of His Will and
Command have turned aside from Him and have taken unto themselves a lord
and master beside God; these, truly, are of the wayward. The mention of
the All-Merciful hath at all times been upon their lips, and yet when He
was manifested unto them through the power of truth they warred against
Him. Wretched indeed shall be the plight of such as have broken the
Covenant of their Lord when the Luminary of the world shone forth above
the horizon of the Will of God, the Most Holy, the All-Knowing, the
All-Wise! It was against God that they unsheathed the swords of malice and
hatred, and yet they perceive it not. Methinks they remain dead and buried
in