direct proportion to its capacity and spiritual receptiveness,
even as the sovereignty of Muhammad,
the Messenger of God, is today apparent
and manifest amongst the people. You are well
aware of what befell His Faith in the early days
of His dispensation. What woeful sufferings did
the hand of the infidel and erring, the divines of
that age and their associates, inflict upon that spiritual
Essence, that most pure and holy Being! How
abundant the thorns and briars which they have
strewn over His path! It is evident that wretched
generation, in their wicked and satanic fancy, regarded
every injury to that immortal Being as a
means to the attainment of an abiding felicity;
inasmuch as the recognized divines of that age,
such as `Abdu'llah-i-Ubayy, Abu-'Amir, the hermit,
&Ka'b-Ibn-i-Ashraf, and Nadr-Ibn-i-Harith, all
treated Him as an impostor, and pronounced Him
a lunatic and a calumniator. Such sore accusations
they brought against Him that in recounting them
God forbiddeth the ink to flow, Our pen to move,
or the page to bear them. These malicious imputations
provoked the people to arise and torment
Him. And how fierce that torment if the divines
of the age be its chief instigators, if they denounce
Him to their followers, cast Him out from their
