O Shay_kh_!  These perspicuous verses have been sent down in one of the Tablets by the Abha Pen:  “Hearken, O servant, unto the voice of this Wronged One, Who hath endured grievous vexations and trials in the path of God, the Lord of all Names, until such time as He was cast into prison, in the Land of Ta (Tihran).  He summoned men unto the most sublime Paradise, and yet they seized Him and paraded Him through cities and countries.  How many the nights during which slumber fled from the eyes of My loved ones, because of their love for Me; and how numerous the days whereon I had to face the assaults of the peoples against Me!  At one time I found Myself on the heights of mountains; at another in the depths of the prison of Ta (Tihran), in chains and fetters.  By the righteousness of God!  I was at all times thankful unto Him, uttering His praise, engaged in remembering Him, directed towards Him, satisfied with His pleasure, and lowly and submissive before Him.  So passed My days, until they ended in this Prison (Akka) which hath made the earth to tremble and the heavens to sigh.  Happy that one who hath cast away his vain imaginings, when He Who was hid came with the standards of His signs.  We, verily, have announced unto men this Most Great Revelation, and yet the people are in a state of strange stupor.”

Thereupon, a Voice was raised from the direction of Hijaz, calling aloud and saying:  “Great is thy blessedness, O Akka, in that God hath made thee the dayspring of His Most Sweet Voice, and the dawn of His most mighty signs.  Happy art thou in that the Throne of Justice hath been established upon thee, and the Daystar of God’s loving-kindness and bounty hath shone forth above thy horizon.  Well is it with every fair-minded person that hath judged fairly Him Who is the Most Great Remembrance, and woe betide him that hath erred and doubted.”

Following upon the death of some of the martyrs, the Lawh-i-Burhan (Tablet of the Proof) was sent down from the heaven of the Revelation of Him Who is the Lord of Religions: 

“He is the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise!  The winds of hatred have encompassed the Ark of Batha (Mecca), by reason of that which the hands of the oppressors have wrought.  O thou who art reputed for thy learning!  Thou hast pronounced sentence against them for whom the books of the world have wept, and in whose favor the scriptures of all religions have testified.  Thou, who art gone far astray, art indeed wrapt in a thick veil.  By God Himself!  Thou hast pronounced judgment against them through whom the horizon of faith hath been illumined.  Unto this bear witness They Who are the Dawning-Places of Revelation and the Manifestations of the Cause of thy Lord, the Most Merciful, Who have sacrificed Their souls and all that They possessed in His straight Path.  The Faith of God hath cried everywhere, by reason of thy tyranny, and yet thou disportest thyself and art of them that exult.  There is no hatred