se, it is incumbent upon you to
submit to His decree, as this hath been affirmed by God in the Bayan;
verily God is able to convert light into fire whenever He pleaseth; surely
He is potent over all things. And were He to declare a person whom ye
regard alien to the truth as being akin thereto, err not by questioning
His decision in your fancies, for He Who is the Sovereign Truth createth
things through the power of His behest. Verily God transmuteth fire into
light as He willeth, and indeed potent is He over all things. Consider ye
how the truth shone forth as truth in the First Day and how error became
manifest as error; so likewise shall ye distinguish them from each other
on the Day of Resurrection. XVII, 4.

"Ponder upon the people unto whom the Gospel was ..."

Ponder upon the people unto whom the Gospel was given. Their religious
leaders were considered as the true Guides of the Gospel, yet when they
shut themselves out from Muhammad, the Apostle of God, they turned into
guides of error, notwithstanding that all their lives they had faithfully
observed the precepts of their religion in order to attain unto Paradise;
then when God made Paradise known unto them, they would not enter therein.
Those unto whom the Qur'an is given have wrought likewise. They performed
their acts of devotion for the sake of God, hoping that He might enable
them to join the righteous in Paradise. However, when the gates of
Paradise were flung open to their faces, they declined to enter. They
suffered themselves to enter into the fire, though they had been seeking
refuge therefrom in God.

Say, verily, the criterion by which truth is distinguished from error
shall not appear until the Day of Resurrection. This ye will know, if ye
be of them that love the Truth. And ere the advent of the Day of
Resurrection ye shall distinguish truth from aught else besides it
according to that which hath been revealed in the Bayan.

How vast the number of people who will, on the Day of Resurrection, regard
themselves to be in the right, while they shall be accounted as false
through the dispensation of Providence, inasmuch as they will shut
themselves out as by a veil from Him Whom God shall make manifest and
refuse to bow down in adoration before Him Who, as divinely ordained in
the Book, is the Object of their creation. XVII, 4.

"Say, ye will be unable to recognize the One True God or ..."

Say, ye will be unable to recognize the O