give that which is for your good in exchange for that which is evil?
Wretched is that which ye have falsely exchanged! Surely ye are a people,
evil, in grievous loss.

Nay, by "trumpet" is meant the trumpet-call of Muhammad's Revelation,
which was sounded in the heart of the universe, and by "resurrection" is
meant His own rise to proclaim the Cause of God. He bade the erring and
wayward arise and speed out of the sepulchres of their bodies, arrayed
them with the beauteous robe of faith, and quickened them with the breath
of a new and wondrous life. Thus at the hour when Muhammad, that divine
Beauty, purposed to unveil one of the mysteries hidden in the symbolic
terms "resurrection," "judgment," "paradise," and "hell," Gabriel, the
Voice of Inspiration, was heard saying: "Erelong will they wag their heads
at Thee, and say, 'When shall this be?' Say: 'Perchance it is nigh.'"(85)
The implications of this verse alone suffice the peoples of the world,
were they to ponder it in their hearts.

Gracious God! How far have that people strayed from the way of God!
Although the Day of Resurrection was ushered in through the Revelation of
Muhammad, although His light and tokens had encompassed the earth and all
that is therein, yet that people derided Him, gave themselves up to those
idols which the divines of that age, in their vain and idle fancy, had
conceived, and deprived themselves of the light of heavenly grace and of
the showers of divine mercy. Yea, the abject beetle can never scent the
fragrance of holiness, and the bat of darkness can never face the
splendour of the sun.

Such things have come to pass in the days of every Manifestation of God.
Even as Jesus said: "Ye must be born again."(86) Again He saith: "Except a
man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom
of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit."(87) The purport of these words is that whosoever
in every dispensation is born of the Spirit and is quickened by the breath
of the Manifestation of Holiness, he verily is of those that have attained
unto "life" and "resurrection" and have entered into the "paradise" of the
love of God. And whosoever is not of them, is condemned to "death" and
"deprivation," to the "fire" of unbelief, and to the "wrath" of God. In
all the scriptures, the books and chronicles, the sentence of death, of
fire, of blindness, of want of understanding and hearin