ants may become aware of my lamentations, may supplicate unto
Thee on my behalf, and Thou wouldst graciously answer their prayers as a
token of Thy grace and Thy favour. I bear witness that there is no God but
Thee, inasmuch as Thou art invested with sovereignty, grandeur, glory and
power which no one among Thy servants can visualize or comprehend. Indeed
Thou shalt, by virtue of that which is inherent in Thine Essence, ever
remain inscrutable unto all except Thyself.

"Is there any Remover of difficulties save God? Say: Praised ..."

Is there any Remover of difficulties save God? Say: Praised be God! He is
God! All are His servants and all abide by His bidding!

FOOTNOTES

1 This is the first letter of '_Th_amarih' which means 'fruit'. Shoghi
Effendi, in his writings, refers to the Bab as the '_Th_amarih'
(fruit) of the Tree of God's successive Revelations. (See Shoghi
Effendi's letter to the Baha'is of the East dated Naw-Ruz 110, page
5.)

2 In one of His Tablets 'Abdu'l-Baha explains that some were misled by
this statement and thought that the school referred to was a
physical school for the training of unlettered children, whereas it
referred to a spiritual school sanctified from the limits of the
contingent world. Baha'u'llah in the Kitab-i-Aqdas also refers to
this Epistle of the Bab in the following words:

O Thou Supreme Pen! Move over the Tablet by the leave of Thy Lord,
the Creator of the heavens. Call Thou then to mind the day when the
Fountainhead of divine unity sought to attend the school which is
sanctified of all save God, that perchance the righteous might
become acquainted, to the extent of a needle's eye, with that which
is concealed behind the veil of the inner mysteries of Thy Lord, the
Almighty, the All-Knowing.

Say, We, in truth, entered the school of inner meaning and
exposition at a time when the minds of all that dwell on earth were
wrapt in heedlessness. We beheld what the Merciful Lord had
revealed, accepted the gift He [the Bab] had offered Me of the
verses of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, and hearkened
to that to which He had attested in the Tablet. We, verily, are the
Witness. We responded to His call at Our Own behest, and We are, in
truth, the Ordainer.

O people of the Bayan! We entered t