he fire to warm you.' And when He came up to it, a Voice cried to
Him out of the Bush from the right side of the Vale in the sacred Spot: 'O
Moses, I truly am God, the Lord of the worlds!'"

In all the Divine Books the promise of the Divine Presence hath been
explicitly recorded. By this Presence is meant the Presence of Him Who is
the Dayspring of the signs, and the Dawning-Place of the clear tokens, and
the Manifestation of the Excellent Names, and the Source of the
attributes, of the true God, exalted be His glory. God in His Essence and
in His own Self hath ever been unseen, inaccessible, and unknowable. By
Presence, therefore, is meant the Presence of the One Who is His
Vicegerent amongst men. He, moreover, hath never had, nor hath He, any
peer or likeness. For were He to have any peer or likeness, how could it
then be demonstrated that His being is exalted above, and His essence
sanctified from, all comparison and likeness? Briefly, there hath been
revealed in the Kitab-i-Iqan (Book of Certitude) concerning the Presence
and Revelation of God that which will suffice the fair-minded. We beseech
Him--exalted be He--to aid every one to become the essence of truthfulness,
and to draw nigh unto Him. He, verily, is the Lord of strength and power.
No God is there but Him, the All-Hearing, the Lord of Utterance, the
Almighty, the All-Praised.

O thou who art reputed for thy learning! Bid men to do that which is
praiseworthy, and be not of such as tarry. Observe thou with a keen eye.
The Sun of Truth shineth resplendently, at the bidding of the Lord of the
kingdom of utterance, and the King of the heaven of knowledge, above the
horizon of the prison-city of Akka. Repudiation hath not veiled it, and
ten thousand hosts arrayed against it were powerless to withhold it from
shining. Thou canst excuse thyself no longer. Either thou must recognize
it, or--God forbid--arise and deny all the Prophets!

Reflect, O _Sh_ay_kh_, upon the _Sh_i'ih sect. How many the edifices which
they reared with the hands of idle fancies and vain imaginings, and how
numerous the cities which they built! At length those vain imaginings were
converted into bullets and aimed at Him Who is the Prince of the world.
Not one single soul among the leaders of that sect acknowledged Him in the
Day of His Revelation! Whenever His blessed name was mentioned, all would
say: "May God hasten the joy His coming will bring!" On the day of the
Revelation of that Sun o