rds of the Point of the
Bayan--may the souls of all else but Him be sacrificed for His sake--that
which no veil can obscure, and which neither the veils of glory nor the
veils interposed by such as have gone astray can hide. The veils have,
verily, been rent asunder by the finger of the will of thy Lord, the
Strong, the All-Subduing, the All-Powerful. Yea, desperate is the state of
such as have calumniated Me and envied Me. Not long ago it was stated that
thou hadst ascribed the authorship of the Kitab-i-Iqan and of other
Tablets unto others. I swear by God! This is a grievous injustice. Others
are incapable of apprehending their meaning, how much more of revealing
them!

Hasan-i-Mazindarani was the bearer of seventy Tablets. Upon his death,
these were not delivered unto those for whom they were intended, but were
entrusted to one of the sisters of this Wronged One, who, for no reason
whatever, had turned aside from Me. God knoweth what befell His Tablets.
This sister had never lived with Us. I swear by the Sun of Truth that
after these things had happened she never saw Mirza Yahya, and remained
unaware of Our Cause, for in those days she had been estranged from Us.
She lived in one quarter, and this Wronged One in another. As a token,
however, of Our loving-kindness, our affection and mercy, We, a few days
prior to Our departure, visited her and her mother, that haply she might
quaff from the living waters of faith, and attain unto that which would
draw her nigh unto God, in this day. God well knoweth and beareth Me
witness, and she herself testifieth, that I had no thought whatsoever
except this. Finally, she--God be praised--attained unto this through His
grace, and was adorned with the adornment of love. After We were exiled
and had departed from 'Iraq to Constantinople, however, news of her ceased
to reach Us. Subsequent to Our separation in the Land of Ta (Tihran), We
ceased to meet Mirza Rida-Quli, Our brother, and no special news reached
Us concerning her. In the early days we all lived in one house, which
later on was sold at auction, for a negligible sum, and the two brothers,
Farman-Farma and Hisamu's-Saltanih, purchased it and divided it between
themselves. After this occurred, We separated from Our brother. He
established his residence close to the entrance of Masjid-i-_Sh_ah, whilst
We lived near the Gate of _Sh_imiran. Thereafter, however, that sister
displayed toward Us, for no reason whatever, a hostile