O people, and
be not of the heedless.

And likewise, He saith: "Let not names shut you out as by a veil from Him
Who is their Lord, even the name of Prophet, for such a name is but a
creation of His utterance." And likewise, He, in the seventh chapter of
the second Vahid, saith: "O people of the Bayan! Act not as the people of
the Qur'an have acted, for if ye do so, the fruits of your night will come
to naught." And further, He saith--glorified be His mention: "If thou
attainest unto His Revelation, and obeyest Him, thou wilt have revealed
the fruit of the Bayan; if not, thou art unworthy of mention before God.
Take pity upon thyself. If thou aidest not Him Who is the Manifestation of
the Lordship of God, be not, then, a cause of sadness unto Him." And
further He saith--magnified be His station: "If thou attainest not unto the
Presence of God, grieve not, then, the Sign of God. Ye will renounce that
which can profit them that acknowledge the Bayan, if ye renounce that
which can harm Him. I know, however, that ye will refuse to do so."

O Hadi! Methinks it is by reason of these indubitable utterances that thou
hast determined to blot out the Bayan. Give ear unto the voice of this
Wronged One, and renounce this oppression that hath made the pillars of
the Bayan to tremble. I have been neither in _Ch_ihriq nor in Mah-Ku. At
the present time statements have been circulated among thy disciples
identical with those made by the _Sh_i'ihs who have said that the Qur'an
is unfinished. These people also contend that this Bayan is not the
original one. The copy in the handwriting of Siyyid Husayn is extant, as
is also the copy in the handwriting of Mirza Ahmad.

Regardest thou as one wronged he who in this world was never dealt a
single blow, and who was continually surrounded by five of the handmaidens
of God? And imputest thou unto the True One, Who, from His earliest years
until the present day, hath been in the hands of His enemies, and been
tormented with the worst afflictions in the world, such charges as the
Jews did not ascribe unto Christ? Hearken unto the voice of this Wronged
One, and be not of them that are in utter loss.

And, likewise, He saith: "How many the fires which God converteth into
light through Him Whom God shall make manifest; and how numerous the
lights which are turned into fire through Him! I behold His appearance
even as the sun in the midmost heaven, and the disappearance of all even
as that of the