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any peer or likeness, how could it then be demonstrated
that His being is exalted above, and His
essence sanctified from, all comparison and likeness?
Briefly, there hath been revealed in the Kitáb-i-Iqán
(Book of Certitude) concerning the Presence and
Revelation of God that which will suffice the fair-minded.
We beseech Him--exalted be He--to aid
every one to become the essence of truthfulness, and
to draw nigh unto Him. He, verily, is the Lord of
strength and power. No God is there but Him, the
All-Hearing, the Lord of Utterance, the Almighty,
the All-Praised.
O thou who art reputed for thy learning! Bid
men to do that which is praiseworthy, and be not of
such as tarry. Observe thou with a keen eye. The
Sun of Truth shineth resplendently, at the bidding
of the Lord of the kingdom of utterance, and the
King of the heaven of knowledge, above the horizon
of the prison-city of Akká. Repudiation hath not
veiled it, and ten thousand hosts arrayed against it
were powerless to withhold it from shining. Thou
canst excuse thyself no longer. Either thou must
recognize it, or--God forbid--arise and deny all the
Prophets!
Reflect, O Shaykh, upon the Shí'ih sect. How
many the edifices which they reared with the hands
of idle fancies and vain imaginings, and how numerous
the cities which they built! At length those vain
imaginings were converted into bullets and aimed
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