assed all that is in heaven and on earth. How can
I relate all that befell Him after He spoke these words? How shall I
describe their heinous behaviour towards Him? They at last heaped on His
blessed Person such woes that He took His flight unto the fourth Heaven.

It is also recorded in the Gospel according to St. Luke, that on a certain
day Jesus passed by a Jew who was sick of the palsy, and lay upon a couch.
When the Jew saw Him, he recognized Him, and cried out for His help. Jesus
said unto him: "Arise from thy bed; thy sins are forgiven thee." Certain
of the Jews, standing by, protested saying: "Who can forgive sins, but God
alone?" And immediately He perceived their thoughts, Jesus answering said
unto them: "Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, arise,
and take up thy bed, and walk; or to say, thy sins are forgiven thee? that
ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins."(96)
This is the real sovereignty, and such is the power of God's chosen Ones!
All these things which We have repeatedly mentioned, and the details which
We have cited from divers sources, have no other purpose but to enable
thee to grasp the meaning of the allusions in the utterances of the chosen
Ones of God, lest certain of these utterances cause thy feet to falter and
thy heart to be dismayed.

Thus with steadfast steps we may tread the Path of certitude, that
perchance the breeze that bloweth from the meads of the good-pleasure of
God may waft upon us the sweet savours of divine acceptance, and cause us,
vanishing mortals that we are, to attain unto the Kingdom of everlasting
glory. Then wilt thou comprehend the inner meaning of sovereignty and the
like, spoken of in the traditions and scriptures. Furthermore, it is
already evident and known unto thee that those things to which the Jews
and the Christians have clung, and the cavilings which they heaped upon
the Beauty of Muhammad, the same have in this day been upheld by the
people of the Qur'an, and been witnessed in their denunciations of the
"Point of the Bayan"--may the souls of all that dwell within the kingdom of
divine Revelations be a sacrifice unto Him! Behold their folly: they utter
the self-same words, uttered by the Jews of old, and know it not! How well
and true are His words concerning them: "Leave them to entertain
themselves with their cavilings!"(97) "As Thou livest, O Muhammad! they
are seized by the frenzy of their vain fancies."(98)