ounted by the portrait of Mirza Yahya.
Briefly, they have seized upon every means in order to repudiate the True
One. Say: "The True One is come evident as the shining sun; O pity that He
should have come into the city of the blind!" The afore-mentioned Siyyid
admonished the deniers, and summoned them unto the Most Sublime Horizon,
but failed to impress these stones that can take no imprint. Concerning
him they have said things against which he sought refuge with God--exalted
be His glory. The supplications which he hath sent to this Holy Court are
now in Our possession. Happy are the fair-minded.

Ponder now upon the complaint of the Primal Point against the Mirrors,
that haply men may be awakened, and may turn from the left hand of idle
fancies and imaginings unto the right hand of faith and certitude, and may
be made cognizant of that wherefrom they are veiled. It is indeed for the
purpose of recognizing this Most Great Cause that they have come out of
the world of non-existence into the world of being. And likewise He saith:
"Consecrate Thou, O my God, the whole of this Tree unto Him, that from it
may be revealed all the fruits created by God within it for Him through
Whom God hath willed to reveal all that He pleaseth. By Thy glory! I have
not wished that this Tree should ever bear any branch, leaf, or fruit that
would fail to bow down before Him, on the day of His Revelation, or refuse
to laud Thee through Him, as beseemeth the glory of His all-glorious
Revelation, and the sublimity of His most sublime Concealment. And
shouldst Thou behold, O my God, any branch, leaf, or fruit upon Me that
hath failed to bow down before Him, on the day of His Revelation, cut it
off, O My God, from that Tree, for it is not of Me, nor shall it return
unto Me."

O people of the Bayan! I swear by God! This Wronged One hath had no other
intention except to manifest the Cause He was commissioned to reveal. Were
ye to incline your inner ears unto Him, ye would hear from every limb and
member and vein and even from every single hair of this Wronged One that
which would stir and enrapture the Concourse on high and the world of
creation.

O Hadi! The blind fanaticism of former times hath withheld the hapless
creatures from the Straight Path. Meditate on the _Sh_i'ih sect. For
twelve hundred years they have cried "O Qa'im!", until in the end all
pronounced the sentence of His death, and caused Him to suffer martyrdom,
notwithstanding their