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one hath, verily, passed out of the shadow of the
blessed and exalted Tree. Be fair, 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 Vahíd, saith: "O people
of the Bayán! Act not as the people of the Qur'án
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 Bayán; 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 Bayán, if ye renounce that which can harm Him.
I know, however, that ye will refuse to do so."
O Hádí! Methinks it is by reason of these indubitable
utterances that thou hast determined to blot
out the Bayán. Give ear unto the voice of this
Wronged One, and renounce this oppression that hath
made the pillars of the Bayán to tremble. I have been
neither in Chihríq nor in Máh-Ku. At the present time
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