idols to tremble.

168 We, verily, see amongst you him who taketh hold of the Book of God and
citeth from it proofs and arguments wherewith to repudiate his Lord, even
as the followers of every other Faith sought reasons in their Holy Books
for refuting Him Who is the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. Say: God,
the True One, is My witness that neither the Scriptures of the world, nor
all the books and writings in existence, shall, in this Day, avail you
aught without this, the Living Book, Who proclaimeth in the midmost heart
of creation: "Verily, there is none other God but Me, the All-Knowing, the
All-Wise."

169 O concourse of divines! Beware lest ye be the cause of strife in the
land, even as ye were the cause of the repudiation of the Faith in its
early days. Gather the people around this Word that hath made the pebbles
to cry out: "The Kingdom is God's, the Dawning-place of all signs!" Thus
doth your Lord admonish you, as a bounty on His part; He, of a truth, is
the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Generous.

170 Call ye to mind Karim, and how, when We summoned him unto God, he
waxed disdainful, prompted by his own desires; yet We had sent him that
which was a solace to the eye of proof in the world of being and the
fulfilment of God's testimony to all the denizens of earth and heaven. As
a token of the grace of Him Who is the All-Possessing, the Most High, We
bade him embrace the Truth. But he turned away until, as an act of justice
from God, angels of wrath laid hold upon him. Unto this We truly were a
witness.

171 Tear the veils asunder in such wise that the inmates of the Kingdom
will hear them being rent. This is the command of God, in days gone by and
for those to come. Blessed the man that observeth that whereunto he was
bidden, and woe betide the negligent.

172 We, of a certainty, have had no purpose in this earthly realm save to
make God manifest and to reveal His sovereignty; sufficient unto Me is God
for a witness. We, of a certainty, have had no intent in the celestial
Kingdom but to exalt His Cause and glorify His praise; sufficient unto Me
is God for a protector. We, of a certainty, have had no desire in the
Dominion on high except to extol God and what hath been sent down by Him;
sufficient unto Me is God for a helper.

173 Happy are ye, O ye the learned ones in Baha. By the Lord! Ye are the
billows of the Most Mighty Ocean, the stars of the firmament of Glory, the
standards of triumph waving betw