My words, that ye may unravel its
secrets, and discover all the pearls of wisdom that lie hid in its depths.
Take heed that ye do not vacillate in your determination to embrace the
truth of this Cause--a Cause through which the potentialities of the might
of God have been revealed, and His sovereignty established. With faces
beaming with joy, hasten ye unto Him. This is the changeless Faith of God,
eternal in the past, eternal in the future. Let him that seeketh, attain
it; and as to him that hath refused to seek it--verily, God is
Self-Sufficient, above any need of His creatures.

183 Say: This is the infallible Balance which the Hand of God is holding,
in which all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth are
weighed, and their fate determined, if ye be of them that believe and
recognize this truth. Say: This is the Most Great Testimony, by which the
validity of every proof throughout the ages hath been established, would
that ye might be assured thereof. Say: Through it the poor have been
enriched, the learned enlightened, and the seekers enabled to ascend unto
the presence of God. Beware lest ye make it a cause of dissension amongst
you. Be ye as firmly settled as the immovable mountain in the Cause of
your Lord, the Mighty, the Loving.

184 Say: O source of perversion! Abandon thy wilful blindness, and speak
forth the truth amidst the people. I swear by God that I have wept for
thee to see thee following thy selfish passions and renouncing Him Who
fashioned thee and brought thee into being. Call to mind the tender mercy
of thy Lord, and remember how We nurtured thee by day and by night for
service to the Cause. Fear God, and be thou of the truly repentant.
Granted that the people were confused about thy station, is it conceivable
that thou thyself art similarly confused? Tremble before thy Lord and
recall the days when thou didst stand before Our throne, and didst write
down the verses that We dictated unto thee--verses sent down by God, the
Omnipotent Protector, the Lord of might and power. Beware lest the fire of
thy presumptuousness debar thee from attaining to God's Holy Court. Turn
unto Him, and fear not because of thy deeds. He, in truth, forgiveth
whomsoever He desireth as a bounty on His part; no God is there but Him,
the Ever-Forgiving, the All-Bounteous. We admonish thee solely for the
sake of God. Shouldst thou accept this counsel, thou wilt have acted to
thine own behoof; and shouldst thou r