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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 Hádí! The blind fanaticism of former times
hath withheld the hapless creatures from the Straight
Path. Meditate on the Shí'ih sect. For twelve hundred
years they have cried "O Qá'im!", until in the
end all pronounced the sentence of His death, and
caused Him to suffer martyrdom, notwithstanding
their belief in, and their acceptance and acknowledgment
of, the True One--exalted be His glory--and
of the Seal of the Prophets, and of the Chosen Ones.
It is now necessary to reflect a while, that haply that
which hath come between the True One and His
creatures may be discovered, and the deeds which
have been the cause of protest and denial be made
known.
O Hádí! We have heard the moaning of the
pulpits which, as attested by all, the divines of the
age of this Revelation have ascended, and from which
they have cursed the True One, and caused such
things to befall Him Who is the Essence of Being
and His companions as neither the eye nor the ear
of the world hath seen or heard. Thou hast now summoned,
and art still summoning the people, claiming
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