For they in very truth are the
blissful...
God beareth Me witness, I was not a man of learning, for I was trained as
a merchant. In the year sixty(3) God graciously infused my soul with the
conclusive evidences and weighty knowledge which characterize Him Who is
the Testimony of God--may peace be upon Him--until finally in that year I
proclaimed God's hidden Cause and unveiled its well-guarded Pillar, in
such wise that no one could refute it. 'That he who should perish might
perish with a clear proof before him and he who should live might live by
clear proof.'(4)
In that same year [year 60] I despatched a messenger and a book unto thee,
that thou mightest act towards the Cause of Him Who is the Testimony of
God as befitteth the station of thy sovereignty. But inasmuch as dark,
dreadful and dire calamity had been irrevocably ordained by the Will of
God, the book was not submitted to thy presence, through the intervention
of such as regard themselves the well-wishers of the government. Up to the
present, when nearly four years have passed, they have not duly presented
it to Your Majesty. However, now that the fateful hour is drawing nigh,
and because it is a matter of faith, not a worldly concern, therefore I
have given thee a glimpse of what hath transpired.
I swear by God! Shouldst thou know the things which in the space of these
four years have befallen Me at the hands of thy people and thine army,
thou wouldst hold thy breath from fear of God, unless thou wouldst rise to
obey the Cause of Him Who is the Testimony of God and make amends for thy
shortcomings and failure.
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